Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1884-06-05

jack kellogg, who was building the
house where she was to reign mistress,
annoyed her to-day. How poor and
monotonous life stretched before her.
How much better to perform some one
grand act and die. than to live on to
old age in this dreary fashion. It was
a very romantic girl who stood there
in the little school-room dreaming her
disconnected dreams, you see.
Suddenly she saw by the noon mark
that it was time to call in her scholars.
She had no bell-for this was in the
early days of Wisconsin history, before
the railroads had spread their great
iron spider webs all over the state, and
Jennie's school was conducted on a
very primitive plan. She took the
great ruler, with which she inflicted
punishment on the palms of unruly
boys, and raped loudly on the window.
Then she sat down and waited for the
pupils to come trooping in; not with
the regulation and order which governs
school-rooms in these days, but heller,
SHELTER. hurry, skurry. laughing, push
ing each other and playing tag" to
their very benches.
30, teacher. the creek is getting
awful high" said Tommy Smith, as he
plunged into his seat. And Jennie did
not correct him for the improper use
of awful" which prove to be more
appropriate in this cas- than teacher
or pupil supposed.
Il suppose the SHOWS are all melting
and ruT.ning into il, she answered, alb
sently, as she took her place at her
desk, and by another tap of the ruler
indicated that the afternoon session of
school was now in order.
Then she ran her eye over the room
to see that no pupils were missing.
Where is Tod Brown" she asked,
Il do not see him here?"
Tod was the smallest child in the
school; a little boy scarcely 5years old,
who was placed in her charge not SO
much to learn his primer, as to keep
him out of his mothers way. She was
burdened with two smaller than he be-
sides babe in the cradle.
81 left Tod down by the creek" an
swered Tommy Smith, "playin' throw
pebbles into the water. / told him
school was called"
"You should have brought him along.
Tod is only child" Je nnie said re-
provingly. "But 60 and bring him
now; and hurry, for your lesson in
arithmetic comes on directly"
Tommy came back in a brief space
of time, white and frightened.
"Tod is stannin' on stone and
cryin', and the waters all round him."
he said. 81 couldn't get near him at all.
The whole school rose en- masse. and
Jennie at the head of the small army
led on to the rescue of Tod.
Yes, there he stood on a stone which
little time before had been on the
Shore. but now, alas! was in the midst
of the rapidly swelling stream, beyond
the reach of anyone in that little group.
Mamma! mammal he called in
piteous tones, Come and take Tod.
Tod is 'fraid. Come, mamma, GOMEZ
Jennie looked over her little flock of
pupils who crowded about her. Not
one of them was large enough to wade
out and rescue Tod. The only boy in
her school who might safely have at
tempted this. had remained at home
that day to assist. his father.
The water was rising higher every
moment. What was to be done, must
be done quickly, or the angry waves
would seize poor little Tod, and sweep
him away down the swelling stream.
"John," cried Jennie, speaking to
the largest boy in the flock, you stand
here On the bank, while wade out to
Tod. l shall want you to take him
from my arms as soon as / have him