Connecticut western news., 1883-04-18
THE OLD SCHOOL DAYS.
THE SEASON OF ROD AND FERULE.
The Way in Which They Used to Thrash
 Manners Into Boys Body.
From the Burlington Hawkeye.1


 From the Burlington Hawkeye.l
 "I see by Media paper, the Jester remarked, as the train sped away for Towando, down in the State of Pennsyl- vania, "that Colonel Hyatt, President of the Pennsylvania military academy, was arrested on charge of assault and battery because he whipped a student with a switch"
 "Yes, I read about it" the fat passen- ger said, "and the student exhibited three welts on the calves of his legs, in evidence of the severity of the whipping. Brutal severity they called it. 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 language.
 "I 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. !" I don't know what the boys of to-day are made of The idea of schoolboy going into court to show three welts on the calf of his leg. That part of his leg, I think, must extend all the way up the boy. Three welts Why, in those days when Hinman taught the !" three R's" in Peoria, to get a licking with forty h nd ho al, 1n to ,1, the other boys back like Franco Prussian war map, was greater than a king. And we didn't go home and show our welts to father either. If we did, the old gentleman tenderly laid on few broad ones with 8 skate strap to add variety to the general effect. And the idea of going into court about it! I | would just like to see boy stand before old Captain Lee or Squire Bernard Bailey, or Justice Cunningham and file information against old Hinman for lick ing him just because he pushed Bill Rodecker into the pond. Dear old Hinman," the Jester continued, tenderly rubbing his legs with his hands, "when
 
 frame and came charging down the aisle at you, the biggest boy in school began to howl in sympathy with the victim. l always yelled like a Camanche, long, long before he hit me. And when that old slate frame came down on a boy s thigh, all the injunctions and rebutters and decrees and reversals and replica ] tions and demurrers of all the courts in the State of Illinois couldn't soothe that boys feelings or keep him from nursing you remember the old chalk box Hinman used to demonstrate cube root with ?" he suddenly added, turning to the fat passenger.
 ''I remember the long 'gad' he licked Bill Haskell with" the fat passenger re- piled, "the day Bill came whooping into school in pair of Indian leggins and bead moccasins. And every time the old switch whistled down, Bill would raise yell like the cry of torment and jump clean over Q desk. How the dus did fly And talk about welts That boys back looked like 8 wash board But he never thought of going to law about it. If 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 a bench," tn, fat passenger said, "and the old mar just picked up the leg and famed Dicl with it till the slivers flew That was the daisy licking of that old school Dick howled till the neighbors cam, rushing to the school, and the first mar that bounced in and demanded to knov what this meant, the old man climbed and rode him all around the room, .whil the boys stood up in their seats ant yelled and cheered in the widest enthu siasm and Dick forgot his own licking il his pride over his teachers prowess. Tn neighbors didn't wait for the second act I'm teaching this school the old ma1 said, proudly, and we believed him Then he turned to Dick and tinishe, his licking. It would have been a rasl court that interfered with old Hinman' methods of discipline.