Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-27
BY Ellis Parker Butte

not denude yourself, George.
You know the principal OF "
" "Hs's Pref sd nsiF Mr. sa,livan "a
he has a niece. She has teacher
certificate, but she has nothing
teach. Prof. Briggs would gladls
help her to a position. DID no eve i"
whale your" .,,,os"
"He's whaled Fritzy lot OF t,ihes'
/ said. "He never whaled me- .r..
GEORGE" said Mr.. Sullivan, "Pror'
Briggs will never whale you. /! ASK
ed him, and he told me he Would
never whale you. If you We're zen
times as bad as Fritzy ne wouiG n.y.
whale you. I'll bet you that manos
hunk Of spruce gum that you can
be ten times as bad as Fritzy for Two
solid weeks" =,
. "You want to be teachers pet. don
you?" said Mr.. Sullivan. You vat
ding and pie. &
George Porgy, is
Teachers pet, TIA
And see what you get. t#
That's wat you want to be. } III
want to be her itty tootsie woot A
Why, you couldn't be real boy 6
act like one If you tried. You're m
lycoddled SO much you don't dare.
IT do too dare" I said. "Noboc y
dast dare me-"
IT dare you!" he said. II doubl
dare you! Coward"
"I'll show you!" said. was mad.
"Fraid-cat! dare you! I double
Tsss aaGs on o darn and i've oe we ss from
now you'N be the same tootsie wootsie
teachers pet. What. If I was t.
write" he looked under his desl /
blotter and pulled out a slip Of pa:
per and looked at it write Milly.S
Morrell that ,. you uo didn't &c care =, to o.
Say! I got pretty red at that. 4
don't know how he found out aboN
Milly.
"You can go now" he said; Y have
a letter to write" He took up his
pen and s dipReS II n the he ds n
" or let" b
''what you want me to do?" I asked
in a hurry, tell you! wasn't goint
to let q grown-up write anything iilt,a
he said to Milly. So he told me
thought the spirit. Of manliness W.
boys were getting to he nilksops. HI
said that as long as he had though i
he could marry. Miss Allen he we \
willing to go along being lawyer
but that when she had written tina.
life work he had decided he ought t,
do something to help the world too
and he was going to try to make thu
boys strong, fearless characters. ltk
they were when he was a boy. anus
that he was going to begin with n.'
I guess he was right about that. /
always felt I had moro to me than
some Of the fellows had. So I told him
: I'd be strong. fearless character,
and he said he would wait couple
, of weeks before he wrote to Milly.
fearless in character he would give
me the bobsleS. '."- ..'4.~'5
I'm not such fool as all that,
though. When he went on to tell me
, what his idea Of how should be
strong. fearless character was. ! knew
II don't see anything strong and
fearless in that" said. That's Just
Icing tough In school. don't want to
do It. II act that way. why-why--"
&C.. "Go ahead! Why what% he said:
a boy that acted that way" I hurried
out. "she don't like Fritzy, because he
tied her hair to the ink well one day,
and she said boys like that were
., "I'li take e., care Of Milly." said Mr..
stands. I'll see that she don't care"
II don't like to tease Miss Allen" I
said. shes nice. II she was a tartar
! wouldn't care. I'd like to tease q
tartar. But Miss Allen lie nice"
George" he said. "she is nice. You
hit 1t there. / wouldn't have Miss Al
len annoyed for the world. But what
DO you think Of me? Am I nicer"
Yes" said, you're nice too"
"Ill be frank with you, George" he
vent on: II want to marry Miss Allen.
Probably you guessed that. md she
won't marry me. But she ought to. II
she doesn't she'll keep on teaching
school until she turns into a tartar"
Then he read that last note I car
Allen, OF course. and it said that she
while she liked him better than any
other man in the world. she had de-
cioe ed irrevocab!ye-l remember the
to me so could see It was hak wash.
ed out by a tear drop already-not to
marry at all, because her life work
was along educational lines. She said
she hoped to go far in educate, :. and
bring about new and better H. DDS
OF teaching. She said the world,
1t; more. she said. than Mr.. ST. 49,.
49s So that aer was what she said, md
then Mr.. Sullivan said to mo:
silly little thipg, isn't she? And
Just the week before she wrote this
sns cried ed. right on this arm because
said she thong hit all boys and some
girls were innate devils, born to drive
school teachers to the brink of nerv-
Gus prostration. And then what do
yo% ON, think X she said, George?"