Mangum Weekly Star. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1915 Page: 2 of 8
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■ ■. vrag
TOD
James Whitcomb Riley
to preside at mix
hayloft, and r>ffi»r the
Ice at the "swlmmln*
In point of person
semblance, Tod v a. ii
father. Some said he
of his mother, they w
ber her, for
Vas three <:
im
nirs in the
ismal serv-
a. us locked around him so closely
that lie cried, and they hi"1 to take
him away from her. No—Death had
taken her away from him.
It needs now no chronicle to tell
how Tod thrived in spite of his great
lows, and how he grew to be a bisi,
fat, two-fluted baby with a double chin,
he pride and constant worry of the
d -r old grandmother into whose care
he had fallen. It requires no space
in history's crowded page to tell how
he could stand up by a chair when
eight months old, and crow and lauph
and doddle his little chubby artns
till he quite upset his balance, and,
pe'llng the chair down with bim
■would lamjh, and cry loudor than
ever, and kick, and crawl, and sprawl,
ai l jabber; and never lift a whimper
of distress but when being rocked to
to sleep. T,et a babyhood of usual in-
terest be inferred—then add a few
more years, art! you will have the
Tod of ten I knew.
<) tnor;>l. saintlike and consistent
Christian, what is it In the souls of
little children so antagonistic to your
own sometimes? What la it in their
wayward and impulsive natures that
yen cannot brook? And what strange
tincture of rebellious feeling is it thai
embitters all the tenderness and love
you pour out so lavishly upon tl.elr
stubborn and resentful hearts' Why
is it you so covetously cherish the com-
mand divine, "Children, obey your par-
ents." and yet find no warm nook
within the breast for that old Itouse-
less truth that goes walling through
the world:
A boy's will Is the wind's wit!.
And the thoughts of youth are long, long
thought*?
Tod went to school—the thriftless
Tod!—not wholly thriftless, either;
for. although he had not that apt way
of skimmlug like a swallow down the
placid rills of learning, he did pos-
sess, in some mysterious strength, a
most extraordinary knack of acquiring
Just such information as was not
taught at school, and had no place
within the busy hive of knowledge,
Tod was a failure in arithmetic.
Tod couldn't tell twice tea from twice
eternity. Tod knew absolutely noth
ing of either Christopher Columbus
or the glorious country he discovered
expressly for the use -of Industry and
learning, as the teacher would have
had him Implicitly believe Tod
couldn't tell you anything of Jvhn
Smith, even, that very noted captain
who walks cheek by jowl with the
dusky Pocahoutas across the illimita-
ble fancy of the ten year-old school
boy of our glorious republic. Tod
dtiew all about the tamous Captain
Kidd, however, la fact, Tod could
sing his history with more lively In
terest and real appreciation than his
fellow schoolmates sang geography.
The simple Tod once joined the geo-
graphical chorus with:
I'd a Bible In my hand.
An I Balled, an I sailed,
And I sunk her In the land,
An I sailed.
And Tod—not Captain Kidd—had *
•.hort dresses aid verj slim iega. lod than ou that memorable afternoon- when brought to light, emphatically dainty affectation#—no formalities— ringing In hla ears as he sang, as he
tailed to join his class. so well, indeed, did he acquit himself asserted that the fat man was in no- , no* etiquette—no anything but the full aang, and an overflow of tears as he
The long suffering minister was 111 that the good old father failed to cen- wise blamable; that he bad run away sway of healthful appetites incited by aang. And then he ran away from
at ease. The exercise Tailed in some sure him that evening for the sin of on bis own hook, and would do It the exhilarant exercises of the day achool that afternoon, and sang Cap-
way to appease the hunger of the soul fighting, and perhaps never would again if he wanted to Hut he broke into keenest rapacity and relish. tain Kidd, from A to izzard, in the
within. H* looked out of the open have done so had not the pi or blind there with a heavy sob; and the fat "Don't you think it's goin' to rain?" full hearing of the "Industrial Hive,"
window nervously, and watched a man so far forgotten the dignity of his man said: "There! there! Cootsey. go asked someone suddenly. A little to the very evident amusement of
saucy little sapsucker hopping up and great affliction as to get as drunk as along with the old 'un, and here's a< rosy-gllled gentleman, with the aid of "the workers," and the discomfiture of
down a tree: first up one side and then he was blind two evenings following doiiar for you." And Tod cr.ed aloud. a chicken leg for a lever, raised his the ruler of "the swarm."
.n°„Wn,i • ,rfy diT,Peatv 1 V * M J?at °f .the The g°°" mln,8ter had brou*ht * tat face skyward, and after a serious The teacher called on the good min-
i ,m ° H, T ll. Z*eJ ug divine service letter for him, too. and as the boy contemplation of the clouds, wouldn't later that evening, and after a long
surpri Ing him with a mlschievou JVV" ,n the following read It through bis tears he turned gay for certain whether It would rain talk on the back porch, left late In
Kr mnZ Trrin.?ren ?.rr" # w homeward almost eagerly. I or uot, but informed the unfortunate the dusk, wiping his eyes with one
. occ ence °°* Dear Tnd fit pan], I have been quite ■Ick querist, after pulling his head into its hand, and shaking the other very
1 since you left me. Vou muat come back, usual position and laying down the warmly with the preacher. And Tod
for I mi** you. and 1 can never get well .. 1
.train without you. I've got a new kink f „slipped noiselessly along the roof
<>n a pair of stilts I've made you but I \-. \ above them, and slipped uown the
■ an't tell how long to make them till you
■ ome back. Fanny cornea over every day,
ind talks about you no much I half be-
lieve sometimes ;ihe lh.es you better than
she does her old slcl; un< le; but I can
stand that, because you <1.-serve It, and
I'm too old foi little girls to like very
mischievous | It 1CT»..
pecking near the top fork. He thought these latter mentioned incidents that holne ward almost "eagerly'
of his poor, wayward boy, with a a far more serious occurrence took
vague, vague hope that he might yet,
in Borne wise ruling of a gracious Tod had never seen a circus, for nn-
Providence, escape the gallows; and . til this eventful e'loch in our simple :,saln without you.
with a deep sigh turned to the noisy history the humble little village had
, quiet of the school room: he did not never been honored with the presence
even smile as he took up Tod's geog- of this "most highly moral arid In
structlve exhibition of the aee." When
the grai d cavalcade, with its Marine
music and Its richly caparisoned
(Copyright bf James WlnUwinb Kiley* j/j j
* I
Stoddard Anderson was the boy's
name, though had you made inquiry
for Stoddard Anderson oi any boy
of the town in which he lived—and I I
myself lived there, a hundy boy in the 1
dim old days—you doubtless wonld
have been informed that nobody of that
name lived there. Your juvenile In
foriuant, however, by way of gratui-
tous intelligence, mtirht hnve gone |
o". to state that two i'aniilies of Ai> i
dersons resided there- - Old Do-good' j
Anderson, the preacher, and his
brother, John But hud you rsked >
for "Tod" Anderson, or simply "Tod."
your boy would have known Tod; 1
your boy, in ail likelihood, would have
had especial reasons for remembering I
Tod, although hlB modesty, perhaps i
might not allow him to Inform you
how Tod had "waxed it to him more'n
onc't!" nut he would have told you, ■
as I tell you now, that Tod Anderson j
was the preacher's boy, and lived at [
the parsonage. Tod was a queer boy.
Stoddard Anderson was named in
honor of some obscure divine his fa- |
ther had joined church under when a
boy. It was a peculiar weaVne«s of J
the father to relate the experience J
of his early conviction; and as lu-
never tired of repeating it, by way
of precept and admonition to the way
wrrd lambkins of his flock, ToC u.:s 1
terod its moBt intricate and
phraseology, together even with tlio |
father's most relii?;ouB formulas, to a
degree of perfection that enabled him
raphy, opened at the boy's latest
work—a picture of the state seal,
where a stalwart pioneer in his sli'rt-
sleeves hacked away at a gnarled and
t- tibborn looking tree, without deign-
ing to notice a stampeding herd of
buffalo that dashed by In most alarm-
ing proximity. The nonchalance of
the sturdy yeoman was intensified by
Tod's graphic pen, which had mount-
horses, with their rod'ting plumes and much. It'll soon be the Fourth, you
spangles, four ab'-east, drawing the we muat l><> gettln? ready
identical "flerv chirlot" Tod hud hearo
his father talk about; when all tin
highly painted wagons with tiieir mys
terlous contents, ai;rt the cunning fairy
ponies with their little. PutTy manes
l»ig t'me Come home at once, for I
am WHltlng
To Stoddard Anderson, from his old
friend and teacher.
Tod went home. lie hastened to
the teachers darkened room The
upon Tod's enr^ntnred wes he fell
mutely Into place behind the band
wagon with Its nvrlad followers: aiH
so rtw*. p~ "•"'•Vn n'ul tut; ..noeu.
accomnmled
ed each plunging monster with a dar- and flo-sy tails—when nil this burst dear old face had grown pale—so very i
pale! The kindly hand that reached
out to grasp the boy's was thin and
wasted, and the gentle voice that he
had learned to love was faint and
h° nagennt on its grand low—so very low, it sounded like a
trln- ibal • ii around the town prayer. The good minister turned si-
Tod carried water for the animals; lently and left the two old friends to-
Tod ran errands of all kinds for the gether: and there were teardrops in
showmen: Tod looked upon the gruff, his eyes.
Ill-tempered canvas hand with an awt And so the little, staggering life
approaching reverence. Tod was go- went on alone. Some old woman gos-
ing to the show, too, for he had been sip, peering through the eye of a
most fortunate In exchanging his poor needle on the institution known as
services of the morning for the "open the "Ladies' Benevolent Sewing so-
sesame" of all the drecned-of wonders elety," said that it "peared to her like
of the arena Tod would laugh and that boy of the preacher's jes' kep a-
and stopping abruptly In front of the whlsn^r to himself hu-«rfng the ticket pinln' and a plnfn" away, ever sence
Ing rider, holding a slack bridle-rein
In one h ind, and with the other swing-
ing a plug hat In the most exultant
and defant manner. This piece of
grotesque art id others equally sug-
gestive of the outcropping renins of
their author, were put wearilv ;>side,
n.ily serving, as It seemed, to deepen
rather than dissolve the gloom en-
shrouding the good father's face.
And so the exercises wore along till
recess came, and with It came the
missing Tod.
"I'm In time, am I? Goody!" shout-
ed Tod, Jumping over a small boy who
had stooped to pick up a slate pencil,
teacher's desk.
"Why Tod; what In the world!"
Tod's features wore a proud, exult-
ant smile, though somewhat glamoured
with a network of spiteful-looking
scratches; and bis eyes .were more
than usually bright, although their
lids were blue and swollen to a si?e
closely to his palHtatlng side, as he they fetched him back from his runa-
ran about on errands or a hundred way scrape. She'd seen him time and
kinds, occupying everv golden Inter- again sence then, and although the lit-
hide of time in drawing the magic tie snipe was innocentlike to all ap- j
passport from b's nocket and g'oating pearances. she'd be bound that he was
nv»r the cabalistic le-rend "Cnmpli- in devilment enough! Reckoned he
mentnry " with the accompanying au was too proud to march in the school
t'graeh of the fat old mapager with
that half concealed them. His head, the broad, bel^wotpd expanse of shirt-
held jauntily erect, suggested noth-
ing but boyish spirit; but his hair, j
tolled beyond all reason, wifh little '
\% ispa ut it glued together with clots |
nd n watch seal as big as a
' : while on 'he reverse side h •
glut li?3 vision with an "ex
vl_-v. of the monster pavilion."
or moral re
owlse liM- bis !
us the picture ;
oouid remem-
fell asleep when Tod
old, with Iter mother- !
-. i i i, « .<>
mm
Tod, In a Word, Knew No Such Word at Fall When Hia Turn Was Called
to Entertain His Hearers.
of blood; his best clothes Boiled and
torn; a bruised and naked knee
showing through a straight rent across
one leg of his trousers, conveyed the
where a "girl poised high In air on a
cord, in spangled dress," was kissing
her hand to a mighty concourse of
people, who waved their hats and
p'cessl^n at the teacher's funer'l; and
he didn't go to the meetin' house at
all. but put off to the graveyard by
his^elf: and when they got there with
the corrx-e. Tod was a-setMn' with his
lees n-liaiifin' In the gra<-e, ar.d a-
pitchln' clods in, and a-smillu' "And
or.lv w th« othc- evening,' she co-
tinned, "as 1 wis crni'ii' past ther
kind o' in the drnklike that boy was
M-pettin" «-<-'r->rft'i« o' the grave, and
es' e ervtii'! And 1 thought It kind
o' strati"' '"re, and stoi vod and hol-
lered: 'W!" t's tbQ matter of ye,
"V"" and he tips ard hollers hick:.
'Stumpt my toe, durn t'e!' and thinks
1. 'Mv yot "n«i..f, ''-ey'li be a day o'
recVorin' fer vnu'"'
The old world worr'od on. till ,Tnlv
came at lapt ?"d with it that most
glorious dav tint wranp^d t' e babv
r.; 'ion In its ewadd"ntc cl^tlies of
stripes pnd star« and laid It in thn lap
of Liberty Ard wh-t a d iv that was!
And how the birds .lid sing that morn-
ing fr-"n the ?r°pn tops of the trees
when the clad sunlight came glancing
throueh the Jeweled leaves and woke
them' And not more Joyous were the
bird- or tnor» riotous their little
throbbing hearts to "pine the trail and
cheep and twitter twentv million
loves.' than the merry children that
came fluttering to the grove to Join
their revelry.
O bnehter than a dream swept
♦he procession of children from the
town toward the boy that swung his
hat from the tree ton hear the brook.
And he flushed with io.ne strange ec-
stasv as he saw a llttl'- girl In white,
with a wreath of evergreen, wave her
crimson sash In answer to him. while
the column slowly filed across the
open bridge, where yet again he paw
her reanpear in the reflection in the
stream* below. Then, after the dull
opei.ing of prayer, and the more tedi-
ous Exercises following, how the woods
did ring with laughter; how the boys
vied with one another In their labors
of arranging swings and clearing un-
derbrush away preparatory to a day
of unconflned enjoyment; and how the
girls shrieked to "see the black man
coming." and how coquettlshly they
struggled when captured and carried
ofT by that dread being, and yet what
eagerness thev displayed in his be-
half! And "Ring"—men and women
even Joining In the game, and kissing
one another's wives and husbands
like mad. Why, even the ugly old
gentleman with a carbuncle on the
back of his neck, grew riotous with
mirth, and when tripped full length
upon the sward by the little widow In
half-mourning, bustled nimbly to his
feet and kissed her, with spme wicked
Idea of a recent passage through some handkerchiefs in wild°st token of ap- fun a')nut "PraSB widows, that made
him lourrVi 4-411 Vita f n on orro I1> n o *n.l
gauntlet of disastrous fortune. proval and acclaim. Nor was this the
It was nothing. Tod said, only on sole cause of Ted's delight, for the fat
his way to school ha had coine upon man with the big watch seal had
a blind man who played the fiddle seemed to take a special fancy to him,
and sold leadpenclls, and the boy who and had told him he might bring u
had been leading him had stolen I friend along, that his ticket would
something from him; and Tod had Pbsb two. As the gleeful Tod' wan
voluntarily started In pursuit of the scampering off to ask the teacher If
fugitive, to overtake him only after a he wouldn't go. he met hia anxious
prolonged "chase of more than a mile, father in a deep state of distress, and
him laugh till his face grew as red
as his carbuncle. That bashful young
man who had straggled ofT alone, sit-
ting so uncomfortably upon a log, kill-
ing bugs and spiders, like an ugly
giant with a monster club—how ho
must have envied the airy freedom of
those "old boys and girls."
Then there was a groujl of older
men talking so long and earnestly
Tod Carried Water for the Animals,
lever to
bread, that "if it didn't rain there'd bo
a long dry spells " and then be snorted
. iiirm:c 8t:< watorm of breadcrumbs
on his vis-a-vis, who looked wr .iie i,
.aid 8aid_ ho "gue..?od be d t:».»e an-
other piece of thai-air pie down
here."
It was looking very much like rain
by the time the dinner things were
cleared away. Anxious mothers, with
preserve stains on their dresses, were
running here and tlnre with such cx-
clamHti' ns to the men folks as "Do
hurry up!" and "For goodne&a' sake,
John.-take the baby till 1 f:nd my pura-
sol," ai d "There, Thomas, don't lug
tbit basket off till I find my pickle
dish!"
Already the girls had left the
awlngs, which were being taken down,
and were tying handkerchiefs over
their hats and standing in despairing
contemplation of the ruin of their
dresses Someone called from the
stand for the ladies not to be at all
alarmed. It wasn't going to rain, and
there wasn't a particle of danger of
—; but there a clap of thunder in-
terrupted and went on growling men-
acingly, while a little girl, with ber
hair blown v.ildly over b«;r bare shoul-
ders, and a face, which a moment be-
fore glowed like her crimson scart,
now grown whiter thpn her snowy
dress, ran past the stand and fell
other side and watched the teacher's
departure with a puzzled face.
Tod was at school next morning
long before the call of "Rooks;" in
fact, so early, that he availed himself
of his isolated situation to chalk the
handle of the teacher's pointer, to
bore a gimlet hole In the water buck-
et, to slip a chip under one corner
of the clock in order to tilt it out of
balance and time, and in many mor6~
^ i Ingenious ways to contribute to the
• coming troubles of the day. The most
\i ! audacious act, however, was to climb
above the teacher's desk and paste
a paper scrap over a letter "o" in the
motto, "Re Oood," that had offered
him Its vain advice for years. As one
by one these depredations met the
tcacher's notice through the day, the
culprit braced himself for some dis-
' astrous issue, but his only punishment'
was the assured glance the teacher]
always gave him, and the settled yet,
forbearing look of pain upon his face.;
In sheer daring Tod laughed aloud—
a hollow, hungry laugh that had no!
mirth in It—but as suddenly subsided
in a close Investigation of a problem
In mental arithmetic, when the teach-
er backed slowly toward his desk
and stood covertly awaiting further
developments. Hut Tod was left again:
to his own"inclinations, after having,,
with a brazen air of innocence, so-
licited and gained the master's assist-
ance in the solution of a very knotty
• problem, which It is needless to say
he kne« no more of than before.
Throughout the remainder of the day
Tod was thoughtful, -and was evident-
, ly evolving in his mind a problem
far more serious than could be found
in books. Of his own accord, that
evening at the close of school, he
stayed in for some mysterious reason
. | 'lint even his deslcmate could not com-
blte, °f ;prehend When, an hour .Her, this
latter worthy from the old barn op-
, posite, watched Tod and the teacher
band in hand come slowly down the
! walls, he whispered to himself with
' bated brrvth: "What's the durn fool
up tot anyhow?"
j From that time Tod grew to he a
deeper mystery than he could fathom,
inasmuch as some strange spirit of In-
dustry fell upon him, and he wweame
' a student.
1 Though a perverse fate bad seein-
| Ingly decreed that Tod should remain
a failure in all branches wherein most
schoolboys readily succeed, he rapidly
advanced in reading: and in the de-
clamatory art he soon acquired a fame
that placed him high above the reach
of competitors.
Tod never cried when he got tip to
"speak " Tod never blanched, looked
silly, and huug down his head. Tod
never mumbled in an undertone, was
never at a loss to use his hands, nor
ever had "his piece" bo poorly mem-
orized that he must hesitate with
awkward repetitions, to sit down nt
last in wordless misery among the
unfeeling and derisive plaudits of the
school. Tod, (n a word, knew no such
word as fail when his turn was called
to entertain his hearers either with
ihe gallant story of the youthful "Cas-
Rblanca." "The Speech of Logan." or
"Catiline's Defiance." Let a pupil bo
"And now I've got you out o* town,'" was led home to listen in agony and ' nbout ,ho weather and the crops that
t li . . ir b m ,1 <1 i , i, , i*^ e, wl llin^ I Ii A
said tlie offender, wheeling suddenly tears to a dismal disrertation on the
upon him, "I'll jes' meller your head wickedness of shows, and the unend
fer you!" After a long pause, in ing punishment awaiting the poor,
which Tod's face was hidden from the giddy moths that fluttered round them,
curious group about him, as the teacli- Tod was missing next morning. He
er bent above him at the back steps had retired very early the evening
pouring water on his head, he contln- 1 previous. "He acted strange-lilie,"
they had not discovered that the
shade of the old beech they pat be-
neath had stolen .silently away and
left them sitting In the sun, and was
even then performing Its refreshing
office for a big, sore-eved dog, who.
with panting jaws and lolling tongue.
I'WUIJIIPS »* UlUI VII llif iiv c»v«, uv a lll\tj,
ued: "Didn't think the little cuss wns said the good grandmother, recalling ^
so stout! Oh! I'm scratched up, but vaguely that he hadn't eaten any snp-
you ought to see him! And you ought
to hear him holler 'Nuft!' and you see
him hand over three boxes of pens
and them penholders and pencils he
stol'd, and a whole bunch o' en-
velopes; there's blood on sotpe of 'em.
and he give me a lead pencil, too, with
red In one end and blue In the other.
Father, you sharpen It."
Tod never apoke better in hla Iff®
per, "and I thought I heard him crying
in the night. What was the matter
with him, Isaac?"
Two weeks later Tod was discov-
ered by his dlatracted father dnd an
officer cowering behind a roll of can
vaa, whereon a fat man sat declaring
with a breezy nonchalance that no boy
of Tod'a description was "along o'
thla-'ere party." And the defiant Tod.
swarm of gnats with the most stoical
Indifference.
And so time wore along till dinner
came, and women, with big open bas-
kets, bent above the snowy clotha
spread out upon the grass, arranging
"the substantial" and the dainties
of a feast too varied and too tooth-
pome for anything but epicurean mem-
ories to describe And then the aban-
fainting to the ground. "Is there
doctor on the grounds?" called a loud 1n training for the old-time exercises
voice in the distance, and without of Friday afternoon, and he was told
waiting for a response—"For Gcd's J *° speak out clear and full—not hang
sake, come here quick; a boy has fall- his head—not let hla arms hang down
en from the swing, and maybe killed i "ice empty sleeves—but to stand up
himself!" | 'Ike a king, look everybody in the
And then the crowd gathered round face, as though he were doing some-
him there, men with white faces, and j thing to be proud of—In short, to
frightened women and little, shivering !take T°d for his model and "speak out
Children. | like a man!'!
"Whose boy Is It?" | When Tod failed to make his ftp-
"Hush; here comes his father." pearance with his usual promptness
And the good minister, with stark fea- one Friday afternoon, and the last day
tures and clenched hands, passed : of the term, there was evidence of
through the surging throng that closed general disappointment. Tod was to
behind him even as the waves on' deliver an oration written especially
Pharaoh. I for that occasion by the teacher. The
Did I say all were excited? Not all; visitors were all there—the school
for there was one calm face, though committee, and the minister, Tod's
very pale—paler yet for being pll- father, who occupied Tod's desk alone
lowed on the green grass and the j when "Book?" was called. The teach-
'e^n9- , er, with his pallid, care-worn face, tlp-
"You mustn't move me," the boy | toed up and down the aisles, bending
said when he could speak; "tell 'em occasionally to ask a whispered ques-
to erne here" He emlled and tried tlon, and to let the look of anxious
to lift his arms about his father's wonder deepen on his face as the re-
neck. "Poor father! poor father!" as spectful pupils shook their heads in
though speaking to himself, "I always silent response. But upon a whls-
loved you, father, only you'd never be- pered colloquy with the minister, his
lieve it—never believe it. Now you j face brightened, as he learned that
vvllb I'll eee mother, now—mother. I "Tod was practicing his oration in the
Don t cry I'm hurt, and I don't cry. ] wood house half an hour before the
And 111 see teacher, too. He said I ringing of the bell"
ZlUM' Vb 8a,d^e ™Uld 8,W?y" b,!l A b°y was B^t'to bring him, but
hor-tll h,r_" p, t 8 i returned alone, to say that he had not
nnendinl -ii ... # i * strange been able to find any trace of him.
1 L T V*T „h llPS; "°h' ^'11 be here in time enough,"
and as the dying eyes looked up and I <ald the teacher apologetically to the
out beyond the sighing tree tops he 8ad.fai;ed mlnMer, «1Jg.a d/ , ,n.
smiled to catch a gleam of sunshine u,. .. . _
through the foolish cloud that tried
so hard to weep.
Perfect Gold Mine.
Nlggs—So Batlv Is one of those In-
ventor chaps, Is he? Too bad! Why,
he'll live along from hand to mouth all
his life!
Siggs—Oh, no, he won't! He'll soon
be a rich man, believe me! He's just
worked out an automobile attachment
which will permit a man to put hla
arm around a girl and drive the anto
dou of the voracious gueatal No without accident at the same time!
noon, and I'm certain he wouldn't pur-
posely disappoint me." The good
man in reply shook his head resigned-
ly, with a prayerful flight of the eyes
Indicative of long suffering and for-
bearance.
The opening services of singing and
prayer. No Tod.
First clans in arithmetic called—ex-
amined No Tod.
Second class, ditto; still no Tod.
Primary claaa In ditto, composed of
little twin slstera, aged alx, with very
ft halt and very fair akin, and verr
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Wileman, Herbert. Mangum Weekly Star. (Mangum, Okla.), Vol. 28, No. 10, Ed. 1 Thursday, August 26, 1915, newspaper, August 26, 1915; Mangum, Oklahoma. (https://gateway.okhistory.org/ark:/67531/metadc286221/m1/2/: accessed April 18, 2024), The Gateway to Oklahoma History, https://gateway.okhistory.org; crediting Oklahoma Historical Society.