The Valley Virginian. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1865-1895, 1876-12-28
THE NEW TEACHER.

10 De the most unmana3eaDle III Tie state.
though it was only a girls school. When
Miss Briefly kept it, the trustees voted it 4
little short of Bedlam. The young ladies
We're down in the lower hall, chatting and
flirting with the young men vino CHANGED to
lounge that way, or dropping bilets dour out
of the window with q cord, and pulling up
the answers by the same means, and sweet
ening their devotion to Virgil with French
candy. II Miss Kew tainted, as she had
nervous trick Of doing, half the school would
rush to q neighbours for the camphor bottle
before Miss Briefly could look about her, and
it was then ten to one if any OF them return
ed for the remainder Of the session.
''Miss Bierly,'' George Jones would say, in
the blandest tone of friendliness-"A Iiss Bri-
erly, the braid is ripped off the bottom of
your skirt half yard
s'Thank yeu, thank YOU" Miss Brlerly
would reply, in her nervous. hurried way,
perfectly conscious of her slovenly appear
ance. But on her path to the blackboard,
another piece of otflciousness would give her
the same disagreeahlc information.
s'The braid's off your dress. Miss Briefly"
Eyes, thanks; I've just been told;" and
thus, in her progress about the school-room,
dozen other mischievous girls, as if by
preconcerted movement, would announce
the same pleasant fact-a dimpied hand
would be lifted from one seat and another
to ask permission to tell her the braid was off
her dress-til Miss Briefly, ont OF all pa
tience. would cry out:
'sThe first young lady who speaks about
the braid on my dress shall lose Il hundred
marks and her recess ~
s'Bnt it isn't on your dress, Miss Briefly;
it's ripped off, would be the last shot from
the most daring foe.
Sometimes the theme would be her hair,
escaped from its combining pins; and as Miss
Briefly wore switch, and switches were
something to blush for in those days. it was
naturally enough to vex the heart of Il saint.
The girls Of Wildacre were too full of vne-
gar to reflect whether they would like to
stand in her shoes; and it was us much thro'
their persistent mischief rs her own incom-
peteAce that she lost her situation, and Mr..
Reed came to take her place. Even he found
it no bed OF roses-a handsome young fellow,
an eye like Mars, which was greatly needed
ut Wildacae to threaten or command, and
the muscle of an athlete. But Mr.. Reed had
an inherited habit Of blushing. and the
young ladies were not slow to take advan-
tage OF it. Perhaps the ringleader of the
school was George Jones. as pretty little
witch as ever worked mischief, she it was
who first discovered his one weakness, which,
| let us add, was not the result OF bashfulncss,
but merely OF a thin skin. Perhaps there
was no less bashful man in the world than
Mr.. Reed, and Miss George. was q match for
him there, and did yer pretriest to put him
| to confusion. She sketched his unmistakable
caricature on the blackboard, where she had
been sent to work an algebraic equation, of
| which he caught quick glimpse, turning
hishead inopportunely Before erquick hand
could erase he had stayed the movement by
| his own.
SIS that your unknown quantity. Miss
Jones?" said he. .sPlease to finish your
problem"
Miss George seized the cr:yon in al in
slant of daring Impotence, and wrote oil
against the caricature, " y his blush =" and
then she paused. Now the woman who hes
itates we know is lost.
.Can't you finish it - asked her teacher.
s'Ithought you had committed your lesson.
Give me the crayon, il you please.''
g. Miss Jones y her impertenance, he
wrote.
ssNow prove it, sir, if you please said
Miss George demurely.
| ssYou may take your seat. Miss Jones, anu
finish your lesson alter school, But pres
emily the bell rang, and tile young lad.
whose business it was to answer the dool
brought up a note which ran thus:
evil Mr.. Reed kindly dismiss Miss Geor
Gle Jones at 1890 and oblige her aunt? y
s.Miss Jones,'' said he, s'you may he dis
missed
~ % she asked, with IN air OF surprise
II was to remain after school.
s.Your aunt requests tina. you should b.
dismissed"
uOh. tllanks.' There wasa general tlt
ter as Miss George decamped, casting tyr
umphant look over her shoulder, for the.
were all very well aware that note was
fabrication OF her own, carried ont by Mis-
Kew. who had been dismissed on account
n violent fit OF sneeziug, and returned D
means of smallturchln she had brbed W.T.
q penny. -
Unfortunately for Miss George, Mr.. Zee
having an errand at the railway station aiee