Charles E. Burchfield (1893-1967)

“Dutch Leonard laughed.” I’ll be thankful I get twenty”
“Well here too” said “Teddy” and swore again.
“Once before he did that” said Bill “when Stanton was here. Everyone failed. They took it to Mr. Stanton and he made Zufall give another test”
“You wouldn’t get much satisfaction out of Mr. Lease, I shouldn’t think” I put in.
“We couldn’t do anything like that now” responded Teddy in disgust.
All this made me thankful that I don’t take Physics. I never took to Science anyway – never tried it of course but I started right in with Latin and have stuck to it until I like it. When they got their test papers, King proved to have the highest grade – 77. Bill got a 69 and “Teddy” got about 35. Only two were above 70.
After school I went to Mac’s to see when I should begin work and received the information that I was to come down the next evening.
After supper, Bill came over to play cards. When he arrived we all came to the door as we generally do, to welcome him Frances and he got to cutting up. Frances