The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1892-09-10
A scHooL-RooM CHAMPION.
He Came to tho Pretty Teachers Aid and
Thrashed tho Bully.

! He Came TO the Pretty Teachers Aid and
Thrashed tho Bully.
1t was a pretty tough crowd of boys
! that attended the white schoolhouse at
| Farnsworth Corners in the winter time.
/ was fair sample, and 1 was such q
bad boy that I had been sent away
from home and placed in care OF my
uncle at the Corners because father
couldn't manage me. By dint of re-
peated strappings Uncle George kept me
in respectable bounds and got good
deal of work out Of me around the
farm
must have been about fifteen years
old the winter that Miss Angie Arnold
came to teach in that district AS 1
think of it now / realize that she mus.
have been pretty little thing with her
big blue eyes and wavy brown hair.
But we farmer boys had no regard for
beauty, and the trouble we made that
poor young thing was scandalous- She
had been educated at normal school
somewhere in the central part OF Hi
nois, and, to tell the truth, she did go
at US boys in theoretical sort of way.
The boys seemed to get the idea the
first day of school that it would be an
easy matter to run things that winter.
The boys always had run the school,
especially Rodney Blakesley, whom we
called ''Rod" for short
It wasn't many weeks before the poor
girl had lost all control of the school,
and Rod" Blakesley was practically
master Of the situation. The only fell
low among US that did not seem enthu-
siastic over the fun was Newton
Ellis. We called him Newt for
short. "Newt" had said once
or twice that he thought the
boys were carrying the thing too
far. One noon Rod" slipped into the
school room while Miss Arnold was out
and wrote some lines on the black board
that were decidedly out of place, to say
the least. After school had been called
Miss Arnold looked appealingly at
Rod" and asked him if he wrote the
stuff on the board. There was no use
in his denying it, for his long, scrawly
hand was unmistaka BILE.
YES" yelled "Rod," " II put It on the
board, and amt afraid of it, nuther."
"Wil you go and rub it out?"
"Eo. WON'T
The little teacher sat down by her
desk She hid her face in her hands
and burst into tears.
Meanwhile no one had been taking
notice of "Newt" Ellis. His seat was
on the last row, back Of Rods.
Instantly Newt jumped from his seat,
took Rod by the collar and threw him
onto the floor. Every body in the room
was terrified, for "Rod' Blakesley was
the bully of the school Rod got up
quickly and made for Newt" Newt
was not as big as Rod. but he was well
knit, and, to the surprise of us all, Rod
got the worst of it. He ran out Of the
door thoroughly whipped and with the
origin on his face Of what turned out
next morning to be two big black eyes.
There was'no more school that DAY
and no more trouble the rest of the
year. Rods father took him out OF
school and set him TO work oA the
farm. It wasn't the last we had to
hear of Newt Ellis 1 guess it couldn't
have been more than three years later /
that Newt and the little school teacher /
were married. That is the only rogaance /
Corners ever had. To-day
Newt Ellis is numbered among the (
well fixed" farmers of that section
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