The Oklahoma City times. [volume] (Oklahoma City, Okla.) 1908-1984, 1918-05-29

nau Oecn catlng uoR meat told my
father that | was IN the market one day
when man bought some dog meat, and
my daddy said that was meat for a dog
10 eat, and that is something else that
is useful and interesting.
WHEN we had fed our faces and
W had washed up the dishe, and
swept and busted the rooms and 60,
swea,y and dirty, me and Rowdy went
around by the school just to think about
the other kids being inside and me and
Rowdy on the outside because that
makes a person feel line, and one Of the
rooms was singing and | clum up the
poplar tree in front and sung the same
song and pretty soon they all stopped
and the teacher OF that room came to
the window and motioned for me to get
down and chase myself and that is what
sou get for trying to help some people
! had good mind 10 tell her that | was
out on my vacation and that she was
not my boss and that she had not better
try 70 put anything over on the Irish,
but ] wanted to go swimming and so did
Rowdy and we went when ] got down
out OF the tree, A good many teachers
have q mean disposition, but some OF
them are as sweet as pie and lou can't
help loving them, not even II you are q
pupil, as they call the kids, and It is
awful hard work for a pupil TO love .
teacher, but some OF them can do it.
The kinds that can love q teacher are
mostly Irish kids. The Irish can dc
anything. Me and Rowdy rambled over
into the garden lot and looked at all
the gardens and there are none Of them
as good as Spots, and I expect when
he has all the time he wants ont q,
Jims, Jim will have the best garden in
town, ! do not know IL Spot can swim
or not. Me and Rowdy went past Mag
gie'S and borrowed a piece OF soap and
asked Maggie u she thought Spot
could swim and she said she did not
know, but she said | must never ask
Spot to 20 swimming with me, and
told her for cats sake if they were GO
ing TO be that stingy with his time he
would be a mutt II he worked for them
and then Maggie said il was not hi,
time she cared about, because when q
boy is that age his time is worth
about as much as he Is, whatever she
means by that, but she said II Is wrong
Sor little boys and girls to 20 swim
ming together. asked her II the Bible
said so and she said she did not know,
but she said there are things that are
right and things that are wrong tina,
the Bible does not even mention. I guess
God was busy when He wrote il, bu,
when things are left out that way II
Is certainly tough on a little Irish girl
that likes TO have good times.
MAYBE il would be all right for me
to 90 swimming with anyone, bu,
God did not think To say 50, so don't
dast TO do II. We certainly learn some.
thing every day, Maggie loaned me the
soap and then she went over TO the
river by the bath house With me and
watched me Jump off the sprineboard a
few times, but she would not come In. I
asked her u II was wron- for her to 20
in with the Irish, and she said il
wasn't because whenever she went in
she went in with the Irish, and when |
asked her who they arc she said she
Is Irish her ownself so she can't 20 in
without going !. with the Irish. That
was . pretty good joke and you would
not think Maggie Is so smart TO look
at her. She let me put the soap in the
hath hOtsp so aS In aiuavs have N and