The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-04
NEW YEARS DAY SLEIGHING
RESULTED IN A DISASTROUS
SAASHUP FOR THE COASTING
PEDAGOGUE.
BUT HE BOYS SUFFERED FOR 1T
When the Professor FIOgged Them
Twice to Make Sure They Were
Getting Enough.


the year an l want you to take a reso-
luton an keep 1t. It's about lettin' me
alone. The loot's QieutenanD dead on,
an thinks 1 talk too much IS if amy
one ever heard me say anything that
wasn't right. Now, I'm tellin you this
fer yer own good, fer think too much
of that little girl Of yours to do you
bodily harm. but we've been maxim me
too conspicuous like. Let up, an you
an me will be good frien's.' The big
policeman, despite the rain, pulled his
fur collar closer around his neck Thurs
day night, and muttered something pro-
fame about the weather, while the
newspaper man got further back into
the corner of the niche in the Albion
wall and watched the dig man as he
took surreptitious pull at his pipe, all
the while keeping a sharp look out for
the roundsman.
i've been readin' in the newspapers
this week about all these perfeSsers
and school ma'ams. Tive heard there's
about ten thousand of 'em in the state
and half of 'em here in ST. Paul takin.
In the state convention. I'll bet it's
the same as when 1 was a kid-aIl the
goodlookin' ones in town fer a frolic,
an the old fellers and old maids at
tend1n' strictly to business, readin'
papers an seth.
I'd bet months pay, if there was
amy chance of gettin it on time. that
half these teachers don't know how to
run a school proper. They're way up
on pedagoggics, whatever the dickens
they be, and can use a string of Latin
words as fast as Father McGarrigIe
when they get to gabbin' about kimis-
try and botany. But I'll bet they can't
keep the kids in order These new
tangled teachers get together and talk
high-soundin' words, teachin' singin'
lessons and paintin' lessons and the
like, but blest if amy of them are cute
enough to tell whether it was the kid
In the A class that shot the bean or
the freckled brat at the end of the
lntant row. They spin long yarns about
putin the youngsters on their honor
an that sort of thing, an the kids
Keep right on pullin' the wool over the
teachers eyes an tell lies an have
more fun than a barrel of monkavs
Ihey are spilin' the rod an the childer
at the same time. The only wav To
keep healthy kid quiet in school is
70 stand over him with a club. an the
way TO keep 'em from tellfn' lies is 70
ask EN- no questions 1 kno was a
klo Wanst meself, an besides the WILDLY
mas couple of 'em that I'm pattin9
pretty we'll acquainted wild. exnact
70 De ouyln' thier shoes and the like
some day an l want to know 'em ha-
lore go into the business.
NOW L mind when I was a kid IN
I I:, .here was good deal of cluh-
pm an mighty little tattlin,. IF q
Ntu got caught he took his medicine
e. g. Ire soI nckln' fer some one else
Ter some trick he had never done ~
took the other kids medicine witho,,+ ZIG q
Whlmper, and then, after school he
hcked the other fellow if he coH1d T
NINA when I was a little red-heada5
KID, Twin in the old Second ward T
went to school in the frame hni1Gin,
that stood we'll up on the hill onno-
sue where the Jefferson school now
StandS on Pleasant avenue. old nr
NELL and Ed Rice-him that was aftor
wards mayor, an later in oonoreas
God rest him-was the high monlnv,
monks of the school board in tben,
Gays. They believed in discin1ina of
the ola fashioned sort, an stood nv anv
Cedcner that used club on his schoi-
ais. Inc perfesser in the school was
man named Gale, a long, wiry feJIer
with temper like dynamite an a dis,
posltlon to show he was boss of the
rahcn on mighty slight notice This ola
man didn't know much about kim
Illstry, but he was the best Judge of
strap OIL | ever see. P'raps he wasn't
| Wen up In botany, but he knew lust
mliaI iength an, color a willow switch
| snould be, an he used to take botan-
| 1zlng trips to the swamp that was sur
rounded by willows. where Garfield
| street now cuts through, an he never
! IalIed to come back with a bundle of
me specimens. Perfesser Gale had an
lnslnuat1n way about him. There was
no use lyin' to him. He would saw
odilles' oiu you elevate the paper doll
| 10 the cellln by means of the paner
wad' an 1 would own up right then
an there. James, you will step for
ward, Gale would say, an 7 wouIo
go 10 his desk an lie down across the
chaf ne had turned down fer me
| convenience. Then the old man would
take MS strap or a bunch of willows.
an l would nor me breath while he
was testln' his weapon. Then. whish
Wn1Sh! about a dozen times. and the
BOSOM OF me trousers would be busted
as clean as an old maids parlor. I
mind another time when somethin' ha 4
happened to rile the old man. an he
ordered every mothers son of us I'd
| appear at the school house on Saturday.
mornin'. We grumbIed, but every kid
showed up. An the old man didn't
do a thing but lick every one of MS
| Then he went with us to the ball gro11n'
an we had a fine time playtn' four
cornered cat Gale was the boss fell
Ter out Of school, an the best runner
| and ball tOSSer in the school.
We'll, l mind that winter had been
hard one on the kids. Even the girls
had been licked SO often that the per
lesser had had two fights with big
brothers, and had been licked wanst
by big Dutchman, who didn't want
his little nine-year-old thrashed by q
grown UP man. When the holidays
came l had marks on me back unit
1t looked like a weather map. Most
of the other kids had the same kind
of stripes from shoulder to the trouse1
leg. We was all sore, outside an in
an we agreed the only way to get ever
with Gale was to kill him. We didn't
want TO be too red handed, but we
thought If we could find some way fe1
him to kill himself, it would be a good
thing fer the community
Ramsey street hill was nothin' bur
a runway for water when 1t rained in
them days. There was cowpath or
wan side, an the rest was all bumps
an powders. On the cowpath side E
kid that knew his business could steer
his sled in safety from Summit avenue
to Seventh street. But Teller what
didn't know the hill as well as pilot
knows the river, had better say his
prayers before startin' on the trip
Well, the last day of school us kids
gave the perfesser the glad hand an
told him we were going to have a win
ter carnival during holiday week an