The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-12-03
THE NEW TEACHER.
(By Mary Z. Mannix.l


oh. She" he replied contemptuously. ~sbe's
rorling but girl, and thin and scrawny looking.
She'll never be able to hold on to our school,"
As il is not gymnasium, nor school of ath-
letcs ] don't see why she cannot hold on Jack
II she is q good teacher otherwise said his mother
Well, maybe she will mother; but we boys
aren't going to lick her-she's too girlie-girlie"
1T seems to me you made the objection last year
IN Miss Payne that she too rough, Jack"
YES We diG-and she was She'd cuff fellow
Just like man would; and all the time Mr.. Powell,
the principal, was sick she was terrible. But this
ones Just the opposite, and with twice as many
boys as girls IN the school she's not going to have
an easy time. The fellows won't do as she tells
Them She'll have trouble"
"Oh, dear!' sighed the mother, 81 wish the Sis
tcrs would come here and the Brothers. so that we
could educate our children in the right way Don't
you make any trouble Tor the new teacher, Jack
will your
No mother won't" the boy replied Il never
have made any yet, have ?"
NO, don't believe you have"
"All ! don't like is that she's too young,
mother"
Perhaps she is the only one they could get this
term" said his mother.
The next Sunday morning when she returned
from early mass, Mrs. Brown said at the breakfast
table:
The new teacher is Catholic, Jack She went
10 holy communion and seems very devout And [
didn't think her at all delicate looking though she
is thin
She's pretty strong, mother" Jack replied.
"The other day Dexter Meade was throwing paper
wads while Miss Vaughan was correcting examples
The boys were supposed to be writing compositions.
At last a wad struck her the side of the face
and she got up and asked, just as stern as anyone
could, Who threw that wad of paperP
And verybody looked at Dexter, suppose" re-
marked Mr.. Brown.
"(iuess they did before they thoupht-i+ was en-
sudden, father. Then Dexter stood up and he said
1 did. Come here said Miss Vaughan. He went
but he held his hands behind his back What have
you in your hands@ asked Miss Vaughan. Paper.
said Dexter Give 1t to me- she said. but he would
not. She told him three times to give it up. and
then she came down from the platform and shS
took his hands like they two little sticks and
pulled them around in front and opened his tight
shut fists as easy-and he's got an awful grip
and took out the wads But she didn't touch him.
She Just told him to to his seat and she'd settle
with him after school"
And how did she settle with him. asked Mrs
Brown.
He didn't say was the reply "But you won't
catch him throwing paper wads again while she's
teaching"
Shes not as girlie-gire as you thought at first,
jack" observed his mother
NO, she isn't. But she doesn't care for any
kind Of sports
wished the lake would hurry and freeze over, and
she said that would be very good, providing we
ddn let skating interfere with any of lessons.
If she'd liked skating. she'd have said Won't that
be fine"
She was perfectly right in what she did saw"
remarked Mr.. Brown
A few intensely cold days covered the lake with
lee which soon became compact mass on which
the boys could skate to their hearts content. The
sheet OF water was very Deep about two miles long,
and half mile wide at the point where it suddenly
narrowed along the edge of Middleton. And as the
season progressed it became, as the teacher had
feared, responsible for badly learned lessons and
some truancy
1t was Friday evening and few of the boys
had been kept IN Several others, waitino for
their companions with skates in their hands, came
face face with the teacher she opened the door
to shake out some crumbs for the robins
in five minutes. boys. the others will be free"
she remarked pleasantly. And l hope you viii
have all the skating you tomorrow. so that you
will bring perfect lessons Monday morning"
It's awfully hard not to skate most all the
time said Leslie Meeker, very satisfactory pupil.
II YOU knew how, Miss Vaughan, and were fond of
H. as everybody IS that does know how, you'd I'M
derstand"
The teacher smiled perhaps I should" she
eloned. Il was thinking of trying, myself, this
afternoon. but I've been detained too long. But
perhaps tomorrow.
You've got to have skates, observed a small
hoy ia the rear.
Yes, / know that. l think / shall be able to
manage pair Ben" answered the teacher
its kind of dangerous at first, you know" con-
jmued little Ben. Maybe some of us boys could
help YOU
Tank you" replied Miss Vaughan. III be |
there tomorrow afternoon"
What followed we shall let Jack Brown relate
IN his own language. the next evening as he sat IN
the middle of the family circle, who drank IN his
every word
You See" he began, after he had answered GER
tam preliminary questions 1--WE fellows were all
down at the bend; we'd been skating quite while
All al once right in the middle of the lake, we saw
a crowd and some one said. Sneak Holes caved IN
again, and l bet you some fellows fallen through,
We just started up there for all we worth and