Sharp County record., 1895-12-26

\ c1@ ID hearts and hard knucKles.
|me Heroic Boys.
Yin up and bruisin round l
'eIlq many and many a cotton
,euH hnder-legged, hatchet-faceted
y y n that was every inch a hero
to the doctrine that a boy
ap with the sun on a raw
When the weather is cold
j, the tail off of brass
y v%he wood and fetch
#and tote out the slops and
Iock, and drive up the COWS
Y |, nd fou1 bff the calves, and never COM
'lain o14et out of sorts-that boy is a
And 1 likewise also think that a boy
y. 4ich ,oan pull the bell cord over a
" "a old lazy mule, on a long, hot
81 h1Sr day in new ground full OF
Ntumpe, and still use nothin but Bible
hnQuaqe- -by gatlins l know that boy is
hero.
Onost upon a time l saw boy hero
school, and remember the general
Vlrcumference of the surroundins as
fright and clear as if it was yesterday.
\ l was whilst Miss Susy Tolliver was
sachin Of the school over at the Cross
loads. One mornin youngster, with
Ued hair and freckly face, come in
rom somewheres back in the hill coun-
". He give in his name Johnny Led
1etter and said he was nine years old
aat, ten next grass. There was more
Sure, tonest devilment in that boys
ice than have ever saw done up into
i no little package. We boys called him
'Spock" for short and OWN to the sun
trydiferent shades and colors of his
aoantonsnce.
EWell. Speck he had plenty of sense,
Tut It didn't run very much to books.
Miss Susy didn't give out any lessons to
Nm on the first day. She slipped the
ride. as it were, and let him have the
unof the grounds till he could wear the
w d, But the next mornin she made
s1 kyltout his blue back speller and
CIYmo d(<fn to his knittin reglar. He
d&to ttlFt in with his A. B. C.'s, and
ion IA Vspt forth to say his first les
h every eye in school was turned on
eck. But hA stood the fire like man,
d never dIckered nor foundered, nor
nched. He cpme through smooth and
sy on tue first letter, but struck a
lag on tho second.
What makes the honey that you
At?'' Gays Miss susy.
''B, /" sAys. Speck, quick as lightnin.
That's rfght," says Miss Susy.
"Whatdo you do with your eyesP"
lays Miss spsy when Speck struck the
"0,' says Speck, with loud voice and
\ proud smile.
Correct, my little man, You'll be a
scholar by-and-by" says Miss Susy.
Well, tkey went on at that lick till
nnaily y last they got down to G, and
Hpeckhe backed into another snag.
"When your father starts to plow,
nhd wants his horse to go to the right,
what does he say?" ask Miss Susy.
AS"tie \; Y l!'o !d'on't plow no horse" says Speck,
''he plows steer.
We'll, when he wants the steer to 20
70 the right what does ho sayP" says
Miss Susy.
And then Speck he stepped back and
'praddled his legs and drawod his face
Up TIL u looked liko pine knot on
iryy, and Sung out at the top Of his voice:
Geese t-h-e-r-el you dadburned old
Vabblody y-legged, slab-sidod, razor-back
(on-oi-a-gun,"
sir, tho school then broke loose
WIN the most terriblest confdsement
yoQ ever read about, and thought in
|nyRoul Miss Susy would faint and fall
ovaAtn ~ But Speck had answered tho
ueolion and won't through with all tho
mooldus besides, and you cou dn't blame
lm Ior that 1t took nerve to do it,
Put npeck was hero, and in the run Of
nuo 10 turned out to bo the brightest
QIAr in that school.
N M a Hard Sum TO Work.
VncV upon time stranger driv up
x 1ne BOckalow place to spond tho
'lgne In them days they use TO koop
s'tago stand and run u public oatin
1ouso l' at the Buckalew place. When
no strangor driv up that day tho old
nan sent Nick BuclSOlew, which no was
ne onlyest boy on tho place, out to tho