Items related to Werner's readings and recitations Volume 56
Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1915 Excerpt: ...We rader you're stayin' de small boy yet, So chase de chicken an' mak' dem scare, An' do w'at you lake wit' your ole gran'pere, For w'en you're beeg fellow he won't be dere--Leetle Bateese! FRIENDS. SMALL GIRL'S ESSAY. Dorothy Dix. FRIENDS is people that you have to say "dear" to when you feel all "darn" inside. When a person says she is your friend you better watch out, because that is the way folks start out when they are going to say something that will make you hopping mad, but, that you have got to forgive because it was a friend that said it. Friends is the most truth-tellingest nation of people that there is, and they always tell you about your faults, but a enemy says nice things to you. When Gertrude Jones tells me that I have got red hair and a snub nose and walk pigeon-toed, she always says that the reason she tells me that is because she is my friend. I like my enemies better than I do my friends. There are a great many kinds of friends. There is your Old Friend that you used to know before your papa made money, and you got a automobile, and you pretend that you don't know her when you meet her on the street, and you say to her, "You must come to see me sometimes," but you don't set any day for her to come. And there's your Intimate Friend that you tell your secrets to. and that she tells to her Intimate Friends, and you wonder how it got out. And there's your New Friend that you brag about because she's got real diamonds and lives on Fifth Avenue. Then there is your Mamma's Friends that your Papa don't like and calls old hens. And there is your Papa's Friends that your Mamma says are nothing but soaks and no better than they should be, and that she won't stand for, and the dinner is always mean when your Papa's Fri...
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