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It’s a Great Life If You Don’t Weaken (HARRY HUNT) Yes, folks, I’m out of work and naturally broke, I have had only one job since I was discharged from the army and now, I’ve lost it. It wasn’t anything to brag about either, a car repairer working in the P. E. shop in Los Angeles. PAGE SIXTEEN
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It seems hard to believe that I was a school teacher before the war. It was my first job, or rather, position, teaching school my first year out of normal. My school was some school: Three Texas farmers boys, the two Walch girls, sweet little things both six feet tall and as ungainly as jumping jacks, and both dunces, about a dozen urchins ranging from ten years down, four little Mexican kids and 2bcut twenty pickaninnies that were worse than dumb. A few days after war had been declared I received a letter from my brother. He wrote me that he was going to enlist im- mediately and asked me if I would like to enlist in the same com- pany. Here was a chance to get away from this backwoods town and get back to civilization again but, I had signed up 9 teach a year. Nevertheless, I started out immediately to hunt up the hayseed farmers that comprised the school board. The first place I came to wa's the Walch farm. There on the front steps was seated “Old Man Walch,” a short, heavy set, bald- headed man, puffing on his corn cob pipe. “Good morning, Mr. Walch,” I said, and put on my most diz- nified air. “How are ye?” he replied, nodding his head towards a chair near him. “Mr. Walch,” I began. ‘You have no doubt kept pretty wel posted on the war news since war was declared?” “Yes,” he drawled out, ‘““What’s that got to do with you?” “Well, you see, Mr. Walch, my brother is going to enlist in the army and I was thinking————”’ “That you want to quit your job teaching school,” he broke in, “Well, I can’t say as how you’re much of a teacher anyway. i think my oldest daughter can learn those ‘younguns’ about as much as you can at that. So you can just pack up your grip ana beat it any old time you want to. You're fired. Get me?” “Did I get him? Did I? My dignity had beea insulted. I feli like choking the old fellow, but as he was also justice of peace, constable and so forth, I deemed it wiser to swallow my insu!t and quit. Quit, yes sir, quit. I wouldn’t be fired, not by a jugful PAGE SEVENTEEN
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