Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-08

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| Mary 4. Barr.
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,sg =. THE SNOWFALL JURY.
''Boys! boys! Come on! Here some
| fun ~ @'.stfss ft9os~st..+ "dt by4Gjg9
whats a-going? What is it9''
| The shouts were excited and long
I drawn,i and so was, the answer:
/ 1.-The girls are pelting Bill Henderson
/ cause he sassed the school-ma am.
/ Come 0 o-on.' .tseE.-
| They were coming, for school had
not been out three minutes. and none
OF them had gone far from it. There
had been trouble in the little school
house of late, and Bill Henderson had
been at the bottom of good deal Oft.
1t was not altogether because he was
so very bad a boy. but he felt it a little
hard to he as big as he was. and 10 be
| lullied for his blunders by so very small
| a woman as the school trustees had
| chosen for teacher that winter. 1t
might have been different if there had
been any boy little taller to Sc him a
| good example, but all the tall Toys
i were attendinr school at the Academy.
| Thus Bill was left to settle the difficult
!! ties in his own way, and he had not
| yet been able to settle them at all, for
little Miss Narick refused to have mercy
| on his mistakes of any kind. What
| made it worse was that she told him,
| three or four times a day, that she was
his best friend. and wanted to help
male a man Of him " -z
Bill could have stood great many
things better than he could that, for he
| felt that he was quite near enough to
being man to be sent to the Academy.
| There were other boys in the District
School. but none of them were large
enough to interfere much with Bill, and
he had his own way a good deal in any
out-of-door matters. There were not en-
any large girls. but there was a perfect
swarm of small ones, and Miss Varick
had somehow persuaded them all that
she had come among them as a sort of
guardian angel
That was why there was such sud
den silence along the lower benches,
and such buzz after it that afternoon,
when Bill Henderson roundly de-
clared
81 won't spell it againr'
'You won't, William? Did you say
4 WON'T? Spell it again. sir .,e:
II won't. don't mean to let any
WOlIIdn DOSS Iue.
Spell it. sirp' 50 sa @.,...
Bill held down his head sulkily. but
he did not open his lips again in reply
to Miss Narick further remar S, of
which there were many, except at the
end of them, when he again blurted
out: -t
II won't be kept after schoo', neither
not by any woman"
He had not been looking at the rows
of little faces on those enches, and if
he had it would not have occurred to
him how many little women were sit
ting there, not one of them comparing
in ront OF size with even little Miss
Varick. -..sy.. .4t....
Particularly he had failed to see the
look of wrath in the black eyes of tollv
Burbank, and he had no notion Of what
made her buzz around so among the
other girls the moment Miss Varic1
stru * the small brass tea-be | on her
desk, and said: s*]f f'l
School is dismissed I will see
William Henderson about this half an
hour before school opens tomorrow
morning ~r ,-..s . IN
-, There was {, sound OF something to
come in the clear tones of the school
ma am voice, and BITS head was still
hanging alittle when he slouched out Of
the door, and began to trudge along the
road toward home. a sa q,
Now. girls, let's pelt him. ge.r
1t was Polly Burbank's shrill treble
that he heard saying that, and she had
SNOWFALL ready-nade to show what
she meant. 1t was not a very Big Or
hard one. but it hit him Just under the
left ear, and Kate Sullivan followed it
with another that went into his neck
At any other time he might have set to
work and snow-balled back aga n, but
he knew somehow that Miss Varick was !
watching the fun from the window and
that she heard Polly Burbank shout
again: "Pelt him girls. he said She
was nothing but woman ri
/. That was the crime he had commit j
ted, and he felt meaner and meaner
about it with every small globe of
packed snow that hit him. y
"Pelt m, Polly! Pelt him, girls!
Wen stand by YOU
Bill hardly cared what boy it was that
said that; but he knew they were com
ing back, and following along to see
fair play. and that they would all be
against him if he dared rebel too saw /
agely against his small tormentors.
They grew. worse and worse as he
walked faster and faster, and he was
thinking whether or not it would pay
to run, when who should drive along
but Mrs. Diliaway,, the minister's wife,
in, her old red cutter, with old Miss
Burns beside her. A., -,
Girls! girlsr'n exclaimed Mrs Dilla-
way, what a1e YOU all about?''
Yes said Miss Burns .swhat on
yearth are they up to?'' 3'4+i reno Il
:. Il citing Bill Henderson, shouted
Polly Burbank, because he sassed the
sc.,ooI-maf am. Said he wouktil't mind
a woman" s+ ata7u!eaha aaT"E i
- He did, did hep' = Tia 81 - f al
"He wouldn't. would hep ~ II j
Bill lifted his head, and was lust /
about to say something. when a small
girl with very red hair threw a big ball |.
of half pscked snow with SO good an
aim that his mouth was too iull of it tor !
u word to come out.
Drive on, Mrs DilIaway.'' said Miss
Burns LET ,'em make an awful ex- :