The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-08-11
THEY DIDN'T wANrArEAcHER.

tent school teacher out in the Lick Skill let neighborhood and went out," said Bob McFeuers.
 "Well, why didn', you stay z some one asked.
 Because found that they didn't wart one. l am professional teacher, you know, and blamed if was goin to let a 10, of riff-rati children run over me. The first day opened the school, I saw sew eral boys that knew mus. be expelled before the school could become a suc- cess"
 Why. were they disobedient ?''
 'Oh, no; they behaved themselves well enough, but they knew too much"
 How did they know too much .r
 "As you've never been compelled to earn your living by teaching school. you will probably no, enter into the spiri, of the thing. They knew more than 1 did. you see, and this was dangerous. One of the boys. while reci,ing grammar les son. picked me up time or two. dId.'; know anything about the blamed book. bat l didn't go there 10 be taught: wen: 70 teach. told the boy ,o 90 home. ;ha; he could never learn anything. and ;ha: though, ned better blow and pick cotton whlie his other brothers wen, 10 school The nex, day h;s father called on me ard sat
 "i'Fofessor. l am mighty glad tha; you have come aiaonss: us. tut think tha, yoe aie the only homes, teacher we've had. Al. the res: et ;he teachers have told me tha; loha was l ap: scholar an' that fl kep, on } send;n him to school. he u make his mark one of these days. Wall. l though; :hey was tellin me the truth. so I kep; on sendin' him. even though the corn was a suIerin' for work. That : the way they have cheated me. sir. an am mighty glad ,ha, you have come amoags: us ;o s;raishten up mat ters.
 That's the way with most of them teachers. replied. 'bu. you can safely bet your crop prospects thas don; hum- bug man merely to ge, few dollars out of him
 ou re squar man. sir: give me your honest hand. Thanks to goodness all school teachers are no, on the fleece.
 "Tha, afternoon when called up the arithmetic class. a boy stamped me so bad that l told him 10 go home and go to work. that he would never amour, to anything In school. The next day his father came over and brough, me I boiled ham and a bis pone of .igh: bread. which he declared were dce me for my honesty. Ina; boy of mlne. he said. ,has been booste,! cp 5y fooi teachers ;. he am, so:eo sense. lie believes ;ha: he knows sttht.: tE on this aecean; has beea kep; outen ,he crop. Hes aeen doin nearly all a my fgsgrin. an IF be: ,ha, I've lost hundreds o' dollars on accorn, O his bad 'rithme;ic. I'm mighty glad tha, you've tuck the wool from my eyes. lessor. an ef thars anything that 1 can do fer you. les whistle an I'll be thar
 "l thanked him very kindly for his good opinion and ham. and assured him tha, my mission was to do good and that boy had to crawl out of bed at a mighty early hour ot,he morning to fool me
 " l wen, on in this way until had ex- pelled five or six boys and in consequence the crops in the immediate vicinity were promising. At last one of the trustees came 10 me and said tha, the patrons wanted pubic examination. objected to this. and even wen, So far as 10 say that the chances were tina, I'd be taken sick on the very day appointed. The trustees said that ii would ind out when WAS going ,o se sick he would appoin, some other day for the examination. saw that there wasn't any way 10 ge, ou, Of IL. so reluctantly consented called upon the men whose sons had expelled. told them that there wou,! soon be q
 
 public examination of my scholars. and warned them not to allow their expelled sons to be presen, as i, nigh, hur, their feelings to see the others so far advanced and ,c know that they themselve. were so far behind. The fathers again com pllmen,ed me. for aside from beiny SO honest. they declared ska, was the mos, eonsidera,e man they had ever seen.
 "A large crowd was present to witness the exercises. and to my dismay I dis covered man who had formerly taught school in the neishborhood. The fathers of the expelled boys would not speak to him and was in hopes that he would go home. but he remained. and to my hor- TOT, brought in, during the learned ner.