Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1890-06-13

NllIng lljtlb Wpoubn Hpust, huilb uloS1AJ |
by the farmers whose small and unat-
tractive homes dotted the prairie for |
milo around it.
We had but four months school each |
year. beginning usually the first Of No |
vember, so that the entire session was |
held during the coolest and snowiest
season of the year. when the thirty-hve
OF forty boys and girls who made up tho |
school we're not needed on the farms
Miss Dodge lived alone in little log |
and frame house She and an elderly |
brother had come to the West number |
of years before my story opens. The |
brother died year or two later, and |
Miss Rebceca WAS left alone.
She hired man during the summer !
months. but from October until April |
she had a solitary life.
She fed and cared for her horses and |
COWS and pigs herself, and did SO much |
other outdoor work properly belonging |
to mans duties, that she could not
help appearing masculine in her man
ncr.
Miss Rebecca did not like IT when the
school-house was built so close to her
own.
81 jist know how it'll be. with a pas
sci of boys and girls whoopin' and yellin'
around all the time like pack of wild
Iniuns, and dom all they can to poster
the life ont of bodyl
81 lived In the house highest to the
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self tho trouble Of ,doin' It nm. y as she
said.
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ON the plav-pround. a more vigorous
stroke than usual ON the mart Of some of
The bows wonld send the hall into Miss
Dodpeis ward. and WOO 70 tho how who
climbed over the fence after it. If Miss
Robeeca saw him.
All. Won therel" she would scream
In hor HIGHEST and most sbriu notes
s.yybat Won dom ON NV prinises2 CIT
vourself ripht back there To where Won
belong. or i'm mako Won wish Won Ind.
and don't Won ever d1st To set foot ON
nv ground arainl"
Ana ono dreadful dav Tam Grear-
wood q hig TAT bnt co,ysrtl,, how aaye
the bali such whack with the bali club
that il went living over the fence and
crashing through a pane of glass in one
of Miss Rebeeca's little windows The
teacher's bell rang at that moment. and
we ran into the school-house. with Miss
Dodge in swift pursuit
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