Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1836-02-19

most, and inquired what might be the eros
Pectg Why said he il you would set IN
right straight, | reckon thar might be a
right smart chance ofscholars got, as we
have had no teacher here for the best end
of two years.-Thar's about fifteen famI
lies on the creek, and the whole tote Of
'em well fixed for children. They want
a school master pretty much, too. We
got teacher about six months ago; a
Scotchman, or an Irishmau, think. He
took up for six monlhs, and carried his
proposals round, and he got twenty schol
ars directly. II weren't long, though be
fore he cut up some ferllcues. and got into
a PRIMARY; and so one monrirg be was
found among the missing.
Wat was The trouble.
Oh! he took too much Of the escence
Of corn, and get into chunk of a fight
no great matter, to be sure-but he got
whipped, and had to leave the dizgiugs.
And how am to manage 10 get
schoolg
tell you. You must make out your
proposals 10 take up school; tell them how
much you can teach; write it as fine as
you can, reckon you're pretty good
scroe,) aud in the morning there's to be
a shooting match here for beef; nearly all
the settlement (laying the accent on the
last syllable will be here, aud you'll
get signers enough.
followed his advice. The neighbors
gathered in the next morning; was dolly
introduced TO them, and soon had twenty
scholars subscribed. Reader, dIdst ev.
er see shooting match ia the west2 |
dare sW eary you never have, and therefore
there may be no tediousness in descrip
ton OF one. 4 hate your set descriptions
laid out formally, in squares and paral.
kilograms, like an old fashioned garden,
wherein arthath not so far advanced as
10 seem like nature. You can just ina.
glne the scene to yourself. Conceive
yourself ia forest, where the huge trees
have been for ages untouched by the axe
lmagiRe sometwenty men; tall, stalwart,
brownhuntors; equipped in leather, with
their broad knives by their sides, rifles
in hand; and every man wilh his smoke
BACKED beard in his hand. The rivals
in the first contest we're eight sturdy tel.
lows middle aged and young men. The
OK for which they were to shoo! was on
tie ground, and 1t was to be the best six
shots out OF eleven. Tho four quarters,
and the hide and talow, wero the five
| prizes; they were to shoot of hand at forty
yards, or with rest at sky, which is
considered the same ing.--rwo Judges
were chosen, and then blackened board,
wltha bit oil paper On it about an inch and
a hall square, was put up against a tree,
Clare the track! cried the first marksman
who lay on the ground at his sixty yards
with his gun resting over log. The ri
lle cracked, and the bule, cut inlo the pa
per. Put up my board! cried another =
John, shade my sight for me! and Johr
held his hat over the sight Of the gun. Ii
cracked, and the bullet weOt within hal
an inch Of the centre. Ms board! cried
anolher-l'Il give that shot goos! and be
dld-lairly boring the centre with the
ball. The sport soon became exciting,
1t requires great steodiness Of nerve tc
shoot well, Tor any irreguarity in breath
ing viii throw the bullet wide of the
mark, The contest waslonger than ! hsC
anticipated; but it was decided without
quarrel ordispute. The judges decided,
and their decision was implicitly obeyed
The whole eleven shots Of one man who
won two quarters could be covered witt
half dollar. You have made a show o
Ddvy Crockett; but there are thousands
of men in the West who are better marks
men, better bear hunters, and every VIII
as smart as Davy himself,
Fl Speaking ofhim, however, reMinds me
! Of an anecdote Of him, which may per
: haps be contained in his autobiography
il not, it is too good to be lost, for It doe
him more honor than The fact that he ha'
!. been in Congress. Before he was cand
: date, or had any idea of being one, ther'
: was a season of scarcity in The Western
e District, where he lived, He went "
tho Mississippi, and bought Aatboa
load of corn, and took it 10 what he call
his old stamping ground. When a maj
o came to him TO buy corn, the first que
+. lion he asked was: Have you got the MOI
|. ey 10 pay lorit? If the answer was in tn
, affirmative, Davy's reply was, Then yoI
!, can't have kernel. drought il here I
sell to the people who have no money.
r was the foundation of his popularity.
e We naturally slip from the sublime
e the ridiculous. Let us leave Crockett an
come to school keeping. My school
: house was small log house, with fire
a place the width of one end no aoor-n
q boarding OF wether boarding--a hole 70
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