Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1908-01-09
and then five or six gaunt and over.


grown girls rushed" the master. He
took II az II joke. and it was the girls
who We're buried in the snowdrifts.
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 bedraggled girls came
along and stated the result of the rush.
She went to her father aGC.t it. and
after thinking it over he answered:
"Mebbe il wasn't the most digni-
fiedest thing that ever happened, but
can't see where it's going to do any
hurt. If the gals begun 1t. then ii
wasn't his fault"
That night the schoolmaster dropped
in at Robinson'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 q proper
moment she asked him to demonstrate
a certain example in mathematics.
Excuse me-" he. smilingly replied
"hut YOU pronounce the word as de
mon-strate.' 4. IS demonstrate"
u 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 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
ii 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 VIII 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 a man
stands up squarely instead of roughing
it. VIII. wouldn't you like to step out
doors and put these on with meY'
VIII said he would That's what he
was aching to do. Ten minutes later
he was aching to get the gloves Off.
He had been jolted and Jared and
knocked head over heels until he
thought his head was rs big as bar
rel 1t had all been done in n good
natured way, but beneath it he read
the lesson, and that night he said TO
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 underrin
nings'
That put quietus 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.
L
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 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
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been missed just at 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 mood and cloak and went out into
the night. 1t was she With long pole
who pulled the teacher out of the air
hole into which he had skated and
was in danger of drowning. 1t was she
who wrapped her cloak around his
shivering form as men carried him to
her fathers house. 1t was she who
acted as nurse for the next three days,
and it was she who hid her face In her
hands and said:
I'm an awful wicked girl. cut that
ar uOie III lue ldhe. hoplhS Sbu Npuid
skate into it and he drowned"
"But | wasn't. you See" replied
Crane
100000. and I'm so glad"
"And so am l. | wanted something
to happen so that | could tell you-tell
you-so that | could
And he dem -on-strated what he
meant and she accepted the pronuncia
ton of the word without appealing to
the dictionary.
He Changed His Mind.