Evening star., 1918-08-04
SWATTY STORIES AND OTHERS
SWatty
GUESS If teachers always know
how lickings were going to turn
out they wouldn't lick US fellows
40 much, I knew q fellow In Miss

how Nckings were going to turn
out they wouldn't lick US fellows
80 much. I knew fellow In Miss
Fenton's class and she used to
0ok him with strap with euekls sn
the end. because that was the 0nly thing
that would make him hollef. and one
day the tongue Of the buckle went
right into him and his leg swelled up
And. you bet, the school hoard nred
Miss Fenton. I bet she was sorry she
ever started licking anybody. But you
bet no school teacher ever mada mo
holler yet. They can make me gruht,
hut they can't make me holler. and
a.feller don't care how often he's lick
ed II he can keep from hollering.
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 ana
Herb Schwartz had q fight. ana !
was dead stuck on Herb Schwartz and
she didn't care who knew 1t, because
they were engaged and Fan was NJ.
ing up her things to get married In.
So then Fan and Herb had the fight,
like girls and fellows always do have.
evenings, and then Swatty brought
note from him to Fan, and took
one from Fan to Herb. and that was
the end Of 1t. The note I took had
a ring IN 1t, because I could feel 1t.
Then Fan just moped around the
house. and cried some, and aiter
eighth grade at school. because Prof.
Martin broke his leg on the Ice the
janitor ought to have scraped on the
steps, but didn't. So right away Herb
began to get thick with Miss Murphy
but that didn't make any difference to
me. AS soon as a fellow hasn't got
and / didn't blame Herb.
soins TO school and we were talking
at each other the way we always otds
and ! said he thought he was great,
%iss siaa Musphys ns SesaSss Sssu an and Mss murphy
wouldn't lick him when his brother
was her beau. didn't mean anythingi
I just said It; but syatty hauled on
and hit mo one and dared me to say
that sgaan So said II asa1a' snd enG ysl,sd; "a
::Fight!. Fightl" and had 20 dght
him. 1t would have bcsn g pretty Eood
fight Il Miss Murphy hadn't come along.
She jumped right ut us and grabbed u
,:'who struck the nrst blow7" says
Wen everybody told her swatty did.
which was the truth, and she let me
s,;sas.r 3. ,,s :ho9sss s.is yss.1ss . n
you've been getting entirely too up
school there. and wash yourself. and
see that you are In your seat when tho
So swatty did It. Ne and the Bony
Highlander stayed out until the bell
runa, 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"
they never lick at noon, because the
way some fellows wriggle and twist #
takes a long time to HEX them and 1t
would use up the noon hour. 80 they
lick after school in the afternoon when
% Bony 4 Highlander waited for swatty.
and we tried to scare him. We told
him We bet Miss Murphy would make
him heller, because she licked with
rawhide pony switch and whipped on
the legs where the switch would wrap
around and sting, but we couldn't get
Swatty to even pretend he might hol-
Ter. He said no teacher in the world
could make him holler. We all said It
Or, I don't know whether the Bony
Highlander said 1t 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 well, but not as
well as Swatty and me liked each other.
OF course. because me and Swatty was
cow-cousins.
Ne and swatty was both raised on
the milk Of the same COW, but 1t was
Schwartz's COW, and when ! was
Being raised on it Herb Schwartz used
to. fetch the milk around. the way
Swatty doeS' now. guess that's how
Herb got to know Fan. But the Bony
Highlander was just a kid that moved
info the nefghborhoed. His name
wasn't Bony Highlander, but we called
him that because when he was read
ing q piece Of poetry out Of the reader
in school and ought to. have said
ssbpnny, highlader," he said ssbony
highlander. But we mostly called him
Bofy. for short, like we called
Sqhwartxy Swatty for short. ....l3&.
i well, we waited on the corner for
SWattJ that afternoon until the bell
Fumg. s1ut he. didn't come. 30. we went
along. and he was at school already,
and. after he had stayed in to be, licked
and Miss Murphy let him out, he told
uswhy he.went early. Helknew where
stres Kept her rawhide, in the closet at
the end of7the room on the she1f where
the, cfla1ke boxes were, and he went
EARLY ut moon and took his. pocket
knife and cut the rawhfde into little
pfkraa ahouf an tnGh long. He. laid