The Oroville weekly gazette. [volume] (Oroville, Wash.) 1905-19??, 1922-01-27

Y-rllde am 1 III oP'S "
sneech. Rude am in speech
Eyes" the irritated teacher SAID as
Ramsey's failing voice continued musk
uv to insist upon this point. i thihh
vou rel" And her nerves were a III
~, soothed by the shout OF iaughter
So, tho scbool--it was never difficult
for teachers to he witty. go sit down.
Ramsey and do it after school
uis ears roaring. the unfortunate
,,,ont IN his seat and, among all the III
,arious faces. one stood Oui-Dora 70
cum,s Her laughter was precocious
If was that of a confirmed superior III
sufrerably adult-she was Laughing Ut
him as a grown person laughs u.
hid Conspicuously and unmistaka-
h,, tbere was something indulgent IN
har amusement. He chOked. lie
d,dn,t care for George Washington, or
Paul Revere. or the teacher OF 'he
president OF the United States. OF
Shakespeare, or any OF EN-. Ihe3
could all 90 to the dickens win Dora
yocum They were all lot of smart
Toe ANYWAY and he hated the whole
It's any "os
stew of EN-
There was one, however, whom ne
somehow couldn't manage 10 nate
oven though this one officially seemed
70 ha as intimately associated WIN
Dora Yocum and superiority as the
others were. Ramsey cotiidh I nate
Abraham Lincoln. even when Dora
l.lt xsnr
Address" on the twelfth of February
I;nco,u had said Government oil the
neople. by the people, for the people
and that didn't mean government ID!
the TEACHER and the Teachers Pet ana
paul Revere and Shakespeare ana
suchlike: 1t meant government by
everybody, and therefore Ramsey mao
ms much to do with 1t as anybody else
had Beyond doubt, Dora and the
teacher thought Lincoln belonged to
them and their crowd OF exclusives
thev seemed to think they owned the
| whole United States but Ramsey was
sure they were mistaken about Abra'
| ham Lincoln.
He felt that 1t was just like this lit
tie Yocum snippet to assume such
| thing. and it made him sicker imam
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! Ii that happened well.
nobody could stand her The long
lashes made her eyes shadowy. and it
WIS fact that her shoulder blades
ceased to insist upon notoriety; you
couldn't tell where they were at all,
J any more.
A contemplate thing happened.
| Wesley Bender was well known to be
| the nost uRtitdy hoy in the class, and
had never shown any reInOrse for his
reputation or made the slightest effort
| either to improve or to dispute it. He
was content: it 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
slight distinction. II helped him to
become better known. and boys liked
to be seen with him. But one day
there was Encouragement of the
seating In the schOOlrOOm Wesley
Bender was given a desk next in front
of Dora Yocum's; and within IL week
the whole room knew that Wesley had
begun voluntarily to wash his neck
the back Of II. anyhow.
This was at the bottom of the figni
between Ramsey Milholland and Yves.
ley Bender, and the diplomatic ex.
changes Immediately preceding HOSTILE
Ties were charmingly frank and un.
hypocritical, although quite as mixed.
up and off-the-issue as if they had
been prepared by professional foreign
Office men. Ramsey and Fred Mitchell
and four other boys waylaid young
bender on the street after school in
tending jocosities rather than violence.
Dut the victim proved sensitive "You
take your ole hands off o mel" he
SAID fiercely. as they began to push
him about among them.
| ole dirty Wes!" they hoarsely bel.
lowed and squawked, in their chang.
ing voices. Washes his ears!"
| washes MS neck J" Dora Yocum
tod his mama to turn the hose on
| hint"
wesley broke from them and backed
away swinging his strapped books In
dangerous circle. "You keep off !"
he warned them. II got as much
rignt to my pers'nal appearance as
anybody"
ms richly fed their humor. and
tney rioted round him, keeping outsld.
me swinging books at the end of the
strap. "Pers'nal appearance !"
VOW Ole dirty Yves. he's got nor.
"a' "ppearance!' "Who went
ana bought it for you, Wes?" :.
NoDody bought 1t for him. Dorm
'ocum took and give him bne !"
You leave ladies' names alone ~
cried the chlvalrous Wesley. "Ym
ought to know better. on the nubi,c
street, you-pups!"
mere was a serious affront. at least
10 ramsey Milholand's way OF think.
ing; Tor Ramsey, also now proved
SENSITIVE, lie quieted his friends
smut upland advanced toward
Wesley. You look here! Who YOU
calm 'pups'?"
HVeryDody! Wesley hotly re.
turned. Everybody chat goes around
mentioning ladies' names on the pub.
lie streets are pups,"
lhey are, are they?" Ramsey as
no'iy demanded. well, you lust look
mere a minute; my own father mon.