The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1892-08-04


50 when sweet Olive North proposed
to teach us three months term free
Of charge. you'd think we'd have
jumped at the chance. but we didn't.
1.-THE stuck up thingl ] 'spose she
thinks she'll be a missionary to us
heathens,- said Mrs. Ivens. my young
uns may live. an die in ignorance fore
Ill send 'em to charity school kept by
her, said Mrs. Godsey.
1t would take too long to tell all the
hateful things we did say, but at last
some Of us began to come TO our senses.
myself for one, not that was bit bet
and Sary. my boy and girl, to be learn
ing something; so at last we concluded
| that we reckoned we could stand tiff
she could, and sent her word She might
begin.
| II Olive could have heard all the
! ugly things we said she might have
quit in despair, seeing she did not get
even thankee for her work, but she
kept right on, and the children were
| getting TO like her in spite OF all they
heard said against her, and were get
ting so they'd speak up and take her
part, but none of us older ones, even
| yet, were friendly with the Norths.
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as good as they, and made ourselves
very foolish and disagreeable.
About that time, word got out that
Olive was taking fiddle to the school
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~ allns lxnoxyed som'tbin, ,vould
come ont Such mint 10 he trusted
o-loolsin, az n buttcr wouldn't melt in
thor mouths . said Mrs Hatch
When we sifted the thing IT came
ont that II wasn't a f;ddle Thai Olive
had IN school lint something that
locked like one.
Mine said she thumped II with her
fingers and Ike Iycns said she clawed
it like a cat; but, ANYWAY, it was
] something. and something had to be
/ done so i1f,ae-it-llp tilat.-Xithout
saving ANYTHING to ANYBODY. we'd meet
| and go in squad to the door of the
schoolhorse-it was a little old desert
| cd country storehouse that Olive and
her pa had fixed up at their own cx-
pense-wetd 90 in n souad to the door.
lust after the children had been called
! in. having waited somewhere near. and
inst when Olive got into the midst of
her demoralizing performance we'd
rush in and ask If that was the way 10
keep school. There was little sort OF
porch room in front. and we all tip-toed
into that and stood nudgipp each other.
for. now we'd rot there. no one wanted
to he the first to break in. though we
could hear the music going. n clear.
/ sweet Young voice leading sf,tne-citild-
ish song, the little ones Joining in,
willie they all kept d sort of time with
their hands and bodies. TbatE much i
saw through crackNn the door before
Mrs. Ivcns nearly mashed nv foot
crowdinp me over to take my place.
Two or three of the stoutest got their
eyes TO the cracks. and the rest had to
I
word came plain MS truth to where we
were standing. I'll saw here that no
prima donner ever had a sweeter voice
than Olives. and when thexaalad fin
ished the little ca,isthenic piece Il
Athinls that's what they called it-she
struck up Nearer NV God to Thee. $
all the Young ones Joining in. and she
PLAYING the accompaniment on the
guitar. for we learned later that that
was the name of the instrument that
had created such an excitement, and to
nv diving day I don't expect to hear
ANYTHING sound sweeter.
s.Jcst listen at Tad" whispered Mrs.
Hatch. I'D no idea-the little Teller
could sing so, I'll have to tell his pap I"
+. Before the hvmn was finished felt
my ewes getting moist. and I saw sew
eral others getting the same way. We
forgot all about the object of our visit.
and only thought of listening to the
music: and once Melindy Peters nearly
spoiled everything bv Joining in. but
! Lucy Ivens saw her opening her mouth
and chuclxed her uuder the chin.
When the hymn was finished. what
was our surprise to hear the same sweet
voice leading in PRAYER. and Won nigh.
not believe it. but a more beautiful
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