Marshall County Democrat. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1855-1859, 1856-05-22

Arabia, yet so perfectly free from open in
suit as to increase the duelist's pride with
out furnishing him a pretext to take offence.
But the natural malignity of his temper was
so embittered by the school masters NOR
tifying indifference and icy wit that he be-
gan to insult him outrageously on all occa-
sions, with the obvious intention of provok-
ing deadly quarrel with him. Still the
Yankee persevered in his imperturable cool
ness and replied only by jokes and sar-
casms of more stony and indigestible
hardness. The bully's rage became un-
bounded, and the Yankees friends saw
that the affair would soon come to person
al violence. But their kind endeavors were
in vain to persuade Jedediah to soothe the
bully's rage.
If you mortify his pride any further,
said they, 'he will assault you, and you
will have to let him beat you with his cane
or shoot you with his pistol
4 shall let him do neither, l guess said
the Yankee.
How will you prevent him?'
You will see when the time comes was
the final reply.
In the evening, at supper, the duelist as
usual began to utter something designed to
provoke the Yankee. At first Jcdediah gave
no herd. To make the attack more direct,
the bully proceeded to, as he had often
done, and as fops and Anticipates mostly do,
to express his contempt for school masters
or pedagogues, as he, and other fops used
to call them. Seeing that Jedediah still
paid no attention, he addressed him super
ciiously in these words:
Come Sir Pedagogue, you are silent; be
so condescending as to illustrate your pro-
fession by informing us how many ideas
you have bastinadoed into the posteriors of
your boys, to-day?'
Not one, Sir, said Jedediah-the boys
do not carry their ideas in their posteriors,
however they may have done in your boy
ish days
The deuce, you say SO, Mr.. Pcdagogue?
Why do you apply your birchen instru-
ment with such impetuosity to that infe-
rior part of their corporeal system? Come,
your philosophical reasons, Mr. Peda-
gogue.'
you shall be satisfied, sir. | apply
the birch to that part because it is the
base of the human system; all the baser
clements settle down into it, such as sloth,
pride, malice, insolence, i'll manners and
whatever else may tend to make a man
proud without virtue; boastful without mer-
it; pompous without dignity: and quarrel
some without reason Therefore, | apply
the remedy to the base, in order to expel
such baseness from its seat in the system
The bully was SO completely foiled that
for some moments he showed his rage only
by his fierce looks. Then setting his arms
akimbo, he said: You are a cowardly
pedagogue to attack your boys in that
cowardly manner. | never knew peda-
gogue who was not tyrant among his
children, and a Internal coward among
men, He interlarded his speech with one
of the oaths commonly used by bullies and
blackguards; adding these words--1 had
pedagogue in my battalion during the
campaingn of '95 against the Indians, and
the coward ran away in every battle, till
had him drummed out of the army y the
paltroon.'
You said the campaign of '9G-ain't you
mistaken in the date?' asked Bateman with
cool gravity.
Yes, Sir Pedagogue, said the campaign
of '96, under Wayne. | mistake no date,
SIR, your pcdagogueical pusillanimity dis
qualities you for the funeration of historic
al correction
'Waynes expedition against the Indians
was over, and peace was made before 90,
said Bateman drily, as he sat nearly OPP
posite to Bickerton, stirring c"pious
mixture of butter and Molasses and mush
or hasty pudding, which was to be his
supper.
You are a liar, you - pcdagoguep
roared out the bully; what do you know of
Waync's campaign? Stick to your ferule
and spelling book. and leave military
affairs to gentlemen-thcy are exterior
to your province
Boys learn history in these days SAID
Bateman, as he rose from the table, and
took down Il volume from the mantle piece.
After turning over n few leaves he resum-
ed his seat and said: Here is an epitome
of American history brought down to the
yeaI 1921 He then read a short para
graph which confirmed his assertion,
when handing the book towards Bicker-
ton, he said, That's what boys learn
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