The Yale expositor. (Yale, St. Clair County, Mich.) 1894-current, 1912-04-25
CHAPTER xxv.-Continued.

.NdW, lhey CuotuSSu, Whdt was
it?"
She told the superintendent" was
the reply of Lima. pleased with her
self and with that big word, that
she would Sgye 10 have more money
next year, for she heard that Lima
Hamilton. frances Black, William
Hill and Jimmy Garner were all COM
ing to school. and she said We were
the most notorious bad children in
town"
She is the spitefullest woman they
is" Jimmy's black eyes snapped;
in town"
Who told you bout It, Lina?"
questioned the other little girl.
The superintendent told his wife
and you know how some ladies' are
they just can't keep a secret. Now 1t
is just like burying it to tell mother
anything; she never tells anybody
but father, and grandmother. and
grandfather, and Uncle Ed, and Bro
Their Johnson, and she makes them
promise never TO breathe it to a liv-
Ing soul. Rut the superintendent
wife IS different; she tells everything
she hears, and now everybody knows
what that teacher said about rs"
Everybody says she is the crank
lest teacher they u.s." cried Jimmy,
"she won't let you bring nothing 70
school 'cepting your books; you can't
even take your slingshot, nor your
.air-gun, nor
Nor your dolls" chimed in Fran
'ces, "and she won't let you bat your
eye, nor say word. nor cross your
legs, nor blow your nose"
What DO she think we s goin' to
her oil school fer if we cant have
fun" asked Billy. Tabernacle sho'
had fun when he went to school. He
put pin in the teachers chair an she
sat down OH 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
a rooster foot tell he squalled out
loud, an he th'owed spitballs, an he
mako him some watermelon teeth, an
he paint a chicken light red an tuck it
to the teacher fer dodo, an he put
cotton in his pants fore he got licked,
an he drawed the teacher on a slate.
That s what you go to school fer is
to have fun, an | sho' is gon' to |
have fun when goes. an amt goin |
TO take no bulldozin' offer her,
neither"
Il bet we can sQuelch her." cried |
Frances, vindictively.
Yes, we II show her thing or
two'-for once Jimmy agreed with |
her, she bout the butt-in-est old wo-
man they is, and 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 teled 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; 80 he TOKEN |
one of the little enyel!ups and worten
alfred Gage on it, so when his papa |
find out bout it he say thai kid got |
to work and pay that five dollars !
hi'self, cause he done sign his name |
TO it,"
And If he Amt bout the sickest !
kid they is" declared Jimmy: IN !
betcher he won't get fresh no more /
soon. He telle1 me the other day he |
amt had q drink OF soda water this |
summer, cause every nickel he gets !
got to go to MIR. Pastors sal'ry; he
says he plumb tired supporting Bro |
Their Johnson and all his family; and, |
he "9y. every time lie go UP town he |
sees Johnny Johnson a-sctting on a |
stool in BaltZer's drug store just a.
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 remarked, apropus OF .
nothing:
81 sho' is glad don't halter be !
oman when | puts on long pants; |
mems is heap mo- account"
II wouldn't be woman for meth |
ing at all" Jimmy fully agreed with !
him; they have the pokiest time
they is"
II m glad am going to he young |
lady when I grow IN" Lima declared !
81 would MT be gentleman for any !
thing. I'm going to wear pretty I
clothes and be beautiful and be a |
belle like mother was. and have lots |
OF lovers lIneel at my feet on one !
knee and play the guitar with the |
other"
How they goin' to play the guitar |
with the other lnce?" asked the prac-
tical Billy.
And slug Call Me Thine own.