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Letter From SEED.
Shady Grow,

$40 o. - 49,. SQ6Qy SIONG,
s- Dec. 8, 1906. T.
Deer Gents,-I received your printed letter
all o. 4. an I have noted the contents with
considerable di gust. II I red you're letter
right you say snme kkule teecher has orit-
tysIzed my english an at the same tim In
timated that Guiiermo Sed was ssumthin' oil
Now Gents, there be two kinds OF Phnols;
phools frum preference an phools fur the
want Of sense. Allow me ter inform you
thatifI be q phool, IT'S because I'm q phool
rum preference an not like that Peddygog,
q phool from the want ofsense. There's some
chance fur q man who is q pnool rfrum pre-.
ference but wehn q pore critter To- q pbool
from the want Of 30 "a Client gray matter In
his icrapyum who In this mundapce spheei
can help i'm! He might eat all the brain
food that ever was produced an SIN he
would be the same blamsless bloomlni dJit be
Is destined 10 be. u ~, :.
Don't let this harmless p~eddygog disturb
you're equinimity. He means we'll, outpeddy-
gogs. as q rule amt always responsible. I've
watched these critters right much durin'
my breef career an they have afforded me
o o9p aSs shady sG Gross sEuie " vas sns written itus n lup ~
some gent who is handy with a Pensul IT
wudden't e.op se~lltinf"till The HUNDRED
ih nous = md, edysio 2, vas Vas plum g91 .o .,i.
10 my recollection wus miss Amye Baccone,
], believe she spelt II, sltho /, brought her q
letter. onct an 1t was directed 10 Miss Amy
E saso saS Is ss, p,sip, one Pr tss D Ssiss SUE sen, Bacon nSs,
3 mornin' ffrum Rockinham, North Callins.
She had two vafses, q band box, and q little
rv Q yaller bird in kage. I thot at the
such younsster as sam Reynoid's kids and
VAS one OF the copidin' little critters that
wouldtelI you all her trouble an, 'twarnt
long afore she was pokin timid little interro.
gallons at me. she was boardin' at my house,
an me answertn,.A Il a =, q
.How many pupils win ! have" Mr.. sed
Bout thirty hve" SEE L.,
Two. SEE I. sam Reynolds boy an Jane
Z Smith. ~ 49,.
You don't say! sez she, Do any OF them
I think 80, sez I.
My. my SEE she. I must order some books
rite away. NJ -
That's the general complaint, SEE I.
O.o-o-h, you don't say. see she, Pm afraid
I'll haveR hard time.
\ Not. II you're handy with a~stick, SEE I,
Ugh! seq she, Inever could do that.
Ont she put the mex Monday mornIn, pale
that evening lookin' like a forepine, COST. !
could shet both eyes an see that she was
plum worriet out .
Did my key conner was the fust question
she asked ms.
Key? SEE I. .-o s.
Yes, SEE she, the one I ordered.
Won't the school house key open the door?
SELL.
On not that key, SEE She. the key I ordered
& Nope, SEE |. kinder bewildered.
Oh my misery me, seq she, what will I do!
Break the dtngd door down, SEE I, an II you
The next evenin' she came home an 1 be-
GIN TO think ION her looks tibet she wus bout
10 take the fever, but she found a packedge OF
books hsd arrived for her an tibet packedge
done her more good than all the Piiis IN The
seven states. She eat that mite for supper,
i've peeces OF boiled ham an nuff eggs to
skule she wue ridin roun with Elleck Smith
am wearin a smile ola Kronic Pollytishion,
with a face as rosy as q red bird. -
Everything went smooth till Joe Cannon
started to settin' up TO the teacher an cut
Elleck Smith ont. That made Jane Smith
an the whole Smith family Madden hornets,
an all kinds Of reports got started on the
teacher bout the dlssiplen, ct ~setera, an. the
The next teacher that we had was frum the
mountains OF West Vlrgtnis, as nigh as 1 can
remember. His name was Bill Yonugblood.
case of these two P~eddygogs they shorely did.
las usual, my house bein near the lkule
house, they sent Youngblood 10 board with
me. He wus about six feet tall, double tinted
Ihruout. with jaws somethin similar TO, q
bench legged bull dog. he wore q plumber
seventeen collar and q 'levnn shoe, could
throw a rock a hunderd an fifty yards an
JUMP AIRY tcu Idlt iChC0 OAlu6 pidC6, LII DIS
room he hung'a big leather ball, bout the
size of q tw enly-1v cent Kalb Jem an the
very fust bite aft r he arrived he RACED 80 much
sand In there thai II liked 10 have SIX eered
madam Sed 70 death. I went In TO see boat
IL IN Youpgblood had On big gloves knockin
the very stuf1n outen that ball. He had
suthin like bias sball bats, lynn 'roun, ceppen
they WINS bigger, an q couple OF dun bells
that would weigh rs pound apeece. g
.Nacherly / began TO have right considerable
respect for this gent, anil wus careful not 10
lose II neither. -,
Well he took up SIX lie promptly an'promp.
ly That eyepina GIL, my Oldest boy, come
home Iookip like he had q Pain somewhere
an cuddent scratch 1t. Up he comes 70 me
and sez, Paw, / want ter pick cotton an quit
skule. Now this is the first an last time !
s ever heerd Gil say he wanted ter work. Boui
that time Y~onngoiood cum up an GIL had
bizness som ewhere else. 1 told Gil that l
spected the best place fur him was at skule.
an ofallthe crestfaIlen boys you ever csst yorr
binoculars on Gil was IL. When he fou d he
had to 60 you ought to hev seen thai Kid gel
TO work. He studied mite an day. an when
ever Youngblood was arouD, he wussent
Later | discovered that every boy In the Ma
borhood wanted TO quilt skule bad, an one
of Smiths kids played hockey for three
weeks strate an when Smith fouDd IL ont, he
wus mad at Youngblood fur whippin the
lid am come over to see the Peddygog bout
1t, falktn purity wild, havin been egged on
by his wife, an sayin things he orient 10 say.
! saw trouble wuS brewin' but wus too
late. Smith wus ewalleitn' three teeth,
wipep the bleed often bis nose an begin
pardon all at the same time. That peddygog
wss smilin' an acceptin' the apologies In the
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