Bloomington herald. [volume] (Bloomington, I. T. [Iowa]) 1840-1849, 1846-02-21

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LIZ Phil Aniny was our schoolmaster.
A learned man was he: 81
In 'rihmetic he'd gone as fur
@e4 Asthe Double Rule Of Three.
| a14 He'd studied physic tew, 4, Sa
i And where he boarded round, IN
He cured worms and tizzick tew,
With roots dug from the ground.
Upon the hill il stood
- That schoolhouse old and warm,
al With that big Pile of wool
81 d ts II laughed at cold and storm.
* The hill side slope in front,
How glorious in the view
We used to slide full half mile
ea On sleds and dugouts, tew.
The boys may gwout.' says the SCHOOL
master, eays he, one forenoon, 'a,d do
you go and break your elarnal. necks a
ridiR down hill in that hogtroth, and you
see what You'll ketch when git hold on
you. that's all 7! Stop! Come back, all
on you, come back Is that the way 10
gwout. like parcel Of skeert sheep rum
min over one another! Where's your
manners! tlaint | told you more'n a
hundred times 'bou. that! Now starr,
one III a lime, and when you pit III lhs
door, turn found and make your manners,
every one on you. Sy Harrington. come
right slraigh. back here, sir You're a
terrible smart Teller, amt you! Mebby
| !, zen on thought I didn's see you, when YOU
was pretsndin' IL make a bow, bump
your forrad agin Reuben Johnson's nose,
On purpose! Jest see how you made it
bleed !: don't cry. Rsuben, ii win be bet
ter arter It's done achin'.'
i didn't so to du il; Reub came push
ing up jest as | turned round TO make my
manners; / didn't have room tn du it,
thou. hi,tin' him ON the nose.'
What dId you push up that fashion
for. Reuben; hadn't you no more sense
than that 2 so
Il couldn't help ii; jim Wrigh. stuck
pin into me, and i, kinder made ne jump
forrad little AMI D.
wall, 60 long out, both on you, and
behave yourselves, and tell Jeems Wright
TO come here; have business Of import.
ance III du with him. t
hadn't been out tew minutes afore they
was mounted on hand-sled streaking it
down hill like chain lightnin'. There
wasn't boy in school that wasn't
cnastin ia eo,uo way or another Some
was on sleds, some on planks, some on
logs, some in wooden trays; and them
that hadn't no.hin else to ride on, would
set down fiat on the ice, and let others
drag 'em by two strings tied round their
ankles. But they all remembered what
Doctor Phil An.'ny told them, and nobody
didn't fetch the big hog tro.h. There it
stood, right on the s,artin pint, as easy as
hair>'rigger TO go off: I've seen dozen
fellers get into it, all twisted together like
a bed of eels in cold weather, and slide
down like a streak, and all tumble into
snow bank together, to the bottom Of the
hill. like young rats in a meal tub. Wall,
putty soon Doctor Phil An,'ny come out
of the school house to look for Jim Wright,
but Jim had Just started in his little tray
the swiftes. craft ON the track, 'cept the
big hog tro.h-andhis bushy red hair was
beginning 10 stream back like blaze Of
fire. H14Gr
'Stop!' cried Doctor Phil, stop. you
little sarpin., or I'll be arter you, aud
give you the wust licken yon ever got in
your life.' 4 can't cried Jim, lookin
back. the critters got started, and faint
no use to try TO stop her now't she's got
the bi. in her teeth Z. So Is .t.3
BY the thunder and li.enin'!' hoIlered
Doctor Phil, and stomped down his foo.
aud up flew both heels, and down he went,
backwards. kerwollup, into the hog tro,h,
and away he went. with his feet stickin up,
RICH. in Jim's wake. Jim seed him com.
in, and he puts spurs to his horse, that is
10 say, he stuck his spike into the ice and
went ahead as if he was 'scaping from a
railroad. On went Doctor Phil like a
whirlwiud, and he was overtakin' Jim,
hand over hand, or rather heels over head,
and was just runnin afonl of him, when
the tro.h touched lump Of ice and sheer
ed off at tangent. The boys all stopped
and looked at the schoolmaster, some on
'em eenamost astonished out Of their
breath, and others reddy 10 bust latin.
Whiz went the tro,h down the sieepes.
part Of the hin. An old log half buried in
the ice, lay RICH. across Doctor Phil's