| Show THE RELENTED WHY THE SCHOL 3 DID NOT PUT THE MASTER IN A snowdrift story of how he when a boane arll anil puny overawed if mi overgrown former albut ti cucit j tharo are 1 who nm ember B njamin V li alir iw u nolic no bolic lic ii s n liw yer na a yachtsman and there are remember himi sn schoolmaster the writer i not prepared to say how burny bmw or in how many place ben lular school but he oil idich school once in tt little town in mc ard b 1 ciulo u impression on the minds of anif of his pupils it was one of the ocl od coun try schools which dithered gi together for u few week in hie winter ti grown men alio worked on the farms in alie the children and the big girls and tried to tielve into their heads and riv l thero some of intelligence n might seem adapted to the individuals without any thon glit of of in ts the place of master in such n school was one net likely to 1 sought ox capt by a man who had genuine need of the little prost eliat wan to be gained by it CA sinco the big had the hallit common in many a new england school of tho time of standing the master on his head in a about the second or third day of his incumbency in this particular school and in this pur nicular winter throe or tour master bad been served in this way and the place was vacant for the fourth or fifth time alieu one of the trustees tru steea bethought him of young kin finan of ills own who waa in a college a few miles away at waterville Wat erville and who ho thought would do for the pince the reason why lie thought he would do was that he was 11 slight frail look ing boy and he believed that the ruffians of the school would be ashamed to offer violence to one of his stature the young man was sent for the place was offered to him ho was warned of the dangers he dm regarded them and ho took it was benjamin butler on the morning when he entered the he made u li atio speech in re gard to tho discipline he proposed to inabin tain and he accompanied the by n terrible look cast in some direction or ot er but in what direction nobody could ever with certainty find out won UK the boya had a chance to compare notes on the every boy dealand that alic integ r was looking straight at him this dia agreement gre ement was caused by a well known visual defect in the master himself butler was a good teacher of everything but arita and of that he seemed to know noth ing whatever it won the custom for each pupil to cipher through the book for himself boins overy problem aid rw the only when he ceded help on a peculiarly hinl onu when a leDi wax to butler for an lf perfectly help k th who was io mupphy to lin w nicest expert in malhi s FO put off the pupil who mil 1 I tn limy I 1 L tU nl to it now come to anif in llie tind I 1 v ail explain it to yen aid then h the evcic ho would call on ali trusted ad uk fora of alc tlc alf f i 1 tin ir and rl borata one d it ahr faid he would iw iii ieli blaut ahe pohl iii i fedij lic forc but ho had a nuni ory ibid lie cor mit to it every word and figure of the explanation the next in would deal it out diky pupil and got the anil of att lucid unfolding of awn I 1 cutlir s him adint ahr 1 alif big bus bit they impatient decided ut arst the bow mu wourl leave to go ilton snowdrift like the others they formed their cene piracy and net morning for the execution of their kc bat the big pirl were oi the masters kidi and one of them overheard the plan as it was discussed discus bed by her brother and others ahe determined to warn tho ma dared not be axeen balkus with him att she should be charged will by b r brother but ahe butler read ua both were going boiar from iud turning her bruil she baid 1 I woul dut tome to row if itrice ou mr butler the going to pu you in a snowda ift to shift butler iiii il bilbo without turn itly haud doii they v ont put KIV in il 1 l whole school wa to wf t to be done and show of the master would majca he i bould hire to make any hr anti red H took off imick it on atif behind tha awk then he M enill 1 sit lown ab blAt leek usual lut i went back to his overcoat hung axtt be had forgotten herbach He reach d up to the pocket of tan overcoat toes out n huge pistol and put t into the breast pocket of his under coat then b up to the left hand breast pocket of alie overcoat and took out another huge pistol ind put it side breast locket of his undercoat thy biance art the master at down at ail deak und the exercise afi the school wen on as usual there waa bol another of rebellion that winter butler said afterward that he coald scarcely keep laughing chih be handled the pistols because they were n pair which le had played with when he visited id uncle in the town as boy he had loaded them with ashes then and they had never bien unloaded since when he heard of danger he went and borrowed them trusting that they would protect him a well ft battery new york trib ace |
