18 - Mae came quite late to breakfast. She says that, after I went, she and Dan went over to her rooms and camped down in her dad's room, where they were "diskivered" by that cross, not to say chronically irate parent. Result (after Dan's departure) ___ a storm, in which the I.P. accused Mae of unconventionality in entertaining Dan unchaperoned. I don't see why the deuce it's so much worse to be alone with him over there than in the Mahoney parlor, but it seems it is. Truly, the ways and rules governing us are hair-splitting. (And some of them are side-splitting.)
Went to the Library after school and got two books, "Wild Animals I Have Known" and "Don-a-Dreams", the latter because of its suggestive tittle. I am a dub. I think I shall write a masterpiece entitled "Nuts I have Known" and head the list with Marjorie W. James N. N. A. (Nuttiest Nut of All). I don't believe I have a speck of self respect, or I wouldn't be such an ass, even in private. And about a boy who doesn't care two, or even one and a half, straws about me. I aught to be so ashamed of myself that I'd turn ripe-tomato-color instead of the sickly yellow I am.
"Wild Animals I Have Known" is a fiction collection from 1898 by Ernest Thompson Seton. Read the wiki or read it online at Project Gutenburg.
"Don-a-Dreams: A Story of Love and Youth" was written in 1906 by Harvey O'Higgins. Read online at the Internet Archive.
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