Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1914-06-11
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and degree was a matter of conven-
tional prohibition, but since the ad-
vent of Hickey, in whose soul lay a
Napoleonic instinct of leadership, this
was more honored in the breach than
in the observance.
My! Amt it scrumptious here
now!" said Cozy Cabell, hanging yell
low lady-slippers over her ears. Il
wish We could play here always"
"Mr. Valiant will let u.s." said Rick
ey. 81 asked him."
"Oh, he will" responded Cozy gloom
lily, but he'll probably go and marry
somebody who'll be mean about it."
Everybody doesn't get married"
said one of the Byloe twins, with mas
culine assurance. Maybe he won't"
Much a boy knows about it," re-
torted Cozy scornfullyA Women have
to, and some one of them will make
him (Greenville Female Seminary
Simms, if you slap that little niger
again, I'll slap you'll"
Greenie 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 Mistis en- git up Mars
tail"
WELL" said Cozy, tossing her head
till the flower earrings danced, "Pm
going to get married if the man hasn't
got anything but a character and a
red mustache. Married women don't
have to prove they could have got
a husband if they had wanted to-"
Lets play something" proposed
Rosebud Meredith, on whom the dis
c~ussion palled. Lets play King,
King Katiko."
ats Sunday!"-this from her small.
er and more righteous sister. We're
forbidden to play anything but Bible
games on Sunday, and If Rosebud
does, I'll tell"
"~Jay-bird tattle-tale!" sang Rosebud
derisively. Don't care If you dol"
well" decreed Hickey. We'll play
Sunday school then. 1t would take q
saint to object to that. I'm superin
tendent and this stump's my desk. AL
you children sit down under that tree
They ranged themselves in two
rows, the white children, in clean Sab
bath pinafores and go-to-meetine
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
"Oh!" shrieked Miss Cabell, "and II
be Mrs. Merryweather Mason ant
teach the infants class"
N'There isn't any infant class" sait
Hickey. How could there be wher
there aren't any infants? The lessor
is over and I've just rung the bell TO,
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 if you want to-"
81 won't" said Cozy ~sullenly. IF
can't be. table-cloth l won't be dish
rag"
! "All right, you needn't" retorte,
l Hickey freezingly. "Sit up, Greene
People don't lie on their backs il
. Sunday-school."
GREENE yawned dismally, and righ'
ed herself with injured slowness. "a
Q diffuses ter 'cep' yo' insult, Ricke
Snydah," she said. "Ah'd ruthah los
nah 'ligion dan nah laz'ness. En- A
'spises yo' spissable dissisition!"
d Let us all RISE" continued Ricke!
d unmoved, "and sing Kingdom Con
ing" And she struck up lustil,
y beating time on the stump with
e stick, and the rows Of children joine
in with JUNCTION, the colored continger
coming out strong IN the chorus;
4 De yerf shall be full oh de wunduhf,
" story
@ AS watahs dat covah de sea!
The clear voices in the quiet a
n startled the fluttering birds and SCI
a squirrel to the tip-top OF an GA
h from which he looked down, firth
+ his brush. They reused a man, to
IL .
who had lain in a sodden sleep undo
d a bush at a little distance. He We
ragged and soiled and his heavy br
t. tai face, covered with a dark stubb
Of some days growth, had an ug,
scar ~slanting back from cheek to hal
Without getting up, he rolled over
command a better view, and set h
eyes, blinking from their slumber, {
the children.
Is I'VE will now take up the collie
n ton" said Hickey. ("You al do
June. Use a fiat piece of bark.) R
member that what we give today
for the poor heather in--in Alabama
The bark-slab made its rounds, 1
ceiving leaves, acorns, and an occ
or sional pin. Midway, however, the
h arose a shrill Shrek from the bear
and the collection was scattered broa
,e cast. Rosebud Meredith" said Ric
m ey witheringly, "it would serve "
of right for putting that toad in the pla
or If your hand would get all over wart