Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1894-11-05

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We can't stand that sort of a teacher"
said Jack Darwin one day last April.
"He makes me sick-always preaching,
preaching, pre-
Lets settle him!" shouted three or
four from the outside of the group.
AYE, aye!" came the answers, and
Taffy Douglass, the fat boy. with his
slow movements, had just opened his
mouth for an "Aye!" when he caught
sight of the new tutor looking at the
boys with frown OIL his face, and so
he transferred the intended part of
speech into another loud yawn which
made the new tutor jump, whereupon
all the boys giggled.
"Who is to be settled Thorn?" the
tutor asked of the tall boy who stood
nearest him. Thorn colored up to the
roots Of his hair-he had very fair
and blushed easily, which
led to his being called "Rosie' by the
stammered:
II forg-I don't-didn't hear, Mr..
Whyland
perhaps You didn't hear the bell
ring for you to 60 back to your class
either. What is it, Blake?" demanded
the young man, turning to Teddy.
"What, Mr.. Whylard?" asked Teddy
"Who were you going to settle as
I came in?'
"Oh, that's only little way we have
Of speaking about those Latin transla-
tons, sir. p"
The tutor looked as though he did
not believe Teddy's explanation. but ne
said nothing more about it.
Mr.. Whyland was the new assistant
at 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
arc hard to get along with. DR.. Arnold,
president Of the school, had engaged
this young man to fill a vacancy OH 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. "He is very nice fellow
with the men," the doctor had told his
wife, "but he forgets he ever was a boy
I'll have little talk with him. He
Furnishes too often, and the boys can't
get his big worded explanations through
their heads. - But DR.. 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,
as she was affectionately called, scented
mischief as she looked from her window
out on the playground. The boys were
grouped together, talking and gesticu-
lating violently, and Mother Arnold
thought she ought to tell the doctor
about it, but he was out, and by the
time he came in everything was quiet
again. What TRANSFERRED on the "cam-
pus'' I'll tell you just as it was said.
Lets boycott him, " suggested Ted
dy, who hadn't very well defined idea
of what boycotting was.
"Oh, shut up!" growled Ned Turner,
a thickset fellow with less than his
share of brains. ''The only way to fix
him is to fight. Take him when he isn't
prepared. and two or three of us big
fellows will lay him out. "
"That's cowardly, said Frank Snow.
Nobody but Turner would think OF
doing such
''Take that backW shouted Ned, "or
I'll show you who's cow
But Frank didn't, because inst then
Harry Boot, the class beauty, shouted
"Hurrah!' at the top Of his voice, and
every one rushed over to where he and
Taffy were seated on the fence to see
what was the matter. These two had
been separated from the other boys for
quite awhile, and as Taffy announced:
'The Beauty has struck it, fellows!
Well force old Why to resign, and I'm
going to do the biggest part of It'll"
"What?" "How?" "When?' were
the questions then asked.
"Be quiet, and I'll tell you," said
Harry. "We'll make life disagreeable
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," drawled Taffy,
"only have your rubber erasers and lots
Of paper balls ON hand to use"
That night was very long to'the ex-
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 the illusions he had
ON this score. Not one in the third form
knew his lessons, and, what was worse,
they all owned they hadn't studied a
bit.
After supper that day, when the gong
sounded for all pupils to retire to their
respective classrooms, there was a half
suppr essed excitement among the third