Show c With th JC Ct When Then l Jfe te e Was 2 I I BY BY WILLIAM I WALLACE J JR RD R. R ll D r had just come conic to 10 C thorn them for Cor the thC summer All the were happy happ to lo have haye him for ho liras was an entertaining story toiler unlike unlike some ome old people Grandi Grand Grand- i f papu never was cranky nor cross cross- grained Indeed was the tho pet person leIson about any house wh e re he was an inmate had hall the d dear dl l' l old ohl gentle gentle- Jil Jt unpacked his trunk and refreshed refresh refresh- ed Ct himself with a path hath and a 0 nap lun here came ume the little ones onON creep creep- i S hll to lo his door listening at al the tote key to ascertain if he were asleep l IdY could hardly wait walt till he ho should c C HC downstairs tails tail's to lo sit on the porch wit vita them I c do believe c hes he's waking waIting whis- whis 1 pit t tl Danny his ear at the tw keyhole I i. li I lif GIanpapa door I eI can cun hear hoar fer t I I 8 1 I Maybe lies heN snoring suggested i. i AU Auria y HI a e edging nearer so that she site might 1 i hoax heat t what via v t the sounds were like I j dell Vell I jt if you ou call that snoring I said Danny holding up ulI his linger finger as ast for Cor all to listen I call can ItU it t t n f U u about r I ft Come In In youngsters called a u yol j through the door Then rhen all nil Danny 1 tittle J Danny Mirtie and Anna ran Anna ran joyously I Into the thc big front room roots upstairs up- up stairs I which was usually k kept pt for company particularly for r know we were hero llowd you t k n kd rl Danny Dann laughingly ly V Oh Oh one one n would oun have to h he with with- S I ont oat cars ears to lo not hear tho those e stage stag whir whir- Ors ham of yours assured f E Indulgently Youve been at that hail door three times since 1 I came camer r r L. L 1110 lo o lie down r f j 1 Oh Olt please forgive us usH If H wo the disturbed d you said Anna apologetically going to the couch t L l y hero the old gentleman sat and anti putt put put- 11 ling her he arms arils ln 10 lovingly ly about his i naughty for us usi us- us n te It was very r r. r i l. But hushed her h by grabbing fir her In his arms and aud pre pre- tending to bo ho very angry aUbr and anel about t tt t salve Ivf her a good spanking I Ill teach leach you awful people how to treat lIeal ui mil poor nODI little kid like mo me sat said In a a. very deep deell and anel ht voice Now what viP wIH t I e to do if Jf I let you go o t you rou KO So down stairs stull's as m quickly a as the banisters will win carr carry you yon HI a and fix Ib u a cup of rif tea for COl me met Amidst the laughter that followed Anna Alina nodded her hC head lIl and leaping to ht her l' l feel ran down downstairs downstairs stairs with a bound In a few Cew minutes accompanied by hy Mil l tie and Danny followed her going out onto the thc big hi- back porch lorch which was wasso wasso so jo cool and sh shady dy and which over 1001 looked 1 the old ohl fashioned lower Ill gard- gard en on There Thel alrea already y spread was a little JULIe tea table with the steaming teapot tea tea- pot lot under the pretty cozy and antI the shining tiny liny cups CUls saucers saucer creamer and sugar about it- it A basket of wafers fruit and gln was al also also also al- al so temptingly displayed Now Your Four Greatness said J Anna nna with mock courtesy bowing low before before be be- fore and placing a great greal armchair for fot him beside the tea table will you bo be served With pleasure my little lady smiled grand papa seating sealing himself Ah now were we're fixed d O. O K K said Danny Dainty seating himself legged cross on a porch bench anti and for a water wafer rY r. r Y Yes s. s were we're all read ready for 01 tho the story which I 1 know Arnow has on the mail end en of his hiM tongue longue said Anna as she poured the Iho tea lea a and 1111 handed It Jl to I Myrtle to lo pass i round But ut Jolly to tu l to tease lease the tho dear deal little grandchildren a bit said bit said What is that that-a a story on the end of my tongue Well well wen Just look and tee see and if Ir there thare is on there you may surely have hav IL And stuck out his hs lon tongue u turning his head round so that thai each might ht see sec Yes Ye sir sll please Your Greatness laughed hed Myrtle I I see a 0 story there just t as UM plain as can call be 1 Well Well well ejaculated Grandpa smiling It fL funny that I never felt Cell or 01 lasted It What hal Is the story about I 1 think Its It's about aboul when you were little like us us said Danny Damn smacked his lips as os if tC tasting tabling something Then he hu said Yes you are arc right Danny Tho story Is about the time lime when I was a little shaver you Let Lei me see that see that must have hao ha haIJ IJ been n about three or 01 four years ago If It I remember my ago cor cor- And the Iho merry gleam In e eye o made the Iho little ones I yo 7 w 1 I 1 t I 1 v o b r I r I Y up l hIs is lU Cl as nj a n fur for all uH to listen i I I 1 all laugh at his jok joke jok Well AVell W I. I tl lo to begin but but Hl t let lot me mc drink my lea tea and sit v s off oIT A t c ci f r the Iho steaming cla be beverage e In the lie days I widen when I was a fL lIttle fellow like hike Danny we hadn't a summer vacation as you OU have now We Ve went to school in the summer that summer Is a part of oC the time Mercy me Tote exclaimed Anna NV w ing lug her chair closed to toy Grandpa What did you do lo that way nay for Cor No vacation How u uw Well Yell we youngsters young didn't think so said In Iii the tho first place we lived In Iii a new hew country The rhe state stale was wa only sparsely settled In a portion and there being being- so 50 few families lies in It the district the tine building of a n schoolhouse was a question which was hard to settle seUle My lathe fathel g e an fur I aero acre of ground another man In the tho COl community gave g the lumu or lumi-or er 10 i l h b i 1 ia I a n floor and windows and anI doors The Thenn HII nn T I c n r rs I who rs who 1 J ad no mon mon- ev v tu lu nt ni i lulu into the woods wools o. o ad d cue cuc ii t tees lpes es o ol o uniform t hewed ie ved them sn smooth oth an and built a HUh cabin As teachers wore were scarce for eo- fo there was vas little to pay one with n 11 n nour nour our district the tho school board was wa obliged to take e a n teacher who would co n e IK- IK 01 II ly Iy he the summer slimmer to u us for he or ct she a as tho the ise might be he could stay farther J East dun du ing the winter and get gel good wages In the better better bet bet- ter equipped schools Well Veil our first school was a success I remember It opened tho the first day of June an and ana continued continued continued con con- till the first of September And Anti what a splendid time wo we had Ill I'll never forget et It It never novel early In the morning Just as the thu sun was peeping over Iho Eastern hills mother would rouse us out o ot of bed bcd Wed We'd ed run to the back baek yard wash our faces at the big bl pump hold holding In our heads over o the Iho water trough as we I would comb our OUI hair hull before beCore a a. little i wavy looking glass hung on the back I porch and and presto pass Ims pass pass' we wo were read ready fur for the thc breakfast which we ate alo on the same sarno big big- bigback back porch You see sec we nay we my fathers father's fatally family lived at that thal time line in a n. little log house of two rooms and as ono one was wa living and sleeping room and the theother theother other was AVIS kitchen and work shop wo we were gee without a dining room In Inthe Inthe Inthe the winters we wc ale ote In ha the tho kitchen and found It Iter er very pleasant too loo beside the Iho big warm warm fireplace with wHit Its roaring logs loos Then rhen after afler breakfront breakfast we again washed our om faces mother gave our attire aUire a f finishing touch by Ing a gallus allus' allus on un ono onn and lS setting a 11 made home cap straight i hl on another's head then with a well dinner pall pail we wo set bel out null for fI school for wo we had lead to walk three miles mills and there was much to cause caule us to tarry along ulong- tho the way Our rout roud led through a beautiful wood and over a long sloping hill hili And AndIn AndIn In n that wood abounded deer rabbits squirrels and ami many mallY other small ani anI- animals mals besides countless birds of every description Then there was a pretty prell eve brook brook we called It critic crick In tho those c days to days to wade wude and sometimes It Il took look us 20 10 minutes to ford fOId it II It too Oh Just think of It sighed d Dann Dan Dan- n ny I never have havo any uny all such fun In Ingoing Ingoing going to school now Wish Ish I had been heen little brother Instead of his grandson randson And 4 I wish I hu had been his little sister ventured Anna What hat fun tun to wade wado and carry cany ones one's luncheon Wo We called It dinner not dinner not luncheon smiled I doubt If many of m my little school comrades es would have hav known what the lie word woid luncheon meant in fn mi those o days f i But Dut to lo return to lo my any going g to school school oll or I shall be lute lule said Grand Grand- papa palm When at last we wo arrived at atthe the schoolhouse the teacher would be bethere bethere there sitting in the shade Rhade o of a tree in iii inthe the yard and reading his Bible He lie Hewa was wa a preacher o of the gospel to the little community as ml well as instructor to the Iho children But Bui for COl all that he ho was a n. stern man and inside the schoolhouse were several se strong well well- gads ads ads' with which to lo enforce his rules I had gool good reason to re remember remember remember re- re member the strength of or one of those In fact I feel fecI feela fecIa gads for man many years a lin tinge in m my shy flesh even now when I recall It But Bul of 0 e e. e the fault Wa was mine and I T paid the Pf penalty Well 1 after 1 tel all oil th children 11 had assembled f for or r lh the day dav th the cachet tache TOM rose pui 1111 hl hi- hi In hl his hi linen real oat et d against a window Indo with And as wo we were not gorged with overmuch schooling schooling- wo were cie all glad to lo embrace the small opportunity wo we had you may be sure One of the morning recitations was grammar and all the tho sentences given sl the Iho pupils to lo parse were welo taken from the Bible How often wo we struggled through the Ten Commandments sorting out the nouns verbs etc But the tho recitation which wo we all struggled led to lo excel In was the tho spelling How we eve did con those long words olds of man many syllables with too many silent letters for we had the old system of spellIng spelling spell Ing Ing- each other down and getting gelling head Tho boy or 01 girl Irl who excelled In the Iho number of head- head marks during during- the Iho term of school was the lucre hero or heroine of or the thc district How lovely It must have been to togo togo go goo to school when you were a 0 boy l said lid Anna Out o o. sight bight cried Danny Gee Y j j I it took tool us ns t twenty cut minutes t to u fort ford It his tuning luning fork and entered upon the duties of ur the day ay The Tho tap lapping plug on the thc window served el the purpose of a helland bell hell belland belland and called us youngsters to books hooks Once Onee inside seated at the tho forms we listened to the Iho schoolmasters schoolmaster's reading from rom the Scriptures Then followed the singing Ig of the tho capitals of tho the United States Stales which by tho the wa way wasa was yas yasa a very good Wa way to learn them Wo We also learned earned the lie multiplication table tho the same wa way And you may bo he sure it was not a d difficult It tn task k then as Ui it seems now to suite some of ot the little ones one onesI I know And looked knowingly al Dann Danny who hun hung his head abashed It II was a a. well ell known fact in the tho family that hint Danny had never yet yel mastered the Ihu nines Then by aid of the tuning fork the thc schoolmaster would lead In an hymn Ono One of the tho k fathers fathers' asked him hint wh why ho he did nut not follow Cullow the Bible reading with the hymn and the thc teacher replied that youth wanted varlet variety that contrast contrast con con- made mado study and divine worship I take lake hold a-hold of tile the mind better bettel And AndI I low he lie was wa rIght light too And nd then followed the stud study which was vas done dOIl 3 aloud Aloud exclaimed tho the Interested trio In a Cl breath Mercy however could one ono hear his own voice asked Anna Oh Ohe we e were used to it laughed dont don't you I wish h you'd never grown up Dont Don't you ou wish tunes times had never noes changed If It f I had hud never grown up and the Iho times lines had never changed said I r would not nut havo have the these e edear dear little ones about me roe nor would we vu be he t sitting silling hero here on this delightful porch enjoying tea and aud cakes calos No no my 10 dears dears' and a u mist came caino over Glum apas gentle blue bite eyes eres although although al although al- al though ol old times Mmes are arc dear to tu I recall call the present with present with ft Its many dear ties tics Is Is sweeter w and moro mono precious still lIlI What hat stor story telling l asked a low sweet voice voice- And Amid nd the childrens children's mother came lIle to Join tho the group Give mo the u IL cup of leu ca Anna dear and toad let lettine me tine hear heul the tales tules What are arc they about this time father futher fairies fairies Well not Well not exactly fairy stories daughter but bul They rhe sound like Call fairy stories they stories they aro are so splendid exclaimed Dann Danny Yes Ye Indeed the they're re better betler than bait any fairy t stories tolles declared Anna and und Mirtle In ht a n breath hits bus been telling us of his own school chool schooldays da days days in In ln fact weve we've spent a while attire with him when ho he was young young- said Danny And whenever ho is hi in the tho mood to lo take talo us back to those days duys well we'll trot tot right along with him so sowe sowo wo we will ill Bless the children smiled Grand Grand- papa And their theft mother said suid Amen |