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Show BREAKINGJTHE NEWS By ALLIC BROCK. "Taps," began Bobble one evening after dinner, "It makes a lot of difference differ-ence whether you like a person of not. doesn't It?' Hobble's father laid down the ere-nlng ere-nlng paper and looked at hi son critically. crit-ically. "What has little Miss Kelly been doing now?" he asked. Hobble screwed up his face. "Mist Kelly!" bu repeated scornfully. "1 bet nobody over to school would know who you were talking about She len t Miss Kelly, and sh don't ever be. She ain't tn my room any more, and I'm glad . Gee, she's the stingiest stingi-est tling! If she gives the fellers a liito of her apple you can know there's fPiiicthfng the matter with It. There lu't nobody likes her, les'n It's Hilly." "I understood that she was a very bright girl." "Bright! Well, maybe," Hobble said grudgingly. "I dunno. Hut honest, there's a lot more to think about than Just books." "I thought that was your opinion. opin-ion. "Well, It's so," Hobble declared. "Mamma docen't want me to be sitting sit-ting studying till 'leven every night I sh'd say not." "Does Mamie Kelly study that hard?'' "Well, no." acknowledged Hobble. "You see, shu goes home and works afternoons, but gee. she ain't a boy, and she doesn't mind sticking around the house. They have to work terribly ter-ribly hard in her room. Hilly says be gets nearly killed." "Is Hilly in her room now?" "Yes, there's lots of fellers in her room. They've got a teacher I don't like. She dresses In fresby gowns. 1 don't think tiny ought to wear gowns to school." "You don't? Well, may I ask If you prefir bloomers?" "I don't know as It's bloomers," Bob-bio Bob-bio said thoughtfully. "Hut anyhow I don't like party dresses at scbooL Then, she's awful strict You dassn't j smile, hardly, les'n she comes down on 1 you like a hammer. Jimmy, ha says she scares him almost into a fit, and one day she sent him home." "80 Jimmy's In Mamie's room, tooT "Sure." Hobble said, uneasily. "It's an awful big room this year. I heard , the teacher saying It was 'most too big , to handle. Gee, but there's soma swell fellers in my room. You know i that Pete Harding? Well,-he's there j and he's one of the biggest fellers 00 Aunt Msry'a street We bad a lot of fun with him yesterday, lie was showing us some circus stunts be seen saw last year. Some class to him, 1 all right" "What Is your teacher like?" "Oh, shea all right." Bobble sa'U, carelessly. "I knew her before, and she certainly Is fine. Susie lierrlck says she's awful glad to get away from ber, but everybody knows what Susie Su-sie Derrick is. There ain't nobody j likes Eusle, less'n It's Jimmy, and n goes over there a lot" "Is Susie lierrlck In Mamie Kelly! room, too?" "Well er yes. But I don't believe be-lieve anybody could like that teacher. teach-er. She was awful cross to NellU Foster, and I Just tell you that It wasn't fair. She got sore at NellU for whispering that was all there wai to It You can't breathe In that room. That teacher thinks books Is everything. every-thing. She does around with a book ; under her arm. Just as If she liked; It Gee, ! wouldn't be a teacher for a farm!" "What room Is Nellie Foster InT "Not In Marola Kelly's room! There ain't anybody'd slay In her room If sh could get out I'd rather be In ths kindergarten alone than In a room with Mamie Kelly." "Why didn't Nellie Foster go up with the rest?" "Oh, she did." Bobble said, dolefully. "She's awful smart But what can 1 you do with a teacher like that? A person couldn't admire Mamie Kelly and Nellie Foster, too. The new teacher Is Msmle Kelly's kind. Shs won't let a feller even smile in school So tbat'a how Nellie Foster got sent down. It wasn't a thing but for whispering. whis-pering. It makea me awful tired. Ol course, some of the marks was bad. but they often Is in a new room." "Where Is Nellie Foster now?" "Her?" Bobble said slowly. "Well, you see, she's In my room. I er well, you see. I got sent down, too." Chicago Dally News. |