The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1876-04-06

ever an occasion ofexcitement among
the young people of both sexes, who
are to profit by her ministrations,
and a source of much inquiry and
speculations to the older folks at
home and we have ever thought that
if any one was entitled to pity in a
state of forlorn loneliness, it was the
young girl in a strange neighborhood
when she looks at the long rows, Of
Implying, wide open eyes that stare
her out of countenance and inspect
her leisurely from the toes Of her
CATERS to the top curl on her head,
the first morning she opens school.
There is kind of tacit aggression
at home which crops out against the
new mistress when the mother of
the family grabs a young one, and as
she yanks its reluctant head down
into the wash-basin, remarks;
Now, you; MISSY, you needn't
yowl; you've got to be washed. l
amt goin' to have no stuck up new
schoolma'am turnin' up her nose at
young UNI of mine, if have to take
the skin oi'n YOU
In the school-room the audibly
whispered comments of the little fe-
male aggravators must be remark
ably encouraging.
Say, May, that's only a fiftecn-ccnt
poplin she has on
yes, and say, Annie, look what an
orful fat hump. 1t dont't stick out
half so nice as our Luce's.'
Then a small boy, predestined for
future punishment, observes careless
ly; she must have skinned cross lots
this morniu' 'relse where did she get
that brier on her trail
The mistress looks behind her fu-
lively and feels that she is lost, when
the small demon continues:
'Thort I'd fetch her., and nearly
stranglcs because he can't yell April
fool, while a convulsivo smoker rip
pies all along his bench.
Say, jim, she's goin' to board over
to your house amt she?"
'Y-a-a-s, an won't that old ball
purp o ourn make her sail around
when she comes home o nights
She'll hey to go all the way around
the road, won't she?? Can't climb
no fence with that oats bag on
If she ever goes to lick me Pm a.
going to run, Hi, KorsQucweck,
won't it be bully to sec her go skal.
ly-hootin' over the benches after a
fcIlcr.'
Look out for her, there; she's grab
in of the ruler
Then strikes in 4 girl with mis-
sion.
Our Mary told me how to be sure
and look how her hair was fxt Now
you just get her over here to look at
you sum, till | git a fair sQuint at
that hurrah's nest o hcrn.'
And so goes on until the accumu-
lation of small annoyancos makes
that schoolmistress so nervous that
she wants to yell right out. Just
then an unfortunate boy chuckles
right before her very eyes, because
another said that its slippery elm
she's chewing instead of gum, and
here she calls out in an awful voice;
James, come here"
James untanglcs his legs from the
seat and stands up a youthful Hur-
cules, with limbs like an amateur
pile-drivor full head taller than
tAc judge who has called him to JUS
tice. She is scared and would give
almost anything to be safe at home,
for it draws upon her mind that
some boy may take a playful notion
to chuck her out of the window
But, no. he sauntcrs leisurely across
the floor with Il palpable grin upon
his good humored frccklcd face, and
backs himself up in front of her.
She reaches up and takes him gin
gcrly by the collar, while with the
ruler or whatever she has handy she
administers rctribution, and raises
the dust until she either sneczes or
bursts, Then, as she sends him
back to his seat, with one thumb in
his mouth, she grabs her nose in
her handkerchief and blows an in
fantilo blast Of triumph over the
roct thut she has demonstrated that