The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-02-27
WHIPPING THE SCHOOL. MiSfER.

erto be whipped or badgered so tina
each was ready to give up before 81
months had passed. The boys Tough
or inundated the male teachers, ant
annoyed the female teachers, until, un
nerved and utterly broken down, the!
took their departure, shaking thN dus'
of the Point from their feet. The day
arrived when no teacher made applica
ton for the vacant school, and the HEX,
DRY Point parents were anxious and dis
turbed at the state of things.
'I don't know what we are going tc
do with them boys of ourn," Deacon
Jones said to Deacon Savage. They
amt bad boys for work, nor for play
ing, but the moment they get on them
school benches, with books in their
hands, the very evil one seems to get
inter EN-. All the Point boys pattern
after them, and a very bad pattern it is,
a you know, Brother Savage. They
seem t. be determined not to be in any
school, and Tn worn out Furnishing
Zach. 1t don't seem to do him any
good"
THAT is so, Brother Jones. I'm sorry
for it, but it's so. Didn't l punish
my Abe fur whipping young Winter,
and did that make him any better? No.
Just think what he did to that last
school-ma'am-that old maid, Miss
Brown"
Deacon Jcnes, if he was deacon, had
a keen sense of the ludicrous, and he
laughed aloud. II declare, l can't help
it," he said. Il laugh every time 1
think of how that poor woman came
into my house, with her false front all
singed so you could see bald spots I'M
d~erneath, and the hair behind crisped
and smelling like burnt feathers.
Just look at me, Mr.. Jones? she
cried. Just see the work of that mis-
able Abe Savage and your son! They
came pretty nigh burning me up, sir.
My back hair was all IN a blaze before
I knew that it was on fire. And they
just laughed, instead of putting it out.
I demand satisfaction, sir, for the out
ragep"
"Well," we did have to pay we'll for
the %frolic," Mr.. Savage answered, dole
fully. @But she was too high-tempered
and excitable to be a school-teacher.
Folks that are always flying into pieces
can't manage boys, any way"
"We've had all kinds of teachers,
Brother Savage. 1t isn't the teachers,
but the wickedness of the boys them
selves. Why, you know we've had
good and bad-tempered teachers, young
and old, mild and cross, and how long
did any of them stay? I'm discouraged,
and shall not try to get another teacher.
Zach may go without an education, and
I'll give him one behind a plough. If
be don't work I'll whip him, and that's
al al =a DC "
Most Of the parents at the Point
adopted this plan. The boys were set
to work in the fields, the barns and the
stables, aud kept steadily at it. They
were allowed no holidays and no recre-
ations, and before six weeks had passed
they began to look back with regret to
their detested school-days and to wish
them back again. Even their ring
leaders did not hesitate to confess this.
81 don't have a moment for any kind
Of fun" grumbled Abe Savage. PAS
always al my heels; and when he isn't
there. mas just like q watchdog. It's
Abe, do this or Abe, you do that
until I fairly despise my own name.
Why. even Sunday, If I walk down the
road. I'm called back
They're treating us in this way just
TO pay rs for making it uncomfortable
for the teachers" Zach said gloomily.
3I know IFS that, though they don't say
. Z. But / don't care. I'm not going
back to school,
I'D rather have the teachers" Abe
said afor II they keep this up, I'm go-
ing to run away. Now, If you hadn't
treated Nh. Japp in the way yon did
he'd have been here now; and If school
Is hateful, WI did have Saturdays and
holidays"
II said no teacher should stay here
that couldn't lick meiD Zach cried,
frowning; land I'm not going back on
my word. No man shall scold and fer
u1o me who isn't stronger than I am, If
T can help it. You can show the white
feather if you choose, but / reckon /
can hold my own and drive EN- away,
Il al the boys do play coward