Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1854-11-10
SPELLING SCHOOLS.

The school in the Quaker neighborhood
have sent challenge in due form, to TINS
district. to spell, SO, to night the war OF
words is to be waged in the white school
house on the hill.
There is a great overhauling Of old Lle-
mentaries, ana wonderful furnishing up
of frontispicccs, and turning over OF clean
collars. preparatory to the gran, m''ee'
Spelling Schools! Have you lotso.-
ten them? When, from al the ie5ions
round, they gathc.cl INTO the Old long
long school house, wilhlGs h Sc fireplace,
vawnpd like the mtiu entlaAtc 10 -AFch-
ues. How the sleigh Dells--tne old fash
oncd bells, lig in the middle Of the sting
anl growing small by degrees and Ueaull-
fully less toward the broad brass buckle
chimcd, in every direction, long before
night, the gathering of the clans.
There came one Scheol, the Master
give him capital N for he is entitled to
it-Master and all, bundled into one huge
rcd, double sleigh, strewn with abundance
of straw and tucked up like Christmas
pie, with half score OF buffalo robes
There is a half dozen cutters, eA"h with It's
Young nan and maiden, those sw2 AMI u"
more.
And there, again, pair of Jumpers
mounting a great outlandish looking bln
hcaped up, pressed down, and running
over, with small sections OF humanity
picked up on route, from great many
homes. and all as merry as kittens in
basket of wool. And the bright eyes
and ripe, red lips, that one caught Sllmps
of beneath those pmk-linel quilted hoods
and the silvery laughs that escaped trcn
the wooden mut1lers and fur tlppets the.
wore then-who does not remember? wh'
can ever forget them ?
The school house destined to be the are
ma for the conflict, has been swept and gar
nished; boughs Of evergreen adorn tn
smoke stained aud battered walls. lh
little pellets of chewcd paper have been a.
swept down from the ceiling, and tw
pals of water have been brought from tn
spring, and set on the bench in the entry
with the immemorial tin cup, wise pre-
vision, indeed, for warm work Is spelling
The big boys have famed and repeI
ished the hre, till the old chimney talr
lars with the roaring flames, and the sparl
1ly out of the top like a furnace.
The two Masters are there the tW
schools are there, and such hum, an
a moving to and fro! The oaken rul
comes down from the dool with amrh
s;s What the roll of the drum is to a
mics, that the ruler is to the LAUGHING
whispering, young troop. The challen;
ed are ranged on one side Of the hous
the challengers on the other. Back seat
middle seats, low, front seats are tllled.-
. Some of the fathers and grandtathers, wi
could, no doubt, upon occasion,
"Shoulder the cruton, ad show how fields we
won,"
occupy thh benches Of honor near the des
Now for the preliminaries the reput
best speller on each side chooses .,
san Brown Out comes round-eyed
tie poeny. Who would thought it! su
"a little thing, and chosen first.
Moses Jones! Out comes Moses,
awkward fellow, with shock of red ha
shockingly harvested, surmounting
broad brow. The girls laugh at him,
,ssyhat he does mt know in the Elementa
isn't worth knowing.
'Jane Murray Out tri ps Jane ii
t,red as bride, and takes her place NJ NJ
to the callar. and as they 60 on call
names until five or six champions sta
forth to do battle, and the contest is TAI
begun. Down goes one after another another,
words of three syllables are followed
those of four, and these again by wo
Of similar pronunciation and divers sig
Seatsons, until only Moses and Susan
main. ovho,O,
The spelling-book has been .9sr;as exhaust
turned oycr-memories are ransacked
words Of Learned length and laundering SCUM
until. by and by, Moses comes down l'k