Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1869-01-01

socks. Then he went across into MIS-
Tryphosa's room. and hung her watch ,scv
on a tack behind her looking.glass. uo
thought she would not look there, and as
It happened, she never did. Th,,se were
in the early days. School-b avs had no
watches then. do not thi ak thew even
wrote home for them. If they did. The
watches did not come. WIZ
dc not recollect thu 6 GEORGE then told
me he did this; but I knew he did. he.
Cause knew he could. | had no fear
GhsteVer, wher. went to bed that night,
, thAt the doc .Jr would wind up his watch,
or Miss l.fyphosa hers. As 1t happened,
neither bf them did. Each asked the
otn'yr for key, the master tried the old
gold key which hung at his fob, which
when he was before Quebec with Amherst.
Both of them said 1t was very careless in
Chloe, and both of them went to bed.
We all got up early the next day, as we
had promised. But before breakfast did
not go near the clock-you need not
charge that ON me. l hurried the others
got them to breakfast ate my own
| speedily. Then did go into the school.
room ten minutes before the crowd. |
locked both doors and drew down the
paper hanging curtain. took brad-awl
out of my pocket and unscrewed the
pendulum from the bottom of the rod l
left it i'll the bottom of the box. Itook a
| horseshoe from my pocket and lashed 1t
tight with packthread about a quarter way
down the rod-perhaps two inches above
| the quarter. put in a nail after it was
tied, twisted the string round it twice-and
rammed the point into the knot. Then
started the pendulum again-Found TO my
| ueilgnt thai 1t was very good natured, and
licked TWICE as fast as | ever heard it-I
smut anc. locked the clock door, rolled up
the panE r-hanging curtain, and unlocked
the school doors.
lsnrpose | was engaged three minutes
IN these affairs, | cannot tell, because the
COCK had stopped, and, when we are
pleasantly employed, time flies was not
I interrupted. Nobody came into that
schoolroOm before it was time In the
| Boston schools now they hire the scholars
to be unpunctual, giving them extra
credits if they arrive five minutes too
early. If they knew, as well as do, what
nuisances people are who come before the
time fixed for their arrival, they would not
bribe The children in that direction. Ger.
tain.y dear old Parson Whipple did not.
WJ went in when the clock struck, aud
'Fe went out when it struck. He had no
, idea of improving on what was exactly
right.
So when the clock struck eight we
rushed in. Reverent silence at prayers.
l suppose my conscience pricked me, l
have very little doubt it did-but don't re-
member it at all. Little boys called up in
Latin grammar. Luckily they were all
well up, and gabbled off their lesson in
fine Style
"Amussis, mason's rule.
"BuriS, the beam of plough" &c, &c.
The lesson went down-one exception
to each boy-without one halt; the master
nodded pleasure, and passed up to the
first boy again; down it went again, and
down again. These were bright little
fellows; not one mistake-perfSct credits
all.
1t is very good lesson," said the dear
old soul. "lts a pleasure to hear boys
when they recite so we'll. This VIZ give
us little time for me to show you"
What he was going to show them I do
not know. He turned round as he said
"time," and saw to his amazement that
the clock pointed to $50. He put his
hand to his watch unconsciously, and half
smiled when he saw that it had run down
"No matter" said he, eve are later
than thought. Seats-algebra boys"
So we took our places, and very much
the same thing followed. Singleton and
were sent to the blackboards, for the dear
old man was in advance of the age in
those matters-and we did our very quick
est. Bus Hackmatack had not our motive,
and perhaps did not understand the
algebra so well, so that he stumbled and
made long business of it, and so did the
boy who was next to him. That boy was
still on the rack, too much puzzled to see
what Singleton meant by holding up
three fingers of one hand and one of the
other, when the Parson sai9, al cannot
spend all the morning on you; sit down,
sir, sent another boy to the board to eX.
was this time fairly surprised to see that
it was already half past nine. He seized
the opportunity for a Parthian lesson to
Brereton and Hackmatack. Half an
hour each on one of the simplest problems
in the book. And must put off the other
boys till tomorrow" The other BOYS
were a little amazed at their respite, but
took the goods the gods provided without
comment. We went to our seats, and in
a very few minutes it was quarter of ten,
and we were sent out to recess. Recess,
you know, was quarter of hour; 1t gener-
ally began at quarter of eleven, but to day
we had it at quarter of ten, because school
was an hour earlier. say quarter of ten
because the clock said So The sun was
overcast with a heavy Indian-summer
mist, so we could not compare the clock
with the sundial.
The little boys carried out their lunch
as usual, going through the store-closet
on the way. But there was not much en-.
thusiasm on the subject of lunch, and a
good deal of generosity WAS observed in
the offer from one to another of apples
and doughnuts-which, however, were
not often accepted. soon stopped this by
saying that nobody wanted lunch, because
we were to dine so early, and proposed
that we should all save our provision fol
the, afternoon picnic. Meanwhile, con
ferred with Clapp about the black mare
j He said she was in the upper pasture
which was the next field to our sugar-lot
and he thought he would run across now
! and drive her down into the lower pas
ture, in which case she would be standing
by the bars as soon 40 school was over, anC
he could take her at once, and give hel
some grain while we were eating our din
ner. Clapp, you see, was a day scholar
g | asked him if he should have time anC
9 he said of course he should. But, in fact
g he was not out of sight fthe house befort
|, the master rang the bell out of the win
9 dow, and recess was over. Even the LITTLE
I boys said it was the shortest recess they
!, had ever known.
So far as felt any anxiety that day,
e was in the next exercise. This was tn
t regular writing of copies by the who'll
3 school. Now the writing of copies is
pretty mechanical business, and the maste
e was pretty methodical man, aud whel
= he assigned TO us ten lines of the copy
l book to be written in twenty-five n inutes
. giving him i've for inspection" he mean
u very nearly what he said, as he generall
e did. ventured to say to Hatmstack an
: ClApp, as we sat down at our form, LET
: all write ike hokey;" But did not daI
i WHY the writing should be rapid. Earle
e than that, my uncle had taught me on
d of the great lessons of life, =" If you war
! your secret kept, keep II"
So we all fell to--on