The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1889-12-26

though without Intention. TIE teacher
asked him his name and he said it was
George. Being asked what his last name
was he said that was his last name.
"But you must have another naine,r
urged the teacher. SIS it George Smith,
or George Johnson, or George WHAT"
Nope" he said, shortly. .s'Taint
George What, nor George Nothin, it's
George. hain't got no oder name"
But the joke came when the teacher,
wishing to know whether he had learned
anything at all, asked him, "Do you
know who made your"
AT the same instant boy behind him
stuck pin into George. Such tricks
we're very common among the little saw
ages, but it did not hurt any the less be-
cause it was not unusual. George jumped
from his seat and shouted at the top of
his voice .sGoddemitey."
"Well, that's right" said the teacher,
who had not noticed the trick. "Bu.
don't shout So" The story was told
afterwards, with engagements, urltif it
became chestnut" many years ago.
1t was a long time-some months--be-
fore the teachers could learn much about
the boy, for he was distrustful to the
last degree. He kicked the Rev. Mr.
Van Meter on the shins very violently,
and twisted himself away like an eel
when that gentleman, according to his
habit, laid his hand affectionately on the
boys shoulder. George thought he was
going to be beaten, and took his usual
precaution of GLIDING the preliminary
hold. He had, it seemed, never known
what it was to have anybody take hold
of him in kindness, and was no more to
be handled than young bird or squir-
rel There was hardly anything, in fact,
that he did know, as the good mission
people recasoned knowledge. He knew
how to swear fuently, as his acct
dentally correct answer as to his
Maker indicated, but he did not
know, and it was long time be-
fore he could be made to understand,
that swearing was wrong. In fact, he
did not know what wrong was. So far
as his experience Of life went, every
body did precisely what seemed at the
moment desirable to do, unless pre-
vented by superior physical force, or by
bodily fear. Stealing was to him per-
fectly legitimate mode of acquiring any
thing that he might happen to want,
and the only reason why it should be
done secretly was that too much osten-
tation about the act was apt to provoke
interference on the part of the owner,
who might and probably would want
the article himself. Lying was simply
the easiest way of concealing anything
that he did not care to reveal, and the
only inkling he had of the Objectionable
character of the act was that anybody
to whom he told a lie would beat him
savagely If he did not lie cleverly
enough to escape detection. As to the
Sabbath, the first knowledge he had of
the difference between one day and an
other came from his noticing that once
in while these people who had whole
clothes on and who spoke gently came
into the neighborhood and opened the
little mission room and tried to get the
children to go into it.
George was among those who were
coaxed In with much difficulty, but after
going once he went regularly. The room
was SAedh ahi piedotHes anu DIS tue tu-
tumn days came on there was a stove
put in and fire made it warm. That
was novelty to him-being allowed to
sit undisturbed in warm room. The
story the good teacher obtained from
him after winning his confidence was
appalling by its very absence of detail;
but it was only one of many like stories,
and she could do very little to alleviate
the misery that was all around her.
George lived with woman whom he
had been taught to call Aunt Sally.
Whether she was his aunt, who his