Show A BOYS Kansas City Journal The pupils in one room in the Sabetha schools were each required to write a short composition One o them a boy of 13 years years old wrote the following Us boys and girls are always bossed around and everybody says dont to us Here are some c for you ou grown peo people people pie that I am going to write in this essay because I speak up and say em to face I Dont tell us boys and girls what we cant eat and when weve weye got to quit We dont try tr to sive you rou advice about your Dont get excited when we have been away from the house a few fe hours Were all aU right Ladies get so nerv nervous ner nervous i ous S Dont tell us your going to lick us I when we go to bed There aint any an fun I till tm after it is all aU over oer Dont blame us when you ou cant find any one else to blame Were dead tired of getting the worst of it Dont make us apologize People ought to apologize to us lots of times but they never do it You bet let we notice it too Dont be everlasting grabbing us and straightening us out and pulling at our clothes and poking your fingers In our ears to get the dirt out WE VB DONT DONl LIKE IT Dont always make ma e us do GO your way wa We want w nt to do our way Wat once in a while Dont nudge each other and ask us u silly questions Were Yere rere onto you old smart Alera Alec Dont make fun of or us Weve Vec got feelings although the big people never nev r seem to know it Dont make us show off OU How would you feel if somebody made you do tricks like an Irish setter Dont make us thank you and all that kind of business every time somebody hands us something They The dont do o it be because because because cause they want us to bow and arid scrape around aroun They do it because they were us themselves once This aint all aU the tile I know but m Ill have to stop because the teacher t acher wont let me make the piece any longer 0 |