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Tow-headed Morrisons filled the schoolhouse, and twenty years later there were so many of his girls teaching school that the school-board had to make a ruling limiting the number of teachers from one family in the city school, in order to force the younger Morrison girls to go to the country to teach.
Every school-board child now, however, knows better than this.
She glanced, not without dismay, about the shabby work-room, as if she felt herself where she had no business to be. Nevertheless, she came forward frankly, and asked in the friendly way of one whose station needs no asserting: "Mr. Strong? one of the school-board? Is he here?" "Yes'm." The boy made no motion, but stood blankly staring. "May I see him, please?" "Lady to see you, Mr.
He lay long in bed in the morning rarely indeed, rose before noon; he loved all games, from poker to clerical croquet; and in the Toll House croquet ground I have seen him toiling at the latter with the devotion of a curate. He took an interest in education, was an active member of the local school-board, and when I was there, he had recently lost the schoolhouse key.
Our bookseller here is a school-board man, all on the wrong side, and when I tried to feel our way, he made out that the printing and getting it up would cost a great deal more than we could risk." "It is a pity that Uncle Lance is gone home," said Anna. "He could tell you all about it." "Could you not write to him?"
I'm a unit in creation, I is as I once heerd a school-board buffer say w'en he was luggin' me along to school; but he was too green, that buffer was, for a school-boarder. I gave 'im the slip at the corner of Watling Street, an' they've never bin able to cotch me since." "But you must be known by some name," said I. "What do your companions call you?" "They call me bad names, as a rule.
However, had the chairman of the school-board returned the day after his departure, Abbott Ashton would have met him at the station. Twice, in the opinion of Fran, the young man had failed her by allowing Grace's mind to flash to important discoveries along the path of his insulated remarks about the weather.
Perhaps he had been elected president of the school-board on the principle that we best appreciate what does not belong to us. "My home has been Abbott Ashton's home," said Miss Sapphira, "since the death of his last living relation, and her a step, and it a mercy, for nobody could get along with her, and she wouldn't let people leave her alone.
When a half-hour of this was over she put the word "TRANSFIGURATION" on the blackboard, and set them to playing a regular game out of it. If some of the school-board had come in just then they might have lifted up hands of horror at the idea of the new teacher setting the whole school to playing a game.
"Not a seat! The five-shilling seats?" "Not the fraction of one. Numbers standing outside! Pity there can't be a second performance." "Four hundred seats! That's a hundred pounds! We shall beat the School-board yet!"
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