The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1846-07-16

son III tOWn, .Wltil lne auVandge OI coming
from the winters dissipation with added
! freshness and pigor. Our school-house was
little square box of thing, tucked down at
one corner OF piece Of woodland--not for
the advantage of shade--oh no +! All the trees
that would be likely 10 keep offthe broiling
sun in summer, orin winter prevent the snow
from drifting eve-high before the door, were
carefully cut down and cleared away. 1t
must be owned that this was not the best
situation for the school-house, but Squire
Jones wanted il in the eastern part of the
district, and Doctor White was determined
that it should be in the western, so, 10 settle
The difficulty, the puzzled managers, who
were expecting nearly all the funds from
these two titled personages, decided on what
they considered central position, meusur-
ing off equal distances from each hearth
stone. The result was, both great men were
offended, and kept their insuled purse
strings tight But the school-house was
built'at last--a little "teenty taunty" nut
shell of "concern," the roofmaking rather
steep inclined plane from ridge-poe 10
caves, which latter just overtopped an ample
row of good sized, well glazed windows
People seem TO have discovered an intimate
connection between physical and intelectu-
al light, imagining probably that there is
some kind of filter in the brain, by which
the eye-blinding stream is converted into "a
yet more subtle fllid--the inner light which
it is shockingly transcendental 10 furnish
with name. Our school-house, which was
fifteen feet square, was furnished with elev-
en- iuil-grown windows; from some one of
which pane of glass was always broken,
and its place supplied by hat or shawl Be-
tween two of these windows was the mouth
Of The little den, and, all around ii, The walls
were ornamented with carved work, display
ing the artistic developments of many
youthful master Of the jack-knile.
y
Dolly Foster, dark-eyed, rogush Tipped,
merry-heaF'cd specimen Of bright sixteen,
with more mischief in hor than erudiiion,
and more ofkindness than either, had so Of
ten won the prize at the hands Of admirng
school-masters, that it had become quite Il
settled matter; and certainly no one had
reason TO suspect failure on the part of the
belle of the Maple Bush this season.
81 wonder what the prize will be--some-
thing nice Of course"
"Ah, catch Mr.. Linkum giving any thing
not nice-eh, Dollyp
And then Dolly would blush; and then
sach shout! laughing is healthful; and
have,no doubt bnt the foundation for many
good constitution was laid in that shool-house |
at the Maple Bush.
The winhs and inucndoes by which pretty
Dolly Foster was SO nearly demolished, were
not altogether The result ola love of teasing.
There was something 10 tease little cherry
cheeks. Every girl and every boy in our
shool remembered how on one occasion
whole party Of disobedient sliders had been
most Unexpectedly forgiven; and when, in
state Of pleased wonderment, they looked
about them for the cause, there stood Miss
Dolly, the foremost Of the transgressors, close
by the sofI-hearted Mr. Linkum, looking up,
oh so pleadingly! and he, the drollesl com
1ination Of would.be severity and embarras-
,ed releniing that ever was seen. The lit
lie community said nothing; but there was
IN instantaneous illumination of counten-
,nce, as though an idea worth having had
iasbed in upon them; and henceforth Miss
Dolly became sort of scapegoat for the
whole. q sa
Then on another occasion--ah! Dolly had
Jared too much then! it was an act of down
light d,sobodience, and could not be toler-
tied. She took her stand beside the mas
eI's desk with kind Of abashed saucness;
yet tmid; evidently little sorry
hat there was quite SO much roguery nest.
ed in the curve of that pretty lip Of hers, or {
hat being there it could not keep its niche s
Without creeping down to the naughty, little
ngers, and at the same time pleased with
he opportunity of testing her power. AT
rs. she called to her aid her ever ready wit,
nd endeavored to turn the whole affair into !
idicue; then she pouted, trotted her little +,
GOT in anger, and looked sulky; but Mr.. S
.inkum, though evidently distressed, was ,
lot to be thus bafled. My readers must re- $
member that some dozen years ago, "gov- I
by moral suasion" was not so fash {
enable as at the present day; and no age or a
ex was exempt from birchen-rod or cherry i
erule. Dolly could 60 a little further than t
ny body else; but there we've bounds even
0 her liberty, or the dignity of the school
master would be sadly compromised Dol '
Y must be punished, that was certain-and q
either laughing nor poutng could save her.
The poor schoolmaster, the greater sufferer
y far, was not the only one in the room who s
you'd have taken hundred blows TO save II
Ter pretty hand one; and, as we saw him
yeing his huge ferule with evidently muir {
erous intent, a strange silence reigned- B
the circle. Even the girls, after !
lightly huttering the leaves of their books, 3
nd shutting theirfcet carelessly, as much as {
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