Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1888-10-06
CARRYING OUT THE TEACHER

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''He don't know hawk from a hand
sawI'' said Jad Day 'If he did he
wouldn't come here"
"But well teach him soft he'll know
afore we git through with him. He'll git
the consate taken out of him." laughed
Jote Yates.
"Won't he thought chorused Ziby
Swain, 'Cufy" Wyman and Nat Durfee.
These were some Of the Kaidger boys.
They were Longing about the school
house waiting for the new master. The
winters school was to begin that morning.
Oh, you think yer smart" retorted
Sally Briggs. Talk about consate! He
may take the consate out of you. It'll be
pity if he don't"
"Who's that just spoke up and said moth
ing?" sneered JoLe, looking round with
more seriousness.
The others laughed and Sally was 81
lent, but she determined not to forget the
insult.
''They say he wears store close" said
Iiby. 81 s'pose he thinks we never saw
any here. Won't he feel highly honored
though, when he hears us all salute him
when he comes inP
"Here he comes, fellers, Just round the
turn out by the alders thar" cried Nat.
"Be ready now to yell when he comes in.
Bray and whinny just yer prettiest soon's
he shows his head in the door,"
3 The boys at "Kaidger HILL" were a
rough set. They had the reputation of
being the worst in the country. Since the
town was first settled, there had been
trouble in school nearly every winter. 1t
was not wholly the fault of the boys. The
parents were constantly quarreling, one
family with another. The year before
there had been loud contention concerning
the school-house, the old one having mys-
teriously burned. Some people wished to
build new one, but the majority decided
to occupy a log house, which a settler had
abandoned. 1t was strong structure. At
a distance of twenty-five feet there was q
-cow-barn connected with the house by a
covered way. The cow-barn with the COW
cred walk was used as a wood-house. There
was door opening out of the school-room
into the covered walk and another door
where the walk connected with the wood
house. The outer door of the cow-barn
was nailed up SO that the only way into
the wood-house was from the school-room.
The doors were provided with strong iron
hasps" and staples. The wood-house
bore among the boys the nickname of the
trap" Jad Day, Cuffy Wyman, Jote
Yatas, Nat Darfee and Ziby Swan were
rough youngsters from II to 10 years old,
not lacking in bone or Drawn, boastfui of
their powers at rough and tumble, and
correspondingly deficient in intellectual
gifts.
For three years there had not been a
complete winter term of school in the dis
out" by the boys. Their mode of doing
the carrying out" was commonly to rush
upon the unfortunate pedagogue and carry
him out doors, and throw him into a snow
drift, or else put him into the trap" and
keep him there during the rest of the day.
Usually the luckless victim was glad to de-
part-as soon as he could-from the dis
trict. One, however, young theological
student-returned to his post the next
morning after being "carried out" He
was taken to the top of the long hill lashed
fast to a handsled and sent to the bottom
of the hill, wild ride of nearly a mile
He did not return even for his hat, which
flew off his head midway of the hill. The
next master was an itinerant Methodist
minister, whose plan it was to combine re-
igious with mental teachings. The
method gave great offense to the KaidgeI
boys. For week they pretended to have
great respect for him, some even pretend.
ing to become converted. The deceived
man went about openly rejoicing over the
good work he had wrought. But two morn
ines later the young barbarians carried
him out into the woods, bound him to the
top of birch tree, which they had bent
down by main strength and then let il
go. The poor man was hurled upward
and left dangling fifteen feet from the
ground; and it was two or three hours be-
fore his shouts brought assistance. There
was no more school that winter A sign
To Let" was nailed by the boys on the
front door of the school-house, and each OF
the brutal clique smashed pane of glass
every time he went past. The following
autumn a young land surveyor, Ammi
Bray, came into the township to "run u
certain lots of land. He was rather above
the medium hight and muscular, but his
most disgusting feature was his eyes, which
were very noticeably blue, and had habit
Of dwelling with unusual steadiness or
every person with whom he was speaking
The school agent asked him one day
whether he had ever taught school
Never" replied Ammi Bray.
oval, | don't keer of yer never did,
awcintp,aI ha aoranF. {. I front ,ra,. Il,
our scule this winter"
But, my dear man." replied Mr.. Bray
1T would not be, from all accounts, gooc
place for an amateur. Besides, though
know something of mathematics, and once
knew little grammar and geography,
do not feel qualified to teach"
e dunnos keer eff We don't know /
from bulls foot" exclaimed the per
picked agent What l want is a mar
that ken whop them confounded boys
Thar'll never be no scule here till they'r,
whopped and cowed. And believe your,
the man to do it. But l tell We what
they're parcel Of hyannysl he added
almost doubtfully al dunno, sometimes
as the man walks as ken whop UNI p
Ammi Bray took a day to think of it
and then he told the agent that he woulC
take the school. Thus we find the sur
veyor on his way to the school-house '.jus
round the turn by the alders," as Ma
Durfee said, and the Kaid er boys waiting
to ''s'lute him." And the moment h,
showed his face in the doorway dozer
lusty Threats poured forth a chorus o
raspy winnings and brays-as persona
insult to his peculiar name of Bray Bu
Ammi seemed not at all disturbed. He
presently called the school to order. Hi
steady blue eye was so assertive of author
ity that somehow the Kaidgers were lit
tie disturbed themselves. Perhaps tht
muscular ease with which the new master
tossed the great fore-stick" and back
logs" into the fireplace served to hole
them in check. Then, too, his manner o
giving and hearing lessons was off-handec
and manly. For the next four days they
were impelled to behave quite well. Bu
it would never do to let him rule them
whole week. The eighth of Decembe
was bitterly cold day and the wind blew
piercingly keen. 1t was a cold walk to tn
school-house, and on his arrival Their
Master Ammi found the chimney hat
refused its ordinary function. The room
was full of smoke; and the children stoo'