Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1870-10-19
A Tale Told Out Of School.

lowest, thlrd person he loves, uraWlcd the
head boy in the class. The next. little
girl took it up promptly. " Plural--Frst
person we love, second person you love, third
person they love.
And we all love,
The interruption came in a whisper loud
enough to be heard all over the room, causing
the older boys and girls to smile and gigele
and the teacher, Miss Olive Burnett, looked
up quickly gancing along the row Of large
scholars on the back seat--young men and
womcn--ior this was a country school and in
the winter. She had come to look for trou-
bic in that quarter. Every day some fresh
aggrayation, some new infringement Of the
rules and oifense against the discipline, made
it hard work for her, girl Of eighteen, to
maintain her authority over those forty tur-
bulont spirits, constantly melted to insubord-
nation by the example Of their Acknowledged
leader, Scott Goldriek
lie sat there, at the further end of the
bench, quite in the corner, a good-looking
young man Of twenty, with curly chestnut
hair, and mutinous curve Of the lip, with head
bent low over his slate, and fingers busy in
figuring out some difficult problem in arith-
metic. But Miss Burnett was not deceived
by the apparently studious air And there
was an undertoAe Of rcsolute determination in
her voice, as she said, looking quietly over
the forty faces before her
I" These interruptions must come to an end
at once. There is a point where forbearance
ceases to be a virtue, and think il has
passed. From this point | shall enforce
every rule of the school. The penalty for the
next interruption of this kind will be twelve
strokes of the ruler" carelessly balancing the
slip Of cherry wood in her hand
The clear bright face in the corner was
lifted for a moment the dark hazel eyes
looked steadily into Miss Burnett's blue eyes,
only for a moment, the space Of breath /;
then the hand went on again steadily with
that endless maze of figures, and Miss Bur
nett went on with her work.
Hard work it was especially hard work TO-
day. All day long the vivid scarlet had
burned in her checks, making her passing
lovely, while her temples throbbed with pain,
and one of the children feeling her feverish
touch, wondered what made Miss Burnett 3
hand so hot She must not give up though.
There was too much depending on her for
that A helpless mother and two little SIS
tiers, hardly more than babies yet. ali depend.
cd for the bread they ate upon the over
worked young teacher' lruly iallure here
would be her disaster.
ba' sho must not IAN would those m
uefininapie lessons never DC nhlsned She
"an'eu 10 50 nome anu get resi-
Two nours oil tolerable quiet ana order,
ana the gay Work was nearly ended When
IN inc MIDST OIL inc iast recitation came again
that in'errupung Whisper plainly heard all
over tne room -.
for an instant Ollve Burnetts heart fail-
Gu her' Co'tta sle muster courage enough
i,iu'o ooo'' "o'urioN' 'he oiuosV anu larg-
es' ooy III tne sTnooi, man grown Inc
'"ougut 0a,ne 70 ner az once 'haI was I'M
many lor nun 10 Try her 80; bui right or
WRONG her w9rd was passed ana must be
kept her authority was assalled and must
DC maintained no" or lost Altogether 10
ia n ~" Mas 70 g,Ne up ai' 90 cahing up
al her nerve though her heau tnroDbed diz.
zny' sue ciosed tue oooA, qu'e'ly dismissed
'hc CLASS, III, anu iaceu Tue scnool as she sald
me schoiur VINO WhisPefeu tnat ias'
'mv, VIII piease sieP lcrwaru'
inSre was ueau silence Tor an instant,
then Seou uoiurick lett his seat and walked
up =" here the young teacher STOOD NO
poyisn miscnlel was IN ms manner now, nc
inooA',,g ueicrence no shaue OF ueh9nee put
instead quiet mahilness that was harder to
NEE. IMAM any praVauo wopla nave peen'
ou o"n uuuers'anu, hr' "o,uiicA' tna'
lnis % n1' PHEASANT uu'y 70 me- ner voice
was S"auy' p.' ,c"er 'hah usual 30 low 'ha'
some VINO were listening dlu not eaten inc
Wofus AT all. lou can understand that II