Mineral Point weekly tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1859-1868, 1864-11-23
SPELLING SCHOOLS.

gathered into the log schooi-house
with its wide fire place, that yawned
like the main entrances to Avernns-
How the sleigh bells-the old fash
toned bells, big in the middle ofthe
string, and growing small by de
grees and beautifully less, towards
the broad bras buckle-chimed III
every direction long before NIGHT
gathering of the clans. There
comes one school. 1.-THE Master >
give him a capital N, for he Is en-
titled t. it-Master and all bundled
into one huge, red sleigh, strewedi
with 40 abundance OF straw. and
tucked up like Christmas ea:wlth
half a dozen bu!faio robes. There
half dozen enters. each With
Young man and maiden, .hev two
and no more. And there again,
pair Of jumpers. mounting q great
outlanlish looking bin, heaped MP,
pressed down and RAINING over.
Scripture measure. with small col
lections of humanity. picked up en-
route, from a dozen homes, and al
as merry a. kittens In q basket OF
wool. And the bright eyes, ripe red
lips, that one caught Il glimpse Of.
beneath those pink lined, quilted
hoods. and the siIverv laugh tina
escaped from mufHers and FIR tip
pets they wore then-who does not
remember who can ever forget
them?
The school house destined to be
the arena for the; con1ict, has been
swept AMI garnished; boughs Of ev
ergreen adorned the smoke stained
and battered walls The pellets o.
chewel paper have all been swep
from the ceiling, AMI two pals Of
water have been brought from the
spring and set on Il bench in the en-
try, with the immcm priaI tin p
a wise provision indeed, for warm
is that spelling,
The two s.Mlsters" are there: the
two schools are there; and such q
hum, and such a ml5ing to AMI f.o .
Will they swarm
The oal<an ferule comes down MP
on the desk with emphasis. What
the roll Of the drum is to armies
tlat the rule" IS to this Whispering
laughing Young troop.
The c!Iallengers are arranged on
one side Of the hoI~c; the challen@-
ed on the other, Back seats. mid
die sea-, lov front seats are filed.
Some Of the fathers and graldtath-
ers, who could, upon OCCASION, NJ
doubt.
shoulder the crutch aal show h a=lls Won
occupy the bench Of honor near the
desk.
Nov the preliminaries the re-
plte | best speIler Oh each side
chooses.
',SIsan Blown -
OFT comes 4 ro11l cyel little
creature, bIushing like 4 penny.
Who'd have thought it,-SlclI Il
little thing, and chosen first.
Moses Jones -
Dat co~aas Moses. an avLwlrl
fellow, with 4 shock Of rel h2ir,
shoclinriy harvested, surmpunsinr
his broad brow. The girls laugh
him, bat what he DOESN'T know in
the Elementary isn' worth l1uow-
ing.
Jane Murray. :"
Olt trips Jaaa. flltteral n 4
bride. and takes her place mex the
caller She's Il pretty Girl. but So
r. speller Doa't youhaar the whis-
pers roInl the house: Nhv, thu $
Johns sweetheart. John Is fhr
Leader, and battle lost with Jan
BY his side, would be @weescr than
q victory won without her.
And 80 they 90, chilling names
until five OF six champions I'm I
forth ready to do battle, AMI the
coa.est Is fairly begun.
Dnva goes one after another. rs
words Of three srllables are followed
by words Of tolr, and these arlin
By words 81 similar pronaacia iou
and divers sigaitic2-ioHs. until only
Susan and Noses remaiu.
The spelling book has been OK
haHsted, yet there thev stand. Die
tionaGes are turned oref-mcmo-
lies are ran>acked, tor
words 8 learned length AMI than ,eriu- ,7~ua."
until, by-aal-hv. Noses comes dow
Ike i tree, AMI SIslu Huttcrs there.
stilFEke 4 little leaf alo1. that the
fore. anil til, fill haze forgotten.
Fo.vsyiIa5le follows polv>yIlabl2.
by AMI by SaSan hcsi.atcs inst Il
breath or two, auJ twenty tongues
are working their way through the
labyrinth OF letters i'm Il twiakfn-.
Little Susan sinks INTO the ch,nk
LETT fpr her on the crowded sea-. and
there is luIl in the h1.lc.
Then, they all stand in solid pha-
lanx by schools, and the struggle Is.
to spell each o.her down And
down they 80, ike leaves il the
winter weather, AMI the victory IS
declared tor ORR district, ana the