The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1888-02-22

she laid him on her lap and tried
to spank him, but he bit her on the
knee and she screamed "mercy"
and let him go.
The other day l CHANGED to be
ore Of a party OF assorted gentle
men and they took it by turns tell
ing Of their schoolboy frolics and
adventures. One said "while l
was going to school to old Greer l
picked a lot of wet @nud off my
J shoe heels and made it into ball
and thought / would just toss it
over and hit Ed. Omberg, who sat
on the other side of the school
room. Old Greer was on that side
too and right between me and Ed,
but | thought I could flip it over
his head while he was leaning over
his desk setting copies, but some
how dident flip it hard enough and
it came down on old Greer>s head
keraop and ffattened out like
pancake. l never saw a man more
astonished in my life, and | was
scared nearly to death, | ducked
down to my boot and dldent dare
to look up. My dueking down was
what caught me, for the other boys
were looking up in wonder, and
they would look at old Greer and
then look at me, and a pointer dog
couldn't have spotted a bird any
better. "Come here" said he.
"Come here; come here; come right
along here;' and he met me half
way AID gave me about twentye
FIVE that lasted and fingered for
whole week.
jim Jones was suffering boy,
and checked full of mischief. Ear
ly one morning he fastened the
historic pin in old Greer's split.bot-
! tom chair, and when he came in
and called the roll and then took a
seat in his accustomed seat, he
/ didn't stay there long but, rose up
with great alacri!y. His eyes flash
ed Ere as he gazed around the
room, and he eaught jim in the
same way he caught me, and seiz-
ing long keen supple hickory
said: Come up here, sir. You
viilainoas scamp I'll show YOU
como along, SIR" Jim approached
trembling and slow. "eome along,
| tell You, sir" Jim stopped and
suffered with pitiful accents:
"Ger>gef -eer-gwine to wh-wh-
whip me" "Come along, l tell
you. or Tll--"
"Ger,ger-ger-gwine to wh-wh-
whip me hard" Old Greer starts
ed toward him, but Jim had lost
confidence, and wheeling suddenly
made ira ks for the door with old
Greer after him, Jim bounced
over two benches to get there first,
but Greer had to turn corner
around the benches, and in doing
so tripped and fell broadcast and
rolled over besides, and we boys
just oackled. He bounced up as
mad as Julius Cesar and said in
towering passion: "Pn whipevery
boy that laughs, Now laugh again,
if you dare And we dident
dare.
Well it is curious that most every
devllish boy in every school isnams
ed Jim. The very name seems to
make boy devilish. They gen.
orally make notable men, and some
! of them climb very high, There
| is James Madison and James Mons
roe and Polk and Buchanan and
Garfield. And Jimmy Blaine is
cavotiug around and thinks he
ought to be president Just be-
cause his Hame is Jim. If there Ia
any other good reason | don't know
it. And | went to school with
Jim Wilson and Jim Alexander
and Jim Wardlaw and Jim Linton
and Jim Walker and they were a
sight. There is another thing to
be noted about school boys. They
always call their teacher "old."
They called DIR. Patterson cold
Pat, and Professor Mccoy "old
Mack" and Professor Waddell
"old Pevt, and there was old Ma
hum and old Beeman, aud old
Fouch and I'D Ishman.
We were talking about old Ish-
man, and one of our party said;
81 went to school 20 him, and
sometimes he would slip up on a
boy az sly as a cat upon rat,
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