The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-08
WITH JUNE ROSES.

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The blue sky smiled down LOVING 81
4 brightly rs only June skies Ct
seem; birds tyvittered and sang in til
treetops orhopped about on the ca,
PEI 81 green in search OF food for thei
young; breezes seemed whisperin
non The leaves stories of the flow
: meadows over which they ha
come, while the scholars in the it'll
/ brown school house which nestled /
the grove like q brown robin in he
leat-curtained nest looked out Of IL
windows and wondered if noon woul,
never come.
say. Jirn,' whispered one tow
mead 70 another. .t.see that snowbanl
Up her re- pointing to a pile Of whit,
fiuffss clouds. Now If Us the it'll,
angelic hayea game OF SNOWFALL,
NAV ye wouldn't nather,'' sal:
Jlnl, sllying a paper wad ut the ret
neaied girl opposite him. Eyer m:
IN. low We to play in snow. honey
what a whopper!. exclaimed
the first speaker.
such o thing remarked Jim,
p1,eparing paper for another charge,
.Ies know ye didn't play a game las,
Well, an what'f / didn't; guess /
had the wloopin' cough last winter.
IN ma said her brother'd died 'caIse
he'd canght cold wen he had the
whoopln' cough, and it vent to his
ing an killed him. An Crack
ey, interrupted Jim. ..She nearly
caught me that time. II say, let's
study u spellin' lesson. iii lust
this n more, an then we'll
study. But that one moro was the
q too many. lit hit the il%l-naturcd
fellow IN the corner on his frecl;led
nose, and he promptly reported on
James, who was %thercnpon assigned
stauting room by the Teachers desk,
The first towhead left to himself di-
vidcd his time between the window
near HIM and the clock, which to him
DID not appcarsto move ut all, ..please.
ma an. said he ut length. as THOUGH
he had Just made startling discovery.
spieass.g teacher, the clock s stopped
No,s said the teacher. with u smile
q sympathy. guess the clock is all
rlshs; But you have stopped study
ING. BiiIf. Towhead manfllly wink
% sne tears away and dropped his
speiling book out of the window.
"isacleT, may / get my booka' he
said, mo, Billy, this makes the
third time you have dropped your
book this week. You may study with
johnny JONES' said the poor. tired
teacher, striving to sneak kindly
but something will tear my book M
and can have no more till next
term. pap said
What is there out there to disturh
your bookpn
said towhead, after = short
pause, sstoads n things then added
more excitedly, amidst the laugh that
greeted this oninous list of DESTROY
sOh. there's Tom Woodson,s
dog noWS, M he just hates books
Keep Your seat said the teacher
quietly; X will get the book Tor Won.
1nen yo'tanust stand on the floor. so
as not to be tempted to drop it
again.
IoWhead looked rather blank, but
20 get him u drink while she
gone TOR the book. Thus the
forenoon dragged sits a length
along. The scholars restless and
ldle, n the teacher almost too weary
and sad to blame them for it. But At
last the clock struck twelve. school
was dismissed for the noon hour, aud
scholars went shouting and Jump
lng away i0open their lunch baskets
~ the cooi. green grass benenth the
sfees, lave their faces in the brook
flowed near by. The tcacEar was
eftalones Inc sad meaning Of that
word thrilled her RS she turned the
OF her registrar, to give Teddy
credit for his noon head
IN the spelling class. Then she
tlrned TO the lunch which tile far
ner's wife with whom she boarded
lad "put up for her. Tie lunch was
laInty, and nicely arranged, as her
andlady had paid moro than usual
are " Us preparation. remembering
g this was the little teachers birth.
q that it was q sad day, too,
orsthe girl who had on this day, six
ears before, turned from the grave
I her mother, her last relative, SO far
9 she knew, homeless and alone. 10
nd adwelling place among
earn her living bv teacLing
Yet tempting as the sugareI
erriss, with cream, and tbn anl,y
Oils upon which the cook quite prided
erselt would have been at a hannie,.
me, the teacher turned from them
lth q sigh to-day, and catching up 4
unch OF roses that n 81 The
tile g5irsss -sd that morning BROUGHT
placed upon the teachers desk.
ie buried her face in their brioat
ePths and burst into . passion of
coping; Round a little home far
2 the roses had clustered thick
ad various ~ the happy sum-
OF years that were gone. Little
q the school girl think as she gather
that bunch of roses and as a gift
love aid it upon the teachers desk
at morning of She many sweet and j
memories 1t would bring
that teachers hearr. But AZ i
Q roses, crushed by the pressure Of /
r face, threw round her their fra t
hnce the teacher's thoughts sped /
through tho wears dividing to ,
Z home OF her childhood and youth.
such another June day as this, the Z
pirehday she had spent in that q
me. how happy. oh. how very hap t
!. they had been. Her mother and 9
and their three children, Fred, q
q Benny and herself. Memory /
cWed her o her sweet brown s
irad mother by an open window, t
g outside Of which her father stood i
unlng ASSsrose that threatened To q
row such thick foliage across the Il
asst0 shut ont the ljght. while k
linen through the airy hallway "
ogt through the yard to the a
shard q eldest brother, was q,
g by the darling Of sne family, +
Ie Ben, still In frocks, but ofta In
sitting of the pants he u to wear
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