The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1888-11-11
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could cut better one with scissors. outer an
old cloth jacket of mine"
"And you found it here9" asked the master, In
surprise.
Il got Masters to look for it. when he was on
the Summit. / described it TO MIN. didn't
allow he had the gumption to get IL But he
did,"
Although botany lsnguished slightly after
this vicarious effort. it kept Grassy in fresh
bouquets. and extending its gents influence 10
her friends and ac1uaintsnces, became slightly
COMPOUNDED with horticulture. led to the plant
ing Of one or two gardens, and was accepted In
school as an implied concession TO berries ap-
pies and nuts In reading and writing Cressy
greatly improved. with a marked decrease in
grammatical solecisms, although she still re-
tanned certain characteristic words snd always
her own slow, Southwestern, half-musical in
donation. This languid deliberstion was par
Hcuiarly noticeable in her reading aloud. and
gave the studied and measured rhetoric charm
Of which her careless colloquial speech wss in-
capable. Even the Fifth Reader" with it's
imposing passages from the English classics,
carefully selected with a view of parayzins
small, hesifating or hurried voices,
In Cressy's hands became no lopgei
an unintelligible incarnation. She had
quietly mastered the difficulties of pronuncis-
tion by some instructive sense OF euphony, n not
of comprehension. The master. with hls eyes
closed. hardly recognized his pupil Whethei
or not she understood what abe read he hesi-
tatsd to inquire; no doubt. as with her other
studies, she knew what attracted her. Rupert
Filgee, sympathetic, if not always a correct
reader, who boldly took four and i've syllabled
fences flying only to come to grief, perhaps IN
the ditch of some rhetorical pause beyond, alone
expressed his scorn OF her performance. Octa-
via Dean, torn between her hopeless affection
for this beautiful, but inaccessible boy. and her
soul friendship for this bigger. but many
frocked. girl, studied the masters face with
watchful anxiety.
It 10 needless to say that Hiram McKinstry
was. in the intervals of stake-driving aud stock
61ntine, heavily contented with this latest evil
dence of bis daughters progress. He even init
mated to the master that her reading being an
accomplishment that could be exercised at home
was conducive 20 that 'kam" in which be was
so deficient. 1t was also rumored that Cressy's
oral rendering of Addisons Reflections in
Westminster Abbey and Burke's Indictment
of Warren Hastings had bsguiled him
ing from improving an opportunity to plug
one OF HarrDn's boundary raiders"
The msster shared in Cressy's glory in the
public eye But although Mrs. MeKinstry did
not materially change her attitude of tolerant
good nature towards him. be was painful
~ conscious that she looked upon her
daughters studies, and her husbands
interests In them as weakness that
might in course of time produce infrmity OF
homicldal purpose aud become enervau3g OF
eve and trigger finger. And when Mr. Mchins-
try got himself appointed as school trustee and
was thereby obliged to minRle with cersain
Eastern settlers-eolleaRues on the board-rhis
possible weakening OF the old. sharply drawn
sectional line between "Yanks- aud rheuselyes
gave her grave doubts Of Hirams physical STAN
ina.
"The old mans worrits hev sorter shook out
little of his sand, she had explained On those
evenings when he attended the board sho
sought higher consolation in prayermeetine az
the Southern Baptist Church. in whose exer-
cises her Northern and Eastern neignbors,
thinly disguised as 'Basl' and "Astaroth" were
generally overthrow and their temples made
desoiats.
II Uncle Bens'progrsss was slower, IL was no
less satisfactory. Without imagination and
even without enthusiasm, he kept with .
dull, laborous Dersistency. When the irasci-
BILE impstierce of Rupert Filese at last sac
cumbed to the obdurate slowness OF his pupil.
the master himself, touched by Uncle Bens
perspirng forehead and perplexed eyebrows.
often devoted the rest OF the afternoon 10 a
gentle calculation Of the mysteries before him,
setting copies for his heavy hand. or even guic-
inc IL with bis own, like o childe, across tho
paper. At times the appalling useiessness OF
Uncle Bep's endeavors reminded him OF ka-
pert's haunting charge. Was be really doing this
from q genuine thirst OF kBowledgef Ii WAS
Inconsistent with ali that Indian Spring knew
Of bis antece6enis and bis present am
billions; re simple miner WITH
out scientific or technical knowledge. lis
already slight acquaintance with arithmetic and
the scrawl that served for his signature were
more than sufficient for his needs. Yet IL was
with this latter sen manual that he seemed 10
take infinite pains The master one afternoou
thought ft 20 correct the apparent vanity Of this
performances.
'If you took as much care ia trying 20 foea
your letters according to coy, you'd do bettf.
Your signature 10 fair enough as IL is-p
"But IL don't leok right. Mr.. Ford. said Uzila