The Beaver herald. [volume] (Beaver, O.T. [Okla.]) 1895-1923, 1914-07-30


Simms. II you slap that little Niger
again. I'll slap you'll"
GREENE rolled over on the grass and
Uttered. Miss Matte Sue didn'." she
said. "Ah heah huh say de yuddah
day ct wuz er moughty good feelin
ter go ter bald Mlstis en- git up Mars
tahi"
We'll" said Cory. tossing her head
till the flower earrings danced. I'm
going to get married II the man hasn't
got anything but a character and a
red mustache. Married women don't
have to prove they coul6 have got
a husband II they had wanted to-"
Let's play something" proposed
Rosebud Meredith, on whom the dis.
c~ussion palled. Let's play King,
King Katiko."
"lt's Sunday!"-this from her small
er and more righteous sister. We're
forbidden to play anything but Bible
games on Sunday, and II Rosebud
does, I'll tell"
"Jay-bird tattle-talel" sang Rosebud
derisively. Don't care II you dol"
Well" decreed Hickey. Wen play
Sunday school then. It would take a
saint to object to that. I'm superin'
tendent and this stump's my desk. All
you children sit down under that tree
They ranged themselves In two
rows, the white children. In clean Sab
bath pinafores and go-to-meetlne
knickerbockers, In front and the col
ored ones, in ginghams and cotton
prints, In the rear-the habitual ex
preston OF a differing social station
"Ohl" shrieked Miss Cabell. "and II
be Mrs. Merryweather Mason ant
teach the infants class"
There isn't n infant class" salt
Hickey. How could there be wher
there aren't any infants? The lessor
is over and I've Just rung the bell 70
silence. Children, this is Missionar.
Sunday, and I'm glad to see so man.
happy faces here today. Cozy," sh'
said relenting, you can be the organ
list II you want to-"
} Il won't" said Cozy ~sullenly. III
cant be table-cloth | won't be dish
rag" =
"All right. you needn't" retorte'
Hickey freezingly. "Sit up. GREENE
People don't lie on their backs Il
| Sunday-school."
!, GREENE yawned dismally. and RICH
u ed herself with injured slowness. "A
) diffuses ter 'cep' yo' insult, Ricke
! Snydah." she said. "Ah'd ruthah los
NAH ligion dan nah laz'ness. En- A
Ispises yo' spissable dissisition!"
Let us all RISE" continued Ricke!
h unmoved. land sing Kingdom Con
: ing" And she struck up lustil,
4 beating time on the stump with
!, stick, and the rows OF children joine
a In with JUNCTION, the colored contingei
A coming out strong on the chorus:
" De yerf shall be full OBJ de wunduhf
story
n As watahs dat covah dc seal
The clear voices in the quiet a
startled the f~iuttering birds and sci
. a squirrel to the tip-top OF an GA
10 from which he looked down. firth
his brush. They reused a man, to
"a who had lain in a sodden sleep und'
"a a bush at a little distance. He VI
"a ragged and soiled and his heavy br
~ tai face. covered with q dark stubb
y OF some days growth. had an ug
70 scar chanting back from cheek to ha
n without getting up. he rolled owe
command a better view, and set
eyes. blinking from their slumber.
the children.
I'VE will now take up the colt
tion." said Hickey. ('You can do
"a, June. Use a fiat piece Of bark.) !
member that what we give today
ay for the poor heather in-in Alabama
ia The bark-slab made Its rounds.
ceiving leaves. acorns. and an oc'
OF sional pin. Midway. however. the
ad arose a shrill shrek from the bear
ell and the collection was scattered broi