The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1912-05-18
Point Of
Homo

Bert burst into the house with
whoop of delight. He dashed out into
the kitchen, where his mother was
making pie for dinner, and instantly
took possession.
want some bread and butter and some
cookies and an apple. And say, moth
er, when you bake the pie will you
cook one in the little pie dish SO |
can have it soon's it's done? And,
say, mother, can have some of this
gingerbread? Gee, but I'm nearly
starved"
When his wants had been partially
supplied and ne was towing away
bread ard butter, gingerbread, apli;s
2ad other trifes, he broke into "A
mirthful chuckle.
Say, mother" he said, If We didn't
have the foxy time at school today, J
so, another guess comm. Say, geo
you'd "a died if you had been there
Ecnest. ! thought I'd bust wide open.
| never thought a fellow could have
GO much fun in school.
You see, Fred Gunkle, he's the
smartest fellow in the room, | guess,
at least, he knows his lessons beet
md he never seems to study nor",
too. Say, and the teacher likes him,
cause you can see her eyes twinEle
when he cuts up and then she turns
her back a minute and when she turns
Ground again her face is just as sol
e,nn, and then she scolds him. but
| fred doesn't mind. He just kind Of
'rtays around afte- school and jollies
her. ] bet she like him best Of any
of us. but, gee, who cares? Who wants
the teacher to like you. anyway?
WELL this noon Fred he come back
carly and there wasn't nobody in the
room when he come, and so he takes
come chalk that he gets off the black
card and he rube chalk all over the
fronts of the fellows desks, so when
they sits down they'll get chalk on the
front Of their legs. So when they
Gets up, all the fellows and the girls
and everybuddy. for physical culture,
and begins to march around the room,
every fellow had chalk on the front
cf va knees! And Fred had some on
Ills. too, so the teacher wouldn't know
who done it,
Gee, thought I'd die laughifi'' till
the teachers face begins to get red
and she hollers, just as mad as she
can: Halt! Gee, guess We all
started. And everybuddy was scared
C7ly, Of course, | wasn't scared. but
Eellie-she marches right In front OF
:ie-gee. she was scared, and so was
the other girls.
$50 the teacher says-and by that
time she was Just as pale in her face
she says: Children she says, L in
tend to find who is the proprietor of
this outrage
Then the teacher she begins and
re says: The girls may go TO Their
seats and the Buys may march right
;..oag in front OF my dosl,. So we
marched right aiorg,ia frcnt OF her
Gosk after the girls vert to their
2: Is and sat down. and every fel'ow
had to march by hi2:se-f way fro"l
tie hack Of tic room. Gee, when Z
come my tura my shoes sounded l!,c
q motorcycle or something. they made
J.Ich a awful rGc..et.
Every time boy came and stood
= front Ct her desk s.!2d ak Kin:
Did you have anything to do with this
i".tilg chalk en- tho dcel:s? And then
vixen the fellow ra"s. 60 she SAYS.
DO you know who did it, And then
;ae fellow would say No. because. OF
c-:';rc. r-e didn't none of us know, be-
cause we didn't see Fred do it.
so it come Frod's turn after awhile
and he was the very last fellow. Aud
so when Fred come along he didn't
wait for the teacher to say a word to
him. He just started right in and he
says, Miss Smith, he says, L know
who done 1t, but don't feel like I'd
better tell, so please don't ask me-
Gee, thought me and the other
fellows would die, we was so full of
laugh, because. OF course, Fred want
ed the teacher to think he didn't hke
to tell on some other fellow, but We