Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1875-04-22
DANRURY SPELLING

hu lulprOmptu SPelIng scnooi was IN
augurated in Merrill's grocery Saturday
evening. A young man, who, last winter
aided Mr.. Couch in the management O
the North Center School, conducted the
class. The first word he gave out wa.
Indian.
The first man said: elm, in, dim
din-Indin."
1.-THE teacher shook his head. "Well,
/ declare, thot 1 had it." said the
speller, with keen disappointment; but
hepicked upwhen the second man started,
and eyed him with considerable anxiety.
! The next man, with desperate earnest
ness, said, ''I-n, in, de, de, u-n, un-
Indeun.
Then he sighed, and gazed anxiously
at the teacher, while an old party at the
end of the bench, who WIS watching the
efforts with derisive amusement, turned
the guid in his mouth and said:
You amt within a rod ont; but go
on; let's some more Try"
"The teacher told the second speller
that he also had failed, whereupon he
sighed again.
Then the third man took hold. He
squared himself upon his seat, and hold.
ing up one finger, tickled off the letters
with becoming solemnity, as follows:
"I-n, in, d-a, da, india, in, in-Indain. >
The old party on the end of the bench,
who had been lettering on the precipice
of laugh while this effort was being
put forth, snickered right out in loud
outlaw at its conclusion.
"Well, that's a spell for you, must
say" And then he laughed again. The
speller said nothing, but he grew very
red in the face when his failure was an
nounced, and cast baleful glance at the
old party, whose turn had now come,
and who said
"And now I'll tackle that little word, :"
and he smiled all over his face, while his
eyes twinkled with merrimsnt; and look
ing sideways from one to the other, he
rapidly spelled
Gin, in, gin, Ingin.'
His smile deepened into broad grin
as he watched the chagrin flush to the
countenances of the other spoilers, who
had been misled all the time ON a wrong
pronunciation of the word. He was
grinning with all his might when the
teacher said:
60 You amt got the right word"
Wh-ah-ot!" and he bore down on the
brazen-faced youth look calculated to
freeze him to the bone.
"Indian is the word. There is no
such word as Ingin, said the teacher.
''Oh, there isn't, hey (sarcastically).
Yon know, of course; You know all about
it. You pimply-"
"But, my dear sir, I"
"You needn't apologize to me, " shout
ed the old party, stamping the floor with
his cane. "Who be you anyway, put
ting GA your airs about me! L could
twist your scrawny neck off of you in two
minutes, you white-livered puppy, you"
"But, my dear sir, let me ex-"
sc 1t tisn't ingin, is it," ground out the
old chap between his teeth cts some
thin else, suppose. Oh, yes! you
know, of course. And a nice one you
are with your eddication. Why don't
your mother send back them apples she
borrowed month ago2" And he looked
around the store with triumphant glare
of sarcasm.
"But just hear me"
SHEAR you. Who are you anyway Z
What's your father2 When's he drawed
sober breath, / should like to know?
An where's your smart brother, Benz In
prism somewhere, I'll be bound. Oh,
know yer hull family like book; and a
wrss lot than they are can't be found in
this neighborhood, and you just put that
in your pipe and smoke it, you egregious
ass. Talk to me about spellin'," and the
old man, stamping his cane again, stalked
passionately out of the store.
The lesson was then postponed
bury Ne,cs.
NAN md THE LOWER CREATION.
GAS general law" remarks an able
philosopher on the subject. " the power
of repairing lost parts decreases as we
ascend from the lower to the higher parts