St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1897-05-29
boldened by Uncle inns winks)-Wy.
yes. Amt It 0ll right?


yes. Amt It all right?
Mrs. Ssinner-Willie Skinner, you're
getting too old to play innocent. You
knew thet wasn't In the piece.
Willie-Cncle Jim said it was.
Mrs. Skinner-Well, it seems to me
your Uncle Jim is all the time trying to
get you into trouble. I should think
you'd find him out after awhile.
Uncle Jim-Why, there's nothing bad
in what he said. It was just little vari-
alton on the old verse.
Mr.. Skinner (tSying to keep q straight
face)-What did your teacher say, Will
lie?
Willie encouraged by his fathers
mirth)-Oh. gee! She was hot under
the collar!
Mrs. Skinner-Willie Skinner, where
do you learn such language?
Uncle Jim-What did she dof
Willie-Aw, she just stopped me and
made me 60 back to my seat. m said
next time she'd send me home.
Mrs. Skinner-If I'd been your teach.
er Id have whipped you good.
Willie-Ho! Ho-hol That just shows
all what you know. Teacher can't whip
kids any more. Any teacher that whips
kid gets fired that's what Ed Nc
Carthy says.
Mrs. Skinner-Well, Ed Mccarthy
needs . whipping II any boy ever did.
Mr.. Skinner-It's 4 good thing for
you that you haven't got my old teach
er. II you tried one Of those funny
recitationsonhim he would have tanned
your jacket.
Willie-Huhl Id like to see some
teacher lick me!
Mrs. SkinnerI wish sometimes that
teachers could inflict punishment.
know il was teacher I'd whip these
Mccarthy boys If lost my job the next
Gay.
Ethel-when We're bad in our room
the teacher sends ~ home.
Mrs. Skinner-That must be terrible
punishment for some children.
Uncle Jim-I'll bet Dill would hate to
b sent home one Of these pleasant
afternoons
Willie-Aw, I wouldn't care.
Uncle Jim-Would you come right
home?
Willie-Aw-w-wi One day way last
summer Ed Mccarthy KEEP on throwin'
paper wads 70 tho teacher would send
him out, 'cuz he wanted to zee . ball
game. an guess she was On to him. for
she didn't send him home 1t al. She
put him In the corner and made him
- - al a.
waited to holler at him when he came
out. an he was 20 mad he run after
Bob Ellsworth an chugged him right in
the stomach an
Mrs. skinner-willie. you'd better eat
your dinner. You can finish that some
other time
Uncle Jim-Who = your teacher
now?
Willie-Aw, its or Miss Sanders.
Mrs. Skinner-Willie Don't let me
hear you speak in that manner Of your
teacher again. Do you hear?
Willie-I guess If you had to 60 to
school to her every day you wouldn't {
be 50 stuck On her.
Mrs. Skinner-Never mind talking
back. II you have anything TO ny
about her. call her Miss Sanders.
ncleJim-Doyou love your teacher I?
Willie-Aw, keep still.
Uncle Jim-Why. every little boy
ought to love his teacher. Ethel loves
her teacher, don't you, Ethel?
Ethel-I liked her the first day.
WaEe-Oh. gee! You can do any
thing you want to the first day. We
thought Miss Sanders was . dandy
when she first come, but she's got 50
cross now rs kids can't do thing.
Mrs. Skinner-No wonder. You boys
would SPOIL the temper Of saint. It's
bad enough to take care Of one. Idont
know what I'd do II had 20 ON my
hands.
Uncle Jim-You'd do what Miss San
degs does. You'd put up with them as
long u you could and then send them
home.
Mrs. Skinner-Well, I'd get even with
those Mccarthy boys. I'm sure Willie
would never have got to reading those
cowboy stories II It hadn't been for
them.
Uncle Jim-Probably Mre. Mccarthy
thinks it was Willie that led her boys
cstray.
Mrs. Skinner-Indeedl / don't see
what reason she has to think anything
like that. Willie behaves himself very
well when he keeps away from those
boys. They are always getting him into
some trouble.
: Mr.. Skinnerrm afraid they don't
have to pull At him very hard.-Chicago
Record.
Making Railroads Smoother.
The fact Tint within the past IS yeara
two-thirds Of the unevenness - F1il-
road tracks has been done aw1y With
ON certain lines was discussed = r.
cent meeting of the New York Academy