News and citizen. [volume] (Morrisville, Vt. ;) 1881-current, 1922-02-01

true true l have marry dur the very
headan frun tuv my Tending hath this
extent no more rude am | in speech
in speech-rude am / in speech-in
speech-in speech---in speech"
He had stalled. Perhaps the fatal
truth of that phrase, and some sense
of its applicability to the occasion had
interfered with the mechanism which
he had set in operation to get rid of
the "rectation" for him. At all events.
the machine had to run off its job all
at once, or it wouldn't run at all. He
gulped audibly. Rude rude rude am
rude am in speech-in speech-in
speech. Rude am l in speech"
Yes" the irritated teacher said, as
Ramsey's failing voice continued husk-
lily to insist upon this point. 81 think
you are :" And her nerves were lit
tie sOOthed by the shout Of laughter
from the SchoOl-it was never difficult
for teachers to- be witty. "Go sit down,
Ramsey, and do it after school"
His ears roaring, the unfortunate
went to his seat and, among all the hi
larious faces, one stood out-Dora YO-
Gums. Her laughter was precociOus;
it was that Of confirmed superior, in
sufferably adult-she was laughing at
him as grown person laughs at
child. Conspcuously and unmistaka-
bly,, there was something indulgent in
her amusement. He choked. He
didn't care for George Washington, or
Paul Revere, or the teacher, or the
President of the United States. or
Shakespeare, or any of 'em. They
could all go to the dickens with Dora
Yocum. They were all lot of smart
les anyway and he hated the whole
stew Of EN-!
There was one, however, whom he
somehow couldn't manage to hate
even though this one officially seemed
to he as intimately associated with
Dora locum and superiority rs the
others were Ramsey couldn't hate
Abraham Lincoln. even when Dora
was chosen to deliver the Gettysburg
Address" on the twelfth of February.
Lincoln had said Government of the
people, by the people, for the people,"
and that didn't mean government by
the teacher and the Teachers Pet and
Paul Revere and Shakespeare and
suchlike; it meant government by
everybody. and therefore Ramsey had
as much To do with it as anybody else
had. Beyond doubt, Dora AMI the
teacher thought Lincoln belonged to
them and their crowd of exclusives;
they seemed to think they owned the
whole United States; but Ramsey was
sure they were mistaken about Abra
ham Lincoln.
He felt that it was just like this lit
tie Yocum snippet to assume such a
thing, and it made him sicker than
ever to look at her.
Then. one day, he noticed that her
eye winkers were stickin' out farther
and farther.
His discovery irritated him the |
more. Next thing, this ole Teachers |
Pet would do she'd get to thinkin' she |
was pretty! If that happened, well,
nobody could stand herr Che long |
lashes made her eyes shGdvwy, and it |
was fact that her shoulder blades /
ceased to insist upon nOtoriety; you |
couldn't tell where they were at all. |
any more.
A contemplate thing happened. |
Wesley Bender was well known to be
the most uutitdy boy i'm the class. and
had never shown any remorse for his
reputation or made the slightest effort !
either to improve or to dispute it. He
zgs content: it failed 10 lower his
with his fellows or to i'm