Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1912-05-22
of
Honor

Bert burst into the house with I
whoop of delight. He dashed out into
the kitchen, where his mother was
making a pie for dinner, and instantly
took possession.
"Sav. mother" he shouted. 81
want some bread and butter and some
cookies and an apple. And, say, moth
err. when you bake the pie will you
cook one in the little pie dish so l
can have 1t soon's it's done? And,
say. mother can l have some of this
ginger-bread? Gee, but I'm nearly
starved"
When his wants had been partially
supplied and he was towing away
bread and butter, gingerbread, apples
and other trifes, he broke into a
mirthful chuckle.
Say, mother" he said, eff we didn't
have the foxy time at school today,
got another guess comm. Say, gee
you'd "a died if you had been there
Honest, I thought I'd bust wide open.
I never thought a fellow could have
so much fun in school.
"You see, Fred Gunkle, he's the
smartest fellow in the room, l guess.
At least, he knows his lessons best
and he never seems to study none,
too. Say, and the teacher likes him,
cause you can see her eyes twinkle
when he cuts up, and then she turns
her back minute and when she turns
l.
emn, and then she scolds him, but
Fred doesn't mind. He just kind of
stays around after school and jollies
her. l 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
early and there wasn't nobody in the
room when he come, and so he takes
some chalk that he gets off the black
board and he rubs 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 everybody, for physical culture,
| and begins to march around the room
every fellow had chalk on the front
/ of his knees! And Fred had some on
his, too, so the teacher wouldn't know
who done it.
Gee, l thought I'd die laughin' till
the teachers face begins to get red
and she hollers, just as mad as she
can: Haiti Gee, 1 guess We al
started. And everybody was scared
Only, of course, I wasn't scared, but
Nellie-she marches right in front Of
mcgee, 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, in
tend to find who is the proprietor o.
this outrage
Then the teacher she begins ant
she says: The girls may go to theil
seats and the boys may march RICH
along in front of my desk So we
marched right along ia front of hi
desk after the girls went to theil
seats and sat down, and every fellow
had to march by himself way from
the back of the room. Gee, when i
come my turn my shoes sounded like
a motorcycle or something, they made
such a awful racket
Every time boy came and stooC
in front of her desk she'd ask him
Did you have anything to do with thi!
putting chalk on the desks?' And ther
when the fellow says, No. she says
DO you know who did ito And theI
the fellow would say No because o
course, we didn't none of us know, be
cause we didn't see Fred do it.
so it come Fred's turn after awhile
and he was the very last fellow. Ant
so when Fred come along he didn'
wait for the teacher to say a word t.
him. He just started right in and hi
says, Miss Smith, he says, I know
who done it, but l don't feel like IL
better tell, so please don't ask me-
Gee, l thought me and the othe1
fellows would die, we was 81 full o
laugh, because, of course, Fred want
ed the teacher to think he didn't like
to tell on some other fellow, but VIZ
didn't dare to laugh. OF course, W'
dared to. but we felt so kind of fun
ny we didn't.
Miss Smith she says. We'll, Fred,
she says. If it's a point of honor witt
you not to tell, of course, [ wcn1
press the question or something like
that
Then we all went back to our seats
and she give US big long spiel about
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