The aegis & intelligencer. [volume] (Bel Air, Md.) 1864-1923, 1893-02-10
miscellaneous.
Just SUPPOSIN'."
BY LAURA NJ. SMITH.

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BY LAURA NJ. SMITH.
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trleu " Is"soh' anu iiIiaiiy mlthouI
reasoning she hrea'Heu TO herself
l. II give III up. 1sl'hply cannot STAND
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for one Ilolnell' she SAT very sui,
trylliS 10 rS stoP tiie quiSerlllS OF ner
| nerves. men taxing large, snahy-
loohlilS l9',eL III iieL han'l, Slle aTose
a 1 e y, ~ peioie me SCHOOL. Shll-
uren, sue pesah, we can hot nave
our Piclll1 Oh lne 2Iil vi september.
l, receiNeu le''er from MT. johnson
tlils l!Iolliiiis AN nv WIN reau you
"haS II says Aheh sic rettu Tie leI-
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| my heii an eiiaeAiiii IL Htrtw ourrles,
! so you IL nav 10 look out lor some
other place. an there am none.
Ii. JOHNSON.
! III was the horrlole unhlhdness IN
tnat last phrase "hlch nau nur5 the
! young letGler "hell sue received tne
letter; and now as she read 1t again
her up trelnpled SO Inat she could
scarcely continue Gnlidfen, am
Inc ...1 Wlli!e ll! !II ilsillehe'i again
INC l'lclilc VIII! lit'e ~ pe gwen up,
pecauSe-We lhlSht ma another place
bur shall only be with you three
days more. III gong home-East. y
Al the "ora East trehui0uS
smile broke over ner lips ana ended
IN Il gasp. one SAT down ana lald her
head Oh her uesk WIN II moan OF
plis sio''l irt' M .ue supS cdiiie
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II was tli ne ~ , GiS,ilise scliool: roi
inot t ,ma oa re +E Mere leiL quite
| by the spectacle OF tnelr leacnef IN
tears theh WIN faces nan frightened,
naIf-aSna1ned, they gathered up their
dinner buckets and stole out, dlsap-
| pearlng behind a rise IN the road.
| The young teacher still sat there.
Every now and then she said over and
gwen ~ up win every tiihe a lfeSn
sob. Everybody East said | would
nhere Sled' gasp anu nave :
Ie3Ple are so isAoL"nu n td -
anu STONES. 1t llo use 10 Try 10 40
any tlliiiS' even 'ile Viiii''i eli are NIUE
orGleS. ,I,,1;l ;.L . L..
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teachSf. Iler Hiiich eyes were oiaGKer
IMAM ever. "'ita Soll o'ach now. me
req lhoui II was very Sehlle' ana tllat
agEraVatihS curve around hef nose
was gone.
As the little girl met the eaaher's
gihnce all the ugly lines came back.
Nj can ora tnihS she Sald through
her teeth, l Al ~ MN. -,
j, i,o"H 'iiH ""ll"olit ,I' mn ICY
itu anu ouI upon 'lie hi"iil F'"u,
where hhe struck INFO steady ana
determined walk. Her black eyes
We're blazing. She delivered Kicks to
sundry punches OF sage brush without
once taking her gaze OH the distant
road ahead. This road stretched
down the valley INTO one OF those vast
sage-bfush plains lying on the border
OF Nevada.
Where was HeIty gong! she EVIL
IDENTIFY knew. 1nere was something
to reach at the end of that road. 1t
was II. johnson, the writer of the
teachers letter, and in her heart she
was kicking him instead of the sage
brush.
This H. johnson was man who
lived a rmit's-not to say a dog s
life in n log cabin away on the edge
of the plain at the foot of the Sierra
Nevada ridge. He mad turned
mountain stream upon MS land. ana
by sixteen years OF pack breaklng
labor had transformed it into a para
disc compared to the arid waste
around II; lie had rounded a reser-