The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1900-03-11

but he did not allow 1t TO turn his little
head. He took his other books and studied
each lesson and found that one reading
fixed IL in his mind. He was able 20 do
examples in fractions that had merely
given him headache formerly. and as
for geography before bedtime came he
had read the whole book through from
beginning to end. and could draw maps
and color them and print the names OF
cities ana counties in most beautiful let
tiers. And as he did each thing his grand
mother would say; Your father all over,
my dear"
Some boys would have been eager to
show off next day to the class but it
never entered little SydHey's head. He
was very happy that he was going to be
like his father that father. who had died
when he was a small baby, and he would
be glad not to veX Miss Greene any more,
but he was not at all anxious to show off
| must say that little bit of that spirit
would have been natural and perhaps
commendable, but am not trying TO draw
a picture of a boy who might have been,
but a boy who was
The first lesson after morning exercises
was geography. Bob Addoms was asked
to go to the board and draw a map of
Africa and to name all the Dutch possess
sions Addoms was the champion man
drawer of the school. and he knew 1t, ana
l suppose that that fact made him care
less. AT any rate, when il was done and
Miss Greene had said, Excellent Bob I
VIII give you two extras, Sydney raised
his hand and said: rs 1t quite right at the
Cape of Good Hope?"
A shout went up from the scholars and
Miss Greene herself smiled. Sydney, who
did not know the difference between Flu
rope and South America, To be crticising
Bob's map!
Perhaps you can draw better one, ="
SAID Miss Greene. I didn't like the sar-
castle way In which she talked. Teach
ers have no business 10 be sarcastic.
IN try" said Sydney, and he went up
to her table and selected crayons of diff
ferent colors.
Tnen he drew such map as had never
been seen on the school board Ii was
as accurate as the map in The geography,
even TO the smallest infets and tiniest
cfpes. And when he had drawn it he col
ored all the divisions and printed all the
names, amid the dead silence of the class.
just as he finished IL the door opened
ana the superintendent of the county
Board of Education walked in.
In spite of his coming the boys and
girls clapped their hands at Sydney Is
work, and Miss Greene said: Beautiful,
sydney! I'll give you ten extras"
Sydney stood erect and felt that at Ia ST
he had come to his own.
And the superintendent, who was quite
a good draught sman himself, said. Miss
Greene, | consider that map so remark
able that ] am going TO have abe black
board removed and sent to the Paris Elk
position as a sample of American school
work"
And the scholars rose 10 their feet and
gave three cheers for Sydney quite I'M
checked.
Now, If you go to the exposition next
spring you ask them TO show you Sgd
ney Puffers map of Africa.
But | don't voueh for its being there
IT was drawn under fairy influence and
1t may have been Withdrawn under the
same influence.
But this l do know Sydney Puffer is
now the best scholar In Malburn school,
Miss Greene says IL is awakened ambi-
ton, his grandmother says II is his herit-
age from his father, and Sydney says 1t
is the fairy