The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1897-06-18
EBENSBURC1. PA. FRIDAY. JUNE Is, 1897.

in what he said. Itwas Just a little Vari-
alton on the old verse.
Mr. Skinner (uryiEg To keep a straight
ace)-What did your teacher say, Viii
lie?
Willie encouraged by his fathers
mirth) oh, gee! She was hot under
the colIaTi
Mrs. Skinner-Willie Skinner, where
do YOU learn such language?
Uncle Jim--What did she do?
Willie-Aw. she Just stopped me and
made me go ba"l. to- my seat, an said,
next time she'd send me home.
Mrs. Skinner-If I'd been your teach
eI I'd have :, hipped YOU good.
Willie-Ho! Hobo. That just shows
all what you know. Teacher can't whip
Kids any more. Any teacher that whips
Il Kid gets fired that's " hat Ed Nc
Carthy says.
Mrs. Sk.nner-Wen. Ed NcCIrth,-
needs whipping if any boy ever did.
Mr.. Skinner-It's good thnng for
you that YOU haven't got my Old leach
er. If you tried one of those funny
recitations on him he would have tanned
your jacket.
Willie-IInh! I'd like to see some
teacher lick me,
Mrs. Skinner wish sometimes that
teachers could inGict punishment. 1
know if | was teacher I'd whip th-se
Mccarthy boys if lost my job the next
Gay.
Ethel-When we're bad in our room
the teacher sends Us home.
Mrs. Skinner-That must Ike terrible
punishment for some children.
IfII hot nm ,,r,.,lJ b.
he sent home one of these pleasant
afternoons.
Willie-Aw, | wouldn't care.
ncle Jim-Would YOU come right
home?
WiIlie-Aw-w-w One day WAY last
summer Ed Mccarthy KEEP on THROWN
paper wads 50 the teacher would send
him out. 'cuz he wanted to see "A ball
game, an guess she was ON to him, for
she didn't send him horne. at all. She
put him in the corner and made him
stay after school. an then all us l,ids
waited to holler at him when he came
out, an he was so 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 is your teacher
how?
Willie-Aw, it's oil Miss Sanders.
Mrs. Skinner-Willie! Don't let me
hear you speak in that manner Of your
teacher again. DO YOU hear?
Willie guess if you had TO go to
school to her every day YOU wouldn't
be 30 stuck on her.
Mrs. Skinner-NeVer mind talking
back. If you have anything to say
about her. call her Miss Sanders.
Uncle Jim-Du YOU love your teacher?
Willie-Nw, 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 dav.
WIEe-Oh, gee, You can do anv-
thing you want to the first day. We
thought Miss Sanders was dandy
when she first come. but she's got -
cross NOW us kids can't do a thing.
Mrs. Skinncr-No wonder. You boy
would spoil the temper Of a saint. IT.
bad enoGgh to take care of one. don't
know. what I'd do If l had 20 on my
hands.
Uncle Jim-You'd do what Miss San
ders does You'd put up with them as
ioI.g as 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 if It hadn't been for
them.
Uncle Jim-Probably Mrs. Mccarthy
thinks it was Willie that led her boys
Gstray.
Mrs. Skinncr-Indeedi | don't see
what reason she has to think anything
like that. Willie behaves himself very
we'll when he keeps away from those
boys. They are always getting him into
some trouble.
Mr.. Sllinner-Tm afraid they don't
have to pull at him very hard.-Chicago
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