Baxter Springs news., 1919-02-28
THE HooSIER SCHoO oOLMASTER
Copyrighted b y B. F. Lloyd

Resouded pupils whenever their struck the floor
Tb the front seat whose face was whStanns
drouth,
And Jolly Jack Gibbs just with rainy for mouth
There was both of the Smith boys suOus they bore that
And linn Dawson mechanic young the
With countenance grave Lord and his honest fixed on pn
Queer bent deeply laid project to tunnel Joe Hawkins skn
There were anxious young novs drilling spelling books into the BRAIN
And putting each letter. like engine just starting its train
There was one fercey fellow scOwd the his slate
And eered the figures look Of unseabe hate
And he together and gave his thin lips short twist
AS to say cOnOund could such things be done with the
There were two knowing girls the each with beauty
sesed
bD discussing the problem which one of young
class in the front readers telling with difficult palms,
How peed brave Marco BOzaris while bleeding all Of his veins
And boy punished statue of ideness Stood
Making faces at all and enjoying the all he could
and there was Goodwin watching the school master close by the door,
Rl chewed up paper and shot done heretofore
hit right where Bill aimed cheek of pretty MO Lane,
And Bill attentive to his books again.
Now Mo was beauty who had wnd at the school masters
glance
she reported Goodw dmeanOr she got good chance
ngy which old school sometime hath
With many break surface where gnned wood grating of ath
patch of plaster the school masters rieety chair
eatenng Ger him suspended like Democles sword by ha
There where the knife blades had wandered in search
of their prey,
Their tons were as dusty spattered they drank ink day.
The square pu cracked and broke out red flaming sores
m the great qudruped ebed like dog fierce to rush out OF doors
flakes looked at the wnOw the gale pressed Its lips TO n
hdrens hot faces streaming the while they were freezing
their backs.
Now Marco Boars had fallen all his sungs Oer
retreatng when footsteps were naru
And five Of the good district fathers marched
And stood themselves up by the hot off their white mans
of snow;
spokesman, grave squire of sixty with untenan soemny sac
Spoke thus while listened with all of the that they had
here tenn cast inqun eye round
complaints and fault that has lately
found.
To pace off the your what you've been about
An see payin keep you whether we'd best turn you out
The thing when the class gifts up TO reao
You give em too tight than they need
the matter of hOdn the book in one ham,
you "g their dOns and tack an odd a On ne an
There amt no great good comes pean words polite as see
you what the facts and tell em of just as they De-
there's that readn in concert cenured from 1us' unto ~
1t up a heap a racket when folks traveln past
Whatever done readin prOvdn things to
Shan hang tangled hinges the old fashioned way
district fathers quick the consent that was du
obiquey and muteed hem my senmen e"'
Then as to your spen them has looked into h
the " out of labor and make the word shorter h us
An clip the yer makes Ephram perpexo
spells the word on to the next
They say there's grated that don't take them letters along
Fu just depend them grated books is made wrong
we'll that Jackson didn't know all there was about
Spe Book Webster didn't know what them letters was O
quick the consent that was DUE
s and softly and sad e my senemen
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your rimic dOin's they reported to me-
also the ole rule OF three
An likewise brought in new study hghsppn scholars to please
an pot hooks, an ws VS. an rs
We amt got no time on amt great good to be reached
BY ptOin up higher than their fathers was eahed
And the other quick the consent that was DUE
And cooked one eve up the ceiling sa s senemens tew
Niy gals is as fer much 1ea
But they oh venn taln such stun as
here:
love an thou love an you love an they
they question twas all could get EN- 70
Now stead of duty you're caryin matters on so
As to make the gals say that they it's all that want to know
Now Jim the the dusk OF the evening oeIore
Had well nigh une the pipe down on the floor
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