Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1909-08-12

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How silly" exclaimed the superior
Miss Lucy. 81 never get nervous. Ii
he comes in my room / shall merely
greet him with my ordinary manner
and go on with my usual work.
From this calm announcement we
can easily imagine Miss Lucy advanc
ing to meet the critic teacher with an
ineffable condescension. Instead OF
which she stood still and opened her
mouth several times vainly. Then she
gurgled. The critic teacher, who in
reality was only painfully shy, WON
an-fearing young man, also gurgled
He then extended a cold and clammy
hand, which was met by one equally
cold and clammy At this point loud
whisper was heard from Sophie Bauer
schmidt, who suspected Miss Lucy OF
matrimonial designs upon every man
from the janitor down. cts Miss
Luzy's BEAU" she explained loudly
Miss Lucy glared wildly at her and
the critic teacher sinking weakly into
a chair, opened his notebook. Miss
Lucy turned to her class and for a
moment smiled vaguely and appeal
ingly at them with a dreadful shadow
of her entertainment" smile. Then
suppressing tendency to swallow all
the time, she began to direct the read
ing lesson in a voice that reminded
her of Frederick William reciting a
memory gem. AS for the critic teach.
err still appalled, by the announcement
that he was Miss Lucy's beau, he sat
wretchedly on the ridge of Miss Lu'
cy's chair and wrote swiftly and con.
stantly in his book.
At last Frederick Williams turn
came to read. See kitty chump," said
he. 1t was the first sentence in the
primer and the only one he had ever
mastered He rendered it upon all
occasions and it was always accepted
by Miss Lucy with an indulgent smile.
However, this time she shook her
head. mo, DEAR" she said sweetly;
TRY again.
"See kitty chump," said Frederick
complacently.
Then Miss Lucy came toward him
and bending over him pointed to the
first word.
1t was at this moment that the still
ness of the room was suddenly dis
PEELED by loud smack. This smack
sudden, loud and sharp-was followed
by breathless gasp from the class.
Then a sound of lamentation fell upon
the air.
Anna" said Miss Lucy, instinc.
lively, s"come here. And you, Sophie,
also"
Anna came sullenly Sophie tear.
fully nursing a very red cheek Miss
Lucy, standing between them, glanced
at the critic teacher. He had stopped
writing and, pen held in hand, was
evidently critically waiting the out
come of this breach of discipline"
"Anna," began Miss Lucy, why
did you strike Sophie?"
Il never done i'd" declared Anna.
Sophie" said Miss Lucy, "why did
Anna strike your"
Sophie, who was rather enjoying
herself, shifted violently. "She took
my cent" she said, "and l got it back
and then she hit me in the jaw and,
Miss Lucy, l got the toothache," fin
ished this victim of Annals rapacity.
You're a liar" said Anna angrily,
'and you waid dill ged you outside
und I'll knock your block Off" Then.
with a sullen sob, I'D was my cend
anyhow. Id wasn'd even spid."
At this point Sophie, who loved an
audience, broke in "And she said
you put your hair up in curl-papers
at night and she said your petticoat
wasn't even silk and she said you
didn't have no holes in your stock
ings."
At these revelations Miss Lucy
gasped and, sitting down Historically
upon a desk, looked at the critic
teacher. Outraged and Mortified by
the idea that he, young man of ex-
emplary habits, should be thus drawn
into a discussion concerning feminine
hosiery, the critic teacher had risen,
pale and with wild look in his eyes.
For moment he and Miss Lucy both
stricken gurgleless, looked at each
other. Then Selling his hat, he turned
and fastened without the portals of
the depraved and immoral Glass A.
AS the door shut upon his scandalized
back, Miss Lucy, glancing toward her
desk, caught sight of a red copybook
| lying there open. All the beautiful
moral precepts that were the delight
of Glass A quite forgot, she clutched
the copybook and feverishly turned
its pages. They we're all blank.
What an awful old fake!" she ex-
claimed; worse than l am" and
then, to Bum O'Reilly, James, run
and take this to the gentleman that
was here just now"
Later, when the dismissal bell rang
and the children were departing, Miss
Lucy fastened Annals ragged pink
fascinator over her head. Then, as
she gave her gentle shove out the
door, she stealthily pressed a cent
into the child's dirty hand.
After which she went to the book.
case and looked at herself in the
glass. Regretfully and tenderly she
pulled a melancholy strand, once the
pride and joy of her heart, that hung
Imply down by her ear. 'And id
wasn'd even spid," she said gloomily
Where Turner Went to School.
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