Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1863-01-06
EIeetIng a School Marin.

hll0IE lOl0 Odli1 ~~NA 49, SNSN "HHe
thew wanted to apoint me, Obadiah Smith,
School Director for. What 6ia l know
about school? What did know ab0us ed
| icstion ginerally?
To be sure I'd been 10 school in Bates
vile, every winter sence / was ten years
old. and cut up as many shines and tux
as many hOggings and got as much farming
os he other boys, except Lawyer Merlin
and So rare Bliss-never had no such fig
ne head as them fellers. AS for grammar,
/ never aid think it any great go, and as
told Sally Ann, what possessed the fools
e elect me School Director l couldn't see:
wall, Sally Ann, Gays she; now Obed
Smith, don't make pesky fool OF yourself,
| reckon you kin just meet with the rest OF
'em. aud r. y0u amt as goou sehoiard as
Tim Bates aid Joel Parker Its tarnel
pity that's all.
Nov, he7 c. ne jest as S"ly Anh s"iu
ever sence we were marrisd; -,
Amazin smart Wol 1an' sally Ann 's' IL
had not been for her, ] don't Kho" Us
hev got married to this . lessed gay. lie
see she kinder kept limiting ana mining
telling what long distance it vas Oe'~een
the two farms, and what a maSn. sisn Vi
horse flesh might be saved and ho>N 'heni
lazy farm servants was wastln my Nuo,
| stance in riotus Twin, till | jest got rh>H
and up and asked her.
Sartin, says she, as cool as cucumber,
and much obliged inter the bargain
| Well, as | was sayin, seein as how was
| in for it, and was legally appinted School
| Director, concluded as how I'd heV to
sarve.
Things went purity smooth at fust. The
last teacher had been gone sometime, and
the school house shet up, and had jest
begun for to think it was no great shakes
to be School Director alter oil, when up
walks Tim Bates one day and says he: we
| calculate it is about time tn open the school
| house egin, the Directors are goin to meet
| a t fJGI O'clock this afternoon to elect
ten aher; now, be up 70 time Obed Smith
says ne.
| beTeye. Ny hair literally stood on eend.
| Now Tim, sou are joking, says l. Honor
BIT Iook here, Tim, says l, there's
pleDtg of you without me. don't keer
| durn who you get for your pesKy scho'i'
81 just 60 sheHd without me.
| No stree. says be; every director has
| got to be there, and Obed E'ulth among the
rest, and of he started whisshng Yankee
Doodle so loud Gs you never die see
| / Just unhitchea the horses AM started
Cor hum.
Saliy Ann, says /, it is coms-the day OF
judgment come, and then l Just told ut"
what scrape / had got into.
She just bust out o iaughln. You are
fool, says she. Your are another, says |,
and was jest ready for an ALFRED row,
i Il. Il
Obed Just finish up the chores and come in
to dinner, and don't go to getting all tuck
cred out afore you go. For my part, |
wonder what gals applied. / don't know
none 'thout its Sal Bates and Lib Wilkins,
aud reckon know much as them crit
tiers. says She Seems to me Belle Win
throp was sayinz some lady from the city
wanted it-but laws a-massy, what she'd
want to come from BOstlng clean out to
Baskerville for, is more than | can tell. To
be sure eighteen dollars month is pretty
good pay-more than we've ever given
afore or will agin-snb then she fell to
thinkin, and | went tearin out Of the house
in way that was a caution.
Well, just about four o'clock, / started
for the old school house. Sally Ann, she'd
bin a lecturin me till was eenamost at
my wits end. She had been up in the
garrit and brought down all the old books
she could lay hold on and top of all was
Old Webstsr's great humping Dictiona-
ry.
There she'd been from eleven O'Clock till
four hunting out questions for me to ak
the school marin.
: No need Of folks thinkin you are fool
if you are one, say she snappisbly.
Now jest Ak her to spell Phthisic--that
used to be the hardest word when went
TO school, but ! have been looking for
something harder, and have gotit too
Here it is; 'Metempsychosis,' says she,
that is q poser-and then ! pronounced,
aud pronounced, till was all in q perfect
sweat.
Now, have written all the questions
and answers down, 80 you'll know if she
answers right or wrong. Says she, here is
one of them, how high is the tower of Pisa,
and then she gave me the paper.
As was sayin, at four started. The
clock was too fast or walked fast, OF
sOmethin, for when got there-there
want single living thing in sight, except
little rosy checked girl setting on one
of rhe benches es demure as could be. She
kinder bowed when she seed me, and says
/, as perlite as could be; little girl did you
want anything particler-we're going tC
have school meetin here this afternoon
and / reckin we wouldn't like to have any
extra visitors.
!, She blushed up red, and says she with {
saucy twinkle 10 her eyes understood
there was to be an examination of teachers
for the Batesville school. ] am one of the
applicants, Miss Lester, from Boston. HaVt
/ been misinfOrGed?
Iblurted out an apology, and was gsttir
more illustrated than eser, when she jes
!. said as perlite as possible. that it was of nj
manner of consequence and begun talkir
90 pretty about the school, and the village
and the seceshers down South, that it pu
II me at ease, and didn't much keer if the
y Directors didn't come at all, provided Sally
Ann did not know / was having such I
nice time = listsnin-when In come tbs
whole posse, and she stopped off all at one'
y aud never said another word.
Squire Bliss and Lawyer Merton con
Quoted the examination.
!, Sal Bates and Deb Wilkins were there
: but the little Boston lady quite took Id,
shine off 'em. She was pretty little thirg
with jest the sweetest bonnet and cloaE