Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1922-06-30

Lookin' back to our class picnic, FIR
instance, SECOND year of high school,
that day / jumped in the creek after
Well, you know, it was when started
maxim fool Of myself over a girl.
Thank goodness, got that out o. my
system; it makes me just sick to look
back on those days and think Of the
fool things / did, and all / thought
about that girl. Why, She Well, I've
got old enough to see now she was
just about as ordinary girl as there
ever was, and If I saw her now I
wouldn't even think she was pretty !;
I'd prob'ly think she was sort of loud
lookin'. Well, what's passed Is past,
and it isn't either here nor there.
| What I started to say was this: that
the way it begins to look to me, 1t
looks as If nobody can tell In this life
q darn thing about what's goin' to hap
pen, and the things that do happen are
the very ones you'd swear were the
last that could. mean-you look back
to that day of the picnic-my but
was rube then-well, mean you look
back to that day, and what do you
suppose I'd have thought then if some
body'd told me the time would ever
come when I'd be way off here at col
lege sittin' on a bench with Dora 70
cum-with Dora Yocum, in the first
place-and her crying and both of us
talking about the United States goin'
to war with Germany Don't it seem
! pretty funny to you, Fred, too?"
/ 'But as near as / can make out"
Fred said "that isn't what happened"
"Why isn't itT'
'You say and both Of us talking
and so on. AS near as can make out,
you didn't say anything at ALL"
swell, l didn't-much," Ramsey adj
mitted, and returned to his point with
almost pathetic persistence. "But
doesn't it seem kind O. funny to you,
Fred?"
''Well, don't know"
''It does to me-" Ramsey insisted. "It
certainly does to me-"
eyes," said Fred cruelty. "rve no.
ticed you said so, but it don't look any
funnier than you do when you say
| it,"
Suddenly he sent forth startling
! shout. "Wow! You're as red as
blushing beet!"
81 am not"
"Y'arep shouted Fred. "Wow! The
ole woman-hater's get the Pushes. Oh,
look at the pretty posy!"
And, jumping down from the window
seat, he began to dance round his
much perturbed comrade, believing.
Ramsey bore with him for moment,
then sprang upon him; they wrestled
vigorously, broke chair and went to
the floor with crash that gave the
chandelier in Mrs. Meigs' parlor, be-
low, an attack Of jingles.
"You let me up!" Fred gasped.
"You take your solemn oath to shut
up? You goin' to swear it?"
"All right. / give my solemn OATH"
said Fred; and they rose, arranging
their tousled attire.
"Well," said Fred, when you goin'
to call on herr"
"You look here !" Ramsey approached
him dangerously. "You just gave me
your SOL"
81 beg!" Fred cried, retreating. 81
mean, aside from all that, why, I just
thought maybe after such an evening
you'd feel as gentleman you ought to
go and ask after her health
Now see here"
mo, / mean 1t; you ought to-" Fred
insisted, earnestly, and as his room
mate glared at him with complete sus-
picion, he added, in explanation. "You
ought to go next Callers Night, and
send in your card, and say you felt you
ought to ask if she'd suffered any from
the night air. Even if you couldn't
manage to say that, you ought to start
to say it, anyhow, because you Keep
off O. me! I'm only tryin' to do you a
good turn, amt II"
you save your good turns for
YOURSELF" Ramsey growled, still adj
vancing upon him.
But the insidious Mitchell, evading
him, fed to the other end of the room,
picked up his cap and changed his
manner. "Come on, ole bag O. beans,
let's be on our way to the frat house;
it's time. Wen call this all off"
"You better!" Ramsey warned him;
and they trotted out together.
But as they went along, Fred took
Ramsey's arm confdentially, and said:
Now, honestly, Ram, ole man, when
are you goin' to-"
Ramsey was still red. "You look
here! Just say one more word"
ooh, no." Fred expostulated. Il
mean seriously, Ramsey. Honestly,
mean seriously. Aren't you seriously
goin' to call on her some Callers
| Night?"
mo, I'm not"
"But why not?'
Because / don't want to-"
"Wel, seriously, Ramsey there's
only one Callers Night before vaca-
ton, and so / suppose it hardly will
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