The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-03-23

Sam goes to his seat and holds his nose
to keep from laughing out loud, while at
nod from the master "Lucinca Wirth" trips,
all smiles and blushVs, TO the platform, and
after "kurtseyiug" proceeds to read in an in
audible voice something about BE kind to
thy father" The teacher says Louder :"
and We catch few words: 'Ysur father
loves you and has been at great deal of ex
pense bringing you up, so you should obey
him ard not -" ,"lhere snsues jumble Of
sounds which no one can interpret, which
cease, aud after folding the composition,
Lucinda" lays it on the teachers table for
inspection. 'kurtseys" and goes to her seat
George Francis Sprain." says the teacher,
and spruce looking chap, whose hair is
goose>oiled into curlIness, steps boldly to the
front.
George likes this business-he is going to
make lawyer-and in a thrill voice he
commences --rOt many generations where
you now sit encirclsd by all that embelishes
civilized life, the wild fox nodded in the wind
and the thistles dug his hole unscsrsd"-
and SO he goes on. transposing his sentences
occasionally, but mainly right. and with a
firm voice to the end. We have seen George
since he arrived at mans estate he now
stands in the Police Court and defends
"druuks" for fifty ceuts case win or lsss
judgs always comes down harder on his cli>
sntf than on any others.
Miss Elizabeth Brandrsth steps forward
and in Susan 3. Anthony style reads a
hifalutin' description of country life-how
'in the spring, when meadow larks are
warbling, and geese squawking, she loves to
60 out into the fields and Gull butter>cups
and soc the little lambkins gam boiling en- the
green grassy banks (green faro banks, her
brother said she neant), and then return
back te home again once more and help hsr
mother stuff sausages, for il we are not kind
to our parents the sasssnger meat will spile %
and really we have forgotten the rest of Eliza
beth's composition. Ea. r.E
Then "Charles Bashful," starts for the
stand, accelerated in his motion by piu>
thrust, as he left the seat. He bows, and
seeing boy making faces, commences to
snieker, until the teacher comes up by his
side and raps his head with the fsrule; this
causes more mirth, then more raps, until he
forgets his piece and is locked up in the wood
box in disgrace.
The minister's son, melville Wiuterblos-
| son." is then called to show the scholars
how a good boy should speak. Melville G
looks as sour as a vinegar jug his "piscs'
has been selected by his parents principally
/ for its moral tone; he says:
''l do most earnestly wish that I could
| induce all youthful individuals to invest re-
ligion of its gloomy aad repulsivs assoca
tions: but. my lords. ask no respite from
death l sun ready TO die for my country
/ and sink or swim. revive aud perish, I an
for the Union, one and insepaTabls. NJ,
Lord. were an American as an an Enl
/ lishman"-heIs the teacher. who had bse;
trying to find the original of the oratsr's re
marks. stops the medley and Melville take
his ieat. He had been crammed with s.
many pieces, that he had not beer able t,
distinguish between them, and thus defeatst
his parents aims. But whv rnrti.,',~ mi