The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-02-18
TIE JOURNAL.
tTdtten for the Fremont Journal
A WEEK IN THE WOODS,
TIE FIFTH DAY.

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The evening after the error as TO
Fast ouarter-post, was discovered
and the corresponding corrections
made I was pressed to stay with
anotber family. had limitations
sroT other sources also just as cor
aioi and WIS at a loss to decide
which to accept. At last however,
nv mind was settled by an appeal
which is always the hardest for me
to resist
Our, you ought to come
with me" urged the one who first
invited me, because my wife is one
of your old scholars, and she will
not forgive me if / fail to bring YOU
home with me.
so that SO Z" 1 inquired, well,
friends. I remarked, turning TO the |
others. that settles the matter, none /
Of my old pupils ever appeal to me |
in vain. You must excuse me-
will 90 home accompany this friend |
I shall so enjoy talking over ola
times with his wife. And the group |
dissolved. each person giving the
shortest way toward home.
A few minutes walk brought my
friend and myself to his house. We
arrived bv the way OF the barn-yard
and came to the rear Of the house,
but he led me to the front door. We
entered; he took my hat and instru-
4nents and asked me to take seat
in the family rocking chair. While
he was out of the room l had appoin-
ted to examine it and its contents.
The room was large and about
SQUARE; its ceiling was low but snow
white; its walls we're not hard-iin-
ished-putty coats were unknown
when that house was plastered-nor
we're they papered; the wood work
was Of a slate color-not very ap-
propriate for 8 parlor: the white-ash
door was covered with rag carpet,
woven in alterate strips Of various
colors-I don't know but the first
housekeeper in that old homestead
was won't to sand that floor, when
even "rag carpets" were either IN
invented or deemed too expensive.
shall not mention all the furniture,
Nbut two or three heir-loOms l must
not ignore. There was curious ar
ticle that somewhat resembled
chair, but was a round topped table
nv aged readers may remember hav-
;ng soon If not had. one. The top is
so hung on hinges at one side, thai
It can be turned back SO as to stanc
perpendicular. Two purposes arr
thus served the table can be placed
nearer the side of the room, occupy
5ng less space; and by means OF
cushion a comfortable seat may b.
had. In one corner of the room
stood one of these old-fashioned anC
once expensive clocks-the inside al
well as the outside chiefly wood
reaching from the floor so nearly t.
the upper ceiling, that the top wa
out of reach-an heirloom brough
down through several generations
and yet in good order, as the auc
tioneer says, "going, going" bu
not, as he alas says, "gOne. Iha
clock was made when mems work
ike their hearts. was honest; wheI
the motto was not, keep all yol
have and get all you can;" but 'giv
and let live" Very few. pictures ad
orned those bare walls, but amoni
them were an embroidered represen
tation Of house dog lying on ru
neatly done and looking quite pref
ty-snd one of these limitations c
cats in the act of siezing something
made by cutting the figure out c
fine black cloth and putting it i
front of white background. S
much I had taken in with sweepin
glance or two, when the kitchen doc
opened and in came my friend 70
lowed bv medium sized, robust
.blue-eyed, florid-faced, neatly dre'
sed woman and a few steps benin
her. three lads ranging from seve
to eleven years, dressed in home
made butternut, (no longer rebel
cloth exclusively white-headeC
with their fingers in their mouth, c
is amazing how much in the wa
bashful peoples hands are! J and ga
zing at me with their big eyes ik
owls.
Mr., said my friend, Il SUP
pose you don't remember little Mar
C., who went to school to you il
s., do you? ?
Ibid remember the name and tina
she was among my 4. b. C. danians
but what change Inever shoul
have recognized her. What
change; and yet there was abundan
reason for it. From a child Of si1
this scholar had grown into an
through her teens, married, and he
three faxen haired boys were olde
than she was when she learned he
b c of me. No, could not hav
distinguished her from a score c
women of the same age. She was i
my school, however, off and on, I'll
she had completed the the spelling
book and others of the same grade
Here I might recur to those day
when I was won't to call my littl
"shaYers p" about my knee four time
a day, and patiently drill them t.
know and remember letter after let
ter till they could say them forward
backward and skipping round.
will remember the absent minded
ness of one the Stupidity Of another
the pointing obsfinacg of this Ia,
and the vieacity of that lass. Late
used the blacl-bond and succeede
50 much better and more easily. Bu
must not 90 OFF on this tangent
possibly some time in the future
will pass those among the happies
OF my days before the te readers c
the JOURNAL in pleasing and may
hap instructive panorama, o but di,
mot talk all those happy times owe
with my old scholar, and was not tn
memory thereof green and sweet
How we ratified on, while her huS
band sat and enjoyed it, but ha
scarcely a word to say. He had nc
been an actor in that drama an
could not appreciate our solid enjo!
ment of the past; yet it pleased hil
to see US so deeply interested. It W;
late when conversation tagged b
tween US. Ny friends wife not OF
" talked of her school days, but sh
smoke of the articles of furniture an