The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-16
A "BANG-UP EDUCATION"
An Interesting Incident, as Told
by an Old Settler.
How Rising Generation Pinned for
knowledge, But Was Hard to Suit
The Moral Effect of MahaIa Mug
welt's Victory Over Two
@B'ars."

gwen the log school house on the
raise O. Bull Medder Hill were fust
built" said the Old Settler, spreading
himself before the tavern fire, ''they had
a deuce an ali of time TO git teacher
ez could handle the risin' gineration
O. the deestric'. The riSin' gineration
O Bull Medder deestric' wa mt no way
overwhelmin' ez to numbers, but W en-
it come right down to the matter o.
shown a school teacher how little he
act'ally know'd bout edication, the
risin' gineration o the deestric' was
wuss, b'gosh, than an army with BAN
ners. Fur instance, thar were Bub
Gouge. Wen it come to a rough an
tumble, or a stan UP an take dry
knocks, fur that matter, tn want no
barroom in the township that he
couldn't depopelate in less'n no time,
an Oh lection day he were wuss'n a
hurricane passin' through the clearin's.
En- fur writin', he had a handwrite We
could read twenty yards away, an
they usety say that he could cipher
clean up to the double rule O three an
never look inter the book wunst. At
spellin' school he Spelt 'em all down.
an never missed but wunst. an that
was cause he went 20 the spellin'
match that time with about nine
fingers more o rum in him than human
natur' could find it handy to han Dor.
They put out the word curious an it
bein' Bulbs first turn. he spelt it with
Q instid of a X, an b'gosh it downed
him.
wall, on the second day O. one
term o. the Bull Medder School. tn
come vacancy in the teachers cheer.
The teacher had objected to bein' tied
hand an foot an then sot inter the
spring an kept thar fur an hour or two
by the risin' gineration o the deestric'.
an so he resigned. Course 'twouldn't
do fur the sproutin' population what
was pinin' fur larnin' to be left without
NO school to 60 TO, an so it struck the
directors that Bub Gouge'd be list the
teller ter pint out to the scholars the
pleasant way that led to bang-up edi-
cation. They hired Bub to teach the
school, an the term began all over
liz tCdCHCO W. lS-lcdSbWd1
part o. two DAYS. Bout recess time in
the AFTERNOON o. the second day the
scholars all come hum. durn sorry like,
an sed that Bub Gouge had concluded
not TO teach no more. Then, b'gosh
tn was time. If Bub Gouge couldn't
handle the risin' gineration o. Bull
Medder, " at in the name O. the Great
King was we coming TOP The reason
that Buh got tired o. teachin' so soon
were that he had asst Buster Brown
how much tootems four was, an
Buster had said Nineteen Bub had
told Buster that he was way of, an
that . big boy like him orter be
ashamed o. hisseh TO say that tootems
four was nineteen.
Than Bub turns 70 little Billy
Shorts an says: Billy; tell that big
Ounce how much tootems four is
Then little Billy. he says, Wall, Bub,'
says Billy. II Buster Brown says too
Aams four b nineteen, then tootems
-four . nineteen Then Bub he gets
his lander up, an goes fur little Billy.
30 never could tall Hdzan'ly how 'tvere
doe, bus the fust. thing Buh know'd
e. hull risia' generstion o The Ned
1y deeserie' Tere oassr him like . hive
o bess, IN w's8 10y 80 him ese q
- sohoA Aoa1s eheT &ant svsa stop