The Cotton-Tail, Yearbook of The North Texas State Normal School, 1906 Page: 95
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"I don't suppose I made any noise
for Si hadn't stopped singing, and on
he went up the road yelling;
'Oh, the girl I left behind me
Behind me, : L
Behind me.'
"And there I was sitting in the sand,
too mortified to try to stop him, even
if I could have done so, When he
reached the end of the sand bed, he
turned off into a timber road, still
singing. M.'1
"Well, I got up, shook the sand out
of my clothes, and was about to start
home, when along came Jim Jones, a
real smart-looking young fellow about
twenty years old-old Squire Jones'
boy. You remember him, don't you!"
"Of course I do. He married my
sister's husband's cousin, and he lives
at Cedar Hill now."
"Jim came riding along and when he
saw me he says, 'Why, Hazel Blair,
what are you doing here?'
"I laughed and told him allabout
the episode, and he just had to get out
of the buggy and lay on the grass to
laugh-he always was the greatest
hand to laugh you ever saw. I thought
he would have a conniption fit. All
this time farther and farther away we
could hear Si singing:'Oh, the girl, that pretty little girl,
The girl I left behind me!'
"'You get in my buggy, and I'll
take you on to the celebration,' said
Jim, 'for certainly you shan't go back
home and miss the fun just on account
of Si Smith's stupidity.'
"Jim then told me he had wanted to
go with me all the time, and he was
terribly put out when he heard that
Si had got ahead of him. And now
that Jim was so tickled to think that
he had got ahead of Si, he whipped
up his horse, and in a few minutes we
came up to Si who was still screeching
out that song. But I tell you he
stopped short when we drove by him,
and he saw me sitting there by Jim.
He looked plumb dumfounded, and
reined up that old blind horse with a
jerk, and stared around at the back
of the wagon with his mouth open;
while Jim burst into a roaring laugh
and called out:
'It's about time you were thinking
of the girl you left behind you, Si!
YoIu'd better go back and get the
wagon seat you also left behind you.
Hazel and I will just drive on, or we 'I1
be too late to see the parade.'"
-Eulah J. Parkey.February 13, 1906-Lecture by Prof. Pattee.
February 14, 1906-Valentine's Day.95
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