, 1884-02-06
THE NEW TEACHER
a Victory Scored Q the Mountain
Willow and the Gun with the
Automatic DinguaD
rRim NYa In Puck1

loAl ANJo IL uCA
we had about as onery and trfhin' a croI
of kids in Calaveras county thirty year. ago
as you could gather In with q fine-tooth comb
and a brass band In fourteen states. For
ways that WAS kittsnsoms thsy was moder-
ately active and abnormAlly protuberant.
That was the prevailing style OF. Calayeras
Kids, whom Mr.. George w. Mulqueen come
there and wanted to engage the school at the
old camp, whore 1 hung up tn the days when
the country was new and the murmur of the
sir-shooter was In the land. =,
George W. Mulqnosn was q slender young
party from the effsts east, with conscien-
tious scruples and q hectic flush Both Of
these was Agin him for q promoter of school
discipline and square root He had n heap
OF information and sorrowful eyes
$50 fur as 1 was concerned, I didn't feel
like swearing around George or using any
language that would sound irrevelant in a
ladies boodore; but as for the Kids OF the
school, they didn't care n blamed cent Thsy
lust hollered md whooped Hike q paslo Of
Sioux.
They didn't seem to respect literary at
tainmsnts or expensive knowledge. They
just simply seemed to respect the genius that
come to that country to win their young love
with a long-bandls shovel and q blood-shot
tone OF voice. That's what seemed to catch
the Calavsras kids in the early days
"Georee had weak lungs, and they kept 10
work at him TIL they drove him into q
mountain fever, and finally into q metallic
Barcophagus
aAiong about the holidays the sun went
down on George W. Mulqueenis life just as
the eternal sunlight lit up the dswy Dyes
You viii pardon my manner. Nye, but 1t
seemed to mo Just NJ n George had climbed
up to the top Of Mount Calvary, or wherever
IL was, with that whole school on his back,
and had to give up at Last.
at seemed lind of tough TO me, and /
couldn't help blamin' 1t onto the school soma,
for, there was half-a-dozsn big moozers that
didn't 60 N school to learn, but just to raise
Ned and turn up Jack.
"wsl. they killed him anyhow, and that
settled 1t ..
aTbe school run Kind Of Wild till Feboowary,
and then q husky young tsnderfoot, with q
fist like q mules foot In full bloom, made an
application for the place, and allowed he
thought he could maintain Discipline II they'd
give him a chance. Well, they ast him when
he wanted to take his place as tutor, and he
rekoned he could begin to tute about Monday
morning. 8 q .r4l,i .c "l Vt
Sunday afternoon he want up TO the
schoo[house to look over the ground and to
arrange a plan for an active Injin campaign
mgln the nOsLlo hoOuluuu On CalhNeIbL
Monday he sailed In about Ia m. with his
gripsack and begun the discharge OF his Ju-
ties.
AHe brought in bunch Of mountain VII
lers, and after driving a 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-eysd holy tsrrors gaDed at him
in a kind of dumb, inquiring tone Of voice;
but he didn't say much Hs ssemsd consid-
ably reserved as to the plan Of the campaign.
The new teacher thsn unlocked bis alligator
skin grip and took out u Bible and a new self
cooking weapon that had an automatic
dingus for throwing out the empty shells. 1t
was one of the bulldog varieties and had the
laugh of q Joyous child H
HE read a short passage from the scrip
lures, and then pulled of his coat and hung
1t on a nail. Than he made a few extern
poransous remarks, after which he salivated
the palm of his right hand, took the self
cooking ~youngster In his left, and proceeded
to wear out the gads over tho various pro
tubsrsncss Of his pupils
people passing by thought they must be
beating carpets In the schoolhouse. 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 winder, but after
he had looked down the barrel OF the shooter
n moment, he changed his mind He seemed
10 realize that 1t would be a violation of thu
rules OF the school, so he came back and sat
down.
After he wore out the foliage, Bill, he
pulled tho spike out of the door, put on his
coat and went away. He never WINS seen
there again. He didn't ask for any salary.
but just walked of quietly, and that sum
mer we accidentally hoard that he was
George W. MulQueen's brothsr.H "