Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1900-04-19
I Dan Roby's Tige :
By J. L Harbour.
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'NTHosE dog is that?"

/ pupils of the Silver Maple school heard
Jabez Jordon, the new teacher, speak.
He had nodded unsmilingly toward sew
eral OF the boys and girls who had
/ reached the schoolhouse before him
that frosty October Monday morning
when he took up school" in the little
brick schoolhouse on the crest of hill
under a cluster of silver naples.
There were about IS boys and girls
Of from five to eighteen years Of age in
the schoolhouse yard when, at nine
| o'clock, Jabez Jordon came to the door
and rang a hand-bell with great yigor.
! 1t seemed to some of the larger boys
and girls that the notes of the bell
| sounded like a slogan of defiance.
They had filed into the house rather
soberly, and were taking their seats,
when a yellow-and-white uncollared
dog of mongrel origin came sneaking
] in, as If we'll aware of the fact that he
was an interloper, He was skulkng
forward, casting furtive glances around
him, when Jabez Jordon called out, in
a harsh, high-pitehed voice:
"Whose dog is that?"
Dan Roby, boy of Is, replied: HE
is my dog, sir"
well put him out! Don't you know
better than to bring a dog TO school?"
81 didn't intend to bring him. He
/ followed me of his own accord, and
couldn't drive him back. Come, Tige!"
Tige refused TO go, and Dan had TO
I grasp him by the hind legs and drag
him toward the door amid dolorous
/ whining and yelping. Some of the boys
and girls laughed, whereupon Jabez
Jordon struck his desk with his fist and
said, sternly:
( "Silencel"
The effect was instantaneous. A pin
could have been heard to drop. Tige,
| IN the meantime, was scratching on the
I closed door and whining for admit
lance. Five minutes later Dora Harvey,
/ q tardy conner, opened the door 10 enter
the room, and Tige darted in ahead OF
her, wagging his tail joyfully.
Jabez Jordon seowied tiecely.
What did you go and let that dog in
for?" he demanded Of Dora Harvey,
who was one Of the gentlest and best
girls in the district, The smile on her
face gave place 10 a look OF combined
fright and amazement.
III didn't mean TO let him in, sir.
He pushed in ahead Of me when ]
opened ,he door" said Dora.
If you'd been here on time 1t
wouldn't have happened" said Jabez
Then he turned 10 Dan.
Drag him out again and take him
homel" he shouted. This isn't a
SCHOOL for dogs!"
Tige was even more unwilling than
before TO go out, and when Dan APP
preached, ran up and down the aisles,
trying to eyade capture. In his fight
Tige overturned the small wooden box
on which the WATERFALL stood, thereby
drenching himself from head to foot
with lev water. More laughable still,
he caught the descending pail on his
head, and could not get il of, the bail
having dropped down around his neck.
In his frantic writings, he overturned
a small wooden bench ON which Tommy
Dodge and 'Henuy" Pope sat, and pley
suddenly lay wailiug ON their backs IA
a pool OF water.
get that beast out OF here!' fairly
roared Jabez. striding down from the
platform toward Tige who suddenly
extricated himself from the pail and
took refuge under the stove in the
center OF the room. Dan dragged him
out bv the tail, and they went home
together. neither boy nor dog returning
that day.
This incident did not leave very
favorable impression of Mr.. Jordon IN
the minds of his pupils. His predeees-
sor. Mr.. Haskins, had been a gentle
spirited and kindly man, and some oil
the pupiIs remembered that once, when
Tipe had followed Dan into the school.
room when Mr.. Haskius was teacher OF
the school. he had said gently: Il must
ask YOU TO take your dog out, Dan
he attracts so much attention. and
Mr.. Haskins had allowed the children
10 laugh unrebuked, and had himself
LAUGHED over Idh afAAAN'N N'
efforts to remove Tige.
The pupils Of the Silver Maple school
spaedilv discovered that a sense OF hui
NOR did not form any part Of Mr.. Jor-
5op's mental makeup. and that he was
an unnecessarily aud unreasonaoly
harsh man. with 10 sympathy for child
hood and no disposition to eoncede any
ching 10 It's natural tendencies. The
pupiis we're too obedient for even a
harsh and tyrannicaI man like Jaoez
Jordou TO find many excuses Tor using
tbe long birch rod he kept on his desk
but when the rod was used, II was Win
brutal force and cruel effect.
Mr.. Jabez Jordon was extremely VAN.
of his personal appearance. He dressed
vel and with great care. He even KEEP,
N mali hand-mirror in his desk ana
sitbouch he assumed that its purPos,
was TO make pupils who came 10 sel'9 J.
Nth 5irtv faces ioos at themselves ~
,rss certain that at recess he Woulu 80
With the mirror in one hand ana
,,,,l,,t-,orpb In the other, and as INC
d his LNfNs