The herald and mail. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 1873-188?, 1877-01-19
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES EPISODE.


A South Hill school-marm, the other
day while working an example on the
board, detected an urchin directly behind
her in the unlawful act of devouring an
apple. She said to him, "Tim, what are
you doing?" "No'hin," said Tim, with
his mouth so full that his cheeks stuck
out on either side of his head like an alder
mans stomach. "Yes you are" para
! doxically insisted the teacher; "what
have you in your hand" "Nappl >, r
] said Tim, with some surprise, as he
looked at the fragment OF apple in his
hand and wondered who had bit it while
! he was studying. "What has become of
the rest OF itY' Dunno" said Tim,
looking around i'm an amazed effort to
discover who had the rest of it. "Some-
body's been eatin' it." "Have you any
more" demanded the teacher "Yes'm,"
said Tim dolemlly. "GOt mother"
"Where is it?' relentlessly pursued the
teacher?' "n my desk" sighed Tim,
as he began to suspect that the teacher
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take it out and go stand on the platform
and eat it." Cat 'em both" queried
Tim. eyes, cat them both" EAT all
got?" demanded Tim, in subdued
tone of countenance. "Yes, cat all you
have" impatiently responded the teach
er, and turning to the board continued,
"and don't you leave that platform while
you have an apple left uneaten." ST
lence reigned in the school room. The
paper pellet pursued its tranquil transit
unobserved. The busy hum of the stu
dious 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 determinedly. Quickly il followed
the first. Then he put his right hand
into his pants pocket and took out an
apple and after a careful reconnoitre,
during which he wiped it on his trowsers
he began the attack. He carried the
fort Down went that hand again, and
another apple was brought to light. 1t
was quickly dispatched. A third fol-
lowed. 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 apple he was silently being
observed by two-thirds of the boys in
the room. The teacher turned and saw
the boy still standing in the attitude of
one reaching for something in his coat
pocket. "Are'nt you through YETI"
she queried in astonishment. "Got
mother" stoically responded Tim, pro-
ducing it and falling to work on it. In
surprise the teacher saw him reaching 70
still another, and when that was Igone
surprise grew to amazcmcnt as his un-
wavering hand again sought the gaping
mouth of that pocket. AS the boy ate
he grew in dimensions, and the teacher
became alarmed. There seemed 10 be no
end to the apples that he had in his
clothes. "Tim, for mercy's sake, have
you any more aPples| Got mother"
said Tim, indiferently. "How many
more apples have you?' Dunno" said
Tim, guess got two or three more"
The teacher did not dare TO let him pro-
ceed, and appointed herself an investi-
eating committee to look after the back
counties. The boy never changed amuscle
of his countenance nor moved an inch
while that teacher pulled apple after apple
from his coat and stacked them up upon
the desk, until there was something less
/ than a peck piled up with Dade county
"a hear from. The school room was a
scene of bilarity which wasn't 50 much
srbdued 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 immense bag, which would
hold as many apples as he could carry
The matter hasn't been laid before the
sohool-board yet, but the exhausted
school-ma'am declares that the next
time she will learn how much Of a crop
/ of apples a boy has about him he ore she
issues any orders. Huntington Halokeye.