The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1889-09-19

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SO as to face the chopper. asked where
the spelling was to be.
Down It the corners" said Abe,
pausing with his axe uplifted and step
ping down from the log on which he
had been at work. ''Th' master give
It out las night, but somehows don't
bleeve but what lots NV folks hain't
heerd Nv it,
''Well, hain't heerd NV it, that's a
sure case,' Bill admitted. Coin It
be any fun there, d you reckon?"
'Shouldn't wonder. Better come
anyways. TIL more tn merrier.''
''Be you MS goin'?' the rider in
quired. by which collective pronoun
he meant to designate not only. Abe
himself. but the entire Hinchew family
of spelling school age, from little Bob
to half grown Barb'ry and Nancy, in
the full bloom OF rustic womanhood.
That's what we air. said Abe.
9TH hull gol-darnea kit I'm us S goin'."
The boy and the young man COM
pared notes together for Il few minutes
about the school at 1.-THE corners
Monks corner was the full and original
nppellation, but popular usage protests
effectuallya Against superauous words
and "Big Bill Brubaker concluded
that he might be interested in making
the acquaintance of the new "citifed"
man who had come from Briggsville to
try his luck with one of the hardest
schools in the county.
II reckon I may be down. he said.
indifferently, as he jibed his heels into
the TANKS of his mare and went off at
squirting trot with Abe shouting after
him:
''Be sure'n bring q can'l along with
you!''
The spelling was to be at ''early can
delight and the master had seen that
good fire was left in. the big stove
which stood in the middle of the room,
il a shallow box filed with sal II we'll
despatched and soaked with tobacco
juice, for the night was cold.
''Who will open the school-hOuse
and light up?' he had asked, and, as
usual, there were contending aspir-
ants for the honor.
II guess will have to let Abe do it
this time,' the master had said when
the plans were all before him. and &C.
cordingly the key was given into Abe's
keeping when the girls had swept the
room and made it tidy for the evening.
But when Abe came in sight of the
school-house at a scasonable hour, with
a candle cut in the middle SO as to
double its Illuminating powers by max
ing two lights in place of one, he saw
that some one had preceded him, for
there was d light already in the room.
although the door, as he found upon
trial. was still locked.
who's in herc?' he demanded, us
he turned the key and threw open the
door. But there was no reply. he
stood for Il moment on the threshold,
waiting for the intruder to reveal him
self by word or sound, but there was
utter silence within, save for the COM
Portable roar of the hospitable fro in
the stove.
who's here?'' Abe again demanded,
q little less firmly. Come outen yer
hidin' place, Sam Peachy, know who
you air. r..- -..-.. ~ II. -. ~
When this injunction had proved AZ
fruitless as the first, Abe shut the door
advanced into the room and proceeded
to light one piece of his candies
which he located on the masters
desk. standing on little platform at
one end of the room. The other piece,
which. after considerable frying and
suffering of the loop OF wick that
protrudes from the butt end, had been
induced t, burr. he stuck into one OF
the blocks. of wood, bored half through
with an algur, which served for candle
sticks. LIE placed at the opposite end
of the room.
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absence o. any one other than htmssli,
NE hoy new teok : survey Of the roois.