The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-01-27
The School Boys Apples.

| South Hill sch00l-marln, the other day, while
working an example on the board, detected an ur-
chin directly behind her in the unlawful act of de-
vouring an apple.
She said to him, "Tim what are you doing?"
"Nothing" said Tin, with his mouth so full that
his cheeks stuck out either side of his head like
an aldermans stomach
"Yes, you are" paradoxically insisted the teach
er.
"What have you in your hand?"
"Napple," said Tim, with some surprise, as he
looked at the fragment of the apple in his hand
and wondered who had bit it while he was study
ing;
"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 more" demanded the teacher.
"Yesm," said Tim, dolefully. SCOT another"
''Where is it p relentlessy pursued the teacher
"In my desk" sighed Tim, as he began to sur
pect that the teacher was going to demand it of
him.
"Well, take it out and go stand ON the platform
and eat it."
"Eat 'em both ?" qucried Tim.
"Yes, eat them BOTH
"Eat all / got!" demanded Tim in a subdued
tone OF countenance.
eyes, eat all you have" impatiently responded
the teacher, and turning to the board continued,
"And don't you leave that platform while you have
any apples left uneaten.'
Silence reigned in the school-room. Thepaper
pellet pursued its tranquil transit unobserved-
The busy hum of the studious made more noise
than the cautious smile of theindolent Tim stood
at his post. Munich, munch MUNICH. The frag-
ment in his hand soon disappeared, and he fell on
the other apple silently but determinedly. Quick
ly it follows the first Then he put his right hand
into his pantaloons pocket and took out an apple,
and after cautious 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 followed. Then he
changed his position, and, resting the weight of
his body on his left leg, sighed as he drew from
his pocket another apple. When it was gone he
drew on the commissary for another, and by the
time he produced the eighth 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 who was reaching
for something in his coat pocket
"Aren't you through YETI" she queried in some
"Got MOTHER" stocally responded Tim, produc-
ing it and falling to work on it.
In surprise the teacher saw him reach for still
another, and when that was gone, surprise grew to
as his unwayering hand again sought
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 ap-
ples.?"
"GOt MOTHER" said Tim, indiferently.
GLOW many more apples have you!s
Dunno, said Tim, "guess got two or three
MORE"
The teacher did not dare to let him proceed and |
appointed herself an investigating committee to
look after the back counties. The boy never
changed muscle or us eoEntenauce nor Cd I
m inch while that teacher pulled apple after apple
from his coat and stacked them up upon the desk, |
until there something less than peck piled |
up, with Dade county to hear from. The school |
room was a scene of hiarity which wasn't go 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 immense bag, |
which would hold as many apples as he could car
ry. 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 Il |
crop of apples boy has about him before she is
sues any orders.-Bufliagton -Eye.