The Arkansaw traveler., 1884-01-19
THE NEW SCHOOL TEACHER
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 ..Tha, is the new school house, is i, 7 ruuired Miss Alice Ray. the "nev ,.acher,' as the farmers plodding littl, cam passed by little white house stand ,sdwise to the road. inclosed in a rathel a.lapida,ed fence.
 ~Yes, that's where you'll hold forth, remarked Uncle Leke WoodDurn, :" bul in afeered you won't hold out long. fuI xeve got the toughest set c! boys in the s,a,e,. and Uncle Zeke gave kind o 1Aekline little laugh as he thought of the pnid. demure little damsel al his side scnuolhng the boys of Bear Creel school.
 But don't the directors expel them vaen they are beyond the control of the teacher r asked Alice, her heart begin. ning to sink at the prospect before her
 Expel 'em no, we never expel no. body if teacher can't boss the school we just let it boss him i, ain't our fight an the school here generally bosses the teacher, an thar's been some pretty goso men licked in tha, school house by the boys
 did not know the school was so un. rgly," said poor Alice, wishing heartil, that she had hired out as washerwoma ar ins.ead of trying to teach the savages ot Bear Creek,
 Oh, well, mebbe it won't be so bad shss winter thar's i'm Turner, he's one of the toughest Of 'em he'll be q in a month and you'lf get rid of him; bu, ,har's the Brindley boys. they're mighty nigh as bad
 Poor Alice listened with sinking heart. The cold, hard duties before her were dreary enough at best; but to go alone and unknown into strange neigh borhood to teach her first school and to be met at the outset by such dark proph- e1es made her feel homeless indeed She was naturally timid, shrinking little thing, and if she had possessed anywhere on the whole broad earth roof to shelter her she would have turned back from Bear Creek school even then. But she had no home. Her mother had died Nhen she was but II, and she had kept house for her father two years when be died, leaving her all alone. Before he d.ed he advised her to expend the little scm he would be able to leave her in fi,- ing herself for teacher. and Alice had 'alhlled his directions so literally that shen she had completed her course oi study at the normal school she had barely ten dollars left, and when she paid Un -le Leke for hauling her and her little trunk rom the nearest railroad town to the dis the, where she was to teach. she had bu; i've dollars left.
 On Monday morning as she started for the schoolhouse she felt asif she was go. ing to the scaffold HeY course of peda- gogics in the normal institute had in eluded no such problem as this school promised to be, and if it were not fol very shame she would have gwen hel angle hye-dollar bill to any one to take her back to the railroad and pay her ia ( to l.. the town where she had attended school.
 about twenty or thirty pupils were grouped around talking. but spell o1 silence fell upon them as she walked up and saluted them with good morning which was more like the chirp of fright ened bird than anything else. As she lnlocked the door and entered what she lad already begun to regard as a cham PCT ot torture, two or three slowly followed Scr into the room, and depositing their cooks upon the whittled desks, took seats and hxed their eyes upon her with starr 'a1s did not help to strengthen hei nerves.
 All the rules and regulations of hel Theory and Practice of Opening School pom the First Day" seemed to vanish and leave her brain whiring in dizzy seiplessness. She tried to think of some heerful remark, but her brain refused to 'orm the thought and her tongue clove to ne root of her mouth. She could see in ne faces of her pupils, most of whom sere now in the school-room, that the, were aware of her frigh, and enjoyed il thoroughly. By strong effort she par aaily recovered herself and bravely re- ssied the temptation to lean her head on ne desk and have good cry. She fel, 'aai she must do something or faint. Sc sne rang the bell, though II lacked hfteer mnutes to nine She then began taking aoun the names and ages of her pupils aad hy the time this was completed she oeg1n to feel more at ease. She then oeg1n examining the pupils in the differ 3 hr1nches in order to assign them te aeir psoper classes- She had finished ne enminasion in all the branches ex' ot the advanced reading class, which v3 rEincipally composed of grown girl. aad youAg men, among whom was ths ssnhls Jim Turner, of whom she had "a xsx.ed.
 Several of the members of the clasa and neAd, and it was nov the tum . .esa Bradley, T huge, heavy-ses feilos saA snaA malicious eyes and genera v ofrul6anism. When he vas callet "a to read he did not rise from hi @ but began to read in a thick, indis nc mice from book hidden in his lap
 IT. Bradlsy, win you please stand uE sheA ysa readF asked Alice.
 l kin red jus, as yell setiin' doEn, sepiied the fellow with dogged air.
 But 1t Is one of the rules in a readin, saass to stand up 10 read" said Alice, he