The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1918-10-26

Y GUESS II teachers always knew
how lickings were going to turn out
they wouldn't lick US fellows SO
much I knew a fellAw in Miss Fem
tons class and she used to lick him
with 6 strap with a buckle on the end.
because that was the only thing that
would make him boiler. and one day
the tongue of the buckle went right
Into him snd his leg swelled up and.
you bet. the school board fired Miss
Fenton. bet she was sorry she ever
started licking anybody. But you bet
no school teacher ever made me holler
yet They can make me grunt. but they
can't make me hoaler, and a Teller don't
care how often he's licked II he can
keep from houeri1g.
Well once me and Swatty didn't get
licked. but we would have II 1t hadn't
been for Swatty, and the thing we
started to fight about was the thing
we fixed up all right by not being
licked You see, my sister Fan and
Herb Schwarts had a fight. and guess
1t was q mighty good one. Fan was
dead stuck on Herb Schwartz and sho
didn't care who knew 1t. because they
were engaged and Fan was fixing up
her things to get married in.
So then Fan and Herb had the fight.
ffks girls and fellows always do have,
Herb came over and fought for
three evenings. and then swatty
brought note from him to
Fan. ana I took one from Fan to
Herb. and that was the end Of 1t The
note took had a ring in Il, because I
could feel It Then Fan just moped
around the house and cried some. and
after awhile Herb had to go and teach
the eighth grade at school, because
Professor Martin broke his leg on the
Ice the janitor ought to have scraped
off the steps. but didn't. So right away
Herb began to get thick with Miss
Murphy, but that didn't make any DIFF
ference to me. AS soon as fellow
hasn't got one girl he has another one.
anyway. and didn't blame Herb.
Well. one day me and Swatty was
going to school and we were talking
at Zach other the way We always did,
and I said he thought he was great.
didn't he, because his brother was
Miss Murphy's beau. and Miss Murphy
wouldn't lick him when his brother
was her beau. didn't mean anything;
just said It; but Swatty hauled of
and hit me one and dared me say that
again. So said It again. and all the
fellows got around and yelled: Fight!
Fight" and I had to fight him. 1t
Miss Murphy hadn't come along. She
Jumped right at us and grabbed US
both.
who struck the frst blown" says
Miss Murphy.
Well. everybody told her Swatty
did. which was the truth. and she let
me go.
Just as I thought you-you little
bulIdozer.' she said, shaking him.
you've been gstti- : entirely too up
pish Of late. young man. Get into
school there. and wash yourself. and
see that you are in your seat when the
bell rings"
So swatty did it. Ne and the Bony
Highlander stayed out till the bell
rung. and then we went in. too, and as
we went past Swatty's desk he whis-
pered: she thinks she's going to lick
me. but she amt"
Well. that was in the morning. and
they never lick at noon. because the
way some fellows wriEgls and twist It
takes q long time to lick them and 1t
would use up the noon hour. So they
lick after school in the afternoon whom
there Is plenty OF time So me and
and we tried to scare him. We told
him we bet Miss Murphy would make
him hollsr, because she licked with a
rawhide pony switch and whipped on
the legs where the switch would wrap
around and sting, but we couldn't get
ewatty to even pretend he might hol-
Ter, He said no teacher In the world
could make him holler. We all said 1t.
Or, don't know whether the Bony
Highlander said It or not He'd never
been licked in school. He wasn't the
kind that gets licked. somehow. But he
was a pretty nice fellow, anyway
We liked him just as we'll, but not as
well as Swatty and mo liked each 9TH
or. Of course, because me and Swatty
was cow-cousinA
Me and Swatty was both raised On
the milk Of the Same COW. but 1t was
Schwartxes' COW. and when I was being
raised on 1t Herb Schwartz used to
fetch the milk around. the way Swatty
does now. I guess that's how Herb got
to know Fan. But Tho Bony High
lander was Just = kid that moved into
the neighborhood. His name wasn''
Bony Highlander. but We called him
that because when he was reading q
piece Of poetry out Of the reader in
highlander" he said "bony high
lander" But We mostly called him
Bony for abort. like we called
8chwartzS Swatty for short.
Well. we waited on the corner for
9watty that afternoon until the bel
rung. but he didn't come. SO We went
along. and. he was at school already
md after he had STAYED in to be licked
and Miss Murphy let him ou. he told
us why he went early. He knew where
she kept her -awhide. in the closet q,
the end q the room on the shelf where
the chalk boxas were. and he went
early at boon arc took his pocket knife
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