Western sentinel. [volume] (Winston [i.e. Winston-Salem], N.C.) 1856-1886, 1884-12-11

stamp OF the 1OOC ana Il tOstdssS StStoAsi-
ton of "Order!' from the teacher.
We were then separately examined
by the Rev.P.P., who made this
sacred and unvarying inaugural cere-
mony, as to the curious phraseology OF
our names, as to the mysterious gene /
illogical facts of our birthdays and
ages, as to the serawls we could write,
and finally as tothe stammering, guess
ing and blundering circus show we
were each able~to make by trying to
"stand on our heads amongst the
smatterings graeed with the name of
studies which sve had spreviousiy pre-
tended to wrestle with under the dis
cipline of other knights of the ferule
and book. Thus was the reigning
dominic enabled to "class'' us into
some kind of frog-on-a-log rows, mon
key perches and wild goose phalanxes.
Our baptismal and family nomencla
lures, the sum Of our years hopelessly
stretching toward Methuselah's term
of vitality, and our. suppositions ac
quired book acknowledge had nearly all
been nicely inscribed upon the scho-
lastic "day-book, ere it came to the
turn of Col. B. II. Green, Esq, to un
dergo the process Of inspection.
Again royalty waiving the vulgar
formality of waiting to be asked for
his physical and intellectual pedigree,
and ere the eye of the Rev. 2. P. had
yet full time to intently and inquir-
Emgly fix itself upon him. he volun
tteered in advance of the demand, rose
toratorically and oracularly from his
seat, and delivered himself Of some
what that, [ verify believe, was SO
very deep in him, that had he not
then and there given vent to it, it
would have surely been worse to have
risked atheE fearful alternative of an
explosion::;rsf
my names Green-Bickerstaf'
Headly Green, sir-been to Tallapoo-
sa Institute, ST. Johns High School,
Atlanta Military Academy, Macon
Young Mems Select Seminary, and
various other teachers it all,
sir-know by heart every common
English branch-Dead Languages,
French, German, Spanish all at my
tongues end, Mathematics, His
tory, the Occult Sciences, finished long
ago-tired of 'em, perfect in EN- all,
sir-last teacher l went to couldn't
learn me any more-come to you, sir,
| just to polish me off little-to put on
the cupola like! What do / wish to
study? Why, sir, if there are any
good treatises ON European Military
Tactics or International Commercial
Law, which you can strictly recon-
mend for my perusal, sir, will send
for them tomorrow to the Atlanta
book sellers, and we will together read
and confer upon their contents t'
'Whee-oor' whistled forty boys all
in one breath, when this Grafton was
ended. As for the Rev. 2. P, he just
scratched his bald pate, looked at the
ceiling like he was trying hard to
keep from laughing seized pen
and paper and went to writing furi-
ously. And here is the epistle he then
and there indited:
ErowAH ACADEMY, Sept 16, 1S48.
Col. Jones' of 4facon Seminary:
DEAR SIk:-Please write me immediate
~ by the bearer and for mercy sake inform
me who is this B. II. Green, lately pupil
of yours, to-day an applicant for admission
y
escaped lunatic? Yours, &C.,
PHILErUs PAGE.
This missive at once dispatched by
a special negro messenger, Who was t.
return that night, our principal pro
ceeded with the business of his mimic
kingdom, still quite uncertain whether
b. II. G. was.a lawful Subject or not
The day passed with no other unusdal
incident, only the holding OF "a private
interview between Rev. p. z. alfd Col
b. II. G. at the noon RECESS "A few
boys eaves-dropped this scene, and re-
ported that the strange scholor was a
humbug-that Rev. z. p. examined
I big Head Green" Gas they now be
gan to call him. in the old spelling
book, and found that Green didn't
know his alphabet any too well
When the crowd of pupils all gnt
wind of this, they decreed to never -af
ter address him on the play ground ,ol
any other places out Of hearing of the
master, by any other appellations ex
cept either Colonel. err Squire"
The sable messenger in due time
alighted from his Eteed, and handed
to MIR. Pages response from Colone
) Jones, very. lseonic;; but. deep in the
J wisdom books cannot teach:
: MACON SEMINARY, Sept. 16, 1s4S.
NY Dear Mr. Page There is nothin:
, the matter with him but the big head.
| Yours Respectfully,
. Hohlsrro JONES.
. Henceforth "Big Head Green" wa.
bound to be the butt of. .constan
jokes, the victim of all sorts of boyisl
: tricks, the Innocent, guzzler of grea
draughts of praise, ironically mean
: but seriously swallowed by him. En-
titled by priority of age.a and vast lit
erary pretension to be our senior il
everything, he was our baby butfoor
our clown and jester at large, whom
We held, in all common sense, beneatl
us in intellect and 9bovc us in nuthin
but stature and years.
But hold-he was the victim of
diseasc-we were wrong -'pon homo
the foolish chap couldn't help it..
Dc. Hernon, ~. c., Dec. 5.
Beseiged for Office.
Greensboro Patriot.
The Governor's patronage in thi
State n aysl,lrf1fssfa a fuiz,zt Ef3s,t4li el;l