The voice of freedom. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1839-1848, 1846-01-29
THE SCHOOL MASTER.


schoo>master, says ne, one forenoon, land
du you 60 and break your eternal necks
a ridln' down hill in that hog -troth, AID
you see what you'll kech whsp | gel
holt on you, that's all. Sop! Come back,
all on We, come back Is that the way to
gwout, like passed. Of skeerl sheep rum
ming over one another? Where's your
manners? Haint told you more'n a
hundred times bout that. Now start one
tn time, and when you git 10 The door,
turn round and make your manners, eve
ny one on We. Sy Harrington, come
right straight back here, siI! You're a
terrible smart teller, amt yea Mebby
YOU tho't dldn't see W, when you was
pretendn' 10 make bow, bump your for
Tard agin Reuben Johnson's nose, on pur-
posel Jest see how you made II bleed;
don't cry, Reuben, i'll feel better arer
it's done achIn'."
81 didn't 60 tn du il; Rube cum pushin'
up jest as | turned round to make my
manners; didu't have room tn du il,
'.hout hlttin' him on the nose"
"What did you push up that fashion
for, Reuben; hadn't you no more sense
than lhal?"
81 couldn't help it; Jim Wright stuck
pin intu me, and il kinder made me
jump forrard little, ard
"Well, go long out, both on ye, and be-
have yourselves. and tell Jeems Wright
10 come here; ] have business Of impor-
lance to du with him."
And away vent the boys, and they
hadn't been out tew nlinits atore they was
both mounted on a hand-sled streakrn it
down hill like chain lle'uin'. There
wasn't boy in school that wasn't "a coast
IN ia some way or other Some was on
s!eds, same on planks, some on logs, some
in wooden trays; and them that hadn't
nolhin' else to tide on, would sci fl It down
on the ice, and let others drag 'em by two
s,rlngs tied round their ankles. But they
all Remembered what D.. Pail AnL'ny
told 'em. and nobody didn't toch he big
hog troth There it Stood, right on The
starting PIN, as crazy as hair trigger 10
&C off,
I've seen dozen fe'lers git iolo it, all
twisted together like a bed Of GELS 10 cold
weather. aud side dowu like streak,
and III tumble into a soft snow bank TO-
gelher, 10 the bottom of the hill, like
young rats in a meal tub. Wall, patty
soon DR.. Phil Antnv come out of the
schoo-house 10 look for Jim WrIgh', but
Jim had just started in his little tray the
swiftest craft On the track, 'cept the big
hogtrolh-and his red bushy hair was
beginnn' to stream back like a blaze of
fire.
"Siop!" cried Dr.. Phil, "s!op, you lit
lie sarpint, or I'll be arter you, and give
you The wust lickin' you ever got in your
Iife'"
"Ican't," cried jim. lookiu' bach" ".he
critters 60! started, and faint no use to
try to sop her, now'L she's got The bit in
her teeth"
"By the lhunler and lite'nn',' holIercd
DECOR Phil, and somped down his foot
and up few both his heels, AID down he
went backwards, kerwolop, into the hog
lroh, aud away he went, with his feet
slickin' up, right in Jims wake. jim seed
hin comm, and he put spurs to his boss,
that is to say, be stuck his spikes into the
ice and pushed ahead as If he was 'scap
ing from a railroad. Ga went Dr., Phil
like a whrwind, and he was overtakin'
jim hand over hand, or rather heels over
head, and was just runnin' aloul on him.
when the trolh leched lump Of ice and
sheered off at tangent. The boys all
stopped and looked al the schoomasier,
some on 'em eenamost asonished out Of
their breath. and others ready to bust a
latin. Whiz went the trolh down the
steepest part of the hill.
An old log, half buried in The ice, lay
right acrosl DR. PhiI's path, and the boys
all knew mighty we'll what was comin,'
for some on em had b-en shlpwfecked on
that log afore. "He'Il gil hsled now,
sartin'!" said Sy Harrnion, jumpn' up
md dowa, and s!appln, his lbighs; "there
he goes bv hokey!" aud sure 'nuG, there
he did go, for tho roth s'ruc& the log and
leapt six foot intu the air, lhroWin' DIR
Phil ten foot down the hill, whIrlin' over
and over like buzz, and he never stops
ped till he wen, splash intu nlln' spring
where the cattle went to drink and had
trod it full of soft mud.
"Wheres the schoomas.er? shouted
jim Wright; crawllu' out Of the snow
bank, where he had landed, aud shakln'
the snow out of his hair; "cracky! if |
didn't think he'd keich NE at Que llmtW
The boys all ran 10 the bIIiu' spring,
and there lay DR. Phil Anl'ny all kivered
with mud and snow, groiniu' aloud, and
tears of anger aud agony starlin' out Of
his eyes. His thigh and one rib" was
broke Phil was kind hearted maE, ard
the boys all loved him. He used to talk
savage to US sometimes, but then he dldu'l
use to hurt US. The liWe boys stood
round and cried when Phil told US that his
leg was broke, and the big ones looked
sorr,, and innk hold nm him knsrC,I and