Grand River times. [volume] (Grand Haven, Mich.) 1851-18??, 1852-01-13

prohting by the last experlence), into palnfu
ljuxtapostion with Solomon's rod of correction
-one urchin owns himself the happy possess
or Of bright new penny, and fearing he alone
will be the wiser for his gain, sends it rolling
across the floor! At the sound, up jump doz-
en- to see"-three or four little ones seize al
it, all together, and in the contest of right ana
might, the penny rattles down again. Imagine
if you can the consequent confusion; finally
this affair is settled-nothing more is heard OF
the penny, for Miss W. wisely secures it in a
safe niche in her desk.
what subsided--classes are called to recitation
and the poor nerve-worn teacher hopes for a
little quiet, when 10! little girl, half us high
as a grasshopper in one of her thousand revo-
lutions upon her bench, tumbles off in tan
gent and is PROSTATE on the floor! This event
rouses her stout lungs and she pours forth a
deafening tide of wang. BY and by she is qui-
eted--stillness begins to creep in-when alas I!
some one has a sudden desire to "go OUT
Instantly signals Of distress are raised all orer
the room--ther digital appendages futtering and
twisting in proportion to the urgency of each
individual case. "I'ts very necessary" as Miss
W. despairingly demonstrates and the first boy
makes his exit--others follow, and between
latch and hinge the servile door keeps up q con-
tnual samming for the space of two minutes
more.
Now comes an outpouring of wants and
troubles. 'Can talk Won little minute?" says
little French boy. '"Leave my seat to speak!"
says another--John's whisperin'," I" James
pinching me-" "may get slate pencil ;" go
to the fire 2" wash my slate % "heres sum"
can | see who whispers!" "Coffees spelt
c-o-ffy fly cohy, sometimes amt t!" "Car-
rie's a making faces at me- "Lucy don't love
me-" "go home after my book forgot it,
"Peter's playin'," "will you make me penF
81 want-n dink," drink, says little voice
Jerusalem's down by Muskegon amt it? ?"-
"set me copy?" "Pm sleepy "some-
body's got my book, -" may be dismissed %
While one is called to meet demand this
way, another must be doing likewise, that, and
a third is TO hush if she can the Grazing confu-
sion all over the ROOM Thus it goes, day in
and day out. Latin and the e'spelling book--as-
tronomy and long division--yes, here; no,
there; and hash eueryaohere a jargon unparallel-
ed before in infantdom.
Faint and weary-lungs oppressed in the sti-
fled miasmic atmosphere, the door is thrown
Il; ,J ,py;fo1 in
But the days are short and before you hardly
catch one invigorating breath, the nestlers must
be gathered back and with them come neu
troubles. ) John leads his playmate like cu-
prit TO the desk and says: jim Sweared, he
did," Seven boys pull off their shoes and
stockings to play in the water and those must
be arranged for ight-seeing--one boy has told
lie This one knocked that one over and that
one scratched this one back again. 1t all goes
to "Miss W." The utterance of that name
do believe has become second nature to them
and ages hence may be handed down to their
posterity as the title of sort of ideal genius
of good that presided over children in their
younger days.
There is no lack of commandments
Items of the village are faithfully laid upon the
teachers table; even the sanctity of domestic
affairs is invaded and family arrangements for
the season or day are made as public as little
tongues can make them.
This little one has new cap-that one
new bonnet-one had "corned beef for dinner
today" and "we are going to have fish, to-
I" my ma has got pretty Dress" and
my pa is going to have some new boots"
Every ruse of mischief imaginable is accom-
plished, but no one to be blamed-the poker to
take from one--paper windmils from another
from a third--one boy breaks a shov-
el digging in the snow, but another boy used it
before him, and he is not going to get it mend
ed-the latch is broken from the door, but no.
body passed through, and latchless it swings till
Miss w. gets button whitfield and nailed on
to keep it together. A book appears all in
fragments on the floor, but all eyes are busy,
every child is studying " as hard"-an ink stand
is upset, the black fluid streams down running
in its course books and paper to say nothing of
the nearest dresses, but nobody touched IL. In
the course of the day enough gum and pitch is
IL IL