Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-05-23
TWO POINTS OF VIEW,

II once lett to me, the great WORTH
would be
A fine roly-poly Of meat"
~ 'spose," Ted remarked, as he
weighed Tigers bark,
ION this point we'll never agree;
l guess the great world exact as 1t
Is,
1s best. Tige, for both you and
me-"
Harriet P. Fenton in the Christian
Register.
DANIEL I'm THE DRAWING CLASS.
don't see why it is boys always
get the worst of it. Their shoes gets
into the biggest mud puddles, their
hands gets the coolest snowballin'
and their elbows are always knockin'
things over. Sometimes wish 1
didn't have any elbows-and some
times l guess other folks wishes so
too.
The last time 1t was in the draw
ing-class. i kind of like that class
that is, leastwise, l used to like 1t
when could do it with transfer pa
per. That's easy. You put 1t over
the picture and draw outline. Then
you take it off and black one side OF
1t, and then you can draw it right into
your book.
But Miss Henrietta she don't let us
do that, and she said 1t was cheating,
and took away my transfer paper, and
now amt so good artist as USED
to be, and l got pretty tired of 1t till
we got into water-colors.
That was some fun, anyway. We
had little boxes with red, blue and
yeller paints in 'em and a dish to
mix them on, and brushes and glass
er water to wet 'em up In; and we all
made greeny-reddery smutches on our
paper and called EN- things.
The first thing painted was two
reddishes, an used red on the red
dishes an blue and yaller on the
leaves, and If you'll believe it, they
came green, right on the paper! l
wouldn't of believed 1t If Miss Hen
rietta had told me, 'thout tryin.' She
said painted reddisnes pretty well.
took 'em home and showed 'em
to mother, and she said: my how
fine! Are they cherries?" And father
said it looked like Christmas tree
on fire, and my big sister said: st
don't look like anything but a splotcn
of paint" and she wouldn't even
guess.
The next day we had a pink onion
to do; and that's a hard thing to
tackle, because there's lot of curly
streaks to draw, and they're shiny,
and she makes you leave a square
white place on 1t where she said the
window was DETECTED. But l couldn't
see any window, but l had to put on
the square place just the same.
was hurryin' to get to the paint
part when the old elbow of mine
just swung around and gave whang,
and away went my tumbler. 1t didn't
break, but it made noise, and Miss
Henrietta looked around. But l kept
still, and she went on givin' lessons
to the girls.
The water was the worst part, 1t
went all over. grabbed m. sponge
and sopped 1t off my drawing book,
and pretty soon the sponge was full.
So borrowed one of Sammy Carter.
and that got full They are awful lit
tie, those sponges. But I'd got the
! floor and things wiped UP, and 1 set
the sponges careful in my desk, and
just then the bell rang for school out
80 put my things away, and Miss
Henrietta didn't catch me.
Well, next morning wnen l came
in there was trickle under my desk,
and Miss Henrietta was looking at
1t, and when she saw me she said:
Daniel, what is the matter with
your desk?"
And looked and said: Il guess
the sponges is leaking, ma'am' And
she said, stern: What sponges?" And
so ! had to tell ner, and we looked,
and I'd put my drawing book on top
Of the four sponges, and it was all
soaked up, and the water had run on.
to my joggerfy and nature book, and
they was sights. Miss Henrietta
made me take all four of them
sponges and 70 and see the principal
with 'em.
And SO | had to, and l was awful
scared when told MIN. And he said
he hoped l wouldn't do it again, and
said I hoped not, too. And he talked
to me about being careful and things
till / bet he never was a boy him.
self. And when 1 was going away.
/ said: "Mr, Polk. i guess this will
be a warning to me-" And he coughed
behind his sleeve, and said he Thought
SO, too.
And ID had to squeeze out all them
sponges and give 'em back before the
hull school.
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