Monroe City Democrat. (Monroe City, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1912-03-14


eye, nor say a woru, nor croas your
legs, nor blow your nose"
What do she think we 8 goin' to
her OIL school fer If we can't have
fun?" asked Billy. "Tabernicle. sho'
had fun when he went to school. He
put pin in the teachers chair an she
sat down on It plumb up to the head,
an he tie the strings together what
two niger gals had they hair
wropped with, an he squoze up a
little boys legs in front Of him with
rooster foot tell he squalled out
loud, an he th'owed spitballs, an he
make him some watermelon teeth, an
he paint chicken light red an tuck it
to the teacher fer a dodo, an he put
cotton in his pants fore he got licked,
an he drawed the teacher on a slate.
That IS what you go to school fer Isl
to have fun, an sho' is goin' to
| have fun when l goes, an l amt goin'
to take no bulldozin offer her.,
neither"
~ bet we can squelch her" cried
Frances, vindictively.
Yes, we II show her a thing or
two"-for once Jimmy agreed with
her, "she bout the butt-in-est old wo-l
/ man they is, ana she's going to find
out we, bout the squelchingest kids
ever she tackle"
alfred Gage went to school to her
last year." said Frances, and he can
read and write"
YES" Joined in Jimmy, land he
bout the proudest boy they is; all
time got to write his name all over
everything"
You member bout last Commun,
ion Sunday went on the little girl,
when they hand roun' the little en-.
vellups and telled all the folks what
was willing to give five dollars more
on the pastors sally just to write his
name; so Alfred he so frisky cause
he know how to write; so he token
one of the little envellups and worten
Alfred Gage on it; so when his papa
find out bout it he say that kid got
to work and pay that five dollars
hiself, cause he done sign his name
to It,"
And If he amt bout the sickest
kid they is" declared Jimmy; III
betcher he won't get fresh no more
. soon. He telled me the other day he
amt had a drink of soda water this
summer, cause every nickel he gets
got to go to Mr.. Pastors sal'ry; he
says he plumb tired supporting Bro
Their Johnson and all his family and,
he say, every time he go up town he
sees Johnny Johnson asserting on a
stool in BaltZer's drug store just a.
swiggi~g milk-shakes; he. says he
going to knock him off some day
cause it's his nickels that kid s a.
, spending"
; There was a short silence, broken
by Billy, who resslarked, apropos OF
nothing:
Il sho' is glad don't halter be a
oman when 1 puts on long pants /;
mems is heap mo- account"
Il wouldn't be a woman for moth,
ing at all" Jimmy fully agreed with
him; they have the pokiest time
they is"
Il m glad am going to be a young
, lady when grow up" Lima declared
Il would MT be gentleman for any
: thing. I'm going to wear pretty
clothes and be beautiful and be a
belle like mother was, and have lots
of lovers kneel at my feet on one
t knee and play the guitar with the
? other"
"How they goin' to play the guitar
with the other knee?" asked the prac.
tical Billy.
"And sing Call Me Thine own"
she continued, ignoring his interrupt
ton. Father got on his knees to
mother thirty-seven-and-a-halt times
before she'd say, will"
Looks like he'd "a wore his
breeches out" said Billy.
II don't want to be a lady," de.
clared Frances; they can't ever ride
straddle nor climb a tree, and they
got to squinch up their waists and
toes. I wish could kiss my elbow
right now and turn to boy"
CONTINUED NEXT WEEK)