Sentinel of the valley. [volume] (Woodstock, Va) 1841-1848, 1846-01-01

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Phii Ant'ny was our schoolmaster,
S A larned man was he;
In 'rithmetic he'd gone so fur
As the Double Rule Of Three.
He'd studied physic tew,
And where he boarded round,
lie cured worms and tizzick tcw,
- With roots dug from the ground.
Upon the Hill u stood,
4 That schoqihouse old and warm,
With thatbig pile Of wood,
II iaus I'd at cold and storm.
Inc nj side slope in front, M
How glorious tn the view! s,lgs
- we led to slide full half a mile
~ on( sleds and dug-ou,s, few!
The boys may gwout,', says the
scnooim1kter says he, one forenoon,
and see1that go you and break your e..
tarnsInecks ridin' down hill in that
hog -troth, and you see what you'll ketch
when | get holt on you, that's all J.
Stop! Come back, all on you, come
back! Is that the way to gwost, like
a passed. Of skeerd sheep runnin' over
one another. Where's your manners?
Haint |. told you in a hundred times
bout that. Now start, one tn time,
and when you git to the door turn round
and make your manners, every one on
you. sly Harrington, come right
straight back here, sir! You're ter
rible smart fener, amt you? Meb5y
you thought | didn't see you. when
you was pretendin' to make bow,
bomp your forrad agin' Reuben John
son s nose on purpose9 Jest see how
you make it bleed; don't cry Reu-
ben, it'll feel better after its done ach-
in.
Il didn't go tn du ii; RUDE come
apushin' up just as | turned round to
make my manners; / didn't have
room tn du it, thout hittin' him on the
nose.'
'What did you push up that fashion
for Reuben; hadn't you no more sense
than that''
q couldn't help it, Jim Wright stuck
pin into me, and it kinder made me
jump forrard little, and
sWall, go long out, both on and
behave yourselves, and tel! Jeems
Wright to come here; have bizness
of importance TO du with him. 2 M
And away went the boys, and they
hatl'nt been out tew minutes afore they
was both mounted on hand-sled
s,reaking it down hill like chain lite'-
nin.' There wasn't boy in school
that wasn't coastin'in some way or an
other. Some was on sleds, some on
planks, some on logs, in wooden trays,
and them that hadn't nothin' else to
ride on, would set fla: on the ice, and
let others dag 'em by two strings tied
round their ankles. But they all re-
membered what Doctor Phil Ant'ny
told 'em, and nobody didn't fetch the
big hog-troth. There it stood, right
on the starting pint, as crazy as a
hair-trigger TO 60 off.
1've seen a dozen fellers git into it,
all twisted together like bed of ellis
in cold weather, and slide down like a
streak, and all tumble into soft snow
bank together,in the bottom of the hill,
like young rats in a meal tub. Well,
putty soon Doctor Phil Ant'ny come
ont Of the school to look for Jim
Wright, but Jim had jest started in
his little tray-the swiftest craft on
the track, 'cept the big-troth-and his
bushy redhair was beginnin' to stream
back like blaze of fire. Stop cried
Doctor Phil stop, you little sarpint,
or III be artcr you and give you the
wust lickin' you ever got in your life =
Il can't cried Jim, lookin back the
critters got started, and faint no use
10 try to stop her now't she's got the
biajn her teeth
3By thunder and litenin?' holler-
ed Doctor Phil, and stamped down
his foot, and up flew both his heels,
and down he went backwards kerwol
lop, into the hog-troth, and away he
went, with his feet stickin up, right in
Jim's wake. Jim seed him comm
and he put spurs to his boss, that is to
6ay. he stuck his spike into the ice,
and pushed ahead, as if he was 'sca-
n;nk ffdm arailroad. On went Doc
for Phil like whirlwind, and he was
~ sSvesl,Een, jim hand over hand, or
Ga, eoI over head, and WINS jest
'2lI;;5a. \ r. Is linn, when the troth
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