The Louisiana cotton-boll. [volume] (Vermilionville [i.e. Lafayette], Attakapas, La.) 1872-1883, 1874-06-03
DADDY DINKLEs WARDS.

This notice appeared in the Mayville
Index one day, ever so many years ago :
Rev. Gustavus Dnklobach proposes to open
in Mayville January. 1st, private school for
boys. Particular attention gwen to the class
ics and mathematics. Boys and young men
will receive a careful AID thorough training
preparatory to entering college. Rev. Mr.
Dinklebach respectfully soictB the patronage
of the citizens Of Mayyille and vicinity.
In other words, twas an old-fashioned
boys academy which Rev. Gustavus
DiHklebach "opened. An old old
fashioned bows academy, now all out
Of date, and laughed to scOrn by your
new-fanRled fellows who turn up their
noses at Plato's dialogues in the origi-
nal, claim that the only present and
future hope for the world is that it shall
bo evolved" ont of the pattern OF the
crook of Herbert Spencer s little finger.
Rev. Gustavus Dinklebach wasn't
that sort. bless his sweet, simple old
heart. He read his Bible and the
Greek tragedies, and believed the saliva
ton OF theword depended on the golden
rule and hic. hEc, hoe. His religion
and bis learning were so mixed up that
be couldly tell which was which at last,
and he somehow got it into his queer
old brain that one who was familiar with
Greek and Hebrew and Latin lore, by that
simple fact perforee WAS made a gentle
man, and that it was hencefOrth iucum-
bent on him to walk through the world
as an example to modern degencracy,
loving his neighbor as himself, being
honest, gentle-mannered, kindly and
dignifed.
Rev. Dinklebach was all that himself,
and he knew no more of the ways Of the
wicked world than if he had been n
spotted kitten chasing spool of thread.
lie came to Mayville a very learned
highly recommended man, with tender
heart, big bald head, the soul of a
little child, and but two pairs of stock
ings to his name.
MayvIlle took him under its wing.
He "opened" his boys academy and
presided over it for twenty-five years.
II grew and fourished apace, and
nobody in Mayville cheated Rev. Dink-
lebach ont of all the money he got. 1t
Just happened so, as exactly the oppo
site had happened to him in every place
he had been before. To this day many
and many broad shouldered, bearded
man, with his own locks even beginning
70 frost little, pauses a minute from
the clashing din of the wide world,
While he calls to mind the green days at
Mayyille and remembers Daddy Dinkle
anfdnio dDldS, GBlat, with smile, a
tear and q blessing.
Rev. Gustavus pinkIebach was an
Old bachelor who loved little children.
lie called himself a dreary old bachelor,
and part Of his valediotory to his big
gest boys was this
My dear young friends, don't you
DC an old bachelor"
don't know how ii was, but before
Rev Gustavts Dinklebach had been in
Maayyille a year everybody fell into the
nsoit Of calling him Daddy Dinkle, and
mat although he was an old bachelor
Ahey called him that 10 his face after 6
Vhile, and I'm sure they meant no dis
respect for him, so good and so digni
ned he was, and so learned withal.
When he first went to Mayvil'e Dad
ny Dinkle took up his lodging with 6
Young Euglishwoman who had a big
s;sapld husband and a frisky little Amer
,oah born baby girl, three months old
~ yef named, on account of differ
eaee OF opinion between its father anC
aosheF. The mother wanted to name
y !, Frances Mary the father, ON th,
osaer hand, insisted that the child
should be called Hannah. Both agreed
y ieaye the question to Daddy Dinklt
- arbitration, and Daddy Dipklt
4slled the bright little thing Theodori
gift Of God.
ppsa,fi,ng the year the comely young
nagiiah woman's husband died. Daddy
1llAle III still lived in the house of tn,
10Y: A few months after the widow
'seli died, and left Daddy Dinklt