Shoshone journal. [volume] (Shoshone, Idaho) 1884-1931, 1923-08-17

eagerly. IT'D pay cause he'd be NOR
excited and"
/. .! amt aiming to get my boys ex
4 cited Ny line amt revivals: It's ad-
vertising. Now you run long outa
here while I'm still holding on TO my
temper. Do you hearY'
Lerrie rose swiftly. her face white
with fear. her eyes blazing with in
tensity. You gotta listen. Honest,
you'd get more work out Of your boys
I'll bring Il; I'll show you; III"
Get outa here, I amt going to
bother
Holy Jlminetty," cried the child,
with fare OF anger. Cant you talk
sense: Tn telling you straight"
Jack" called Mr.. Abbott, put this
kid out"
obi OH" screamed Lettie- Don't
you dare" In a binding gust Of
rage at the threatened Indignity. she
clenched her fists and pounded the
frail old desk till the papers rustIed
and the inkwelI rocked against Its /
metal holder. A wrathful red had
surged into her cheeks: her narrow
chest jumped up and down in agony.
Don't you dare Just have heart.
Listen till L Oh, let me alone.
Don't you dare; don't you
Shrieking. protesting, lashing ont
with her lean. angry arms, Miss Pen
field was being forcibly elected from
the Office Of the Wideawake Adyer-
tislng agency. The boy Jack. with :
relish, had grasped the !
child by thin elbow and was guiding 7
her TO the door. Not without diff G
,ulty. however, He was able to con- r
-rol the general direction, but NOT Z
Without picturesque zigzaggings. Let
lie. alternating shouts Of entreaty and h
lefance, was executing a series of a
about the fulcrum of her D
WI elbow which would have given
uggestions to vaudeville dancer in
earch Of Innovations.
You don't know boys" screamed ec
ettie. Lego, dern you'll You don't
now boys. They'd rather work a Sc
lick than eat. They" dc
shut up, you wild Indian" advised
lie boy called Jack. r
shut up, yourself" retorted Lettie
You don't know boysl You don't
how" She stopped, abruptly con-
ious that she was addressing a
osed door and sidewalk empty Of
e except for pattering Airedale.
Viously not interested in advertis-
g.
Stlfllng with anger, panic-stricken
failure, Lettie dashed down the
rect, into vacant lot where there
Is a sprawling live-oak tree. With II
'ail brown fists she began beating L
rough trunk. Wild sobs shook IT,
r thin frame. Tears rolled down
race; anger dried them on her hot r
eeks' only to replace them by a new
Cd. .,o
win savage delight in her own suf- thin
ing, she beat the gnarled bark till thre
blood came and her muscles Iar
ieu' Ihen her arms dropped; she
mped INTO heap on the ground u
longer a will-driven human being. NJ,
OF tight and ferceness. but a for ny,
little girl, hopeless and heart ~,
ken. With all the gathered longing .aui
hard, dreary childhood. she had ~
her mind ON thasa sa,, sie i'"u still
m some idea1izad ho,ah. awe,
no" II was to be as It had al s aa..
~ oeen: no tree, no presents no ''a u
~ no games no anythingl oniy
ext week she would prowl through "nei
ous streets IN tho oor,,. 80 nigh
ping now and then before win. gram
TO watch somebody else's Christ SCUM
tree. spreadjno ,ts hrono,o were
IN parted curtains dot+ad ~. him
led candles that pleamad On .,u.a, other
gay red bells-just as she had that
last year-and wear haforo-ors ducti
peiorel Perhaps, as had han the
d once, she would find a cbrrat there
= She would climb up on a fence not m
look In at the window-at pronns the
groups OF children WAITING Co. when
Claus to give them nresant. for Al
tne Dig tree with its deep, soft nights
rs and chains Of tinsel and glit. Of an,
inslde-outsidel What a differ. to oul
AND she. Lettie. would be ont. starte'
oiihgihg 10 a fence, looking in 80 sha
good times that had never been We sw
outside-always, always out. JUST to
matter
BODY shook with sobs. Her thin we ste
twisted in the dry grass and set-ol
harp oak leaves. Sometime ceivers
ouched her burning cheek. She with t,
ned away. The cold touch fol- sibly q
She reached to push II from ment, ,
no her fingers fell on the sor, concert
uos. with Wild cry Lettis quality
and threw her arms around tha from o.
creature. He licked her face cfdes Il
IS wise dog. dog OF family hand IT
mad seen small people suffer gets sol
so he knew exactly what 10 ia nothing
ltinued 10 lick-and Ietffe con.
70 hug. He had offered M. rror
ny and she took II with greed .onsI :,
, tief tears were be repef
see - she said aloud. her vo,es 49, =