Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-07-06
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said Majorie. she won't dare to say
anything to the postman.
Pin 1t on her door," said Charley.
NO" I said. that won't do. The /
original Declaration was read out loud
I know. cause I asked papa. They |
read 1t out loud, and then they rang q \
big bell till 1t cracked"
Well who's going to be the one to I
read it?" asked Charlie.
We'll draw lots" said.
And we did with little pieces Of /
string; and the lot fell to me. It al {
| ways happens that way-the one who
plans thing not only has to do all the !
| thinking, but he has to go and carry
out his own idea while the other people !
stand and look on, or maybe even make !
fun of him.
you'll all have to go with me, any
way" I said "I'll read it outside her
door at Z o'clock tomorrow morning.
| and when I get through you must eli /
raise mighty shout, like the people
did outside the palace of the king at I
the time of the French revolution, and |
you must yell. Down with the tyrant-
ess! Off with her head!" and things |
like that, and Gregory Is to have the
servants dinner bell and ring like mad;
and then all the rest of the day were
going to do just as we please, and IL
she calls we won't come, no matter
how loud she hollers."
The rest all thought it was bully
| idea. but Charley said:
Hadn't we better do 1t after break
fast? Because it's griddle-cal1e ton1or-
row morning, and we mightn't get
any" 80
So we decided to start in being revo-
lutionists after breakfast instead Of be-.
fore. After breakfast, while we're sup
posed to be upstairs making our beds,
Il Miss Saunders sits in the library for
ABOUT half an hour, reading the morn
Ing papers, and that would be a good
chance to read the declaration to her
All through breakfast the next morn
Ing we We're awfully glum and nerv-
Gus. Before we got to the griddle
cakes, | forgot and left my spoon in
my chocolate, and my arm went
. against 1T quite accidentally, and the
whole cup got spilled on Hester, Just
az she was STOPPING to pick up piece
OF toast, and went all over the back
OF the guimpe Of her dress. And Miss
Saunders swallowed whatever she put
IN her mouth in a great hurry. and
TOOK Off her eyeglasses and pushed her
chair back from the table a little and
just looked at us. And then she said,
In that awfully quiet voice that is
twice as mad as when person let's
out yell:
Arthur how often have told you
never to leave your spoon in your cup?
This is the second time within a week
that this has occurred; you may 70
up in your room and remain there ur,-
til I come
didn't know what to do, because
II l went upstairs then it would knock
= our plan of reading the declaration II,
the head. And while / was rolling up
my napkin as slowly as could, trying
70 thlnk what | should do, her voice
: broke in:
Come, Arthur, I am waiting"
II Then T mt INV no nlxJ,, I5aur- n
/ stood up In my chair. Her eyes near
! ly bulged out of her head at that. be-
cause of all the forbidden things in
r the house, standing on any of the
chairs but the ones in the kitchen and
the playroom Is about the forbidden
why, you-you bad little boy. you..
she gasped Arthur, ] don't UNDER
stand
But just pulled the Declaration Of
= Independence out of my pocket and
: began to read read all the things
v that she would not let us do, and was
It just getting to the place where it said
9 we meant to do as we pleased till
x mamma and papa came home hadn't
), peen looking at her, because 1t was az
n much as l could do to make out
a Charles writing. And, besides, some
x OF the things, when you came to read
: them out loud to the person they were
'. intended for, sounded pretty dreadful
where it said, She's Just
y awful every way you can think Of" my
n cheeks felt kind of hot when I got ia
e those places. and let my voice down
u and hurried over them as fast as j
s could. She must have come behind
e while was trying to make out some
. or the hard words, which don't think
n and the others all agreed with me
+ afterwards-was quite a fair advan-
tage to take. And she used to be on
{. the basketball team when she was IN
d college, and she was awfully strong. Il
IS no disgrace to be overpowered by
u such strong person, and carried up
r. stairs. and locked in your roorn-and
a then to be told through the keyhole
>, that you are to stay there until you are
sorry. suppose that is the way
: George. the Third would have treated
John Hancock IL he could.
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