The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1890-04-24
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when the boys took holidays n0lens Vo-
lens nunc proc tune and bolus Doxious, OF
words to that effect, which the boys un-
derstood as favorable response, and SO
they stroked their chin fuzz and laid
their plans for country frolic. They
even inveigled some of the larger girls
into the conspiracy. When the morning
came the professor was left without a
quorum. He pretended to be very MAD,
but he waaent He mover gets mad. He
said he would report the whole concern
to the board, but be dident. He went
home to enjoy the measles, but got over
them in an hour or so, and was seen rid.
ing with young lady in the afternoon,
and everything was calm and serene.
The boys apologized and the girls smiled
sweetly, and it was agreed all round they
would not do so again forsa year-just a
year. Our boy brought in his monthly
report, and it was all right-algebra, IS
Latin, 80; composition, go; physics, 100,
and department 100. That last was the
best of all. In old times, the teachers
wouldn't trust the boys with their
reports. They sent them to their fathers,
for they were afraid the boys would
change the figures to suit their own
propriety, and I reckon we would, for
there was right smart hostility between
teacher and pupil. Their relations to
each other are much kinder now. The
teachers used to stand upon their dignity
and carried themselves with stiff and
stately reserve. They are more compan-
ionable now and have the love of their
pupils as we'll as their fear. In the old
times the boys were kept so disciplined
and subdued that when they did break
loose the havoc was fearful. They were
like young mules in pasture and kicked
high and pranced around and brayed i'm.
mensely. One time we boys took a notion
to have holiday and cold Cargill" said
we shouldent. He kept good seasoned
hickories always on hand, but he did
smooth the knots down-I'll give him
credit for that. Squirt guns were at that
time all the rage with the boys. This
deYilish weapon Of offsnse was long
joint Of a large cane. There was small
hole in one end that was called the suck
hole. The other end was open and had
drawstick or ramrod with enough rags
around it to make it draw tight like a
syringe-we could suck up a caneful Of
water and then shove the stick like a
popgun and skeet the water on man 40
feet away. Early in the morning we toted
water and took possession of the school
house up stairs and down, and when old
Cargill came poking up the steps to the
door, we opened on him with about forty
squirt guns from sll the windows above
and below and deluged him until he
looked like drowned rat. For half a
minute he Kept his dignity and looked
fierce and defiant, and then suddenly
dropped his dignity on the steps and ran
like turkey. We ran him plum to his
boarding house and saw bin no more un'
til next morning. We prepared ourselves
for the worst, but he had the good sense
to acknowledge the joke and made friends.
But the way be did get even with us af::
terwards vas awful. He licked us on the
slightest provocation. Inever made much
fuss over common sized whipping, but
when the hickory cut into an old mark
that hadent got we'll, it hurt, I tell you it
did. 1t was piling "Pelion upon Ossa"-
that is to say, it peeled to the bone. The
boys wouldent do a teacher that way now,
nor would the teacher lick the boys like
they did.
Our young folks are having good
time and no mistake. To good, I'm
afraid They are taking up power of
time with their societies. There is The
Bumble Bee club, that meets once q
month, and it takes good deal of time
and talking to fix for it. They meet and
laugh and talk nonsense and play all
sorts of plays and kick up the carpet and
dislocate window shade or two and
three or four chairs and we have to grin
and bear it, for the young folks must be
made happy, you know, for the sake Of
future memories. Then there is another
set who have gotten up cooking club,
the Y. T.. @. G. If they have ever
cooked away we have not heard it. We
thought it was good training school,
but I don't see the train. 1t took my
folks all day to make and bake Rocky
Mountain cake to carry to that club for a
midnight lunch, and lot of hungry boys
eat it all up as soon as 1t got there, and
never got nary slice, and nobody there
learned how to make it or bake it. Yes
terdsy my folks told me to send up some
cabbage, and thought it was for dinner
and fixed up my appetite, but when din.
ner came there wasent sign of cabbage,
and found out it was converted into a
bowlful of chicken salad for the club. So
I never got any cabbage, nor chicken, nor
salad, nor anything else hardly. I con.
slider myself the injured person, for am
not asked to join the club, not even as an
honorary member. 1t is all outgo and
no income to me, and Pm almost ready to
sing:
What can al old man do but die q
BILL ARP.
Youthful Deprarity.
Carl and Ruth, brother and sister, aged
and d are known tn their Immediate