The Rugby gazette and east Tennessee news. (Rugby, Morgan Co., Tenn.) 1884-188?, 1885-10-31
WED been considerably bothered. I

"We'd been considerably bothered,
told i'm, by hevin' he'd SIGH slender, I'M
wholesome chaps, who he'd rashly I'M
dertook to run the school, git worsted
in every encounter Of importance they'd
he'd with some O. the more advanced
scholars. Durin' the last term, on two
or three 'casions, the onesidedness o.
these contests he'd resulted in the entire
disruption, sorter, O. the school, an the
retirin' to the neighborin' woods O. the
school-teacher.
"'Nothing,' said, seemed to tend to
the disorganization an gineral disquiet-
in O. the educational system of our
community as to hev teacher take holt
o it tibet he'd only mediocre attainments
in back heelin', collar-an' elbow an
plum out-an'-o knockin' down an
fallin' onto. l candidly tole i'm that
rs Altered he d be winded in few
roun's even by some O the younger an
less ambitious pupils. What could we,
the School Board, hev to expect, then,
when he's tackled, an tackled he
would be, by one or more O. the head
scholars, weighin', after harvest, one
hundred and ninety pounds in their bare
feet. There was pupils on the roll O.
thet little country school, tibet with one
solid jolt under the hat rim. could show
him more stars than all the colleges an
observatories in the hull Western Re-
serve.
HE looked leedle excited an more
earnest, like, at this, but said right of
he'd undertake it anyway eff he could
hev the chance, as he was hard up an
wanted money bad to complete his theo-
| logical studies. l smiled sCme ct the
idee O. how them big six-foot students
nd help pave his way to the ministery.
"Well, we concluded to give i'm a
chance, as he knew somethin' already,
an was quiet an willin' to learn more,
an we hoped this experience would, on
the whole, at least not have tendency
to upset, but strengthen, rather, his
purpose in life. The day-school opened;
| made it pint to 60 roun' to the
school-house, long bout the middle O
the forenoon, determined rather n to
hev the clever young teller hurt I'D
take a han myself On enterin' the
school-room rs surprised to at fust see
nobody but the slim young teacher, an
him very detected an anxious lookin'
Coin ways up the aisle, | seed two o
the ole time ringleaders O. school-houst
rackets settin' quietly in corner pale
an streaked an with heads tied up, bu
very intent on their lessons.
My friend, said the teacher I'm
Altered your no doubt well intended
description O these pupils, was, I'm
wisely, very much overdrawn. B'lievin
implicitly, every word we uttered,
come yere determined to viii
er It d be the fault O. the referee
An when these two fellers' showed e
they 8 spilin' fer fight. l give it tt
'em without a single stipulation, an
the best | he'd in the shop, never think
!. in but what they knew somethin' o
sparrin'. Yere We see the result,
sweeping his arms. languidly over tn
empty benches an towards the tw
damaged but studious youths in tn
corner. 90 course he continued,
knocked out the greenies too quick TO
common exercise, an so dom limo
Gently got in on 'em so hard that the
III be no good to study, though nov
ever so keen, fer two weeks. The res
O. the school tuck to the woods befor
the close O the fust an only roun''
,, "Sinkin back into dispirited heap
he wound up with: I'm feered Nv
busted the school mp
, IAN would We believe itp w
+ couldn't no more git single schola
: to 60 to school agin to tibet Teller tina
! nothin'! So we finally he'd to fire III
with two hull months unearned pay
his pockets. Sam. the Scaramoucl