Show HAS masiar OP OF THE GUNNERY A schoolmaster AND HIS NOVEL METHODS OF DEALING WITH FRA crORY ORY PUPILS nothing seems to have been more characteristic of mr frederick W gana as a schoolmaster school master than his bis punishments they were so original orial nal so good humored they never wounded self respect they taught their lesson but they left no BO sting of humiliation on behind A boy who wao bad been guilty of ruden rudeness tem told to put on jils his betat best clothes in the evening and make a call upon a fam family of gentle ladies in the the village they hey were in the secret and would entertain him graciously and he would go away after a delightful evening feeling the softening influences fluen ces of good breeding without bay ing ang been lectured by anybody A too poisy noisy boy would be sent off to take a five mile walk ordered to hold bold a chip I 1 in his mouth month for an hour or to run a dozen times around the church on the I 1 green sounding the tin dinner horn bora at each corner if two small boys were caught fighting they were ma made e to take turns sitting in each others laps for one or two hours it if a a boy were too lively in the sitting room he was sent out to pound a log g with a heavy club once mr gaun caught a boy sprinkling a dogs face with water at the tank at the Gunnery 11 he was very fond of dogs often having one op his lip and the other at his feet as he be at t at the head bead of his school he seized seiz eIthe the boy and ducked him just jus t to lot let him know low the dog felt A boys birthday was always a holiday for him when mr gann found that one of his bis scholars bad been celebrating three birthdays within a year he be kept his bis counsel but the next time the genuine anniversary came round the boy celebrated it by hugging bugging a tree for several hours once one of 0 the scholars was found hugging bugging a sign post at the fork of the two roads and saying in response to all questions im fm a poor miser miserable atle sinner everybody knows was under orders from the gunnery 11 some boys who had bad been robbing the app apple le trees of the neighbors were compelled belled to draw up a formal apology st E bear ear it in grobi procession IP salon to each owner and read it to these astonished people on their knees A boy who stoned a cow was made to deliver a inel p penitential oration to the whole herd in he e barnyard tor for halt half an hour one da day was a 11 very lazy one in school finay finally the laziest boy complained of being sick boy chos sick hold bold up his hand more than halt half a dozen of them did it in fun which ended when the master sent them down to mrs gaun gann to receive a strong dose of boneset bo tea one sunday morning one of the boys could not go to church because ho he could not find his bis shoes oboes one shrewd glance glanc from efrom the masters eye told him ane whole story take off those stockings said he be go down stairs and I 1 clen your feet and go to church at once the boy went to church in his shoes |