The evening world., 1893-06-26
HIS DULL PUPIL.

write OF many years ago. for I am
an old man now, and of the pupils who
came first under my tutelagc have
knowledge OF but two or three living,
says the Boston Globe.
/ graduated Mt Harvard, and as my
purse was empty. / was forced to seek
employment at once. and the employ
ment to which ! aspired was that OF
teacher
A friend secured for me school in
the far-away region OF down East, and
i took II. 1t was IN the central dis
trict of the town of Steep Falls.
l had come from college with firm
faith In the examining process had
been subjected tc 1t, and deemed that
all who would wear academic honors
must undergo the ordeal.
My brightest boy-my especial de-
light-the 10y who could stun and
cram. and remember everything to
which directed his mind-the boy
whom ! exhibited on examination day
was William Iiowthcr.
MY dull pupil was Teddy Drake. !
had pupils more stupid than Teddy,
hut not one that frettel me more. said
J. 70 him, after he had worked out "A
dlhicult problem by suppositDn, ignor-
urely
MY boy, this may answer very well
now, but the time will come when
problems win be presented which can
you now neglect"
And he looked up in his blank, honest
way and replied to me
No doubt. sir, when the need is
quer these outlandish signs. but they
stick me now"
The boys answer provoked me.
wanted him TO swallow and digest the
Algebra as II whole and he would not
. Upon the fyleaf OF his book I saw n
picture. looked at II and found II to
be n rough but exceedingly llfelikc
sketch OF II horse harnesaed to n com
mon tip-chrt. ! asked him when he did
that. He confessed that he had done ii
sternly asked him what he meant by
II, ana he had the effrontery to tell me
way TO ease the drauEh Of his fathers
cart horse. aud he even had the nu,Ia-
Cty 10 attempt to point out to me how
ne Ihought to make the Improvement
parallel with the horses shoulders.
one day. when Teddy should have
peen studying his English grammar, I
detected ,,',,, nm Mt work upon something
lesson was a lnmentnbie failure, but
WIN his knife ana n bit of pine wonS
anh a few slips OF Eoose-q,Il ne had
iahhf'Gn,rn i most ingenious fy-trap.
day, The School COMMITTEE and most
or the parents of the district were pras
emt. William IIowther ana Teddy
Drake rake We're In the same class.
Ihe former answered every question
pronpiiy. while the latter stumbled over
propositions which seehed simple
s,nough. ! praised the smart boy and
denounced the dun hoy. / did il in the
presence sluit
" ~
] hurt the feelings OF Teddy. and 7
also hurt the feelings of his parents.
arn snhodi IRON mat time Teddy attended my
ne would grow up to be dolt,
After lapse OF years | visited stesn
rnna i'liaa again, and whore had LETT n
busy busy town Nl1ass rbo found o,ns popular ard
t t,ine spent It's aimlcss fury in the roar
lnG cataract had been led around nm
adjacent hin by u canal upon which had
men, nu"n erected mills that gave employ
and here. too, were manufact,,red
brakes patent loom" and "Drahe'ss
prake fhhnfsawi" thnf h~i ! asked who was the
.h,e OF machinery. S'""u
The same man." answered INV
cicerone, ''who projected our cana, amy ,S
,,,hn uth,,,zea , me water OF our river-the man
VIII. brought our town up from "a''uta nm nh
scure village to n nrst-class municIpali,v
anu VINO has made employment for 3 n6n
people. IL IT, Theodore Drake -''''
hcodore! said |. did they use 10
call hi him Teddy" '' use 10
:, ana teis was my Teddy Drake--mv
uuii , pnpl OF the other years! / caIIei
& upon Mr.; Drake and he knew me the
~. 'ia NJ, ne saw me. and he remembered
i may add that found William How
ther serving Drake as confidential cIerk
ina bookkeeper upon IL fair SALARY