Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-04-17

erful twist wrenched him out like two.
pronged molar, directly over the head Of
a suspended Juvenile on the front form
The successful operator growled as he
planted the astonished pupil squarely on
the floor, "I'll make yer mind! mind
neaw, eff yer blg's the house!" 1t was in
deed such an exhibition of the supremacy
of mind, that the little fellow who had
seen the obscure fight of heels over his
head, never forgot the lesson though
singularly oblivious of what was set off
for him in the book that day and for
days after if any uncommon bounce was
heard in the school-room he instinctively
looked aloft. expecting to see big boy
crash down through the ceiling.
| The schoolmaster boarded around,
begging his bread from door to door, like
the pauper whom nobody owned, aud
had the distinguished honor OF warming
the rheumatic sparebcdin every house,
and the pleasure of coming in upon the
most untimely occasions, pigkilling
beef killing, sausage smoking, lard-try-
ing dle-dipping. soap-boilng, or other
scene Of well-swectened disorder making
decidedly unsavory a mode of living al
ways precarious.
dis presence, never desired by any, was
especially uawelcome to the small fry who
had enough OF him in his kingdom, and
altogether too much of him in his pow
er, to have any desire to see him in his
glory.
His large experience with some out
landish quadrupeds he called "keows"
and 'yerlings," whatever they are, gave
him limited fund Of conversation with
the old farmers and he was sometimes
known to tread SO lar on the Borders OF
the Debateable Land" Of politics, as to
avow that his natl 'bilities were Jack.
son. and that prints George d. Prem
tissI had burIesqued Henry Clay too
hig h !" which, when we discovered that
he meant eulogised, instead, SO tickled us
that no lesson of his ever stuck 50 in the
fresh hald- finish of our memories.
He entertained the young ladiss of the
house with his personal exploits when he
was "Marster in the Rattle snek Hill
Deestrick = what keep sakcs for lockets
he had extracted from the heads of big
boys; how many had come under the rod
in one day; what rulers had cracked on
horny hands; and chiefly how "be made
that big Jim Bolles, the Deacon's son.
stan on one foot and count a thousan' for
making "a "characteI" of him, the said
"marster,' on the school-room wall. 1t
has been conjectured by the learned, that
he meant "caricature," as the remains of a
remarkable tresco are still eXtant on the
plaster of Captain Saunders goose house,
once Rattle snake Hill School House.
The base OF the pigment being q iallow
candle, and SCOT Tie coloring matter, it
was reluctant to bulge. Whitewah
could alleviate it little while, but it
would rise again like squeezed truth, or
Banquo's ghost, and haunt the tyrant.
And there it is likely to remain as the
geese it now stares upon are nol sc nsi-
tive about it.
l would that the Character of the Old
Fashioned Schoolmaster were not so IN
eradlcable from the modern schoolhouse
where it biurs the. names of better men.
preven ting the cultured and qualified
teacher from enjoying the full measur
OF his nople deserts in wealth and stand
ing. The minds of Old fashioned people
ale not yet clear of that rude image,
which certainly does more titly grace
goose house than a school-house.