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once in the street. began to speak OF her
with praise, enthusiasm. But my m Their dld not
share my mood
"She is a strange person, 9th, was her slow,
neditative comment. 81 do not know that l
like her, for all that she seems so kind and good
sob am sure that she is both = l answered,
warmly. 81 am sure that she meant all she
said ~
"Thcrc was a great oca that she did not
mean,n my mother returned. cor, at least l
could not lcl' thinkinr s. Still. this may be
because hayc never known persons Of her class
Very often she seemed 10 speak rs If she ana
not exrcct YOU 10 believe her. True, this was
only when she spoke Of he,sclf-not when she
offered us help or anything like that. j am not
certain that she is not good and kind. SO many
ladies would have shrunlS from us after after
what has happened. Perhaps they would have
ordered their servants to make us go away al
tncc They would have been alarmed at onr very
presence But | know so little of ladies like
herself | have never seen any Of them before
may he quite wrong IN my Judgment.
went, as you must have guessed. to hear some
thing about your papa. And she could tell me
So little did not dream of any help from her'
I wish she had not SPOKEN OF giving me any help.
If were in great want she would be the last per
son living to whom should apply"
"You went Ireturned with blunt frankness.
."beca,,se YOU thought she could tel YOU a great
deal about para And now you are diSap olnlcd
think she is very nice like her. Whether she
meant it all or no. mamna n, was somehow pleased
with everything she said. There was great
deal she said which l did not understand for
am not old enough. But | remember much OF IT,
anG if | ever meet her again when grow older
/ shall be able to make much of it clear shall
have learned more then; | shall have studied ana
learned
"You know all that l can teach YOU already.
Ohio said my mother we walked along lie
is in prison now He VIII be there for two years
That is his time-two yeas. When you arc
stronger will you 60 to school p
ayes said. | thinking of Mis-. Dorian
She mad fascinated me l wanted to learn more
So that | could find q Path into knowledge and
education like hers "Yes.' | went on. Il Will
go to school, as you wished before was i'll. But
this lady mamma? Shall we visit her aealn r
mo said my mother dccsively
And we did not. In month or so l went TO
the school formerly proposed 1t was o large
brick building, filed with shabby and plcoeian
scholars These were all boys, and the teachers,
except in n few of the senior classes. were all
women The classes were designated by letters
of the alphabet, Il meaning the highest gradeo OF al
tanment for any pupil and final entrance into
what was then the Free Academy and is now the
College Of New York (The word free had
to perish; it bore quite too offensive
n sound for certain republican calsl l went for
two years to this "waId school" as they termed
1t, and can not say that they were happy years,
or morally improving ones In the first place, the
three teachers under whose successive tutclagc a
rather rapid promotion placed mo- were women
of much inherent vulgarity and as naturally fol
lowed OF llgoyerned tcmIeIs. But 1t would al
most have required auIeOled saint, on the
othcr hand. to deal unTlled with some of the inns
and elves who trooped every morning into those
plain, dun, cherries rooms, and sat upon their
tiers Of gaunt wooden benches. My three teach
els were all very insanity women indeed. But
I yitcd them all Their tasks We're hatefu 10
them on account of the excessive badness and
mischief with which they were forever con
fronted They had all three dropped into the
habit Of being necessarily cross, because stern
measures were so often required Of them. They
could not saw the simplest thing to their scholars
myself alone eXceptedl without giving sour
fIuwn a biting curtness, q tang OF sarcasm, TO
the remark If either Of them lad once adj
dressed us in a tone Of real kindness we would
have felt something very like CONSERVATION
Overworled often forced 10 master on the prev
ious n.lts MANY OF the lessons which they heard
us recite during the day, ill-fed, compelled TO
brave the worst weathelS IN garments not AWAY
of the most resistant sort it is far from strange
that these women necessarily out OF health
one was always putting her hand to her head as
II twinge of pain stabbed ii another had
hacking cough third seemed at times nearly
cbolxed by a catarrhal trouble And whenever
their maladics were most acute the boys were sure
TO be most contimacious Every morning at nine
o'clock and every afternoon at the hour OF dis
missal three O'Clock, / believe we had TO assem-
bic in all immense dreary room over whose door
WAYS were written notices from Scripture, such
as "Dcliver us from evil or a wise son maketh
q glad father This coming together was like
gathering of the clans We would march in sin
gle file from our respective classrooms to the
sound of a jingling piano lamely played by one
of the teachers. Then the Bible which IRISH
nfiestcraft has since endeavored to abolish from
our public schools read 10 us for about ten
minutes by the principal, Mr.. Barlowe. Mr Bar
lowe was q handsome u an, with tall muscular
figure a metallic kind OF eye, and large glossy
black beard As look back upon him he seems
10 me the incarnation Of relentless cruelty III
fhe public schools yet retain thelr blDle. my
have however sent adrift something decidedly
more worthy Of eXorCism. L mean corporal pun
1shment 1t is terrible to reGolect tne '3ftne
that Mr. Barlowe inflicted with his slim. biting
rattan Every afternoon he would appear TO us,
like an eXecutOner among thIong OF SILVER
ing criminals Miss Budd or Miss Jenis or MS. MISS
Moriarty those were the names OF my three teach
ersl would hand him the fatal list OF ms VlCums
Unless they had committed some special offence.
these ladies would only the one significant
word "dsortlcrly " Then the condened ones
were forced to rise. and then hidcous castiga
ton would begin Mr.. Barlowe would make his
1.-THE switch descend upon their hands wmch they
were forced to put forward and to orcn. | have
n conviction that the agony of those HELPLESS,
covering urchins gave Mr.. Barowe sharp pleas
ure Some of the boys used to put RESIN on TIER
hands IN prevent the rain of the blows The
bows were bad enough, but Mr. Bsrlowe in his
handsome, insoent pride Of office, was worse than
fLe least good and yet he eXerted IL, day after
day. like the hard grained tyrant that he was
have learned, in succeeding years. that Mr. bar
lowe has gained name and almost fame as
public school principal But now that decency
las wrested from him his rattan cannot mag
Inc what sceptre he uses, since his former RUE