Franklin D White - Hair on Fire

One more expedience in my school life.  The last year that I attended school in Indianola when I was fourteen years old we had some neighbors who had a large family of girls and as we went in the same crowd, we were good friends.  One day in school when all the others were studying and everything was quiet, one of these neighbor girls sat in the seat just behind me.  My hair hadn't been cut for a long time and was rather long.  This girl, being full of mischief, struck a match and set my hair on fire.  As it blazed up it frightened her and she threw her arms around my neck and head and screamed.  That put the fire out.  By the time the teacher and other students looked up all they could see was me with a girl’s arms around my neck and the girl screaming.  Everyone burst into loud laughter because they didn't know about the hair being on fire.  Well, we had many a good laugh over that afterward.