The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1911-02-19
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That's What Was Did to Jed
Peters, Our Intelligent School
Teacher...Some Thinks ItSerVed
Jed Right & Some Don't. Seth
Dewberry Mkt Up in It

Jed Peters, the intelligent teacher of
the Bingville school had a offul unpleas-
ant experience last Tuesday, which ruff
fled up Jed's feathers more than they
have been ruffled for some time.
Along before Christmas and the holi-
days arrived there was considerable
speculashion among Jeds scholars as to
whether or not he would give them a
candy treat as usual Heretofore it has
been Jed's custom to hand out to each
scholar bag of candy jest before
school dismissed for the holidays, and
it was thort that he would not depart
from the usual custom on this occa-
shion. AS result long before Christ
mas arrived every scholar was on his
good behavior and the school was a
me ! in every respect, but when it
come time to dismiss the school Jed
done so without saying word about a
treat. CONSERVATION among the schol-
ars reigned soopreme, and they all went
home in deep disgust and told their
parents that they didn't get no candy,
and their parents was jest about as
much disguised as they was, until the
matter got to be the talk of the town.
Some folks made so bold as to ask
Jed why he didn't give the Children
candy this Christmas as usual, and Jed
said that the reason he didn't was be-
cuz he considered it a foolish waste Of
money on his part, being as heretofore
when he handed out candy at his own
expense the scholars ct it all up, and
in a few days forgot his generosity. so
that when they. come back to school
again they was as full of mischief as
ever.
Well, after school was resumed foller-
ing the holidays, there was considerable
murmuring went on amongst the schol-
ars, which has kept up ever sinst. It
ranked in their dear little hearts becuz
they hadn't got no candy from Jed, and
mutiny was got up amongst the
scholars, led by the biggest boys in the
school, including Jim Witherow and
Sam Peabody and Willie Miller and
Tommie Hillyer and others. Last Tues
day when Jed went to the spring near
the school house with a water pail to
get some water, things come to head
Willie Miller, he throwed the first snow
ball, which hit Jed a crack behind the
ear, and that was the signal for the
whole school to throw snow balls and
they all pelted Jed as hard as they could
pelt, until he dropped the water pal
and started to run towards the schoo
house, with the whole school after him
Jed would of excaped in the schoo
house if his feet hadn't slipped, wher
down he went and the whole schoo
piled on top of him and wallered him il
the snow and put snow in his eyes, ane
in his ears, and in his mouth, and dowr
his neck, until he yelled Murder" ane
"Help!" and pleaded so pitiful for mer
cy that they let him go. He went int
the school house and dismissed schoo
for the rest of the day, when all tn,
scholars went home and Dragged ant
boasted about what they had did, which
was Endorsed by their parents in almos
every case.
Jed said it was a pretty howdy-dt
for scholars to treat their teacher lik,
that end he'd show en- and their par
euts, too, whether he could enforce edu
casiicn in Bingylls o. not Next morn