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ODENE 
KILLS 
I hadn't been in North Bartlettvillo for 
some mouths, and I hadn’t seen old Aunt. 
Mari’ Steelman for a year, so when I 
stepped into her clean, poor little kitchen, 
I settled down for a real visit and to 
hear the news. 
As Aunt Mari’ bent her rheumatic 
knees creakily and dropped into a chair 
by me, I noticed she was sewing on some 
little, square pieces of bright-colored cot¬ 
ton cloth, “Starting a new quilt?" I 
asked. 
“I’ve got something better to do than 
ihat!" she answered, with her usual spicy, 
lively accent; “I've adopted a school 
teacher?” 
“Why. what do you mean?" I queried. 
“I never heard of such a thing." 
“ 'T would n’t be such a bad thing it’ 
more folks did it," she said. “Everybody 
adopted orphans during the war, and 
they’re 'way across the water. And 
school teachers are right under our noses." 
Now Aunt Mari’ lives on half of noth¬ 
ing a year, managing somehow with a 
garden and n berry patch and a pig and 
hens, and adding to her tiny income what¬ 
ever she can make by hooking rugs and 
crocheting lace. The only thiqg she will 
accept, from her relations is lo let them 
pay for the telephone, which makes it safe 
for her to live alone, as she does. I really 
couldn’t see how under the sun she could 
“adopt" anybody, even in the most remote 
way. 
“Now I’ll tell you all about it," said 
Aunt Mari’. “It. came to me one day, 
just like that, like snapping your fingers, 
the idea did. I was sitting ou my door¬ 
step last September, peeling .some early 
apples to make apple sauce out of, and. I 
saw the new teacher of our district school 
coming down the road. I noticed she 
walked sort of tired and discouraged. She 
ain't, morc’n a girl herself, not more than 
21, I don’t believe. And 1 thought to 
myself, if I had a girl, off away from 
home, trying to teach a lot of young ones, 
1 guess I'd like to think that folks took 
an interest in her. And when she came 
up opposite, I called out to her and said 
wouldn’t she come in and sit down for a 
minute, and have an apple? She looked 
so surprised! She told me afterwards 
that it was the first, friend!v word any¬ 
body in town had spoken to her. 
"And she came in, and 'twon't long be¬ 
fore 1 was hearing all about her trouble.,. 
Not one family in all that district, and 
most of them have got. dandy spare rooms, 
would take her to board. No, sir, ’twas 
too much trouble. They never had taken 
in hoarders and they couldn’t be bothered, 
now help was so hard to get, and washing 
cost so much, and all the rest. And she 
had to walk two miles to the village and 
live in the Tavern, that may be respec¬ 
table enough as taverns go, but that ain’t 
no fit place for a nice young girl, and 
you know it, with traveling men coming 
and going all hours of the day and night, 
and goodness-knows-wlio. troupes of actors 
and folks that come showing trained dogs 
and things at the Town Ilall, and half 
the time not another woman boarding 
there. And it cost so much it took all 
her money. And what would she do, come 
Winter and bad weather?" 
"Well, what could you do?" I asked, 
knowing very well that Aunt Mari’s liny 
home only had two rooms and a lean-to 
ell for the kitchen. 
“Haven’t 1 got two rooms?” she de¬ 
manded tartly. “And can I sleep in more 
than one at a time? I borrowed a fold¬ 
ing bed' from Cousin .Tim (it bad stood 
in his attic ever since Aunt Em died), 
and l set it un in the dining-room- 
sitting-room, and I took her right in. 
And I ain’t a bit sorry, either. It does 
me good to have a young person around. 
She helps with the dishes, and makes her 
own bed. and I don’t charge her but just 
what it costs me." 
"So that’s the way you’ve ‘adopted’ 
her?" I asked. 
"No, sir-e-e ; that’s only the beginning. 
Ever since I’ve been helping her improve 
that school." 
This was too much! Aunt Mari’. 
70 years old, without a cent, crippled 
with rheumatism, without an inch of mar¬ 
gin to her scrimping, narrow life, “help¬ 
ing improve a school." 
‘‘Why, whatever have you been able to 
do?" I asked, incredulously. 
"What haven’t I done?" she retorted. 
“You know what Scripture says about 
doing what, your hand finds to do. Well, 
just knowing wbat goes on at. school, has 
give my baud good and plenty to do! You 
see. every evening Miss Rico talks more 
or less about what’s been happening at 
school, little things, just ordinary little 
things. And do you know, I re’lize now 
I’ve never known any more about the 
daily life of that school than if ’twas on 
the moon! Well, here, for instance. 
. . . it comes out that those poor, ig¬ 
norant little Bowling girls (you know 
what their mother is, and their father 
not much better), didn’t, even know the 
names of colors. How should they? No¬ 
body at home ever to take tin' trouble to 
do more than knock 'em side the head. 
Well, I got out my piece-bag and picked 
out pieces of the principal colors, and 
sewed ’em together to make a sort o’ color 
book, and give it to the teacher. 
“A day or so after it came out she 
hadn’t any washbasin or soap. . . . 
May, honest, did you have any idea that 
there wore schools in Vermont, without 
any soap or water to wash the children’s 
hands? II gives me a turn to hear about 
it. I went out in the woodshed, and took 
my extra washbasin I keep there, and 
fixed her up some soft, soap in a bottle, 
with a hole in the cork, so the young ones 
could shake it out on tlieir hands. 
“After that, she said she didn’t, have any 
interesting books to give the smart ones 
to read when they’d finished their lessons 
ahead of the others, and they got to fool¬ 
ing and cutting up the way children will 
when they haven’t got anything to do. I 
called up my niece, Ann. because I know 
she had children's books her children 
never look at . . . they’re mostly grown 
up now. She said r ‘Why, yes, of course, 
the school could have them, and could 
have hail them yean ago, only she didn’t 
know they needed them.' That’s been the 
trouble. None of us knew, day by day, 
what was needed. 
“Well, after that it come out that she 
hadn’t a mortal thing to give the chil¬ 
dren to play with rainy days, when they 
had to stay in. So I made ’em some beau 
bags, and got Hiram Willing to saw holes 
in a board to make the board. Those 
young ones have actually played one set 
of bags to pieces, and I’m making ’em a 
second set this minute. And that, made 
me think about games, and I telephoned 
around and got hold of a checkerboard 
and backgammon board that, folks weren't 
using. And I cut some big letters out 
of the magazines and pasted them on 
pieces of cardboard and made thorn a set 
for that spelling game; Logomachy, they 
call it. And I spliced some old rope 
into rings, and 1 made ’em a set of ring- 
toss. Oh, lots of things that came into 
my mind when I remembered back when 
I was a little girl. It’s been fun." 
“And what else?” 
“Oh, yes." Aunt Mari’ began to laugh, 
“I found out that nobody paid any more 
attention to the truant law than as if it 
didn't exist. You know what the law is, 
that every child’s got to go to school as 
long ns he’s of school age. Well, know¬ 
ing that was the law. I'd never thought 
a thing about it. Supposed, of course, 
they did. Well, not a bit of it 1 Once I 
began to take notice of what went ou 
about schools. I found that there were 
families of children in this town, them 
that live far back up in the hollows, that 
hadn't been to school regular, never! Mis* 
Rice, being a stranger in town, thought 
all she could do was to go to the truant 
officer about it. But who is the truant 
officer in town? Well, who but Jim Rath- 
bone. my cousin Jim, and what does he 
care whether the Burrit children go to 
school or not? Less than nothing. Nor 
nobody else, till Miss Riee told me about 
it. Why, that big Burrit. boy, that’s 11 
now. is a nice, bright boy as ever was. 
and lie couldn’t hardly read the name of 
the town he lived in last Fall. Well, Miss 
Rice couldn’t think of anything to do 
about getting the Bufrits to school, except 
to go to the proper officer about it. And 
he being Cousin Jim, that’s all the good 
it did. 
“But I could think of something else, 
you’d better believe. I went to Jim’s 
wife, and Ills daughter and I called up 
the family every morning at breakfast 
time to ask ’em if the Burrit children 
wore going to school that day. And I 
got all the neighbors ’round here stirred 
up, too, and they'd telephone once or 
twice every day; and the men folks, when 
they went to town and see Jim, they’d 
holier out: ‘When are the Burrit children 
coinin' to school?’ We kind of made a 
game of it. But ’twan’t, no game for Jim. 
lie was as mad as a hornet. You’d 
think to hear him go on that we were nil 
picking on him without cause, and that 
it wasn’t nothing to him whether the I tur¬ 
rits got any schooling or not. Honestly, 
1 don’t believe he’d ever thought in his 
life before what it meant to be a truant 
officer. Rachael, bis wife, told mo that 
he got so he'd swear like a trooper every 
time the telephone rang. 
"But land, ’twasn’t long before the 
Burrits wen- in school, all four of ’em, and 
nice young ones, too, though they do look 
as wild as little hawks, with never seeing 
anybody before. Miss Rice and 1 take 
special notice of them, and she sends 'em 
over here to get washed and combed when 
they eorne to school very bad. . . . You 
know, their mother ain't mor’n half¬ 
witted, for all she’s so good-natured. Miss 
Rjee lias made an arrangement with their 
folks to keep ’em down here nights when 
it’s too stormy to get hack up there in 
the hollow, and we’re learning them all 
sorts of decent ways, between us.” 
“Well, for mercy sake!" I exclaimed, 
“will you please tell me where yon put 
four children, as well sis a school teacher, 
over night?” 
Aunt Mari’ explained : “Miss Rice and 
I sleep together, and we put two of ’em 
in tlie other bed. and the other two we 
send over to the Perkinses, They’ve got 
an extra bed. and I told Jen Perking I’d 
like to know what better use she could 
make of her spare room than to help 
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Adopting A School Teacher 
By Dorothy Canfield Fisher 
