The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1889-01-24
SCHOOL TINE.
The Children Return to their zstudles
Again.

SCHOOL TINE.
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The Children Return to their istudles
Again.
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/ School has begun again, and my time
has come to worry with the children and
help them with their lessons. They have
q hard time, they think, bnt there is right
smart hilarity mixed up with it, and so
we get along. 1t is splendid fun to watch
the youthful mind develop and expand,
and suddenly awake to things that are
so easy and simple to us. I was hearing
them spell and define last night, and had
TO hand the book back twice before they
had their lesson perfect and understood
the definitions, for some Of the definitions
need as much defining as the words.
"Jessie, spell eclipse and define it."
She spelled it right, and said it was IAN
oval figure" "Wbat is that?" said I.
sT don't believe I know" said she-and so
! I told her it vas figure shaped like an
egg, but twasj just alike at both ends, and an
egg was larger at one end than the other.
"Oh, I know" said she-"au eclipse is 8
rooster egg; that is long egg and shaped
alike at both ends. Old Aunt Susan
told me they we're rooster eggs, and al.
ways hatched out roosters-an eclipse isa
rooster egg"
Carl gallops along and gets things
awfully mixed. I asked him to spell
jaundiee-"j "johndice-a yellow skin-a
mulatto."
"Caricature, JESSIE" She spelled it
right, and said it was funny picture ofa
cat.
"Carl, spell Group" "Croup-adi disease
of the throat or the rump."
I tried him on demagogue, and he said
it was ripgmaster in circus. ga
ripgleader of the rabble," said I. well,
I thought that rabble was circus"
said he. @
Troche is medieated lozenge, and
they thought it was Some curious animal,
like balloon or a..lizard.
We all remember how the hard words
staggered US, and how consequential we
felt when we mastered them. Big boys
are too fond of making fun of the little
boys. sophomores make sport Of the
freshmen at college, and juniors make
sport ofthe sophomores. The seniors are
not so bad about that, for they are just
beginning to fnd out that they don't
know much themselves, but as a general
thing sophomores and juniors are the
most stuck up fools on earth. The more
knowledge a man acquires the more
humble he is. The other day I overheard
some little chaps giving to each other the
very same riddles that charmed me when
T was boy-"House full and yard full
but can't catch bowl full" Round as
q riddle and deep as cup and all King
Georges horses can't pull it up" "Big
at the bottom and little at the top, the
thing in the middle goes fipity flop" I
believe that people never get so old as to
have contempt for riddles. a riddle
is challenge to the mind-a dare-and
no one likes to give it up without an
effort to solve it. There is but one riddle
in the Bible that I remember, and that
was Simpsons, though. Josephus says that
the queen of sheba and Hiram, king of
Tyre, piled him with many riddles and
he solved them all.
| Not long ago We had 8 pleasant gather.
| ing of children and friends at our house,
and the sumptuous repast seemed to
brighten up the wits Of the older ones,
and we soon found that Two of the
preachers were the ringleaders of the
party. For a time they were pitted
against each other in throwing corrusca-
tions, and they made the fire fly to our
edifcation and amusement. reca II
some of their riddles and will pen them
for the young folks to ponder:
The Scriptures tell us ofone Who never
spoke bat once.and then had only one to
hear him. Who was he?
What has the Creator never seen and
can't see, but man sees everyday?
Who died before he Vas born?
Who became wife before she was ten
years old?
Who was the first boy and the first girl
named in the Bible?
Who is the first king named in that
book?
Where is money first mentioned?
Then they branched off on all sorts OF
perplexities. One said: A man started
to town with twenty.six sheep-ons
died on the way-how many got there
The other said: Two men made wa
ger as to which could kill the most birds.
One killed ninety.nine the other killed
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