The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1903-10-14

'-~-'~N'f IA TIC Iul EOOull
4 Side OF Chicago, left the
TCT train at Cover Hill Sta.
ton, Wis, where teach.
erS' summer school was In progress.
Professor Bent-hc had sat in col.
lege chair in his day-was forty years
old. His hair was n trlne gray. his
eyes We're kindly and his shoulders n
bit stopped. He was going to the sum.
mer school to hear the natural history
lectures OF Audubon Burroughs Wood,
and to get bit of nature first hand
from the fields.
AT the big boarding house by tho
brook with the great trees at its back.
Thaddeus Bent met half dozen teach.
'ers whom he knew and half a hundred
whom he didn't know. The assistant
principal of the Diogenes was there.
and had been there for a month She
1eit bound to do her duty by her chief
She introduced him right and left.
Then she put on her thinking cap.
He won't care much for those frivo.
lous creatures just out OF the normal" ."
she said to herself. Hell want some
one to pair off with. Now there's
Theodosa Desmond, principal of the
Plato School, way up on Chicago's
North Side. She's just his opposite,
but opposites get on well, so here goes"
And the assistant principal introduced
Principal Thaddeus Bent to PRINCIPAL
Desmond.
Professor Bent found himself in the
company Of Miss Desmond, on the
Neranda, the second morning after his
arrival. TheOdosa was a little crea-
ture, with trim figure, rather posi-.
i've manner and a piquant nose on
which rested pair of glasses. Theo-
dosia was thrty-fve and admitted 1t
when 1t was necessary.
WHAT'S your hobby, Professor
BentE she asked. Every one of us
mas n hobby. or we wouldn't be here"
Well, | confess, Miss Desmond. TO
n weakness for natural history. 1
like frogs, snakes. snails. turtles, water
bugs and the rest"
Horrors, all Of them. Excuse me.
out / thought you were above GREEN
ing things. l haven't a bit of sym.
pathy with you or with them. The
proper study Of mankind is man
ana mans attributes. let me add.
stndy mental philosophy. It's the only
thlng worth studying. We won't get
aIong at all well. Thank goodness. |
am above the earth bit, as high as
mans head, at any rate. The brain
ana the Observation-Disclosures be noble
themes. Snakes and toads, or, how
can you:"
Wen, trust am little above the
creepers ana the hoppers at times.
1here are the birds and the trees: they
appeal to me-"
"All Of a kind; mans and woman's
mentality Is the thing for me. I've
heard forty Of Professor Searcher's lee.
tnre5 on Mind already, and I'm going
10 near the other forty. Some of the
other teachers have fallen away. They
are not true blue, though they made
much pretense at tine start Can't I
induce you TO hear Professor Seacher?
Hell convert YOU"
fray forgive me- but I've heard
oeafcher and | found him a bore bur
HI go IL you'll take me-"
Iheodosia blushed q bit. She was
past even such remote hint of gal.
1antry as this. she had thought
NO won't take you" she said. "but
You may come II you will. Go well ND
10 the front. Professor Searcher does
not speak any too clearly and I slt nm
there-I mean you can hear better
there"
There were excursions into the woods
ana helds arranged by the teachers as.
sembled at Cover Hill. Prof ssor Rent
TOOK the tramps and through the urc.
ins assistant principal. Theodosla Des.
mond occasionally went along. This
student OF man amused Professor Bent
nnd despite her antagonlsm she attract
ed him little.
On one OF the excursions he found
himself alone with her In woodland
path. Each had books. what have
you there. Professor Bcnt?" asked Miss
Desmond.
81 have p. II. Gosse. man too little
read now, and Burroughs, and White
OF seiborne. They are full OF frogs and
snakes and foxes and birds"
Theodosia Desmond tossed her head,
ana her piqunnt nose became as near
pert as her thirty-iive years would ad.
NIT. Trash, every bit OF IT," she said.
There's nothing human about It,"
Surely there's human Interest I'm the
Hives Of the frogs and the loves of the
birds"
Loves OF the birds! thought You
were beyond sentiment. Professor Bent.
Well. there. l did not mean TO be rude.
Here have John Locke's Human Un.
derstanding.! Now that's the proper
study for student. He isn't read
much now, hut he ought to be. lie
would not touch sentiment with q
po,e.' ~,