The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1890-10-05

Guilty in classifying them, but at last ar
ranged the pupils in four classes Among
them were about dozen boys about sew
enteen years of age, and as the law allow
ing pistols to be worn was not repealed,
had the supreme satisfaction of corraling
about ten six shooters every day for safe
keeping during school hours. The girls of
course mixed with the boys in the games
during the recreation hour, and it was
nothing unusual to see the youngsters
shooting at marks, roping loose stock and
playing all manner of pranks unknown in
civilization.
NY lack of 'sMex;cano'' forbade my cor
recting at times when necessary, and often
my fear of the cowardly mode of revenge,
peculiar to the Mexican race, restrained
me from humping some OF the big boys.
The children, all of them, were of studi-
Gus turn, and while they made rapid strides
in mastering their stndies, yet it was very
apparent to me that my inability to explain
WIS most serious detriment. During my
term as professor l had purchased a
beautiful pony, to replace one feeble with
age that had placed on the retired list for
his past faithful and meritorious service,
and was really proud OF my handsome
equine. One morning arose only TO find
| my new purchase among the absentees, and
from the signs l at once concluded some
rascally horse thief had paid me noctrr-
card. All inquiries among my young
''hopefuls'' proved futile until the third
morning, when my young interpreter
asked me what would pay for my pony'5
delivery and promise to ask noquestions.
told the boy that 1 would give So, and that
night l had the animal returned
to me. He was very Iank and judging from
his eagerness for food and drink, l con
cluded he had been tied up in some thickei
fo f,f. of rd y
conclusions were justified afterwards
when Learned that one of my promising
boy pupils was the party who did it be
cause / had refused to let him spend his
time during study hours shifting sweet
nonsense into the ears of his best girl wht
sat quite near him in the schoolroom. | hat
no more mishaps worth mentioning and a
tho close of the term (six months) left fol
other parts.
Whilst in the northern part of the Lone
Star state in 1878, l saw notice in q paper
! published in New Mexico which read litter
this fashion: ''Wanted-A single gentle
man of experience to take charge of -
academy. The applicant must be linguis
and be graduate of an accredited univer
versity. For particulars write To-
Trustee. -"
read, then re- read the notice. l wa
single, reason: Could not find anyone will
ing to share my sorrows and joys, pos
J sessed diploma from good institution o
| learning, but my linguistic powers wer
extremely limited. Finally l wrote tn
} trustees Of the ---- academy and il
reply received very unique note. 1t wa
after the Josh Billings way of phoneti
spelling thusly:
"DERE SUR-Yore note is tew han, a.
ripplying am instruked tew sa hi ordur O
the trustese that yew air the won we he
ben lukkin for tew komb the ruff hare u
hour yuugsters and az yew hev ben techi
Texas, 1 am satishde that a Texikuu will
, wa up here. Kun at wonst. Telegraf we
yew leve for here.
: Yores verie truelie,