Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1885-10-23
Written for the Free Press and Times.
A PEDAG0GlC ROM ANCE.
by =. A. Burton.


Il car cFOWdCd Wih passengers, many
Of them teachers on their Wdy 10 an edu-
cdtiOndl cOnuentiOn.
Miss LEWIS We, Us 81 Co. represent
the three RS" Of the great American con
tinent. ! am filled with self complacency.
Miss CASwELL.-Then what would you
do if you were an oyster vender and rep
resented the eight rs But teachers and
oysters are both out of season and | wish
| was at home. should think we had
seen pedagogues enough during the year
without racing to the ends of the earth for
the pleasure of their society. What pro
sale concourse it is
Miss L. 1t is true that we are not all
beautiful or bewitching
Miss CT could go through the train
and pick out every teacher on board
couldn't you Now that woman opposite,
she might bave been really pretty if she
had been Kept out of the school-room {;
golden hair, cerulean eyes, pearly teeth :;
hut look at the wrinkles in her forehead
and the long suffering smile on those once
rosy lips. Five years in u sChool-room
will make an unnterestng old fossil out
of the most charming person in the
world
Miss L.-Your language is gratifying
in the extreme. | have taught six
years, | believe
Miss C.-Oh, well, you're not "typi-
cal" am, more's the pity
Miss LII think you will marry a peda-
gogue yet
Miss CT would sooner wed with
a Hottentot. Now, here we are tired
todeath, have worked like galley slaves
all the year, and we are spending our last
month salary for what To see five or
six thousand elderly madens like our
selves ana to hear parcel of bigoted ST.
perlntendcnts. Great attraction, | must
say.
Miss Ii think we shall have very
pleasant and profitable time.
MIS- C.-Please bear in mind Mel
lie CasWell, that I'm not a school
committee and You needn't wear that
dectltini smile. Pntyour bump of policy
to rest and talk sense. Can you say from
an honest heart that you admire school
teachers
Miss Ives, can. They are sensible
and obliging. good-tempered, too
Miss C.-Nou have that idea my child,
with me, but | do assure you that they
are not all like my charming self am
the exception that proves the rule.
Enter young man
MISS l4-Anolher schuoI-m aSterabroad.
Mis- t.-lsn't he nice looking,
Miss HE smiles on one side, towards
the hig girls, you know
Miss C-Im sorry YOU are not bet
ter clairvoyant. He is rising young
physician. practices in an unhealthy To-
cality, pockets lined with lucre and love
letters. lie is an oasis in this pedagogic
Sahara.
Miss L.-What picturesque rhetoric.
Go ON, and I'll take notes.
Miss C.-SmiIe on this lonely heart,
dear, sunny-haired Apollol Did you
ever see Il pedagogue that wore his
hat on one side
Miss He doesn't know that his hat
is awry, poor thing See his thread
bare coat and his little black necktie with
the ends exactly even.
Miss Gin looking at the cunning
dimple in his chin and his lovely
blonde mnstache | dote on blondes
There, the dear fellow is going to put on
his eye glasses.
Miss L.-"That's to see you better, my
beauty, the larger to see you more"
Miss CT never knew you to quote
from anything but Mother Goose. Hasn't
he lovely eyes?
Miss lin not partial to olive green
in eyes I'm more interested in his lunch
basket. Graham rolls There, didn't
tell you School-masters are always dys-
peptic.
peptics are school masters. Your reason
ing is very superficial wonder if our
new principal Will be at the convention,
Mis- Lit isn't likely. They say he
is just ont Of college and hasn't Il cent 10
his name. Somebody told me that he was
class poet, too, so he won't have much
muscle.
Miss Ole can dedicate poems to his
scholars instead of logging them
IOUNG MAN. politely reachinga news
paper Perhaps it may contain something
of interest to You. Warm, isn't it?
Miss C.-Thank you. Yes, exceedingly