The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1876-04-13
HIS SCHOOL DAYS.
"Reminiscences OF d,-HoW
They used TO Treat the Young
ones Twenty Years Ago,
And how they DO
it now

ones twenty iears ago,
And how they DO
it now.
On Tuesday we accepted an invitation tc
attend the school examination, and went
down 20 the high school TO listen to some
OF the recltltious. As we Looked at the
grand building, and its hundreds of scolars
Its educated teachers, with all of the
modern Improvements, our thoughts turned
instinctiye,y 10 the little gaite school house
under The Hill az Cold Spring, Jefferson
county, this state, where we got nearly all
the information we ever got anywhere, Under
tue tuition of pretty frankie Greenleaf
whom we solemnly vowed we would marry,
live ever got big enough, but big fellow
with = s'ss. che came along in the Fall, and
stayed aiter snhnol ana they vent os 20
Palmyra aud got married, aud left red
headed, 10 year old Roy broken hearted
But Bill! GroShong whipped us next day for
giving brass ring of an old Dutch pipe
stem TO his girl, and tripped Us up on a
. p"Ir OF sti!ts, and we forgot abous tn.
pretty school teacner,ani went fishing bull
heads A. We saw Prof. Reynolds, with
bis good nafnred tace,ve Thought of anoth
er oia teacher at the school house, Hanfar!
| Conger. who could take boy bv the hair
and tie him up in 4 double bow knot. and
take hin across his knee, and with a hick
"r7 ruler make the boy think the ruler was
aDeIaocrltic Investigation committee, get.
ting at the bottom facts Q, those we're
the times that tried boys soles, when they
had their pants half soled.
We always hate to go to school ezamina-
tion,for fear some little young one will ask
us some of those narrowing things in men
tai problems, -" don't they call
them, or is it ''eyampIes?" Any way, they
DO rack our brain, and we had rather walk
up TO 81 FOUNDER, if it wasn't loaded,
than to have one of them things shot at US
Nell,we went in, with some other education
sharps, resolved that if they asked us"wbo
WAS the first mani" we should tell them it
was William Rufus Finch, and make an
affidavit to that effect, and get Senator
NeSlnS to swear to it. There was class
~ Latin scoring up aud iowa NV the iGI.c'-
stand, AMI We sat down and looked wise,
though we didn't know but it WIS Bohc-
Epl
We're trying toclTch Ft,emainti1q u m,Sss!e
hey were par~iuE. ll,4ven-l Yol iIst
ou.sr To have haari those little critters 20
M through Cioero, just IA though they
had always lived next door to bin, AMI
sn0Trpa!!el htm over the fence c. ri>
there not bigger thun - cig cunstance could
what did they cal! --.'couiug,to, ," bet
ter than some women u hundred vears old.
fEsy tnOsi blg Latin sentences that We
couldn't have handled without a derrick,
and shook them mp, Shut their eyes and
caught them as they came down, cut them
up into slices and laid them OUT 60 dry. 1t
sec'aet marvellous 10 Us. Then recess time
came, and instead of going out whoopirg
through the windows, and tumbling over
each oJher, as we used 20 do, a presiding
elder sat down by tie wood box. played
''see the conqusriug hero comes" and thev
MI gat stem marched ont into tbe hail and
rot ,boir thin.,s r,srohod !, o,,oi, c-o,
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ond bod = ra5,Iiro, oI5 tioe
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noo4nosod or vopno.tars onv ono of which
was not bigger than Gahcock eysinruish
or one of which - for sale nj this Office
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