The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1885-06-16

10 ralse the WlIner, Out llSG cnuCheu
him through it b'gosh, sash an all.
That were the reason Bub concluded
not to occupy the cheer no more. he
said he'd 90 inter any barroom an
fight the two best men in the township
but wen it come to teachin' the young
idee of Bull Medder how TO shoot he'd
asst to be excused. He would, b'gosh!
1t struck the township ez bein' a
terrible thing to hev childurn so durn
anxious TO larn az theirs was, an ylt
to be enable to give 'em the advantages
of an edicatiOn, jiSt cause tn wan
no talent in the township ekal to devel-
opin' their yearnin' minds; but wat
was to be did? A hull winter slid away
without the school house benz opened,
but wen spring come tn didn't none
o the CROWN youth O. the deestric'
look very thin from worryin' over it.
That spring OF Meshellum Mugweli
moved inter the township. The oil
man had the name o being about the
toughest bar fighter tn were in the
hull Pocono country, an he were. de
had darter named Mahala, an Ma
hala KEEP house fur her pap, the oil
woman bein' dead. Jedgin' from her
name, We mowt s'pose that Mahala
Mugwelt were a six-footer, treadin on
the suburbs o forty year old, an a
tearer giner'ly. Wall, b'gosh, she
wa Mt nothin' o the kind. Mahala
was nineteen, an stood five feet in her
moccasins. She had picked stun,
planted 'ta,ers, hoed corn, cut buck
whit an druv steers ever since she were
big enough to know a coon dog from a
bar cub. Consistently Mahala had
muscle, an were grittier than sand
paper. Tn want nothin' she were
'feerd on. from painter down. She
were a gal eZ were a gal, b'goshi
an didn't take no stock in hifalutin.'
"Wall, ven Mahala foun' out that
the risin' gineration o. the deestric'
were CROWN up in ignorance, she
SAYS to the township that she d
tackle the cheer o the Bull Medder
school house herself She said she
couldn't spell all the words tn was in
the Spellin' book, an didn't know ez
she could set down an write much OF
a coDv in a writin' book. EZ fur
readin', she said, she'd ben through the
second reader, an ez to 'rithmetIc, she
know'd that two an two was four, thai
three into two We couldn't, an that
nothin' from noth;n' an nothin' re-
manned.
But saws Mahala, L kin lick nv
brother Sam, an he kin biff the life
out n any bush-whacker that ever sot
his foot on PoconO. If that hain't
with six dollars a month an board
yerself.' says she, watts the use o
havin' grit?'
so the directors they thot they'd
give the childurn one more chance.
hopin' that this time they'd got a
teacher ED 'preciate 'em, an do the
squar' an proper thing by 'em, SOS
they could expand their minds. An
Mahala were hired to teach the school.
The fust day o. the term things run
kinder permisc'us. The young idee
talked out loud, throw'd books an
states. upset benches, split the water
pail over the floor, run in an out o
the school room whenever il durn
pleased, sassed Mahala, an done every
thing it could to make things pleasant
fur the new teacher. an TO show her,
b'gOsh, how bad it was achin' to rarn.
Mahala sot in her cheer an didn't
notice nothin', an never said a word
all day. Wen it was time for school
TO let out, though, she gave rap on
the desk. an 'twere rap that brought
things to quiet in less'n second.
The young idee hadn't never hecrd
sech rap ez that in the school afore,
an it were kinder tuck back.
Young uns.' SAYS Mahala. 'th'll be
new rules in this h'yer school house to-
morrer.'
That's all she said, an the scholars
went out with a yOrp an a howl. Next
day they was all on hand bright an
arly, an all in their seats GRIMM an
waitin' to hear W at the new rules was
TO be. Buster Brown an his twin
brother, Bob, sot in one o the front
seats. They was more'n six foot high,
an big ev'ry other way, an strong ez
oxen, though they wa n t nineteen year
old yit. They alluz done jist ez they
pleased, an let all the other scholars
do the same. Mahala had sized 'em
up the fust day. an made up her mind
to hev it out with 'em, b gosh, without
losin' no time, though she kinder felt
it in her bones that the both on 'em
was gointer be more'n she could git
away with. She were bound to give
'em a fight anyhow, even if she had to
shet up school the mex minute an git
fur her OF mans cabin.
"'One O. the new rules o. this h'yer
school is said Mahala, standin' up,
til can't no durn scholar 90 out'n his
seat no more, less he asts me fur to
let him.
Buster Brown and his brother Bob
gin howl, an the hull school jined in.
Buster and Bob both jumped up in their
seats an was swaggerin' long away
from 'em. Ii were a warm day in Nav,
an the winders an door was oped. Ez
Buster an Bob jumped from their seats
Mahals sprung for'ard to meet 'em.
This kinder tuck 'em by s'prise, an