The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1863-06-13
q. s 81 % ENIPORIA KANSAS, SATURDAY. JUNE 13. 1868

been forgiven. Do you hear me ?''1
"Yes, .sir,' said Jim, with his mouth
crammed full of cake.
''Go, then; remember love you. and
trust to your generosity that you willnot
hereafter infringe any of the rules. Good
morning. my dear son. . .g 1s.5-asra
GOOD morning, SIR said Jim, putting
into his mouth the last bit of his cake
Two days after this occurrence, one of the
ushers found pin very ingeniously placed
in his chair, to the great arrangement of his
own ideas, and the undisguisable merriment
of all the school when the discovery was
proclaimed. The next day the cat was kill
ed, creature which had been much beloved
and was universally 1amented, and in the
evening one of the little boys was frightened
actually into fits by ghost fourteen feet
high, with the head of a pumpkin and eyes
az large as teacups. s aaoss =ta
The cul2rit was detected in James Cos
lings and he was confined to q bread and wa
ter diet for three days, which did not pre-
vent several of the boys stockings being
filed, before they rose in the morning, with
prickly pears; and the usher, who slept in
the room with the lads, on waking in the
night found his toes tied together by long
string communicating with the toes of six
boys, who were also thus tied, the whole
being linked together. Mr.. Strap looked
grave at this, and James Costing might
thank his stars that he was the inmate of an
establishment where 'they never whipped"
He had to wear a FOOLS cap, two feet high,
with a pair of iackass's ears attached to the
top; but one of the little boys near him be-
L.
gave him blow on the eye, which blinded
him for a month. That very evening Mr..
Straps foot caught in a string laid across
the poi the stairs in such way as nearly
to break his neck. He took James again
into the closet, and talked to him an hour.
The arguments which he used would be
quite too long for the limits of this article.
Socrates could not have spoken more WISE
ly. F. At the end he gave him another piece
of cake, and sent him into the school-room,
with kindness more than paternal. James
was this time melted. He wiped his eyes
and blew his nose, and Mr.. Strap went on
with his argument. till at length the worthy
disciple of the new system felt assured gifts
success.
He is minel" said be to himself, with
rather a benevolent smile. 'He feels his
error He will do wrong no more. How
much better thus to overcome errors, than
with the british use of thiSi" and he re-
garded small bamboo cane, which he usu-
ally carried out with him in bis walks. 81
The month had expired, and this was the
day appointed for the visit of Mrs. Costing.
In the afternoon Mr.. Strap went into his
| library, where he had sent James on some
Grand. The boy not returning, he follow
ed him. He had been detained by Curl
GUS attraction. A beautiful little canary
bird, accustomed to fill the house with mu-
sic, had been hanging in its cage against
the wall; the repentant boy had taken it
down. and plucked off all its feathers. and
was amusing himself by regarding its con
tortions and distress with grin of delight.
Mr. Strap forgot his system, but, obey ing
the honest and doubtless correct impulse of
his soul, seized the young reprobate BY the
collar, and, having accidentally in hand his
bamboo cane1 gave him what people in the
every day world would term regular troune-
ing. Mrs. Costing entered while he was in
the act. The naked canary bird revealed
the story. ##a .l- e.a.7 a-.5 .s as
81 GU ht to apologize" said Mr.. Strap,
taking breath. I'D ~ aa raa
''For licking my Jim?" asked Mrs. g.,
surprised. SD ar rs asE
mo, madam, but for having ever been
such fool as to suppose myself wiser than
! Solomon. shall renounce neaO systems, and
hereafter take the world as 1t iSi' and poor
Jim, after his brief reprieve, received his
daily portion as regularly as ever. $50