Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1847-12-24
MISCELLANEOUS.
From the Union Magazine.
Tic Village School in the West.


lHlS NulUtllui county, look uaCh 10 Tue
district school as the Nursery Of the tender
germs Of their greatness! How many a Judge
can recollect " hen he earned d rap with the
rattan by spelling law, EO-r, or jumping over
the bench hen he ought to have been sitting
quietly upon it! How many q governor IN
bihtd his FIRST notion of the dignity Of Office,
from the grand air Of the schOuiiudster, as be
paced the floor vith whip over his shoulder.
rolling his eyes maoisttrlally, NOW on Tins
side. now on that, giving. ever and anon, a
btirf word OF command, or stopping. in awful
silence. before some negligent scholar. How
ma este Appeared shat lunrtioUary, even with
out hts coat; how enviable the awful sway
be exercised over his charge! Some iil-con-
siHrfed v~ord-some unjust iudcinent-soiHe
sincere and parutsi tAliu.idilua Of those days,
may have Irflurncsd. fjT good or 90, the mor-
al character Of all present. How important,
ihrn, il The ageurv Of the viildrc-schooi. Is
il not wonderful that We Americans, a practi-
cal people, should take 30 iit,le pains TO make
it what it should be-!
Our little realm. have been swavcd by mas
trrs and mi.troeecs Of all degrees of q%uall!i-
ration and deficiency. " hen the logs were
so now that the aromatic udor Of the iainarack
was sill froah and delightful the desks IN
hacked Tie benches lour-lruurd the floor
u%rtcspo'l'd Of lis koois-ve had Miss Gin
tina D,v. a dim-el Of IN personal charms.
and little supeIluous learning. She came
amrlj recommended from d ncignhor.ng town,
as - = urg woman Of good parts and boha-
Won and 90 indeed ce found her; but her
parts were not he parts ct speech.
"Siias!' she would drawl out. "Si-ilas 1!
let them are what's FER NAMES be, dew =
Youli git il, il you don't!'
Gta 10 . an p7rf1ltpt pid NJ n %ouiltiuu. ps-
p~ccidIly "a she was ltft-haHded, and therefore
good at corners; aud she sang in meeting,
with such goodwill, aud IN 90 nasal a style.
that i, sounded rs If some one WIS blowing
an ~aceoinrauiln ri through 4 cotub. as Is some
times don c NJ Village mrtry-inaklugs.
Bat her reign scarcely LASTED out the sum-
mer. She 80 to good u~ntuIcd; and, more
over, took so much snuff, That the liltIe ones
snrtzpd and crlcd when they stood by her
knee to =iy thcir lessons. She Was dismiss
ed. = nh some civil excuses. and found a more
fitting vordtion - a iailo;ess, 10 vhich bust
mss. indeed. she WIS bred.
The winter brought US Mr.. Tardcastle, n
young divinity student from d neighboring
village a sober and dow II. looking person,
who spoke softly, and moved vih great de-
liberation. lie hid never Taught school be-
farr, and WAS regularly examined by the pro-
per authorities. liz sptlt all the words in
he sP'liIng-ho k-lHat -, al the 'r'P-"ofda
IN WHEN the tSdI"li'tS sought 10 cd'ch MN
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"'uc' Sc no "'N'''t ""jt'i'h cou'd ne 'laIe
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lNNAEf ~ WV w ANN q ~ NLA III III