The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1881-01-20
Sd s.sss VOLUME XVI. .0.-NO. 28.



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lm, There,ie magic in tha .nonnd.d noHrii
summons before us the old echool room
with its lines of benches, and deskss aud
the rows OF juvenile heads above them,
! The blackboard, white @ith it's fefTid
colnmus Of "eums" end. divisions In
eacheton ]; the desk, rough with its yetara,,
scars, where we tested our newly bought
Eblades and tried our earliest skiilih ccaarV.
| Ing. the globs In the corner, witch
lsqueaked as II turned upon it's axes ;, the
fat boy in the spelling cla,s, who always
settled gradually to.the foot by the law toi
graviiationi the yis E;T,s, across the aisle
whose eyes laughed back tc us while
their lips poute1, aud whose cherished
names and sunny faces we haye strung
among the brightest gems in memery's
OF counted rosary; the paysing Classl-
the elect few in grammar--the elite of
grown'up boys and the creme de Ia creme
OF, f,blooming girldhood; where the teacher
relaxed his stern features and "laid his
terrors by;" when the saucy eyes across
the: broad aisle turned soft and iauguid
under a nearer view, and the pnuting lips
smootbed dowl: 10 mellow smiles; when
we aht and "parsed" the time away, while
':e low sun shone in with alantiug beams
and touched with still brighter Iustre
brace of golden heads, and painted the
heightened window In chcckered squares
Of light upon the floor.
Such are few of the bright sp6ts that
! glow upon memory's canvas es our school.
day scroll unfolds under the wand OF
| grammar. This was the "first class.n
the "large grammar plant whose
rudiments grew up from the lower
grounds in the primary grammar. Our
earliest recollections are of small book
about 7x5, sewcd in o calico cover.
pretty we'll thumbed and dog.eared with.
in, with "Robbie St. Clair in eyery va.
riety of penmnnship all over tho fly.
leaves, aud full Of man, mans men, time.
her II, love, you love, VIC love, and such
things. We remember one place where
we might, could or ,oould do something
was repeated 30 many times that we often
wondered why we never did it.
There were three distinguished pro.
nouns in the book, being always the
frat one Of them, which naturally gave
rise 10 some suspicious Of egotism.
There were verbs which told what things
did, as Tom whipped Ben. It always
appeared to US that Ben was the verb, "a
he generally told what Tom had done.
Some of these verbs were regular in all
their moods aud manners, while others
we're subject To irregularities. we cccH-
sidered whipped regular verb, ,tis us our
experience testified that it became q
pretty regular thing in our class.
There were "prOnouns" also, some of
them "personal" enough to point Con-
gressonal debate. Being from home, we
were glad to find some Relatives" among
them. There were nouns done up In
"cnses." Some Of them we liked quito
yell, especially if done up in calico"
Others we decline" "adjectives" and
"adyerbs," also os a good boy; Jack
learns rapidly. Here we couldn't geo the
point, as Jack always wore the "dunce
cap" four days in the week.
Or the moods" there were several
Kinds, and our teacher used to get into
some rather unpleasant ones sometimes.
when several persona were generally put
through the passive voice" with hia
feruie, and we used to pay him back by
Qualifying him sundry select "adjectivesb
IN the "auperlative degree" The "inter-
lections" were useful as. safety valves, to
keep us from exploding when We got a
whipping. '';'3 -
"Orthography" reminds US of the spell
ing class. at the end of which we gener-
ally stood-we won'tsay positively which
end. We were reminded Of the Biz dio.
tionary by "etymol0gy andsyntax," which
we thought it IL sin TO tag us with.
''Adjuncts" we nhall never forget. for
we were once required TO present original
examples ;n this line, when Bob .Iohnsun.
who was Of very practical turn of mind
brought in an old cat with Gin. bah tied
to her candal extremity. You NAV be
assured that the master went into the
imperative mood" instantef. ""He con.
jugated" Bob TO post, and applied tho
upper extremities Of hickory and chin
quepin in s. very "actiye transitive"l
manner. Bob came out in the collective
case" after g tsansitive verb.n' Tho
switches ended in the list of "disiunctiye
conjunctions," while the master stood in
.he "nominatiye casa absolute" Bob
dealt freely in ''interjactions,n Joined BY
the cat in shrill "auxiliafies." On tho
way home Bob applied some not very
logical predicates' 10 the master--
Ethreatened to put bis: viaular organs In
the "aingular number" and to ,"punctu.
ate" his person according to the approved
rules of 'prosody." .t .i
The girls en- the back sents used TO-
"conjugate" lore, ,oe lorc, he kovcs in the
most agreeable of "moods' ard sweetest
of voices" There was one big boy who
was almost dying 10 be put in the cob.
jective case" to these verbs, bnt the girls
did not pur him in. Some time after.
wards he ventured TO put an "interroga-
tive" to one Of them upon certain sub.
ject. Her RELATIVES" 'inserfered; she
looked up his "antecedents," put him in
the Second future teuse,h and finally
declined" him in the emphatic fo.mh
of the indicative mood" Having failed
20 become the "possessive case'' in this
proposition" he Immediately placed
his.=eisf i: sIponddiug conjunction
with q fair "eubstantive'' who happened
TO be put by "apposition" with him at an
evening party. He always appeared af-
forwards as nn "adjunct" to her. They
were finally "coningated" and hecama 2
compound subject
faese schooi-boy days i,axe gii5deda into
the "'past tense," our 'mood" is the mild
s'su6janctiye." and wo have become rath.
er an imperfect particjpla" in the "active
voice" oflife. When we reflect what, we
might, could, would or should have done
when strung in our potential mood"
the "inteTeetions" flow afresh, and we
weep tosthink that, like ell aubiinary
thugs, our days of grammar are "pars-
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