The States and Union. [volume] (Ashland, Ohio) 1868-1872, 1871-12-27
Seleet Stprp,
[From "Hearth and Home."]
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H00SIER SCHOOL MASTER.
BY EDWARD EGGLEsTeN.
CHAPTER ".

after supper on that eventful Wedne
day evening 4 low they'll appoil
the Squire to gin out the woods tt
night. They mos'Is Vansas you Sc
kase he's the peartest ole 4eessr th
deestrick; and I low some efssfl
young fellers would have to o., IN
dust eff they would keep up to hffi
And he uses sech remarkable SINAI
words. He speaks SO polite, too 81
laws !! don't / remember when he Wa
poarer nor Jobs turkey? Twent
year ago, when he come to these 'er
diggins, that air Squire Hawkins wa
a poar Yankee school master, tha
said pail instead of bucket, and tina
called a COW 'caow, and that couldn
tell to save his gizzard what we mean
by low and by right smart. But he
larnt our ways now, an he's jest a
civilized as the rest of US. Yo
would-n know he'd ever been a Yan
kce. He didn't stay poar long No
he. He jest married a rich girl! He
hep and the old woman grinned a
Ralph. and then at Mirandy, and thel
at the rest. until Ralph, shuddered.-
Nothing was SO frightful to him as t.
be fawned on and grinned at by thi,
old ogre, whose few lonesome, black.
ish teeth seemed ready to devour him
He didn't stay poar, you bet hoss
and with this the coal was deposited
on the pipe, and the lips began tc
crack like parchment as each puff oil
smoke escaped. He married rich you
see,' and here another significant look
at the ydang itiaster, and ano her
fond look at NJ randy, rs she puffed
away refectively. His wife hadn't
no book larnin. Shed been through
the spellin book wt,nst, and had got as
fur as 'asperity' on it second time.
But she couldn't read a word when
she was married, and never could
She warn't overly smoart She hadn't
hardly got the sense the law allows
But schools was skase in them air
days, and, besides. bouk-larnin don't
do no good for woman. Makes her
stuels-ap. I never knewed but one
gal in my life as had ciphered into
fractions, and she was so dog on stuck
up that she turned up her nose one
night at an apple peelin' bekase /
tuck sheet off the bed 10 splice out
the table cloth, which was ruther
short. And the sheet was mos clean,
too. Hadn been slep on more'n
wunst or twice. But l was goin fer
TO say that when Squire Hawkins
married Virginny Gray he had got
heap o Money, or, what's the same
thing mostly. a heap o good land
And that's better'n book larnin, says
L. Ef girl hdd gone clean through
all eddication, and got to the rule of
three itself, that would'n buy a feath-
cred bed. Squire Hawkins Jest put
cddication agin the gals farm, and
traded even, an eff AIRY one of en- got
swindled, | never heerd no complaints
And here siie tucked at Ralph IN
.ridmph, her hard face splintering in
70 the cideous semblance of smile.
And Mirandy cast a blushing, gush-
ing, all imploring, and all confiding
ook on the young master.
L say, Ole woman broke in did
Jack, Il say, wot is all this ere sroutin'
about the Squire fer?' and old Jack,
having bit off an ounce Of 'pigtail,' re-
turned the plug TO his pocket.
AS for Ralph, he wanted to die
He had guilty feeling that this
'p ech OF the old lady's had somehow
him beyend recall to Nil
andy. He did not see vision Of
preach of promise suits, but he trem-
'led at the Thought of an, avenging
zig brother, -i-..--....... ...
Hammer; yod kin come along, too. |
f you've mind, when you git the |
fishes Washed said Mrs. Means to the
,ound girl, as she shut and latohed
he back door. The Means family
lad built new house in front of the
Id one, as a sort of advertisement of
ettered circumstances, an eruption
e shoddy feeling; but when the new
uilding was completed, they found
themselves unable to occHpy it for
nything else than alumbesfi; rodri, and
0, except parlor which Mirandy had
lade an effort to furnish little lin
ope of the blissful time when some,
ody should set up with her of even.
lgs,) the Dew buildiBg was almost tn
coupled, and the family went in and
ut through the back door, which, in
eed, was the front door also, for. ac-
riding to a curious custom, the front
the house was placed toward the |
'uth; through the big roaf JHoosier d,
r highway ran alcng the north west /
de, or, rather, past the north west {
rner of it. + -....-s- III
When the old woman had spoken 9
US to Hannah and had latched the .
'or, she muttered, That gal don't I
'ver show no gratitude for favors > q
which Bed rejoined he didn't think
e had no great sight to be pertickler {
ankful fer. To which Mrs. Means /
ade no reply, thinking it best, per- s
PSI not to wake up her dutiful son a
SO interesting theme ds her treat
snt of Hannah. Ralph felt glad that q
was this evening to go to another t
arding place. He should not hear n
e rest of the controversy. ~ is
Ralph walked to the school house G,
th. Bill. They, were friends again. s.
II when Hank Banta's ducking and p
d6gged obstancy in sitting in his g
{ cidtIies had btodght On d serious [
'er, Ralph had called together the it
, boys, and he said: fWe must take "
e of, one another; boys. Who c:
] volunteer to take TURNS sitting upi b
Ii Henry: He put his own name m
Sn, and all the rest followed. ii
William Means and myself will "a "