The Virginia enterprise. [volume] (Virginia, St. Louis County, Minn.) 1893-19??, 1913-12-19
The Letters Of William Green
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IRON THE SATURDAY EVE

vile we were out looking to see If
it was false alarm or not Henry
rubbed the peace back and forth
over the blackboard until it was all
rubbed on and the school was called
again and we started to have arith-
metick which was always examplus
on the board by the teacher and us
to wurk them down under. She
started up to the board with long
piece of chalk held out in frunt of
her like they do but when she got
a cupple feet from the board she
stopt and her nose all curled up and
you could her her sniff clear acrost
the room.
She must have thought somebody
set a bad exampul on the board per-
haps.
Then she went little closter and
it was wurse and she went back a
littul. The board seemed to be in
bad condishun but she could not see
why. 1t seemed as if something was
decade back of it. All the time
Henry and me were, studying hard
with our faces berried in our arith-
metick and looking very sober as if
nuthing had happened. It was hard
to keep from laughing to see her
want to go up to the board and not
abul to. After vile she gave it up
rather pail and wurried and went to
her chare and sat down. She SEEM
ed to be thinkink for long vile.
Everybody in the room wandered
what had happened except Henry
and me.
After vile we could see she had
an idea because she stratened up in
her chare. Then she called the
neerest boy to her, Billy Gibbs, and
he went up to her desk and she told
him to put both his hands out in
frunt of him and he did and she sniff.
fed and sent him back to his seat.
Then she called the next boy and
he put out his hands and she shifted
agen.
By this time Henry and me could
see a CRATE lite.
After vile Henry would be called
up and have to hold out his hands
md she would see that the smell OF
them matcht the blackboard and she
] would know who did it.
Henry's hare began to slowly raise
up and he wisht he could wash his
hands but it was no use.
Besides he could not have wasn't
it off anyhow. 1t would only ware
off.
After vile when l was feeling
sorry for Henry l wandered if any
of the smell was on my hands from
(berrying it the mite befoar and not
washing very hard in the mornen az
a boy often does not do. So l put
my head sort of down on the top al
the desk and my hands up under ,anc
smelled softly to see if it was thart
and it was very plane and strong.
seemed to stop feeling sorry fol
Henry then and wandered what
would happen to US both.
So after vile it was Henry's tur,
and he went up and had to put out
his hands and she shifted and il
matcht the blackboard purfeckly anc
she knew who did it. All the time
| was little uneasy and getting
more so until my turn and she tolG
me to go and stand beside of Henry
until she was through smelling all
hands round to see if there mite be
any more of us. But there was no.
body else but us.
She did not say much but she lookt
at us very cold and sturn and said
after school in the afternoon she
would keep us in and max up her
mind what to do to PUNISH us. Then
she let out school for the forenoon
and told the janitor to open all the
windose for fresh air and wash off
the blackboard with sope and water.
In the afternoon it was so she
could get up to it by holding her nose
littul. She had to get sort of used
to it. But it was still far frum a
pleasant blackboard to wurk on. It
did not seem as if it would ever be
the same agen.
1t mite not have been so bad for
US but in the afternoon Daisy Brown
was in frunt of me with long brades
Of hare that were tide with ribbuns
near the end and left a littul part
like brush at the very end. She
had funny habit of rubbing her
cheek with the end of brade when
she would resite and get a littul
nervus. Her rite brade was a littu]
over the edge of my desk and hap
pened to think of putting the littul
brush on the end in my inkwell just
to see what would happen.
So l did and just when it came out
pretty wet with ink she got up ia
resite and befoar minnit she was
rubbing it on her cheek and the first
rub she was all streaky with ink all
down the side of her face and she
screened with frite when she felt