Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1889-04-20
HIS NOTIFICATION.
How Thornton Executed
mission.

"She'u have to go; amt no way out o
nut She'll have to skip said Dave Kin
/ Iev. Ba squinted in a cross-eyed mannera al
. tho crackUr-crumb on his tawny, scraggy
/ be'rj, and transferred it carefully to his
mouth. There was a wedge Of cheese on
his lgf- knee When the Fence Corners
5eloo. Boarj-originally Fennetts Cor.
Hcrs. hG- thus apty abbreviated-held a
meeting, it was, by general agreement, in
OLD Hanks grocery, where crackers and
cheese, and mayhap a herring, might re-
lieye It's telium. But tonight there was an
alieviauug interest.
"ADout the size of it," SAID Sllas Saun-
ders. He preferred tobacco, and rolled a
qud under his tongue This amt no place
fer herbCye. Why, / wouldn't answer for
the consequences if she staid; there amt
Cd tellin' what might happen, ner what
dcyltry them boys might be up to. Look
at Couy ROurke SIX foot two or three if
he's an inch, ani chuck full, chuck full,
chuck full He's always b6W the one to
put the teachers out, and there amt no
doubt but what it's his idee this time Bar
ricadin' the school-house right out bold
first day o. school; now, who but Corny'd
a. thought o. Hdt?n
There was something of contemplative
admiration in his tone.
Coin to be done, whoever's doin' it,
said Kinney, exploring his cracker-bag
Coin to git in at eight o'clock tomorrow
morniu' an shut up the door and fasten the
windows, and any teacher that gifts in IL
have to git in through the key-hole er a
crack; what they Scid"
He had told it before; He had called the
meeting for the purpose Of telling it. But
1t was interesting 10 dwell upon.
There was an IMPRESSIVE silence.
"Wau Wen nave to give her notice
You're jest the one to doit, Thornton-ehl" n"
Saunders observed to the third member
of the board He was himself uneasy.
"She got along fust-rate, summer term" he
added He appeared to feel a vague and
wholly impoteut regret "Needs the money,
should icdgen
"She needt "a made no calculations to
teach no winter term hero-not to Fence
Corners Kinney responded, with some
contempt "If there h'ain't BEN a winter
fer five years but what there's BEN a rum
pus, and gcnorly school shut up, wy, she
needu' 'a' looked fer there gOn' to be-"
II was unausWerablc but the store-lIeeper
entered a weak suggest ton over his motley
counter
81 should think that gang ought to be
broke up,' he said
Ho expected no reioiuder, and got none.
The School Boards attention ceutered upon
no such whimsical irrelevaucy
"Recl1on uU'rt the one to notify her,
Thornton said Saunders, again.
Ho Nriggled uuquietly on his stool.
thornton sat m'you.ess, Whether in fact
or 10y % trick of the ul-burLing lamp on the
couuturuI5 gooj-l1u{iug face with its heavy.
.-"' '''"A'"s"'' appeared pale. de sat
WIN u'7 arms crossed ON his kuees and his
'S C1 on inc u'oG silent
-, a...' h,4-uey' W'th an alr OF I'M
p"' l'"' N.'l7'o". 'A ou can git 1t of better
,''.'''",.7 or me- thornton. You're a
'''H'" U.".' anyhow, ana you re bet
~, ,0 up Ae 'onc'uded' with polite
.rr....,..,.3
..i t.,S ~ MAGE ., a." attempt at careless dis
mlssNi OF the subject Kinney got up and
,''., ,, '..' ,.,,7o I-gu IN lhe stove Thorn
s,,.,ri 80, ,.',., '.' '"D" over MS mouth ana
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o,,.,..r,,.,.....g,. n. Az N"'s s"'u hlnheN'
his .r3 ',,. ,.,. s "" C"u | 'c1' "er Jest now
a,r,r o., b1 ,,.t ~ 's' ..'. NoI own soea' ana
...r1,er .l,., "N' "NO'uou' Aou can
W.. ,..,, ,,,,, ,.,l .'ls' summer term.
~. -, >,," , W. '-N' Jl9t "AaJ you re a
rrsi, '.',' 'N'..-1l, Hasnanlmously
,r,s., ,'.,.,'- -' HEose' lie was tall and
,',t I''-, loINE Ie-oW' but there was an
toward tbe d",. rI ''',,'i1S S,5 now as ne went
his I.ps M, a-j ,,,i ~ l u's -or!ln TO
thg Irbt Ugrl-s s,,'5 ,''s -. .".0 "Way from
door closed "'''' MN 'ilI tue
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