New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1859-06-13
The schoolmaster's Promise.
A correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph
tells the following anecdote of his old schoolmaster


A correspondent of the Germantown Telegraph
tells the following anecdote of his old schoolmaster
/" Ok Haskins -
Boys" said he, smilingly one day.
What's up, thought we, and we were all attention.
It was like sun.peep through heavy stormcloud
when q Old Haskins y smiled, and the phenomenon
was nnaccountable.
Boys" said he, " am about to bargain with you
for good behavior" "a change of tactics, verify 81
desire that You will conduct yourselves with decorum
for one week, and will promise to show you curl
osity-what no man ever saw and, having shownit
to you, what no man will ever see again.
dyes sir!n--" Agreed ~" wi, sir y and vari-
Gus other expressions Of acquiescence came from
new state of things the school was dismissed at an
early hour leaving the boys to gaze into each others
eyes in assonishment as if to divine in each others
intuition the answer to the riddle which had stolen
upon them as pleasant dream.
An anxious week followed week OF curiosity,
bewilderment, hope and pleasure in embryo. Out of
school it was all the talk" what no man ever saw,
and what no man shall ever see again! mot even
the terrible author of the compromise What could
it be?
Another and another day, until at last the Identical
named one dawned upon the gladdened young hearts.
Nine o'clock came-eyery urchin was at his post
books and states all in readiness for the DAYS battle
with the demon of darkness and ignorance-eyery
task fully committed to memory. Altogether,
charming state of affairs! An active mind, not
welded too closely to orthodox ideas, would have de-
vned at once the great advantage Of rewards and
Kindness over oppression and cruelty. But our old
tutor was invincible. Unmake him? Never. You
could not alter his plans an iota.
"Tingle Tinge?" sounded the little bell-that
bell had voice as well as tongue. Boys all atten.
ton eyes, ears, mouths agape momentous epoch!
Old Hawkins raised the lid Of his desk, and drew
the wonderful thing forth-adjusted his ominous-
looking spectaces astraddle his nasal projection and
proceeded to the solemn ceremony.
Attention, school ~ roared the tutor.
single order was all that was necessary-you
might have heard pin drop.
" The hour has at length arrived behold in my
| appraised fingers single almond" Oerrible sus-
ously breaks the shell and exposes the tiny thing)
| " This, no man ever saw!" Then opening his capa-
cious jaws, exposing an internal array Of decayng
ivory and raw flesh that reminded US OF the mouth of
a Bengal tger-he thrust in the mysterious kernel
crushed and swallowed it!
"Boys," exclaimed he, with great emphasis, "boys
4 you will never-I will neyer-no man will ever see
that kernel again To your lessons you rascals, ev.
cry dog Of youw
| AN OLD JOKE ILLUsTRATED.-A day or two ago,
4 says our Douglas friend, Mark Akin man came to
this city with one hundred dozen brooms and called
at the store of Messrs. c. to sell them; AFTER
Dozen with the understanding that they should be
paid for half in money and the other half in goods,
| at cost price, The brooms were delivered to Messrs.
| O. and one hundred dollars paid in money to
the broom maker. The clerk of Messrs. CD
now rubbed his hands, and smiled very patrOnizingy
"What goods shall set out for you, sir said the
clerk.
| The broom maker scratched his head and assumed
an attitude of labored meditation, then recovering
himself, he said " Well, don't know what do
want, but guess I'll take fifty dozen brooms!"
| ---4 [Chicago Herald