The Lakeland evening telegram., 1914-05-23
Of
Homo,


the kitchen, where his mother was
making a pie for dinner, and instantly
took possession.
"Say, mother' he shouted. II
want some bread and butter and some
cookies and an apple. And, say, moth
er, when you bake the pie will you
cook one in the little pie dish SO |
can have it soons it's done? And,
say, mother, can l have some of this
gingerbread? 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, IF we didn't
have the foxy time at school today, l
got another guess comm. Say, gee
you'd "a died IL you had been there
Honest, thought I'd bust wide open.
I never thought fellow could have
80 much fun in school.
"You see, Fred Gunkle, he's the
smartest fellow In the room, 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
around again her face is just as sol
emn, and then she scolds him, but
Fred doesn't mind. He just kind OF
stays around after school and jollies
her. I bet she like him best of any
Of u.s. 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 everybuddy, 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, thought I'd die laughin' till
the teachers face begins to get red
and she hollers, just as mad as she
can: Halt Gee, guess We all
started. And eyerybuddy was scared.
Only, Of course, 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, I In
tend to find who is the proprietor Of
this outrage
"Then the teacher she begins and
she says: THE girls may go to their
seats and the boys may march right
along in front of my desk So We
marched right along in front Of her
desk after the girls went to their
seats and sat down, and every fellow
had to march by himself way from
the back of the room. Gee, when 1t
come my turn my shoes sounded like
a motorcycle or something, they made
such awful racket.
in front of her desk she'd ask him:
Did you have anything to do with this
putting chalk on the desks?' And then
when the fellow says, No. she says,
DO you know who did it?' And then
the fellow would say No. because, Of
course we didn't none of us know, be-
cause we didn't see Fred do 1t.
so it come Fred's turn after awhile
and he was the very last fellow. And
so when Fred come along he didn't
wait for the teacher to say word to
him. He just started right in and he
says, Miss Smith, he says, I know
who done it, but don't feel like I'd
better tell. so please don't ask me-
Gee, | thought me and the other
fellows would die, we was SO full Of
laugh, because, of course, Fred want
ed the teacher to think he didn't like
to tell on some other fellow, but we
didn't dare to laugh. OF course, we
dared to, but we felt so kind of fun
ny We didn't.