The midland journal. (Rising Sun, Md.) 1885-1947, 1928-01-27

does enclose, surround or circum-
scribe, it!", she explained desperately.
Zach, do you mean, Miss Schwenck-
ton, I'm to bound Pennsylvania? ?"
"That's the word-yes, bind it."
A snort from the county superln-
tendent was a signal for the amazed
school and they broke into roar Of
laughter that revealed to the embar-
raised teacher how seriously she had
erred. Her face flushed crimson. She
hated this monster sitting on her plat
form, laughing till the desk shook!
She raped for order. The school
became quiet Proceed She said
to Zebilla coldly.
PENNSYLVANIA Is bounded on the
nOrth-",s ~ s5 ~
When Zebilla had finished. Nicely
took as long a time as possible In
drilling her to pronounce the letter v
by, catching her lower lip between her
teeth. She prolonged this drilling to
the point of. absurdity for if she
called on any other pupilvof this class
to bound state. she herself would
have to keep her eyes glued to the
map to see that they got it right. With
Zebilla zoolsA that had not been neces-
sary. for zebiha could be depended
upon to answer correctly. She always
knew her, lessons. with depressing
thoroughness. So it was not until the
poor girl became FESTIVE and resent
full under her prolonged drilling that
the teacher desisted.
Bind Connecticut, Hiram" she at
last proceeded most reluctantly.
Connecticut Is bounded on the
north by Massachusetts,, on the east
by Rhode Island
"Oh. come. an island can't bind any
thing. What is an island. Hiram?"
she asked. very pleased at Hiram's
blunder. for here she could be sure
of her ground; she did at least know,
the forms of land and water!
"But Rhode Island" said Hiram,
gazing at her almost in horror, "ain't
no island"
Her finger on the map, she could
see for herself, now, that it wasn't
and turning hot and cold with con-
sternati0n. she yet tried to save her.
self. "very good. Hiram was try
ing to catch you up! OF course we all
know how it came to be called an
island? ZebiIla?'
But Zebilla, her standby, failed her
therp-She did not know
"Pll ask the class" said Nicely has
tily, ito look that up for next lesson"
She feared she was not succeeding
in her plot to "bore" the superintend-
ent She saw, in quick side glance.
that he looked anything but bored.
Indeed, he seemed to be enjoying him.
self Probably he'd stay the rest of
the day! Oh. how she hated and de-
spised him! Conceited pedagoeue!
After a few more states had been
bound cher eyes and finger fastened
the while to the map) she heaved
sigh of relief and dismissed the class
to their seats.
snow you've had your hearts de-
sire and have heard me teach geogfa-
ply What further" she inquired
with dignity, "can / do for you?"
81 leave it to you" he bowed, max
ing no move whatever to go.
She decided to call up a reading
class. There were no serious pitfalls
for her in American literature. That
is, if she could manage to resist the
temptation to act out the reading les
son, in case it happened to be
''piece" Gas the pupils would say) that
lured her to dramatic execution
of it!
She settled that danger by ordering
the class to turn to speech of Theo-
dore Roosevelt's. And too late she
realized her mistake The speech
abounded in political illusions which
none but a native American would
understand If only no one asked any
questions! They so seldom did mani
fest curiosity about anything-but it
would be just like the perversity Of
fate to inspire one of them to show
off before the superintendent.
A hand was raised-the youngest
little girl in the class. "Please, Miss
Schwenckton, what does G. A. X.
mean?"
Nicely beamed with pleasure, for
this was question she could, as luck
would have it, answer with convinc-