The Bolivar bulletin. [volume] (Bolivar, Hardeman County, Tenn.) 1865-1888, 1876-02-10
THE PRETTY PLoTTERs.
MischieTOus School Girls and a Sus.
ceptible Teacher.

MiSchieYOus School Girls and a Sus.
ceptible Teacher.
-, Pride, pride, pride! there YOU have
CnaTiotte Arden. Mischief, mischief
mischief! there you have Lizzie Dane
LOOK out for them both, Hart! And
now w g0od-by PllPray for your success. y
q Nlth TINS my friend, by whose in
HHence was installed in the academy of
me. iO''e
Wait moment, Mr.. Jeffries. !" said i.
how can keep"
Clear Of them?" he added with .
sly laugh. Draw your own differences
Handsome young men, with light
purses, must make light hearts. When
You catch a glimpse of your pupils Won
Will understand me. / haven't been n
teacher here for five years for nothing. /"
THANK you thank you!'
with this l gave my friend NV hand
ana thus we parted. An hour later I
was seated at my desk. in the pIeasantest
school-room, looking about me with no
small degree -Of interest for the two
pupils OF whom my friend had spoken,
and wondering in the meantime if
ms kindly, well-meant caution would
not bring me at once face to face with
the very danger which he had wished
me to avoid.
Smliing at my own conceit, and failing
10 ma IN the threescore faces before me
one that was particularly stamped with
pride or one that was marked with mis-
chief turned to my books.
Something like a quick whisper broke
through the stiffness of the room as l did
so. glanced up. Every countenauce
bore unmistakeable signs of demure-
ness. Smiling again at my thoughts, !
turned n second time to my books. and
this time big apple started from one of
the back seats and came rolling down
the aisle. The incident was slight: hut
taken in connection with my reflection
and my friends parting words. il an
noyed me. picked up the apple, laid
1T on the desk, and glanced in the direc-
ton from whence it came.
Goodness. What a pair of blue ewes
were raised to mine at that moment !
Eyes saucy, daring and almost wicked
which wayered and frightened like two
beautiful stars. This was Lizzie Dane.
L was quite sure Of that; the red mouth
was dimpled about by smiles, and the
white chin quivered with suppressed
merriment.
\ good beginning" / thought: ait
augurs well for the future"
Just then the school-roOm door was
darkcned, and, looking up, l saw Char
lotte Arden. My friends caution was
we'll How like beautiful picture she
was as she stood there; her fine head
covered with pretty braids. perfectly
poised, her figure, straight round and
perfect, brought out by the strong. clear
light. The very fall of the soft, white
robe, as well as of her slender, gathered
foot, Just visible beneath the folds of her
sweeping skirt, was artistic. She stood.
rs il hesitating whether or not it was
best for her to enter the school-room, and
her manner was calm, quiet and cool.
Miss Lizzie Dane telegraphed to her
with her sparkling eyes To enter. This
falling To have the desired effect, she
doubled up her white, chubby hands and
held them to her mouth, trumpet fashion.
] suppressed the smile that was rising to
my lips and turned to Miss Arden, saw
ing:
Have you selected a seat 90
No, sir, ] have not, she answered,
without moving forward single step.
You may do so now, if you please l
said.
She glanced up and down the long
rows of seats several times, and then
turned to a side desk but a short distance
from my table.
"This one, sir" she said, raising her
ewes for a single moment to my face, and
then turning them, inditferently, away
| bowed in approval of her choice,
though, at the same time, it did not
please me. | did not care to have her
so near, criticising everything did, and
[ felt sure she would.
tho Onartnr-bo1Ir of infprn,issipn
Miss Arden and Miss Dane passed the
time in pacing arm in arm back and forth
on the blank space of floor before my
desk. | could have wished, and did
wish, that they had chosen any other
promenade, but not knowing how to help
myself unless | sent them out of doors
to plav, like two children in pinafores, l
raised the lid of my desk between their
faces and mine, and pretended TO be en-
gagged in setting my books and papers to
rights.
Children in pinafores Ismiled grimly
to myself as the audaciOus thought en-
tered my head Children they both were,
said to myself unceremoniOusly thrust
ing my head above the temporary screen
to confirm my opinion by a good look at
them-a proceeding which made Miss
Lizzie toss her curly head in a discon-
certed attempt at carelessness, and
brought dash of exquisite color to the
one velvet cheek of her companions face
which was revealed TO me.
"And as for pinatores," / said, sulkily
continuing nv soliloquy, and drawing in
my head again like a turtle, =" I'm sure
they'd be vastly more appropriate and
becoming than that little pinbed and
scalloped aud puckered affair of plaid
silk which Miss Lizzie wore under the
dienified name of apron"
Such saucy little pockets, fixed off with
gimp and thiugs-thc corner Of a tiny
note and the profile Of a big, yellow or
nge revealed fronsthe distended mouth