The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1894-09-07
THE TUTOR.

AoWS eetIie MIMI snOuteQ tpre0 or
-four from the outside Of the group.
faye, aye" camo the answers and
,Taffy Douglass, the fat boy. with his
slow movements, had Just opened his
pnouth for an "Ayor' when he caught
sight of the new tutor looking at the
boys with frown OH his face, and SO
Rlc transferred the intended part of
speech into another loud yawn which
anadc the new tutor jump, whereupon
sill the boys giggled-
"Who is to be Settled, Thorn2" the
tutor asked of the tall boy who stood
nearest him. Thorn colorcd up to the
hoots of his hair-he had very fair
ScompleXion and blushed easily, which
led to his being called "Rosie" by the
sothcrs-and stammcred:
81 forg-I on't-didn't hear, Mr..
Whyland -
Perhaps you didn't hear tho bell
ring for you TO go back to your class
either. What is it, Blake?' demanded
tho young man, turning to Teddy.
What. Mr.. Whyland?" asked Teddy
innocently.
"Who wero you going to settle as
j came in?''
"Oh, that's only little way We have
of speaking about those Latin transla-
tions, sir. -
The tutor looked as though he did
not believe Teddy's explanation. but he
said nothing moro about it,
Dir. Whyland was tho new assistant
ut the academy. He had been there only
a week, but in that time had managed
with his extra rules and hard punish
ments to make all the boys his enemies
He did not seem to get along with them
somehow. Perhaps boarding school boys
lnre hard to got along with. DR.. Arnold,
president Of the school. had engaged
this young man to fill vacancy on his
staff of instructors not because he knew
him personally, but because he had
taken high honors at graduation, and,
too, his mother was an old friend of
the doctors. ''Ho is very nice fellow
with tho men," the doctor had told his
wife, "but he forgets he ever was boy
I'll have n little talk with him. He
Furnishes too often, and tho boys can c
get his big wordcd explanations through
their heads" But DIR. Arnold post
,poned his little talk too long, for the
boys Settled" their tutor first.
That afternoon the third form boys
did not make as much noise as usual,
and that dear old lady, Mother Arnold,
us sho was affectionately called, scented
mischief as she looked from her window
out OH the. playground. The boys were
grouped together, talking and gesticu-
lating violently, and Mother Arnold
ifbnn Uht cha npuht 70 FOL - Il
about it, but he was out, and by tho
time he came i'll everything was quiet
again. What TRANSFERRED Oh the Cam
.pus' III tell you just as it was said.
Lets boycott him. suggested Ted
dy, who hadn't a very we'll defined idea
OF what boycotting was.
"Oh, shut up!" growled Ned Turner,
thickset fellow with less than his
share of brains. "The only way to fix
him is to fight. Take him when he ism It
prepared, and two or thrAe of MS big
fellows will lay him out"
That's cowardly," said Frank Snow.
"Nobody but Turner would think of
doing such"--
Take that bacls!" shouted Ned, cor
I'll show you who's d cow"--
i'"' fi'uih uIlH l, DcCauSo just then
Harry Boot, the class beauty, shouted
"HurrahP' at tho top of his voice, and
every one rushed over to where he and
Taffy were seated OH the fence to see
what was the matter. These two had
been separated from the other boys for
quite awhile, and as Taffy announced:
Tho Beauty has struck it, fellows!
Wen force old Why Co resign, and I'm
going to do the biggest part of it,"
J WHAT" "How?" "When?" were
the questions then asked.
'Be quiet, and I'll tell you," said
Harry. "We'll make life disagreeablc
for him and make him give up teaching
us. Don't any Of you boys study your
lessons tonight. and tomorrow make all
the noise you can in class, and at even
ing session Taffy will do something to
astonish you.
WHAT" cried Ted.
wait and see" tlrawled Taffy,
"only have your rubber erasers and lots
of paper balls on hand to use. :"
That night was very long to the OK
pectant boys. but they were so quiet
during evening session that the tutor
thought he had commenced to have
some control over his charges But the
morning dispelled tho illusions he had
ON this score. Not one in the third form
knew his lessons, and, what was worse.
they oil owned they hadn't studied n
bit
After supper that day, when tho gong
sounded for all pupils to retire to their
respective classrooms, there was q half
suppressed excitement among the third