Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-12-15
The >choolmAster.
By >1UID sUICH.

By "sVUID sOTCH.
-Oh. pshsw. don't believe IT," ex.
claimed Aunt Prudy, tossing HdrIrr's
Btasar upon the comfortable.
Don't believe whait" asked Uncle
Frank, closing his Manual of Mythology.
with the index finger to mark tie place.
why, just listen" Aunt Prudy
caught the rejected paper again, and
Tommy and pushed back our states,
tired, any way, yet satisfied the hated al
zebra was we'll learned and our Sallust
pAsssble. Father and mother were out,
and we had teased in the early part of the
evening for story, and gained the prom
Use of one when the lessons were learned.
Aunt Prudy read: According to re-
cent writer in the old time'-we wish,
fer the credit of humanity the olden time
was thousands of years ago-a Saubian
schsolmaster taught school fifty -one years.
During the time he kepta faithful record
Of the following punishments which he
inflicted: 911,5 500 canings; 121 900 fog
gings, 100000 custodies, 10000 ear
boxes, 22,700 tasks, 1876 tips with rule,
700 boys he had caused to stand on peas,
5000 to stand on sharp-edged wood,
5000 to wear fool's-caps, 100 to hold
the rOd-total, 1,2s7,9S6 cases of punish.
ment."
There, can you believe that2" asked
Aunt Prudy, throwing the paper from
her again.
'Yes, I do, and can, most emphatically
l tell you, Prudy, teaching school forty
or fifty years ago was not what it is now,
nor going to school, either. I'm an old
bachelor, l know, might as well own up;
but can distinctly remember going
to school that long ago and it just grinds
whenever l think of it. Why, there was
Minerva Spriggs, aunt to the one you
knew-she is dead and gone, but hated
her as long as she lived and shall hate
her memory as long as live" Uncle
Frank had in turn tossed his book to the
table and was uneasily pacing the floor.
"Why, I've seen that woman pin the boys
to the wall by the ear; make them stand
with their toes and 6nger-tips to the floor
aud if they protested at all, down came q
tremendous .ferule, three feet long, al
least, and three inches wide. She would
put the shutters on our noses-my, but
that was awful-Ive worn them many an
hour, not any of your light, dainty ones
Of these days, but an ld-fashioned, bras.
pair that would weigh two pounds Ger
tainly; holding very heavy books at arm,
length; standing on ones foot until il
went to sleep, and your whole body par
alyzed; standing on peas would be ,
MI
indeed! What were they to that ferul,
when it came down9 l remember the
worst feruling l ever got, and was al
innocent as Katie this minute"
l had just given Tommy a nudge, for
saw We were to have our story withou
any teasing this time, all acted out, too
good as a drama. Uncle saw somethin.
of my mind in my eyes, suppose, for b
went on:
"Yes. I'll tell you q story, a certain 70
true one r. Tommy says / cannot tel
you Why it was TO this day. but for som
reason Miss Spriggs seemed to cherish
spite toward me; If did we'll. 20, ~
bead and AL that, it seemed TO maA
her mad. tbcaght II ~as tecaa~
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