The Bon Homme County independent. [volume] (Tabor, S.D.) 1904-1913, 1910-06-30

ways happens that way-the n who
plans a 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. "Pll read it outside her
door at z o'clock tomorrow morning,
and when l get through you must all
raise a mighty shout, like the people
did outside the palace of the king at
the time of the French revolution, and
you must yell, Down with the tryrant-
ess! Off with her head!' and things
like that, and Gregory is to have the
servants dinner bell and ring like mad;
n then all the rest Of the day we're
going to do just as we please, and If
she calls we won't come, not matter
how loud she hollers."
The rest all thought 1t was a bully
idea. but Charley said:
Hadn't we better do it after break
fast? Because it's griddle-cake tomor-
row morning, and we mightn't get
any,"
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,
Miss Saunders sits in the library for
about half an hour, reading the morn
~No FeRStht tAAo kAioN Nould pG a. EOOu
chance to read the declaration to her.
All through breakfast the next norm
Ing we were awfully glum and nerv-
Gus. Before we got to the griddle
cakes, l 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
as she was STOPPING to pick up a 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 a person lets
out a yell:
Arthur, how often have I told you
never to leave your spoon in your cup?
is the second time within a week
that this has occurred; you may go
up in your room n remain there IN
til l come"
I didn't know what to do, because
II l went upstairs then 1t would knock
our plan Of reading the declaration in
the head. And while I was rolling up
my napkin as slowly as / could, trying
to think what I should do, her voice
broke in:
Come, Arthur, I am waiting"
Then l put my napkin dawn and
stood up in my chair. Her eyes near
ly bulged out Of her head - that; be-
cause Of all the forbidds~ things in
the house, standing on any. Of the
chairs but the ones in the kitchen and
the playroom liz about the forbiddenest.
Why, you-you bad little boy, you'll"
she gasped. Arthur, l don't under
stand"
But I just pulled the Declaration Of
independence out Of my pocket and
began to read. I read all the things
that she would not let US do, and was
just getting to the place. where 1t said
we meant to do as we pleased till
mamma and papa came home. / hadn't
been loking at her, because 1t was
as much as I could do to make out
Charles writing. And, besides, some
of h things, when you came to read
them out loud to the person they were
intended for, sounded pretty dreadful
particularly where 1t said, She's
just awful every way you can think
Of" my cheeks felt kind of hot when
/ got to those places, and I let my voice
down and hurried over them as fast as
/ could. She must have come behind
while ! was trying to make out some
Of the hard words, which ! don't think
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
college, and she was awfully strong. 1t
Is no disgrace to be overpowered by
such a strong person, and carried up
stairs, and locked in your room-and
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 If he could.