The Idaho Republican. [volume] (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1904-1932, 1922-03-09

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 I in speech-in
speech-in speech-in speech"
+, He had stalled. Perhaps the fatal
truth of that phrase. 0nd some sense
of Its applicability to the occasion had
interfered with tbs mechanism which
he had set in operation to get rid OF
the recitation" 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
I-rude am In speech-in speech-in
speech. Rude am in speech"
EYES," the irritated teacher said, as
Ramsey's failing voice continued husk-
lily to insist upon this point. II 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;
1t was that of confirmed superior. in
sufferably adult-she was laughing at
him as grown person laughs at a
child. Conspicuously and unmistaka-
bly,, there was something indulgent in
her amusement. He ch0ked. 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 60 to the dickens with Dora
Yocun. They were all lot Of smart
les anyway and he hated the whole
stew Of 'em!
There was one, however, whom he
somehow couldn't manage to hate,
even though this one officially seemed
to be as intimately associated with
Dora Yocum and superiority as the
others We're. 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; 1t meant government by
everybody, and therefore Ramsey had
as much to do with it as anybody else :
had. Beyond doubt, Dora and 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
thing, and It made him sicker than
ever to look at her. So e
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! II that happened. well, \
nobody could stand her! The long
lashes made her eyes shadOwy, and 1t
was a fact that her shoulder blades
ceased to insist upon notoriety; you
couldn't tell where they were at all,
any more. es AZ
A contemplate thing happened.
Wesley Bender was well known to be
the most untitdy boy in the class, and
had never shown any remorse for his
reputation or made the slightest effort
either to improve or to dispute 1t. He
was content: 1t failed to- lower his
standing with his fellows or to i'm !
press them unfavorably. In fact, he
was treated as one who has attained
a slight distinction. 1t helped him to
become better known, and boys liked 4
to be seen with him. But one day.
there was arrangement Of the
seating in the schoolrOom: Wesley
Bender was given q desk next In front
Of Dora Yocum's; and within a week j
the whole room knew that Wesley had I
begun voluntarily ~ waah his neck
the back Of II, anyhow.
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