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Polly quickly spoke up and said, "Teacher, Johnny Burris put his feet on the seat" what a blow it was to me for her to tell on me! Like a cruel frost those words nipped the tender buds of my affection and they never sprouted again. Years after, her younger brother married my younger sister, and maybe that unkind cut of our school days kept me from marrying Polly.
She was noting, with her quick and clever eyes, that Netty seemed happy and was exquisitely dressed. She was quite ready to be really interested in this idyl. "I do not know," answered Netty. "He is not unknown in London. His name is Burris." "Oh!" said Lady Orlay, "the comp " Then she remembered that to call a fellow-creature a company promoter is practically a libel.
The teacher would call us to her chair three or four times a day, and opening the Cobb's spelling-book, point to the letters one by one and ask me to name them, drilling them into me in that way. I remember that one of the boys, older than I, Hen Meeker, on one occasion stuck on "e." "I'll bet little Johnny Burris can tell what that letter is. Come up here, Johnny."
Burris because of their legitimate union activities." "Who gave you that idea?" Melroy wanted to know. "Koffler and Burris?" "That's the complaint they made to me, and it's borne out by the facts," Crandall replied. "We have on record at least half a dozen complaints that Mr.
"I warned you that you should have brought a professional psychologist along," Melroy reminded him. "And maybe you ought to get Koffler and Burris to repeat their complaints on a lie-detector, while you're at it. They took the same tests, in the same manner, as any of the others. They just didn't have the mental equipment to cope with them and the others did.
"But how do you account for the fact that those two men, and only those two men, were dismissed for alleged deficient intelligence?" "The tests aren't all made," Melroy replied. "Until they are, you can't say that they are the only ones disqualified. And if you look over the records of the tests, you'll see where Koffler and Burris failed and the others passed. Here."
"Wash-room lawyer." Melroy nodded. "You always get one or two like that. How're the rest taking it?" Puryear shrugged. "About how you'd expect. A lot of kidding about who's got any intelligence to test. Burris seems to be the only one who's trying to make an issue out of it." "Well, what are they doing ganged up here?" Melroy wanted to know. "It's past oh-eight-hundred; why aren't they at work?"
Captain Wm. E. Clark, Company G, was killed at Maryland heights. Lieutenant Jno. W. Kemp was made Captain and killed at the Wilderness. Captain J.L. Burris, of Company K, was wounded at Antietam and resigned.
He laid the pile of written-test forms and the summary and evaluation sheets on the desk. "Here's Koffler's, and here's Burris'; these are the ones of the men who passed the test. Look them over if you want to." Crandall examined the forms and summaries for the two men who had been discharged, and compared them with several random samples from the satisfactory pile.
"Harry Crandall was out here talking to them, and at noon the whole gang handed in their wrist-Geigers and dosimeters and cleared out their lockers. They say they aren't coming back till Burris and Koffler come back to work with them." "Then they aren't coming back, period," Melroy replied. "Crandall was to see me, a couple of hours ago.
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