The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-07-02

SUCH NedNueI tlli Slt lliiu W wear
mems boots and take them off when
she got there. carryn' her shoes along
with her to put on. She wrote that
much that she had to wear mems
boots. never seemin' to think there was
anything about it to complain of, but
then she was like that. There was
allus a sort of spunk in the girl what
carried her through. Jim Levcrin had
to own ii. Spunk and bravery. Once
he told her she was sassy to him, and
he started TO slap her. He raised his
hand. he said. but there was somcthin'
so brave and quick and bright in her
black eye he had to stay his hand. 1t
fell at his side of its own accord. He
couldn't. he said.
mo. That amt the boiler boilin'
over ag'in. Mrandy. Don't worry. |
can see it from here. I'm watchn' of
it. one mint longer and I'm done.
Margaret had taught the school six
weeks about when she begun to have
trouble Mind you. she didn't write Il
word about it till it was all over and
done with. But think how it must a
worried her ut the time. Spunky,
want it: Not to write home. both
erin 'em about it? 1t seems that there
was great. big. broad Shouldered
Sunburncd Teller what was determin-
ed when he see girl runnin' the
school to break it up. You've heard,
haven't you, of young mems schools
being broke up by toughs? But you'd
think they'd let a girls school alone.
Wouldn't you? But he didn't. He
made Margaret all the trouble he could.
and she stood it pretty brave. as | say.
for six weeks Then he got worse and
worse till one fine day he brought some
of his pals along with him and said
as how he was going to close the
school then and there and send that
sassy little teacher home, where she
belonged.
Nov. as it happened, Margaret had
made Il few friends for herself the time
she'd been tcuchin', 50 she was pretty GER
tain she could count on some backin in
case of Il fight She want much afraid;
but, then, she don't hardly know what it
is to be afraid. nOhow. She was at her
desk teachin' then. that mornin' when she
saw him and his friends comm along the
road to close up her school. She is a big
broad shouldcrcd strong girl, that Mar
garct. muscular as many boy. She's
gone in n little. too. for this here phiz-
Zical cultcher they talk Sc much about
expandn' her chest and the like. She
haint been behindhand either in practic-
in her muscles on the children in the
school She'd jest about licked one or
two of 'em, Jim Levern told me. laugh
i,,' IN Sr,1it eve blessed
mornin she'd been there. to sort of keep
her hand in like. So that was how 1t hap
pencd that she had fine lot of birch
rods hangin' right over her desk. conven-
lent when she saw this big giant Teller
comm to break up her school
"Wcll she gets up out Of her seat
closes her book and takes down the birch
rods
Here Jane commenced to laugh.
"And them" urged Mirandy.
"You'd hardly believe it, gasped Jane.
'but that girl Margaret she whipped the
big Teller with them there birch rods till
he yelled for mercy That's what they
said he did. yelled for mercy his friends.
thunderstruck past hclpn' him, | s'pp Sc.
StaHdin' by with their mouths open. lu,t'i-
in on. She whipped him til! she got < nod
and tired. Th.n she lct his friends take
him home. After that she set dow" ag'tn.
opened her book and went ON with the
school"
Another fit of laughing took possesslon
of her.
And that amt ALL" shr stamm"rcI.
finishing with Il cough.
Mirandy rested her hands on her hips.
the wash forgotten.
what happened"" she queried eagerly.
THAT there big Teller come back to
school the next day, meek as any lamb
turned over new leaf and took to study
in He got to be Margarets best pupil.
they said follown' her round s If he was
tied to her apron strings and after awhile
gettin SOS he could help her with the
others. Then when school was out and
Margaret was about to come back home
guess what he did"
"Iie didn't ask her to marry him ejac-
ulated Mirandy. helped to an inspiration
by the twinkle in James eye.
That's just what he did" nodded Jane.
ASKED her TO marry him. You'd think
| he'd be afraid. wouldn't you. to ask a
girl to marry him what had whipped him