Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-01-20
REAL sCHOOLMAsTER.
The Simple Frontier story Told by One
WOOdtiek William.
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eve had about as OTnery and trifiin' 4
crop Of kids in CalaveTas county thirty
wears ago as YOU could gather in with
fine-tOOth comb and a brass band in four
teen States. For ways that were kitten
some they was moderately active and alb
normally prOtuherant. That was the pre-
vailin0 style Of Calayeras kid, when Mr.
George w. Mulqueen come there and
wanted to engage the school at the old
camp, where | hung up in the days when
the country was new and the murmur of
the siX-shOOter was heard in the land.
George W. Mulqueen was a slender
young party from the effete East with
conscientious sCruples and a hectic flush.
Both of these was agin him for promoter
of school discipline and square root. He
had heap Of information and big sOr-
rOwful eyes.
$50 fur as / was concerned. didn't feel
like swearing around George OF using any
language that would sound irrelevant in
n ladies' bOOdOre; but as for the kids Of
the school. they didn't care a blamed
cent. They Just hOllered and whOOped
like passle Of Sioux.
They didn't seem to respect literary
attachments or expensive knowledge.
They just simply seemed to respect the
genius that come to that country to win
their young love with lOng-handle shovel
and bloOdsh0t tone OF voice. That's
what seemed to catch the Calaveres kids
in the early days.
George had weak lungs and they kept
to work at him till they drove him into a
mountain fever and finally into metallic
sarcophagus.
Along about the holidays the sun went
down on George w. Mulqueeu's life just
as the eternal sunlight lit up the dewy
eyes. You viii pardon my manner, Nye.
fC ms hlf
climbed up TO the top Of Mount Cavalry,
or wherever il was, with that whole
school on his back and had to give up al
last
1T seemed Kind Of tough to me and |
couldn't help blamin' it onto the school
some. for there was half dozen bic
snOozers that didn't 90 to school to learn
but just to raise Ned and turn up Jack.
Nv ell, they killed him, anyhow, and
that settled it.
The school run kind Of wild tel
Feb0Owary. and then a husky young ten.
derfOOt, with fist like a mules foot in
full bloom, made AN application for the
place, and allowed he thought ne could
maintain discipline if they'd give him a
chance. Well, they asst him when he
wanted to take his place as tutor, and he
reckoned he could begin to tute about
Monday iOllering.
sunday afternoon he went UP to tbs
schOOl-hOuse to look over the grounds and
to arrange plan for an active Injin cam
paign agin the hostile hO0dlums Of Gala
Yeras.
Monday he sailed in about a. m. with
I his grip-sack and begun the discharge o.
his juties.
lie brought in a bunch of mountain
willers, and after driviag "A big railroad
spike into the Decreasing over the latch
he said the Senate and House would sit
with closed doors during the morning SEES
sion. Several large, whte-eyed holy ter
Tors CaZed at him in kind of dumb, in.
qulring tone Of voice, but be didn't say
much lie seemed considerably reserved
as 10 the plan of the campaign. The new
teacher then unlocked his alligatOr-skin
grip and took out Bible and new self
cooking weapon that had an automatic
dingus for throwing ont the empty shells
1t was one Of the bulldog variety and had
the laugh Of a JOYOUS child.
lie read n short passage from the
Scriptures and then pulled of his coat and
hung it on a nail. Then he made few
eXtempOrancOus remarks, after which he
saliyated the palm of his right hand, took
the self-cOcking sOngster in his left and
proceeded to wear out the gads over the
various prOtuberances of his pupils.
people passing by thought they must
be beating carpets in the schOOl-h0use.
He pointed the gun at his charge with
his left and manipulated the CAD with
his right duke. One large, OvergrOwn
MissOurian tried to crawl out Of the win
der, but after he had looked down the bar
rel Of the shooter moment he changed
his mind. He seemed TO realize that il
would be a violation of the rules of the
school, SO he came back and sat down.
After he wore out the foliage, Bill, he
pulled the spike out of that door. put on
his coat and went away. He never was
seen there again. He didn't ask for any
salary, but just walked of quietly and
that summer we accidentally heard that
he was George W. Mulqueens brother