It Makes a Difference
•» "So you have been fighMnjr again on your way home from school J" '•"Y-ves, sir" ** Didn't I tel you that this sort of business had got to stop ?'' " Yes, pa, but — ' "No excuses, sir! You probably provoked the quarrel !" "Ob, no! no! He called mo names ! ' " Names ? What of it ? When p. boy calls you names walk along a hour, your business. Take off that coat!" '* But he didn't call rae names !" " • 'h be didn't f ! ako of ftiat vest !' " When he called me names I never looked at him, but when lie pit hed into you I — l had to%ht !" •• What ! Did he call me names ?" " Lots of 'em, lather ! tie said you Hed to our constituents, and went buck on the caucus and had — !" " William, put on your coaf; and vest, and here's a nickel to bu\ peanuts ! I don't want j'ou to come up n slue:<rer, and I wi»h you to stand well withyuur teacher, but it" you can lick that boy who ays I ever bolted a regular nomination or went b.ick o'» my «-nd of the ward, don't be afraid to sail iii V'
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Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 27, 6 March 1884, Page 3
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193It Makes a Difference Feilding Star, Volume V, Issue 27, 6 March 1884, Page 3
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