Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1910-06-16
When Miss Lucy
Had the Measles
By LUCY COPINGER
copyright BY J. B. Lippincott Coz

Garner for the family, Lizzie Buresch
had not yet done with childish things
J and was sick with the measles. Mis-
Lucy stayed with her one afternoo
IN the close room-and the next da.
Class a was in the hands OF a substi
tute. Miss Lucy though grieving that
since she had to catch something. j
was not some Interestingly pedagogi
cal disease like brain flag or nervous
prostraton, eonsoled herself with the
reflection that it might have been the
humps, and so settled down to her
enforced holiday with resignation.
Not so, however, was the spirit OF
Class A. The substitute was Of the
rank OF teachers whose pride is that
they are diseiplinarians, and. besides,
never having had the baby class, she
lid not understand all those little vag-
aries that are but evidences of the
struggling intellect. No one was al
lowed TO stay in after school to give
careful assistance; boards were I'M
cleaned, pencils unsharpened, and the
gee-ranum"-cherished nature study
~ 1AAC " nOAG EldSc-lduEu neg
lectedly away. For an innocent WITH
eism Bum o'Reilly was sent to the
principal, charged with the sin OF i'm.
pertinence; Sophie Bauerschmidt was
Kept In every day for talking; Anna
harenina had been hooking every af-
ternoon; and as for Frederick William,
he hated the substitute with a hatred
unusual to his peaceful little nature
this hatred being engendered upon the
occasion when he was caught nibbling
at luscious bun. The substitute, un.
IKE Miss Lucy, whose removals were
only temporary, had thrown the bun
into the waste basket.
She is dead" declared Anna Kare. /
nina gloomily. Il seen her, she god /
run Offer mid beer wagon. und she
aind meier coming back"
"Aw, git de hook" said Bum skep-
ideally, "Wot yer lying fer?"
I aind." said Anna hotly; land 1
seen her funeral, they was a grape
und den hacks"
Having thus uttered her account NJ
the splendors of Miss Lucy's obituar-
les Anna fell to refectively spreading
her bare toes dam-like across the gut.
Ter The three, Anna, Sophie and
bum, were sitting on the curb stone in
'front.' OF the school, where they had ,
met to discuss the disappearance of
Miss Lucy.
In spite of these convincing details. {
the other two were doubling. NAV. s
be her and her beau is going to cit I
married." suggested Sophie, ''and NAV.
De then she won't be a teacher no r
more" :
NO" said Bum thoughtfulIy; when i
you git married you don't do nothin' il
but Jest tend babies and live OF yer D
he added, with a bitter i
experience, hes a guzzler and Won il
'ot to take in washin'." Having Thus "
pitomized the chief pleasures and Il
rails of matrimony in general. Bum il
ell TO considering the case of Miss d
-ucy He remembered the prophecy Il
Il his mother that Miss Lucy was not 81
ong Tor Glass A, but he also remem.
cred the teachers fervent avowal Of II
II might not be too late NJ
o dissuade her AS the result of much W
discussion In this direction a letter s,
'as laboriously written upon a niece ST
f brown paper. N
INSISTS Loosely lit VENT Piles do not Git vi
larrid we will Tern awi tho tirne tba "
eranum Is ded we win wash our ers Ia
ms letter was placed in an envel. a
pc, addressed briefly to "missis be
'osey," and posted. lai
shell like the ears part" explained a
Re tactful Bum hopefully. she allus I'M
as fussin' about yer ears" on
Having dispatched this diplomatIc We
lea, Class waited in a suspense al. VIC
est unbearable by the substitute and Of
hen at the end of the week if was thu
'parent that their appeal had NOT ev
owed Miss Lucy. change of tactics sp'
as decided upon. sta
AFTER much debate il was decided FIR
at the principal was the object Of So
ISIS Lucy's affections. UndoubtedIv the
was the principal. But the only wav 1t
which an Interview with him might cot
obtained was through unusual de. to
+SH NAHiN IL was agreed that -"
the next afternoon each member NJ cri
e committee was to offend in sucb be
re manner that trial by the supreme gus
iwer would be necessary. lhis Was ing
easy matter for Anna Karenjna rea
hen she appeared, for the first time /
three days, the substitute asked her res
me and then consulted the roll book hea
Terely lice
Where have you been?" she asked and
spiciously. his
Anna regarded her silently. aft'
Little girl. answer me" raneataa kal
substitute. What have you been ons
ing?" VIII
'Biefaze." remarked Anna briefly wh'
had you Think" and was immadi- tax
'ly appointed to be cast out and
Equally fortunate was Bum. whose ger
inner Of offending was the sticking tain
a wet piece OF putty down Fred. the
ok Williams back; but 1t was not F
III school that Sophie. who had -. retJ
ed only an ordinary "keep-in" far the
king, lay down upon the floor ana Luc