The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1877-02-01
Scot Mother "a School Episode.

"UOt 'NOlner "A SCHOOL EplSOOes
A South Hill school-marm, the other
day while working an example ON the
board, detected an urchin directly be-
hind her in the unlawful act of deveur-
ing an apple. She said to him, Tim,
what are you doingp" "No'hin," said
Tim with his mouth so full that his
cheeks stuck out on either side of his
head like alderman's stomach. "Yes
you are," paradoxically insisted the
teacher; "What have you in your
hand?" "'Napple," said Tim, with
some surprise, as he looked at the frag-
ment of apple in his hand and wonder
ed who had bit it while he was study
ing. "What has become of the rest of
it," "Dunno," said Tim, looking
around in an amazed effort to discover
who had the rest of it. Somebody's
been eatin' it," Have you any moreP"
demanded the teacher. eyes M" said
Tim, dolefully. "Got mother"
"Where is it?" relentlessly pursued the
teacher. cen my DESK" sighed Tim
as he began to suspect that the teacher
was going to demand it of him. well,
take it out and go stand on the plat
form and eat it." "Eat 'em
both?" queried Tim. eyes, eat them
both" "Eat all got?" demanded Tim
in subdued tone of countenance. "Yes,
eat all you have" impatiently respond
ed the teacher, and turning to the
board continued, "And don't you leave
that platform while you have any apple
left uneaten." Silence reigned in the
school room. The paper pellet pur-
sued its tranquil transit unobserved
The busy hum of the studious made
more noise than the cautious smile of
the indolent. Tim stood at his post
Munich, MUNICH, MUNICH. The fragment
in his hand soon disappeared, and he fell
upon the other apple silently, but de-
terminedly. Quickly it followed the
first. Then he put his right hand into
his pants pocket and took out an apple
and after a cautious reconnoitre, during
which he wiped it on his trowsers, he
began the attack. He carried the fort.
Down went that hand again, and anoth-
er apple was brought to light. 1t was
quickly dispatched. A third followed.
Then he changed his position,
and, resting the weight of his body
on his left leg, sighed as he drew from
his left breeches pocket another apple.
When it was gone he drew on the COM
missary for another, and by the time
he produced the eighth apple he was
silently being observed by thirds of
the boys in the room. The teacher
turned and saw the boy still standing
in the attitude of one who was reaching
for something in his coat pocket.
=" Aren't you through yet?" she queried
in some establishment. SCOT mother, :"
stoically responded Tim, producing it
and falling to work on it. In surprise
the teacher saw him reach for still
another, and when that was gone sur
prise grew to amazement as his unwav-
ering hand again soug ut the gaping
mouth OF that pocket. AS the boy ate
he grew in dimensions, and the teacher
became alarmed. There seemed to be
no end to the apples that he had in
his clothes. "Tim, for mercy's sake,
have you any more apples?' SCOT
MOTHER" said Tim, indifferently.
elbow many more apples have
your" ''Dunno," said Tim, "guess
got two or three more" The teacher
did not dare to let him proceed, and
appointed herself an investigating COM
mittee to look after the back counties.
The boy never changed muscle of his
countenance nor moved an inch while
that teacher pulled apple after apple
from his coat and stacked them up up
on the desk, until there was some
thing less than a peck piled up with
Dade County to hear from. The school
room was scene of hilarity which
wasn't SO much subdued as it had been.
Tim had laid in apples for the winter,
and the pocket of his coat having no
bottom, the coat was thus an i'm
mense bag, which would hold as many
apples as he could carry. The matter
hasn't been laid before the school-board
yet, but the exhausted school-ma'am
declares that the next time she will
learn how much of crop of apples a
boy has about him before she issues any
orders.-Bur.tngton Hawk-eye.
The worst thing parent can do to
boy is to pamper him. A boy can be
fed to death and nursed to death. He
can be killed by motherly kindness and
fatherly guardianship. Bows are only
young animals with minds. The most
essential part Of a boy is his stomach.
The next important members of his or
ganism are his legs. Good, strong,
sturdy legs, and stomach able to di-
gest any thing in the way of food, and
any amount of it, make an equation for
boyhood. Do not, then, keep your boy
In the house. doting father, but give
him ball, a bat, a sled, 8 pair of
skates, any thing he needs for outdoor
amusement, and send him outdoors.
Go with him Yourself IL nossihla