Fisherman & farmer. [volume] (Edenton, N.C.) 1887-19??, 1889-03-01

| about it. I like to tell people; it's so
funny. Yes, Pm going to teach IL l
can pass the examinations. You see, I've
been staying this summer at my Uncle
Ridgley's, out OF a farm. Well, the
teacher IL that district was taken sick
the other day, and what did my Uncle
Ridgley do but hire me for the fall term
me, He's one of the school directors,
YOU sec He said it.wou!d do me good
to 'spunk up and do it. He's always
deplored my not being able to make PIE
crust and weed onions, and he worte
home himself and got permission for
me. I know I'll en- oy it'll be such
new experience-but I'm full of awful
quaims. I've never taught, and | don't
know how. And my certiticate-Im IN
fear and trembling. I've been at board
ing school and all that, but I'm dread
fully rusty in the common branches"
She finished breathlessly and laugh
ing, and he laughed too.
LAS for me-" he said, in pleased re-
turn of her confidence, Its merely a
means to an end. my teaching. l want
to study law, and | want to do it by my
own exertions. That sounds rat"
goody goody, doesn't it, But l do.
I've taught a few terms in my own
county, ana now I've SCHOOL cuSdScu
in yours. I've -"
But formidably fat examiner raped
on the platform desk, and sent thinner,
but equally awe-inspiring, colleague IN
and out among the seats with the arlth-
metic questions in purple type writing;
and the Black County applicants sharp
ened their pencils and wrinkled their
brows studiouSly and went to work.
Milly opened her lunch basket, three
hours later, in the small room provided
for the purpose.
There was enough for three men, she
. unused, as she attacked q sandwich.
A bony young woman-in red and
lavender hat-just shaking off the
crumbs of her ascetic repast Of soda
crackers and picked pears, regarded
her with stern amazement as she with
drew.
Through the door she passed through
came the young man who sat next to
Milly.
ooh, are you here2" he sad, with a
shallow pretense to surprise.
He sat down near her, with an express
sion of very frank pleasure.
What was it that made him look so
handsome when he smiled, she wondered
his merry eyes or his white teeth?
Chow have you got on?" he ques-
toned, sympathetically, opening his
lunch.
''Horridly," she admitted. 'tI'm worse
that I thought. I've forgotten every
thing" She looked at his scanty bread
and butter. "Please have one of my sand
wiches," she said, shyly forcing it upon
him. Everything, positively. Pm
shocked at myself. I'm afraid | shan't
pass at all; and then, what will Uncle
Ridgley say? [ made terrible work of
those cube-root and brokerage problems,
l know l did. How | envied you, you
looked SO perfectly unfustered over
them And now the geography! Good
ness mel think did pretty we'll with
the Hebrides and ucatan and the Obi
River; but, Oh, dear. what are the
isothermal zones2"
She made her lips and her smooth
brow into ludicrous pucker as she
looked meekly up at him.
He laughed, with that enjoying, boy
ish slap of his hand on his knee.
Don't you know, honor bright?' he
calculated.
She shook her head solemnly. 81
haven't the faintest idea. never did
care for physical geography, and it's gone
right out of my head"
She bit tart ruefu.ly. won't you
take one of these? You see how much
of this I could never eat. No, don't
believe I'll get certificate at alp
He gazed at her with poignant regret
in his eyes.
"Oh, l hope 500 he said. sincerely.
"You've handed in your papers, haven't
you?" he added, vaguely.
She shook her head.
''No; / was foundering through the
end of it when got hungry"
/ They looked at each other with wide
eyes, startled by a common idea.
"Oh, no, no! you mustn't! Itwouldn't
be right or honest!" she gasped, half
laughing, half awed.
''Abstractly, it wouldn't" the young
man responded, refectively. "Ordinar-
lily, l shouldn't dream of doing it, in
deed; but, you see, you aren't adopt
ing teaching as a profession-you're not
going to teach but one term, and that
tor the sake of its being a new expert
ence,' and to please your uncle-and it
would be pity for a paltry certificate
to prevent you, and | don't feel that
should violate my conscience by helping
Won to it a little, and -and-the isother-
nal zones are spaces on opposite sides Of
the equator having the same mean tenn
perature and bounded by corresponding
ING isothermal lines"
NIilly sprang from Uncle Ridgley's
buggy, two weeks later, and rushed up