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THE STORY OF A DISTRICT SCHOOL. 
A COLLEGE BOY’S DIARY. 
(Continued.) 
[I never was scolded as I have been since I 
stopped writing up the “District School.” I 
don’t like scoldings and I know that the only 
way to avoid them is to do what people want 
you to. So here goes for the story again. 
What I wanted to do was to publish some of 
the many letters that I have on my desk, but 
if people want the story, the letters will have 
to wait. You will remember that we left off 
just after Grandpa Bell decided to pop corn 
for the family. —uncle mark.] 
Grandpa enjoyed his work. He didn’t do it 
very well, for he burned much of the corn 
and spent so much time in talking that we 
frequently had to stop and wait for him. Still 
he got along pretty well, until his hand grew 
tired, and then he gave the. work up to Edith, 
who came and stood by his chair. Grandma 
Bell brought a dish of great red apples and 
placed them in front of the stove. Grandpa 
toasted one on the end of a stick aud then 
scraped it with a spoon. This seemed to be 
his favorite method of eating an apple. He 
could not bite, lor his teeth were about all 
gone. 
“They can't raise any such apples here as 
they do in York State,” he said, after an ex¬ 
tra large mouthful had been disposed of. 
“There used to be an apple tree down by tbe 
spring when I was a hoy. t hat beat everything 
in that, county. I used to start off to school 
with my { o eke Is full, and before I got to 
school there wouldn't be any left. There 
never was an apple tree like that. I’ll warrant. 
I used to like to sit under it Sunday after¬ 
noons. When there was a little wind stirring, 
it seemed just, as though somebody was whis¬ 
pering. 1 could see the trout come darting 
out from under the banks of the brook. It 
seemed as though they wonted to listen too.” 
Grandpa was wandering too far back into 
York State memories, He showed symptoms 
of giving way as he had done before. Tbe 
visitors who came just at that moment, 
brought him back to the present. 
Two ladies of a rather doubtful age walked 
in at the back door, where they were intro¬ 
duced as the Misses Grimes. I gut up from 
my chair and made as good a bow as I knew 
how to make. At this one of the ladies stared 
at me, while the other threw her apron over 
her face and began to giggle desperately. 
They came and sat by the stove. Miss Min- 
ervu regarded me with a scowl for a tune and 
then, as though she hardly thought me worth 
finding fault with, drew from her pocket an 
unfinished stocking aud began to work. She 
plunged the needles into the knitting as 
though she wanted to stick a pin into some¬ 
body. Her long fingers worked with wonder¬ 
ful rapidity. Miss Alvira did not attempt 
any work. Sbe held her hands in front of her 
so that we could see her rings. There was at 
least one on each finger. They were brass 
with colored glass for ornumonte. Her hair 
was arranged iu the nearest approach to a 
“hang” that Bear Creek could muster. I don’t 
know how “bangs” are usually made, and 
perhaps I never shall, but Miss Alvira seemed 
to have put soap on her hair and plastered it 
down on her forehead. 
Grandpa Bell looked at them as though he 
was trying to see if he could remember any¬ 
thing like them back in York State. He 
seemed unable to do so and so helped himself 
to a fresh apple and attacked it with his spoon.- 
There was smull use for the Bell family or 
myself to attempt any talking. Miss Alvira 
kept us busy. We could well afford to sit 
and listen. 
“Terrible nice night, aint it? lie! he! he! 
I says cummin’ over, says 1, this is jest the 
sorter night for ter be t idin’with yer true luv- 
yer. He! he! he!” 
That giggle was bound to come in at the 
end of every sentence. There was no use try¬ 
ing to keep it out.. Every time it sounded 
Miss Minerva would cast a sorrowful look up¬ 
on her lively sister. She did not turn her 
stern face from her work, but her eyes would 
roll iu their sockets and fix themselves upon 
Miss AI vira’s bangs. They rolled so far once 
that the action made. Miss Minerva cough. 
While Alvira was iu the very middle of a 
tremendous giggle, the door suddenly hurst 
open, and a small boy fell in and came rolling 
head over heels up to the stove. As he picked 
himself up I recognized him as Zeuas Frost, 
one of my pupils. Zcnus was so excited that 
he could not talk. The more he tried the red¬ 
der his face grew and the more the words 
swelled out bis throat. Grandpa Bell watched 
him for a moment and then reached with his 
stick aud gave Zenas a sharp poke iu the stone I 
ach with it. The words at once flew out of his 
mouth with such force that they stopped one 
of Alvira’s giggles and broke the springs that 
seemed to hold Minerva’s face into such a 
doleful expression. 
“ ’Nirum’s got a terrible bad sickness on 
hitn. All cum air see what ’tis.” 
This was about oil that Zeuas could bring 
himself to say concerning the trouble. Grand¬ 
pa Bell endeavored to cross-question him and 
thus develop something new, hut Zenas had 
evidently given up his full store of informa¬ 
tion. So we could only know that his brother 
Adoniram had been taken suddenly ill and that 
all tbe would-be doctors in the neighborhood 
were called to sit in judgment upon his disease. 
There was nobody in the Bell family that 
could uudei-take the journey, so they all 
looked at me and silently requested that I 
should act as representative. I never consid¬ 
ered myself a doctor, but, of course. I always 
wished to do what 1 could to relieve suftVriug. 
So I got my hat and coat, and mode ready for 
the trip. Graudma Bell could not go herself, 
but she made up her mind to lie represented. 
She jumped up from her chair and ran to a 
closet from which she brought a collection of 
bottles and packages. 
“This is a liniment,” she said, holding up a 
bottle, “aud this is to lie taken inwardly. 
Give him six drops of this, and rub his back 
with this, aud make a tea out of this, and let 
him drink a pint.” 
By this time she had my pockets well filled 
with bottles and packages. I am sorry to say, 
though, that I got them so badly mixed up 
that I couldn’t tell one from another, j 
might- have given Adoniram a pint of the lin¬ 
iment, and rubbed his back with something 
he was expected to drink. 
I turned about to say “good night” to the 
ladies when 1 found that Alvira had made up 
her mind to aecompauy me. With many a 
giggle she intimated that she was a good baud 
in u sick room and considered it her duty to 
add her experience to the proposed conference. 
So there was nothing left for me to do but to 
request the pleasure of her company to the 
house of sickness. Alvira giggled at this un¬ 
til I really thought she would have to sit down 
again, while Minerva gave me a terrible look 
that gave me to understand that she considered 
me a rascal of the blackest character. Most 
stories have to contain a conversation between 
lovers. This talk between Alvira and myself 
will be the nearest we shall come to it in this 
story. It was a bright, clear night. Little 
Zeuas ran along bchiud us. 1 had always 
been told that it is the proper thing for a gen¬ 
tleman, when walking with a lady, to offer 
lijs arm. I accordingly did so. Alvira looked 
at my arm for a moment aud then burst into 
a giggle of such extraordinary vigor that we 
had to stop fora moment before she could pro¬ 
ceed. Then Zenas broke in with his com¬ 
ments. 
“Ain’t ye ’shamed! Ain’t ye ’shamed! I’m 
a gouter tell on ye, see ef I don’t.” 
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