The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1875-01-26
o'olltgr department.
COUNTRY rEnACo.ifrl.

Seriously We object-by we. | mean
those students who net in the role Of
country pedsgogue, and whit We object
to, is being regarded as the most lororp
and unhappy class Of beings in existence
True it is that the sorrows aud Affections
Of him who undertakes to navigate q dis.
trict school are many. that he has bis
share of the trials Of this world but there
is bright side TO every thing, aud the
life Of the prdagoguc has It's CLEANS of
sunlight Though he may be financially
aud physically as poor as "rail fence :"
though he may often be as unwecome in
the neighborhood as Dutch pack ped
dlar, and boarding around may sometimes
mean "kod.ish bawls aud rye kawfey,"
as Josh Billings tells US, aud airing front
chambers. as our own experience teaches
Though he may suffer all these annoyan.
ces, and others perhaps worse, and is new
er heard to make use of "a single express
sion more profane than "coulound it"
(the fact that he has never been heard to
swear any louder than this, however,
brings no evidence that he does not y
though his ears may D. dcaiencd, and his
nerves tortured by the ceascless racket
and din of the school room though he may
be vexed continually by please teacher
my g'waout," please teacher my
borrey speIin' book" please my
got'her stove" aud as sure as he grants
permission to one Of those requests he is
greeted by "please teacher, my I, my 1,
my |, from every scholar in the room.
demanding everything that the juvenile
mind is capable of conceiving Though
he may be tormented by half learned les
sons, and a hundred calls for assistance
all at once, while he is working himself
into perspiration, vainly trying to ex.
plain tho mysteries Of long division to
some bull.headed brat, and though these,
each and every one of these, may be re-
peated day after day, and week after
week, the faithful performance Of his every
duty brings with it its own reward and
the life OF the pcdagogue is far from an un.
pleasant one. With what exquisite JOY
his bosom thrills as he reaches for the top
knot of that refractory youth, and pro-
cecd@ to stir up his ideas with the fiat
side OF - intermediate lie who
has never presided on such an occasion,
eau form no conception of the feelings OF
the teacher. when he calls out to half q
dozen youngsters and plants them down in
a row in the middle of the floor where he
eau punch them when occasion may re-
quiro; nor the feeling of perfect peace
that comes like benediciion over his
vexed and weeping spirit, calming and
soothing it like some great peace be
still ~ as he lays down his ponderous ru.
Ter and releases some struggling urchin
from his position across his knees. with
the kindly admonition to go and sin no
more
Nor is this all. When his restless,
gathering throng is gone, when the old
school room is still and no sound comes
to break the silence tina. now is almost OPP
pressivc ; when the shadows deepen
on the floor and along the dingy valls. he
draws his rickety chair up in iroat of his
cracked and rickety stove, takes chew of
cavcndish. leans back in the aforesaid
rickcty chair, puts his feet on the above
mentioned cracked and rickety stove, and
opens the safety valves Of his feelings, and
INDUCES III grand flow Of profanity, and
curses every thing Unfortunately. He
swears at his school house individually,
swears at the empty desks where they
have sat, at the broken. backed chair in
the corner, at the old clock on the wall at
the wood box, at the stove, then swears at
himself; and then at peace with all the
world and conscious Of having discharged
his whole duty, he shoulders his tin din.
nor bucket, gives his rickety chair fare.
well kick, locks up his old den and tod.
dies off to hunt up fresh boarding place
where he can sit by the kitchen fire, and
smoke his clay with "pater familias," tell
boy yarns, and impress the youngsters
with the awfulness of his Importance.