The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1883-05-16
THE DAYS OF ROD AND FERtLE.

"I see by Media paper" the Jester
remarked, as the train sped away for
Towando, down in the State of Penhsy1-
vania, ssthas Colonel Hyatt, President
of the Pennsylvania Military Acadeiny,
battery because he whipped student
with switch"
Eyes, 1 read about it." the fat pas
senger said, ssand the student exhibited
three welts on the calves of his legs, In
ping. Brutal severity, they called Il.
BY St. George -"
And the fat passenger choked UP
with speechless rage and disgust, and
held his hand up in the air to express
the terrible state Of his feelings, which
was away beyond the reach of Ian
guage- =. :,
"1 should vince to whimper," the
Jester said, and the bells on his cap
tinkled in the mellow tones of ..the
golden, .olden glory of the days gone
by.u al don, know what the boys Of
to-day are made Of. The idea of a school
boy going into court to show three
welts on the calf of his leg. That part
of ,is leg, think, must extend all the
way MP the boy. Three weltsl Why.
In those days when Hinman taught the
s'three Rs in Peoria, TO get licking
with o forty four inch hickory and be
able to show the other boys back like
. Franco-Prussian war map, was greater
than . King. And we didn't go home
and show our welts to father, either. u
we did, the old gentleman tenderly laid
on few broad ones with skate strap
to add variety to the general effect.
And the idea of going into court about
it, would Just like to see q boy stand
before old Capt2n Lee, or Squire Ber-
nard Bailey, or Justice Cunningham,
and file information against old Hin
man for licking him just because he
pushed Biz Rodecker iHto1 the pond.
Dear old Hinman," the Jester contin-
ued. tenderly rubbing his legs with his
hands, sswhen he snatched up that old
piece OF slate frame and came charging
down the aisle at you, the biggest boy
in school began to howl in sympathy
with the victim ] always yelled like .
Comanehe, long, long before he hit me.
And when that old slate frame came
down on a boys thigh, all the injunc-
tions and rebutters and DEGREES and re-
of all the courts in the State of Illinois
couldn't soothe that boys feelings on
keep him from nursing . blister as big
as an air-cushion. Do you remember
the old chalk-box Hinman- used to de-
monstrate cube-root withP'' he suddenly
added, turning to the fat passenger
II remember the long CAD he Hcked
Bill HASKELL with, Y the lat passenger
replied, ..the day Bill came whooping
into school In q pair OF Indian leggings
and bead moccasins. And every time
the old switch Whistled down, Bill would
raise Yell like the CRY of torment and
Jump clean over 8 desk How the dus'
did hytt And talk about weltsi Thaz
boys back looked like q wash-board
But he never thought of going 70 Law
about it. II he had, the old man would
have licked him harder the next time.
And the day Dick Looms got ugly
and kicked the leg out Of q bench, ,, TIA
fat passenger said, s'and the old mar
JUST picked up the leg and tanned Dicl
with It TN the slivers few. Thst was
: the daisy licking of that old school
Dick howled tin the neighbors came
rushing to the school, and the first mar
that bounced in and demanded to know
what this meant the cid man climbed
and rode hims all around the room
while the boys stood up IN their seat
and yelled and cheered in the wildes1
enthusiasm. and Dick forgot his OWL
licking in his pride over his teacherll
proTess. The neighbors didn't wal
for the second act I'm teaching thi,
school, the old man said, proudly, an6
we believed him. Then he turned Il
Dick and finished his licking. Itwoule
have been . rash court that interfere(
with old Humans methods of disci
II l.
..Old Doty was the boss bangor O
that town. said the man on the wood
box, fused 10 teach in the fourth ward
and whipped the school all round twic,
n week The other days he devoted ex
cluziveIy 10 Geeree Kent and Frsnl
Jones. Then he came down 20 the frs
ward and put In most of his time ol
Andy Peters, Charley Balance and tn
two Burdettes, until one day he foun,
Johns desk full Of rocks and bricl
bats, and in the exciting rastie tina
came after this discovery Of dynamic
plot, JOHN biz the old whaier's thuml
nearly in two. Then he went to th
sixth ward, and there Billy McKenzi
knocked him out with the big school
bell, and he disappeared"
There were tWo-handed, double an
twisted giants In the landin those days,
the Jester said, s.but when 9 boy 20
his licking nf school that was the en-,
Of il. II he was Of revengeful dispo
sition, he stole chalk from the school
house and drew fearful and wonderfr
pictures Of his teacher on the neigh
boring fences, to the great wrath Of tn
residents and properly owners. An
that there might be no mistake, b
wrote the teacher's name under ID
photograph, or on the nose Of it, tn
length Of the nose being proportions
60 the pupils hate and merciless ven
geance- And no matter how young tn
teacher was; il he was only boy fror
college, twenty-five years old, the In
dignant pupil always called him "old'
so-and-so. But all the same, the bo
got licked sometimes when he needle
if, rarely when he didn't. and neve
when he wanted It. Aud he rubbed b
stripes and showed his welts to hi
cheerful and delighted fellows, for "
were always well pleased to see anothe
boy licked" and he grinned rathe
ruefully over them himself but he didn'
90 whining into o court with them
Great Scotland, some Thursday after
noon in June. when the day was warm
and the room was close, and the hie
and . storm was in the air, and . spiri
Of mischief pervaded the atmosphere
when there was q boy doing penanc
behind each blackboard and anothe
one standing ON the chalk-box, an
another sat on the long front bench
softly weeping into dog-eared Wei
ster's spelling book and delicately rub
hing the place Of the slate frarnei whe
fhs nonotonous buz-S-z-z o. study wa