Bellona Times
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 1 Aug
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Those who before had not moved a finger were now waving their hands above their heads.
Redhead felt that he was lost.
He looked very big and foolish, and some of the scholars began to snicker.
His helpless condition went straight to my heart and gripped my sympathies.
I felt that if he failed it would in some way be my failure.
i raised my hand and under cover of the excitement and the teacher's attempts to regain order i hurriedly shot up into his ear twice quite distinctly f o u r t h f o u r t h
the teacher tapped on her desk and said third and last chance the hands came down the silence became oppressive redhead began f since that day i have waited anxiously for many a turn of the wheel of fortune but never under greater tension than i watched for the order in which those letters would fall from red's lips
o u r t h a sigh of relief and disappointment went up from the class afterwards through all our school days redhead shared my wit and quickness and i benefited by his strength and dogged faithfulness
There were some black and brown boys and girls in the school, and several of them were in my class.
One of the boys strongly attracted my attention from the first day I saw him.
His face was as black as night, but shone as though he was polished.
He had sparkling eyes, and when he opened his mouth he displayed glistening white teeth.
It struck me at once as appropriate to call him Shiny Face, or Shiny Eyes, or Shiny Teeth.
I spoke of him often by one of these names to the other boys.
These terms were finally merged into Shiny, and to that name he answered good-naturedly during the balance of his public school days.
shiny was considered without question to be the best speller the best reader the best penman in a word the best scholar in the class he was very quick to catch anything but nevertheless studied hard thus he possessed two powers very rarely combined in one boy
i saw him year after year on up into the high school win the majority of the prizes for punctuality deportment essay writing and declamation yet it did not take me long to discover that in spite of his standing as a scholar he was in some way looked down upon
The other black boys and girls were still more looked down upon.
Some of the boys often spoke of them as niggers.
Sometimes, on the way home from school, a crowd would walk behind them, repeating, Nigger, nigger, never die, black face and shiny eye.
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