Show I 1 KNEW SHE WOULD deacon awas W was a staid and honest baptist deacon in one of the be interior towns in this sate I 1 who bad a vein of dry caustic humor in his composition the deacon bad a boy of some dozen summers who oho was somewhat inclined to be a little ugly y when not under the parental eye in school especially john was a lasource source of constant annoyance to the teacher one day the mistress pu punished him for some misdemeanor and john we went nt home cry crying ngy to enter his complaint and told his bis father t that at the mistress had bad whipped hin bin what exclaimed the deacon elevating his eyebrows been hipped whipped ya abl a s sobbed th the e boy and did you let a woman whip yel ye shouted the deacon ya as I 1 help it well john you little rascal you go to school tomorrow to morrow and if miss undertakes to whip ye agin 1 you jest pitch in dont let a woman whip ye if ye can help it dont take a at stick to strike with but ye may strike scratch bite and kick as much as yere a mind to 2 the next day the boy went to school and emboldened by the permission given by his bis father was soon brought before the tribunal of violated rules the teacher undertook to correct him and he did as his hia father had bad told him the result was that john got a most unmerciful trouncing and was thoroughly subdued when be he want home he be ment went A ent to his father crying well dad I 1 got an awful bad licking today to day what 1 1 said sald the old deacon have you let that woman whip ye agin ya a s 1 whimpered john 1 I kicked her and struck her and fit all I 1 could but she me or fully y alai alas chuckled the thie humorous old deacon you ou little fool I 1 knew she would and shell give ye a trouncing every time she undertakes der takes it and I 1 would advise you to behave yourself in future john began to have some perception of his fathers motive and ever after was a sadder and a wiser boy |