The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1906-04-10

o o School, in the far South
n Side Of Chicago, left the
BoN train at Cover Hill Sta.
tion, Wis. where teach
ers' summer school was In progress.
Professor Bent-he had sat in a col
lege chair in his day-was forty years
OLD. His hair was a trihe gray. his
eyes were kindly and his shoulders a
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.
AZ the big boarding house by the
brook with the great trees at Its back,
Thaddeus Bent met half dozen teach
ers whom he knew and half hundred
whom he didn't know. The assistant
principal Of the Diogenes was there.
and had been there for a month. She
felt bound 10 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 10 herself. Hell want some
one to pair on with. Now there's
Theodosia Desmond. principal Of the
Plato School. way up on Chicagos
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
yeranda. the second morning after his
arrival. Theodosia was q little crea-
ture. with trim figure. rather posi-
tive manner and piquant nose on
which rested pair OF giasses Theo-
siosia was thirty-five and admitted II
when 1t was necessary.
What's your hobby, Professor
Bent:r she asked. Every one OF us
has hobby. or we wouldn't be here"
'.Well. confess. Miss Desmond, TO
~ weakness for natural history. /
like frogs. snakes. snails. turtles. water
bugs and the rest
Horrors. all OF them. Excuse me.
but ] thought you were above creep
ing things. ! haven't bit of sym
pathy with you or with them The
proper study Of mankind is man
and mans attributes. let me add. l
study mental philosophy. It's the only
thing worth studying We won't get
along at all well. Thank goodness. l
am above the earth a bit, as high as
mans head. al any rate. The brain
and the understanding these be noble
themes. Snakes and toads. or. how
can you:"
We'll. trust | am little above the
creepers and the hoppers Mt times.
There are the birds and the trees; they
appeal to me-"
"AlI Of kind; mans and wOman's
mentality Is the thing for me. I've
heard forty OF Professor Searcher's lee
lures on Mind already. and I'm going
TO hear the other forty. Some Of the
other teachers have fallen away. They
are not true blue. though they made
much pretense at the start Can't
induce you to hear Professor Seacher:
He'll convert you"
Pray forgive me, but I've heard
seafcher and I>foand him a bore, but
III 20 If you'll take me-"
TheodosIn blushed bit. She was
past even such n remote hint OF gal
lantry as this. she had thought.
'No. won't take you,- she said. "but
yz1u may conq IL vota will ~ wall nm
10 the front Professor Searcher does
not speak any too clearly and sit up.
there-I mean you can hear better
there."
There were excursions into the woods
and fields arranged by the teachers ns-
sembled at Cover HILL Prof ssor Bent
took the tramps, and through the urg-
ing assistant principal. Theodosla Des-
mond occasionally went along. This
student OF man amused Professor Bent.
and 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 Bent:" asked Miss
Desmond.
Il have r. H. Gossc man too little
read now. and Burroughs, and White
Of SeIborne. They are full of frogs and
snakes aud foxes aud birds"
TheodosIa Desmond tossed her head.
and her piQuant nose became as near