The Magnolia gazette. [volume] (Magnolia, Miss.) 1872-current, 1881-05-06
The YANKEE sCHOoLMASTER.

on "ATillers Hill" a farmhouse; a
ovloud structure brilt of wood; whose
plap.boartls, weather-worn and gray, were
nlIinr into slow decay; whose messy
wooden lane.troughs swung from rusty
IRONS rudely hung; whose curling shin
gles here and there betrayed the need OF
good repair; whose ancient chimney,
eapped with stone, with lichens partly
pyergrown above the sagging roof, looked
down upon the spires Of Brandon town.
All old gray barn was built near by,
with heavy girths and scaifolds high,
md solid sills and massive beams, and
through the cracks and open seams the
slanting sunshine used to play in golden
CLEANS upon the hay, where oft, with
many shout, the children jumped and
blayed about at hide and seek, or looked
with care for hidden nests i'll corNprs
there Where oft at morn they used 20
hear the cacllliug hen and ehanticleer,
where, by the broad floor meath the
mows were cribs and stanchions for the
COWS, and strong plank stalls where
horses stood to eat their hay from racks
Of wood and, in corner slowed away, n
Fanning-mill and old red sleigh Where
Jolly farm-boys husked at night the gold
en- corn by candle-light, and hung their
lanterns by the bay ON pitcliforks thrust
into the hay, where, sheltered from the
autumn rain, with laundering fails they
threshed the grain
Each year the mum Of honey-bees was
heard amid the apple tree, the lllacs
bloomed the locusts fair with their sweet
fragrance filled the air; the stubble fields
were plowed and sown; the warm rain
fell; the bright sun shone; the robins
sang; the green grass grew; the roses
hlossomed in the dew; the tall red holly
hook once more bloomed brightly by
the farmhouse door; the sun-hower bent
its gaudy head; the cattle i'll the pasture
fed, the crickets chirped iii meadows
near, sounds were waited to the ear o'eI
waving fields Of tasseled corn, of clatter-
ing scythe and dinner horn. The reapers
reaped their golden sheayes; the swallows
left the succeed caves; the apples in the
autumn breeze grew ripe and mellow
on the trees; the leaves were swept aboui
the air; the fields were brown, the wood
lands bare; the snow-fakes fell; the all
grew chill; the sleigh-bells rangon "Mil
lers Hill. "
The winter sky was overcast, the snoy
and sleet were falling fast. 'Twa
Christmas eve; the air was cool; th
children hurried home from school, witt
laughter loud and outcries shrill the
reached the farmhouse on the hill, the
came across the kitchen floor, nor stoppe
to shut the entry door, all striving frs
the news to tell, exclaimed, in concert
WITH yell: "The teachers comm her
@ stay; he's up the road little way; Ii
stopped to talk with Susan Stow, an W
ran home to let you know"
The mother stopped her spinning
wheel, and put away her creaking reel
swept up the dusty hearth with care
rolled down her sleeves and brushed he
halr, smoothed out her rumpled ginghai
gown, and in herrocking- sat dowI
men, striving hard to look her best, sh
calmly waited for her guest.
Her ruddy, round, and fleshy face VIZ
Dordered by cap Of lace; her nose WI
nearly hid from view by her plum
cAeeks Of healthy hue; her eyes wei
bright, her hair was thin, she had
heavy double chin; her husbands arm
pSAA SLAD1dNcbl GOulu DtACtJ "
cumscribe her waist.
Of all large women nine in ten W
most admire the little men, and lit
men-why none may tell-will love larI
women quite as well. They WOO, tn
wed, the man through life is quite o'e
shadowed by the wife.
Soon, parting from his rustic fam
the tardy young schoolmaster came. II
eyes We're blue, his features fair, his cl
oergrown with downy hair; behind |
ears his locks of brown we're smooth
brushed and plastered down; his bo
nmbs were large and long; his we
framed muscles firm and strong; the ia
stout boys that years before had thro
their master through the door his I
regarded with -dismay, and seldom dal
~ e. .disobey. The pride and hopeof HI
hardton was tail Lycurgus Littleiol
-. who had, ;. his fellow -townsmen said:
heap q Iaruin in his head 9Th
terms IN MidhleBpry College had gi'
HIM his HEAP Of knowledge)
He.often used 10 sit between the
young GIRLS ofsweet sixteen and kin