Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-10-26
mon-strate.' II is demonstrate"
II beg your pardon"

mon-strate.' IT is demonstrate"
Il beg your pardon"
"And l beg yours"
A pocket dictionary settled the dis
pute in the teachers favor. and then
and there the husky son of a farmer,
who was present. whispered to the
chagrined 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 it became
known all over the neighborhood that
it was Mr.. Cranes last week. He was
TO be licked out of the neighborhood
If he 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 tn"
| fences outside sat Il dozen farmers.
! Instead of calling up the class in Scog-
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 Il mah
stands up sQuare!y instead of roughin:;
| it. VIII. wouldn't you like TO step out
doors and put these on with me:''
| Will said lie would. That's what he
was aching TO do. Ten minutes later
| he was aching to get the gloves OF.
He had been jolted and Jared and
| knocked head over heels until he
thought his head was as big as bar
| Il h,J IN,
natured way, but beneath it he read
the lesson. and that night he said 10
one of his cronies:
Say. if that Teller should turn him
self loose once we'd be little lambs
longSide of him. One of his swats
would knock barn off its underpin-
nings"
That put Il quictus on any further
thoughts of insurrectiOn. 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" and 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
emergency she turned to herself. There
was Il small lake on which the teacher
used to skate for an houf in the even
ing Sometimes he had company ana
sometimes lie was alone. The family
AK and 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 al
over the house. and She finally put or
her hood and cloak and went out into
the night 1t was she with Il long pole
who pulled the teacher out of the all
hole into which he had skated ant
. was in danger of drowning. 1t was she
, who wrapped her cloak around his
shivering form as men carried him t.
her fathers house. 1t was she who
acted as nurse for the next three days
and it was she who hid her face in hel
, hands and said.
, I'm an awful wicked girl. / cut tina
, air hole in the lake, hoping you woult
, skate into it and be drowncd."t
But 1 wasn't. you see." replied
Crane.
100000, and I'm so glad"'
"And so am l. / wanted somethin;
, to happen so that could tell you-tel
: you-so that could
And he demon strated what b.
. meant. and she accepted the pronuncia
ton of the word without appealing t
: the dictionary.