Daily press. [volume] (Newport News, Va.) 1896-current, 1907-10-27

~'N 'it'h hft VI SlN RuuAt W
grown girls rushed the master. He
took ii as n Joke, and it Was the girls
who We're buried in the suowdrirts.
Mr.. Crane said that he would dismiss
school any day for fifteen minutes to
enable the pupils TO indulge in athletic
exercises. Miss Jennie was indignant
when one of the bedragglcd girls came
nlong and stated the result of the rush.
She went tn her father about II. and
after thinking it over lie answered:
"Mebbe 1t wasn't the most digni.
iiedcst thing that ever happened. but
can't see where it's going to do any
hurt IL the gals begun IL. then 1t
wasn't his fault"
That night the schoolmnstcr dropped
in nj Robinsou's To see about having
some clothes pegs put UP. Miss Jennie
was ready for him. There were three
or four others present, and at II proper
moment she asked him to demonstrate
Il certain example In mathematics
Excuse me-" he smiliugly replied.
"but you pronounce the word MS de
monstratc.' 1t is demonstrate"
81 beg your pardon"
and beg yours"
a pocket dictionary settled the dis
pute In the teachers favor. and then
and there the husky son of farmer,
who was present, whispered to the
chngrlned girl That he'd lick the teach
er before Saturday came again, and
she didn't say word against it,
Two or three days later 1t became
known all over the neighborhood that
1t was Mr.. Cranes last week. He was
to he licked out of the ncighborhood.
II lie heard. he went his way the same
as before. Friday afternoon was the
time appointed. and Will Hayes was
the champion selected, When school
was called again after dinner there
were several visitors, and on the
fences outside sat dozen farmers.
Instead OF calling up the class In geog-
raphy, the teacher took from his desk
pair of boxing gloves and said:
There are several young men here
who would probably like TO learn the
art OF boxing. The man who Is man
stands up squarely instead OF roughing
it. VIII, wouldn't you like to step out
doors and put these on with mef'
VIII said he would. That's what he
was aching to do. Ten minutes later
he was aching To get the gloves OFF
lie had been joltcd and Jared and
knocked head over heels until he
thought his head was rs big rs bar
rel. 1t had all been done in good
natured way. but beneath it he read
the lesson, ana that night he said to
one OF his crouipS:
Say, II that Teller should turn him
self loose once we'd be little lambs
'longside OF him. one Of his swats
would knock Il barn of its underpln-
nings."
That put quietus on any further
thoughts OF instruction. and Miss
Jenny said to herself that she hated
the young man from the depths of her
heart. He called and corrected her
grammar, and her hate was intensified
He called and found fault because her
verses made sorrow" rhyme with
tailor" ana she stamped her foot
The girls wouldn't try another rush.
and the boys refused TO tackle him,
while her father said that things were
going better than ever before. In this
tHlSTScllCN size tulllcu 10 herself. lDeFe
was n small lake on which the teacher
used to skate for an hour in the even
ing. Sometimes he had company and
sometimes he was alone. The family
AK aud the family daughter might have
been missed just ut dusk one evening
Later on the family daughter might
have been asked the cause of her rest
lessnesS. She was up and down all
over the house, and she finally put on
her hood and cloak and went out into
the night ii was she with long pole
who pulled the teacher out of the air
hole into which lie had skated and
was in danger of drowning II was she
who wrapped her cloak aro7ind his
shivering form as men carried him to
her fathers house. 1t was She who
acted as nurse for the next three days,
and II was she who hid her face in her
hands and said:
I'm an awful wicked girl. cut that
air hole in the lake, hoping you would
skate into 1t and be drowned"
But 1 wasn't. you See" replied
Crane.
100000, and I'm so gladv
"And so am |. l wanted something
to happen so that could tell you-teli
you-so that | COULD
And he demonstrated what he
meant. and she accepted the pronuncia-
ton of the word without appealing to
the dictionary.