The morning call., 1894-03-25

wagon and carried me over to Marshbrook.
1t was about six miles away.
Marshbrook is named after the brook
there that runs through maTshy land and
gets soaked up in IL some seasons OF the
wear. That spring it was quite high and
the land around it was yellow a gold with
cowslips. We rode beside it quite way
and the doctor said his wife had boiled
cowslip greens twice. he talked con-
siderably about such things being better
ior folks to eat than meat. too. BE didn't
say a word about the school till he set
NE down at the house where / was going
10 board. Then he said l looked as if |
wasn't fidgety and he hadn't any notion but
what l should get along well and like the
school. Then he said, kind of as he hated
10, but thought he'd better, that ne guessed
l might as well make up my mind not to
10 keep the scholars. The schoOlhOuse
was in rather a lonesome place and some
stragglers might cUme along; then, too, 1t
was rather damp up there. being near the
brook, after the dew fell. and he didn't
think il was very healthy. ] said, Very
we'll" Then Mr.. Orrin Simonds, the man
where l was going to board. came out,
and they carried my trunk betwixt them
in to the house.
| began school the next morning and got
along we'll enough. The school was quite
large one, about forty in il. ana none OF
L06ln very Olu. Iu6H OeDdNeu VIII dS
usual, and l taught them the best knew
how. [ ought TO have done better by them
than L had ever done for other scholars,
for / hadn't anv lookout for myself to take
my mind off, / suppose | always had had
little, though [ had hardly known it my
self, and / ought to have been ashamed
of it.
| did not stay after school for some two
weeks, not because l was afraid of any
thing. for / wasn't, but | hadn't any call
| 10. / didn't mind what DR.. EmmoDs had
said at all, as far as l was concerned. but
| thought | wouldn't keep the scholars
anyway, so if anything did come up
wouldn't be blamed on their accounts.
There wasn't anybody to blame me on
mine, if didn't give up the schoOl-and 1
wasn't going TO do that anyway.
l went to meeting the Sunday after ]
went to Marsbbrook. l suppose some
folks thought / would get somebody TO
carry me home TO meeting. seeing as it
was only six miles. and 1 belonged to the
church there. but felt as if / had just as
soon see some new faces.
Marie Rogers used to sit right in front
of Ine at homo.
noticed that folks in the meeting g-h ouse
at Marshbrook eyed me some. 1 don't
know whether 1t was because l had come
70 teach the No. sclool or because wore
my green silk. / suppose it did look most
| to fine, but had II, and it was pleasant
! Sunday and thought might just as well
wear ii, though, somehow, every time
looked dom at my lap as sat in meeting
there was something about the color
! seemed TO strike over me ana make me
sick. never liked green very well. but
| he did, and that was why got it. | liked
| it better after 1t was colored, though ii
! seemed shame to have all the stiffening
| taken out of it. 1t was a beautiful piece.
/ had good boarding place. just Mr..
SImonds and his wife, and she was as neat
| as wax ana a good cook. She was kind OF
woodeny, and didn't talk much. but |
didn't feel much like talking. and / liked
| it full as well. She used to have supper
early, about as soon as l got home from
school, and then / used 70 20 upstairs to
my chamber and sit by myself. Mrs. ST.
monds didn't neighbor much. she said. but
| guess after came folks ran In more.
I'd hear them talking downstairs. / guess
they wanted to find out how was getting
along at the No. school.
Once Mrs. Simonds said IL she was in my
place she'd make her plans not 10 stay
after school. She didn't seem any more
fdgety herself than a wooden post, but
guess she heard so much from the neigh
bors she thought she ought to say some
thing.
school, and | hadn't. l didn't really have
any occasion the night / did stay. but /
felt Kind of down at the heel. and l didn' I
want any supper, and / just sat there on
me platform behind my desk, after the
scholars marched out OF The room.
don't know how long l sat tnere--quite
while, | suppose, for It began to grow
dusky. The frogs peered as IL they were
in the room. and there Was damp wind
blew in the window. and l could smell