Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1867-06-13

| hat only just above brim, and hurt Doctor
| War; somewhat Severely. The five fingers
went up. -
+ "You gave me leave, Doctor War;" re-
Demonstrated Wickham
81 told you if you thought it would DO
me any good, George Wickham. You see
| it has not"
am not certain, but / think there was
| the least tinge of malice in this instance Oh
the Doctors inflicting fine whilst ssmarts
| ing from the blow Possibly he though
SO too the next minute, for it was the only
| fine l can remember which was. not en-
| forced. e ! "a - -
A. fight was an incident OF such rare " ~.
currence in our school, that only Vaguo,y
remember having heard that the PUNISH
ment for that offence was OF a SOFT catlcu5
lated efeetually to prevent It's Tepesl'ti OIL
IT had reason however, to endorse the
| popular belief from personal experiences.
/ am afraid it must have been dreaa1ully
/ hypocritical of me to go on pretending IL
was nv nv aunt Campbell | was so anxious TO
see whenever could get leave from schooi
-4for it was no such thing. oil .a5;a 9ua
~ went to my aunt's house not to see her,
but nv cousin Fanny. Fanny and were
aengaged I" in a regular boy and girl en-
| GA gement. We used to write to each
other at least, twice a week, contrlYlng 10
| hand our notes clandestinely under the tea
table, when absorbed, to all outward ap-
pearance, ina the consumption -of1seed.cake
and the rapto contemplation of the gas
lights. We contrived to go for walks
| together, too, whereof much of the enjoy
| ment depended en- their secrecy and the
dread lest we should be, found out. =. All,
me they were happy walks, when we
| lived in the sunshine of the golden present
walks that come up in my mind as pleas
ant memories now, though my wife, whose
name is not Fanny, has the book -marker
she gave me on my birthday must have
dropped one of Fanny's little notes. from.
my pocket in the playground, for was
startled to hear George Wickham come
behind me reading Fanny's words, and
| "making game of them before the other
boys. In an instant flew at him like
tiger, tore the note away, and struck him a
blow in the ifaeesd lie returned the blow
directly, and in a minute we were fighting
desperately, the boys cheering us in turn
as some well-delivered stroke gave one or.
the other. a gmomentary, advantage. We
were both closing for severe battle, hot
and wild with passion, when the Doctor
walked quietly between, and without lay.
ing so much as a finger on. either OF u.s.
said, in his calm voice:
"Mlchael Green and George Wickham;
/ wish to speak with yeu in the SCHOOL,
room" 93na4.lb n or9g. nm.
He never looked back to see if we fol,
lowed, but walked leisurely indoors. Dr.
War; was a man whom to hear was to
obey. We. instinctively followed him,
dumb, bleeding and painting - -9esa1
(" am sorry to. find, Michael Green and
H.11x1
opening his calm eyes very wide and fixing
!" that you have not yet learnt one of the
first lessons most people learn in infancy
the use of your hands. You have both SO
obviously mistaken the purpose for which
hands were given you, that | am afraid we
must 60 back again to first principles. 1t
| is not my fault if treat you like children,
but yours that you won't act like men.
| Until you know what your hands are for
cannot certainly allow you to use them any
| more, lest you do more mischief To pre-,
vent mistakes till you know better, l am
going to tie up your hands, Michael Green
and George Wickham." efaar.' z aa:s -s-aa
Thereupon the Doctor left the room, and
presently returning with a piece of rope,
gravely tied our hands behind u.s.. He
| then added "After what has occurred, /
cannot consider it safe to trust you at large
| with the other boys, lest you do them an
injury. You will therefore remain in the
school room under my charge"
At first was disposed to think the Doc
| tors treatment slight and Inadequate.
though certainly chafed and felt annoyed
at being punished in a manner so childish.
We might sit and read or study, or do
what we pleased, Wiclxham and l. but it
was at a separate table from the other boys,
we could not be trusted near them. By
and by began to find the punishment so
Notifying and irksome, that if my hands
had beed free really felt ready to have
exercised them on Doctor Warr,-even in
preference to Wickham. But the worst
was at meal times. . The Doctor himself
brought our dinner into the school room.
The food was cut up, because, he explained,
since it was not safe to trust us with the
use of our own hands, it would. be sheer
madness and culpable folly on his part to
allow us dangerous weapons like knives
and forks Wickham's hands being rn
loosed for the purpose, he was made to
feed me with spoon before taking his own
dinner. 1t was at once veXatious and ludi-
crous to be offered a spoonful of cold NUT
ton and potatoes by the very boy your
smouldering passion would lead you even
uOW 10 puiIHlol. 11du I6SUO DC6u HOE Inc
comfort derived from, feeling it must be
at least as .disagreeable to Wickham literal.
ly to carry out the precept, if thine enemy
hunger, feed him,"I believe even the ludi-
crous view of the subject would have
proved insufficient to induce me to have
/" GOALS Of fire" THUS heaped on my head /
But / was hungry, and i took in the9cold
mutton. q At tea time there were more
Goals of fire, with this difference was
stoker; my hands being Embossed this time
for the purpose of feeding Wickham
Supper time passed in the same manner as
dinner. After this we were undone again,
and seen up stairs to bed by the Doctor,
who was won't to constitute himself a.
kind Of guardian policeman over boy g in
trouble"
Yournay think the punishment described
a stupid one, but when you come to reflect
on the actual stupidness of all wrong doing,
l don't think you will feel disposed to cavil
at the wisdom of Furnishing faults Gin
kind, especially when such punishments
prove as effectual and deterrent as Doctor
Warr's know that the very stupidness
of the condition in which we. were placed
taught us in a parable the lesson we had to
learn, and made us both so heartily
ashamed of ourselves, that before the next
day was over, when the Doctor inquired if
we thought we had learned negatively the
use our hands were not for, and whether
we were of opinion that they might. be rel
stored to us without danger to the rest of
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