Morning journal and courier., 1884-01-16
A Real SchOoImaster.

The simple Frontfsf Story Told by One
 WOodtfck William.
 Bill Nye in Puckl
 ''We had about as ornery and trid1n' crop of kids in Calaveras county thirty years ago as you could gather in with hne-tooth comb and brass band ia fourteen States For ways that we're kittsnsome they was mod erately active and abuormglly protuberant. That was the prevailing style of Calaveras kid, when MT. George W. Mulquesn came there and wanted to engage the school at the old camp, where hung up In the days when tho country was new and the murmur or the six-shooter efss heard in the land.
 "George w. MulQuseu was slender young party from the effete East with conscientious scruples and hectic flush. Both or these was agin him for a promoter of school olscl- pline and square re5t. He had heap Of in formation and big sorrowful eyes.
 ''So fur as I was concerned, l didn't feei like swearing around George or using any language that would sound irrelevant in la- dies boodere; but as for the kids of the school, they didn't care blamed cent. They just hollered and whooped like passle of Sioux
 ''They didn't seem to respect literary at tainments or expensive knowledge. They just simply seemed to respect the genius that had come to that countey to win their young love with long handled shovel and a blood shot tone of voice. That's what seemed to catch the CaIaveras kids in the early days.
 ''GeorRe had weak lungs and they keLt to work at him till they drove him into a noun tain fever and finally into a metallic sarco- phagus.
 s.Along about the holidays the sun went down on George W. Mulqueen's life just as the eternal sunlight lit up the dewy eyes You will pardon my manner, Nye, but 1t seemed to me just as If George had climbed up to the top of Mount Cavalry, or wherever it was, with that whole school on his back and had to give up at last.
 stIt seemed kind of tough to me and 1 couldn't help blsmin' it onto the school some, for there was half a dozen big snoozers that didn't go to school to learn, but just to raiss Ned and turn up Jack
 "Wsll, they killed him, 4anyhow, and that settled it.
 ''The school run kind of wild till Feboo- wary and then 8 husky young tenderfoot, with a fist like & mules foot in full bloom. lowed he thought he could maintain disci- pline if they'd give him 8 chance. Well, they ast him when he ERnted to take his place as tutor, and he reckoned he coald be gin to tute about Monday follering.
 Sunday afternoon he went up to the school house to look over the grounds end to arrange & plan for an active Ipjin campaign agin the hostile hoodlums of CaIaveras Monday he sailed in about a. m. with his grip-sRck and begun the discharge of his juties
 He brought in bunch of mountain will lsrs, and after driving big railroad spike into the door-casing over the latch he said the Senate and House would sit with closed doors during the morning session. Several large, white eyed holy terrors gazed ct him in kind of dumb. inquiring tone of voice, but he didn't say much. He seemed consid- erably reserved as to the plan of the cam psign. The new teacher then unlocked his l alligator skin grip and took out Bible and g new self-cocking weapon that had an auto matic dinRus fer throwing out the empty shells. It vas one of the bull dog variety and had the laugh of joyous child. tHe read short passage from the scrip lures and then pulled off his coat and hung i on nail Then he made 8 few extempora | neous remarks, after which he salieated the palm of his right hand. took the self-eockine 1 songster in bis left and proceeded to wear 1 out the gsds over the various protHbsraneeI of bis pupils.
 s'People passing by thought they must b' i beating carpets in the school house. lii l pointed the gun at his charge with his Jeff 1 and manipulated the gad with his right duke 1 One large, overgrown Missourian tried t | crawl out of the winder, but after he hat 1 looked down the barrel of the shooter mo ment he changed bis mind. He seemed tt 1 realize that it would be a violation of tn l rules of the school, SO he came back and sal l down.
 | After he wore out the foliage Bill, h. pulled the spike ont of that door, put on hi coat and went away. He never was seer l there again. He didn't ask for any salary but just walked of quietly and that summe we accidentally heard that he was George W I Mulnu6enS5 brother ,"