Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 9, Number 41, DeMotte, Jasper County, 31 August 1939 — Soliloquy [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Soliloquy

# A small boy’s impressions of a bleak , sad ivorld as ne prepares for one of life’s biggest adventures , the first day of school.

“Shucks, Mother, I look awright. Weren’t you there when I washed behind my ears? Besides, goin’ to school for the first time ain’t like goin’ to Suhday school. Anyway, I don’t want to look like . a sissy. What’d Butch and Skinny say then?

“Well, goo’-by, Mother, an’ I promise I won’t be late if Flash can walk part way with me. He doesn’t want to stay in that hot ol’ doghouse all day, and you and Dad don’t pay no attention to him.

“C’mon, Flash, you don’t have to hurry so much. It’s me that gotta stay in school all day, but you don’t care. Just remember you won’t be havin’ a gay ol’ time, either. You go walkin’ alone and go swimmin’ alone, an’ see how you like that. Then you won’t be in such a hurry.