The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-03-28
From the Professors Story in the Atlantic Monthly
The Yankee Schoolmaster.

sensation than had attended that Of either
Of his predecessors. Looks 90 good wsys
oil the world over, and though there were
several good looking people in the place,
and Major Bush was what the town called Q
"handsome man." that is, big, fat and red.
yet the sight of really elegant man, with
the natural air which grows up with careful
ly bred young persons. was novelty. The
Brahmin blood which came from his grand
father as we'll as from his mother, direct
descendent from the old Flint family, we'll
known by the famous tutor, Henry Flint,
(see Cat. HarV. Ammo 1880 had been en-.
livened and enriched by that of the Went
| worths, which had had good deal Of ripe
old Madeira and other generous elements
mingled within, SO that it ran to gout some.
times in the old folks, and to high spirit
warm complexion and curly hair in some OF
the younger ones. The soIt, curling hair
Mr.. Bernard had inherited-something per.
haps, of high spirit; but that we shoI
have a chance of finding out by.and. by
But the long sermons and the frugal board
of his Brahmin ancestry, with his own bab.
it's OF study, had tod upon his color. which
was subdued to something more of delicaey
than one would care to see in young tel
low with work before him. This, however,
made hlm look more interesting, or, as he
young ladies' at Major Bush's said, "interes
tin"
When Mr.. Bernard showed himself at
meeting on the fret Sunday after his arrival.
1t may be supposed that good many eye,
were turned upon the young sthoolmaster.
There was something heroic in his conf g
forward so readily to take place which
called for a strong hand and prompt, steady
will to guide it. In fact his position was
th,t Of military cheitain on the eve of Il
battle. Every body knew everything in Pig
wacket Centre and il was understood that
the young rebels me- Mt to pu, down hr new
master it thy could. 1t was natural that
the two pret,iest girls in the will age, called,
IN the local dialect, ss near as our limited
, alphabet will represent it, Almina Cutter
and ArviIly BraoWne, should feel and express
an interest 10 the good looking stranger, and
that, when their fatteriDg comments were
repested in the hearing Of their indigenous
admirers, among whom were some of the
t older boys of the school, it should not add to
the smiable dispositions OF the turbulent
youths.
Mondey came, and the new schoolmaster
was in his chair At the upper end of the
D school house, on the raised platform. The
rustics looked at his handsome face thought.
i full, peaceful, pleasant, cheerful, but sharply
. lighted about the eyes. The riDgleader oi
the mischief. makers, the young butcher, who
y has before figured in this narrative, looked al
: him stealthily, whenever he got chance tc
8 study him unobserved for the truth was, he
felt uncomfortable whenever he found the
: large, dark eyes fixed on his own little, sharp
u deep.set, gray ores. But he found the mean
e to study him pretty well-frst his face, ,her
| UCCA auu VIC OCT VI ulo nt
e the narrowing at the loins, the make of hi
legs, and the way he moved. In short, h
examined him as he would have examined
steer, to see what he could do and how h.
II would cut up. II he could only have gon
=, to him and felt OF bis muscles, he would hav
q been entirely satisfied. He was not YER
wise youth but he did not know vel
il enough, that, though big arms and legs or
r.. very good things, there is something beside
in that goes to make man and he had hear
N stories OF a fighting mon. called "The Sp
4. DER" from his attenu,ted proportions, VIII
a WAS yet terrible hitter in the ring. and ho
in whipped many big limbed fellow in an
al out OF the roped arena.
Nothing could be smoother than the wa
in which everything went on for the first dG
or two. The new master was so kind 81
courteous, he seemed to take everything
ds such natural easy way, that there was r
as chance to pick quarrel with him. He
a the meantime thought it best to watch II
n. boys and young men for a dNy or two wi
ed as little chow OF su,hcrity as possible.
OF WIS easy enough to see that he would ha,
be occasion for it before long.
4r The school house WINS a grim, old, re-
3, one story building, perched on bare roc
OF nt the top of hill-party because this W,
in conspicuous site for the temple OF leSrnn
te and partly because land is cheap where the
to is no chance even for rye or buckwheat, at
the very sheep find nothing to nibble.-
About the little porch were carved init,
and dates, at various heights, from the sta,u
OF nire to that Of eighteen. Inside were
et unpain,ed desks-unpainted, but brown,
gs with the umber OF human contact-aI
os hacked by innumerable jackknives. 1t VI
Ia long since the walls had been whitewashe
% as might be conjeCtured by the various trac'
g" left upon them, wherever idle hands al
20 sleepy heads could reach them. A curiol
=" appearance was noticeable ON various high
- parts Of the wall. namely, warlike eruptio
=" as one would be tempted to call it, being
~ reality crop of the soft missiles before me-
II toned, which adhering in considerable nur
bers, and hardening after the usual fashi,
Of fPGp;er nGcbe, formed at last permsne
es ornaments Of the ediice. -t.sa4..