Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1878-01-23
ESP1SED AND REJECTED OF MEN.

,AIter all, IL Is IfOt easy 10 De SNMESa-
beticaily interested IN boy to whom
lou have explained fifty times that rtwo
bid two can't make five, and then TO
by for the iifty-frst time, that 1T does:
b, if he catches the warning shake of
|our aching head, rs he is droning out
FIJI" to have him droop, in his dull
lay, andsay, II d'nknow." Then, too,
hen his clothes are so dirty that per
pns with delicate toomachs turn away
om linn with shuddering 'Tigh !"
pw can any one think Of hin2, Tom
|olan end his like, all over the world,
any portion IF those the Master
eantWhen he SAID, Feed my 'lambs ?"
Dear, not Itseems almost irreSercnt
think of lambs IN such u connection.
pc might thin6'ef a cur. or whtip, or
ute, but never kmb.
So it's not to be wondered ut that
ISIS Wilton, the teacher, did not love
pm, especially, as studying being a
ing utterly beyond his comprehen-
IN, and playing something he did
tasurably understand, he was
eublesome hoy.
Don'tyou see'tnat when a boy has no
ga what you mean when you saw
TIDY" and yet has a very definite
el of the Manufacture and use of
per wads, he is much more likely to
cgiect the studying, while ne n AXE the
oys In front chop lively"-an eshilarat-
hg process to him?
AS bad name sticks, when once it is
estened on boy or man, all the mis-
hier that couldrnot be directly traced
some other scholar, was laid to Toms
llarge: so he was punished rany a
! Inc when he had only been aAleep, or
|tu!pidly drawing pictures on his desk
Elth a iorefinger eampened with saliva.
One day James white scattered snuff
|fonnd SO that the occupants cf half
|ozen benches were set to sneczing vio-
emily.
Nothing could exceed the falsely ac-
used, martyr-like expression Il Jim's
pee, when asked IF he knew anything
'1pout 1t. He never said Tom Gid it.
pc was above telling tales of school
pate; But he glanced at Tom, who sat
PEAR by, as much as'to say, Portion!
pc don't know any better than 10 do
uch things"
30 Mss Wilton asked Joe Smith, who
tt!dn know nothin' about it; and Tim
benton, jim Whites crony, who didn't
NOW, but guessed Tom done it. She
ent back to Tom, and finding a paper
I shuii IN his desk. she whipped rim
eyerely-frst for bringing the snuff to
cnool, and then for telling a.iie.
Alter the punishment, VIGOROUSLY vet
|hWllllngly borne, Tom rubbed into his
&c still more dirt from his filthy Jacket.
Feeye, to which he always transferred
lls tears.
Ierhaps fhis made him look more ac-
!aVatlng than usual when, school being
lI5lll>sed, he doomed his very dilapida-
"a straw hat. At anv rate Joe Smith
Eought 1t wovld be rare sport to set on
Ie me loose straw sticking up from
om frowzy kead-"s so as to let some
sn M, INTO his skull" he said.
"hen Tom found where the smell of
'noke came from, he snatched off his
''' with wild scream of terror. and
81 INTO the woods, where flowed noisy
oIS' The idea that the silly creature
Nlq really mean to try and save the
oON' which at first was scarcely more
IAN head-band so amused the bows
-"' thelr shouts offering and laughing
Sne'rated even his dull brain with a
80 80 oI oelng N 'serably wronged, and, !
s ule stll smoking fragment Of a |
.o ,''y the brook, he watched it float
N through fast falling tears.
w. i would only be more torture
| T. U4e boys, if he ventured out of his /
-~a pace till they were all gone |
4 49, Added to this reason for delay I
LIZ U.s moral certainty that his mother. !
~ NJ. " Woodworking, often ill-used /
mall would beat him for coming