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THE STORY OF A DISTRICT SCHOOL. 
A COLLEGE BOY’S DIARY. 
(Continued.) 
Mr. Modser lost no time iu stating the ob¬ 
ject of his visit. 1 had not considered him 
a particularly good friend of mine. He had 
been reported to me as saying: “ teacher don’t 
know ’nuff ter go inter the house when it 
rains.” He now quickly gave me to under¬ 
stand that he had a higher opinion of me than 
1 had supposed. 
“ Teacher we’re proud of ye! ” he said as he 
grasped my hand. ‘‘You kev done a deed ez 
makes ye sh ine clean through the hull dccstrict. 
Folks hefc been tollin’ me a heap o’ things agin 
ye hut I stud right by ye, aud held up yer 
back. Don't ye remember what 1 sed when 
wo started inf 1 sed.se/. I, ‘don’t none on ye 
go fer ter sleep with no idee that teacher’s 
gonter git ketched outer his track. He ain’t 
gonter put none of his feet inter no steel trap 
air then kev ter gnaw it off. You heered me 
tell ’em didn’t ye ?” 
I must say that 1 was unable to remember 
this conversation, though 1 did not consider 
it my duty to iui'oriu Mr. Mouser of the fact. 
Encouraged by my silence, he went on. 
‘•A heap o’ folks sad you wuz homely ’nuff fer 
tor stop a eloek,but I up an’ told 'em that time 
might spell ’ar different. ‘Han'some is what 
liau’some dun’ sed I, an’ i reckon the dees- 
trict is gonter call me out fer a prophet now. 
A heap more reckoned you hadn’t gut no size 
iter no grit, but 1 sez, sez I, teacher’s gut a 
heap o’strings iu him, lie’s made outer wires, 
sez 1, au’ wheu he conies uu ter the front, he’s 
gonter stay there. An here ye be, jest ez I 
sed. Ez a member of the deestrict board, 1 
tell ye that we’re proud of ye.” 
Mr. Mouser was so pleased at the outcome 
of bis prophecy, that he pushed his hat back 
on his head, placed his feet wide apart and 
thrust his thumbs into bis vest. He had an¬ 
other iron in the lire as 1 soon discovered. 
•‘Some of the buys sorter let on tket Dees¬ 
trict number three wuz coinin’ over fer ter 
spell agin Bear Crick. Ye wuntcr look out 
fer ’em fer they is spellers over there. Spell¬ 
ers sorter grows iu that country. Ez 1 sed, 
I’m a boss ou spellin’, myself. You call me 
out when the time comes an’ i’ll jest make the 
sparks tly. When one of them big words runs 
agin me, it gets hurt terrible bad. I want 
you fer ter put me right up on a front seat 
where all the fightin’ is. Oh, I’m a speller, 1 
bo. In my younger days 1 wuz knowed all 
over this country. There wuz me an 1 Jerry 
Treat an’ Hetk Marlatt. Jerry he could sing 
throe songs, an’ Seth, he could speak a Dutch 
piece. I’d spell ’em all outer breath an then 
Jerry an’ Seth they would finish ’em up. 1 
’member one Lime Plum Hill deestrict cum 
over fer ter spell us out. They cum over in 
three big sleds an’ driv roun’ the seboolkouse, 
ringin’ bells au’ blowiu’ horns. 1 steps up to 
the master an’, sez I,- 
1 had to bring Mr. Mouser’s story to an 
abrupt termination. It was getting late and 
1 had a long walk to my boarding place. So 
I locked the door of the schoolbouse and left 
him. Perhaps he finished his story to the 
wood pile. 1 know 1 had hard work to get 
the wood to burn for a week or so. My vic¬ 
tory, or rather Johnny’s victory over Jack 
Biawn had given me a feeling of independ¬ 
ence and 1 felt that 1 need not stand and listen 
to stories that 1 did uot care to hour. 1 felt 
myself the master of Bear Creek until a new 
combination wus made against me. 
1 was to board at Mrs. Bell’s house. I was 
anxious to see what sort of a home Edith had. 
She was the best of all the pupils. 1 felt that 
her home influence must be good. 1 walked 
on briskly until 1 reached old Johnson’s house, 
That gentleman was on the watch for me. 
When ho saw me coming he caught up a 
great stick and cnuie cautiously out to meet 
me. He pretended to be very much afraid of 
me and started back once or twice as though 
fully decided to run away. 
“I ’low you're a whale, teacher,” he said 
through his false teeth. “Gonter be sorter 
dangerous fer common folks ter say much 
about schools round yer. Jack Brawn lie 
conic by here a spell ago looking like a dog 
caught stealin’ a bone. I see somethin’ Wuz 
up, but when the scholars come by an' distri¬ 
buted the word about his git.tin’ linked, you 
might have knocked me down with a stick. I 
lay it ter the Titties you had to my house. 
They is powerful strengthenin’, I jedge. Bear 
JAN 1 
Crick ain’t used ter bein' throwed, but. 1 reck¬ 
on I’m glad you come out on top. Go on an’ 
stan’ l ight up fer yer rights. * Don’t let none 
of ’em crowd ye. I stood lip for ye alone an’ 
told all the folks that I knowed they couldn’t 
tell nothin’ by the way ye looked.” 
At this moment the red-haired young wo¬ 
man came to the door and shouted “supper!” 
in her shrillest tone, and old Johnson dropped 
his stick and hobbled back to the house, I 
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went ou, thinking how wonderfully I had 
risen iu the estimation ol' Bear Creek. Hu¬ 
man nature is the same the world over. How 
quick most of us are to rush for the winning 
side. The world would be better oil' if we 
could have a little more independence. 
Mis. Bell lived in a small, brown house. It 
looked very much like home to me as I turned 
in at the gate. A bright light shone out, at 
the window, and there was a general air of 
comfort about the little sitting room as seen 
from the road. The yard looked as though a 
battle had just been fought iu it. The white 
snow had been trampled down and in one 
place a bright, red stain of blood appeared. 
Mr, Moderator Hardback had just succeeded 
in cutting up a large hog, which lay on some 
boards directly in front of the door. He 
looked at me from under his shaggy eyebrows 
as I came near. 
“Howdy, teacherT lie said, without opening 
his mouth, as be sharpened his knife on a 
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