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I hauled in another sillock; and having now completed my two dozen fish, I gathered them and my lines together, thrust my fishhooks into my trousers' pocket, and went off to school, only staying a few minutes on the way to give the fish to my sister Jessie, and get my slate and books in exchange. Our schoolhouse was situated on the braeside above the main street of Stromness.
She thanked him civilly for the trouble he had already taken and added a message of thanks for Belle. She thanked him for the use of the horse and for attending to the schoolhouse matter for her. She was so extremely thankful that Lance exploded in one two-word oath when he rode away. Whereupon the doctor, who knew nothing of Lance's thoughts, looked at him in astonishment.
To her infinite dismay, Sandy suddenly pulled off his coat and vest, threw them on the ground, kicked off his boots, and, plunging wildly forward, darted headlong over the hill, in the direction of the river. "Goodness heavens! the man will be drowned!" said Miss Mary; and then, with feminine inconsistency, she ran back to the schoolhouse and locked herself in.
He had expected help, but the reserve force had failed him. "Joe Beach you may take your seat," said the teacher, in a kind of parenthetical tone. "Geography starts at home," he continued, beginning the recitation. "Who can tell me where is the Linley schoolhouse?" A dozen hands went up. "You tell," said he to one. "It's here," was the answer. "Where's here?" A boy looked thoughtful.
The worthy individual who had made the proposition, and bought and had in his house the materials for finishing the building, told us that the inhabitants of the district would not find the boards, and, in consequence of that, the erection of the schoolhouse had not been gone on with.
Were the best points of view searched for and rendered accessible, these falls would probably be found to be the finest in the Archipelago. The chasm seems to be of great depth, probably 500 or 600 feet. Unfortunately, I had no time to explore this valley, as I was anxious to devote every fine day to increasing my hitherto scanty collections. Just opposite my abode in Rurukan was the schoolhouse.
He was usually called “Curly Peter,” or “Rooshian Peter.” The two Russians made good farmhands, and in summer they worked out together. I had heard our neighbors laughing when they told how Peter always had to go home at night to milk his cow. Other bachelor homesteaders used canned milk, to save trouble. Sometimes Peter came to church at the sod schoolhouse.
You must do it for the sake of those dear people who have done so much for you. The needle points toward the schoolhouse yonder." He went on with his work, and, as I walked away, I understood that the needle he referred to was my conscience. As I neared the schoolmaster's the same drunken man that I had seen before went zigzagging up the road. Mr. Hacket stood in his dooryard. "Who is that?"
Two or three men who stood near did the same. The handshaking was just ending when Bonaventure and the stranger raised their hats to each other. "Trust I don't intrude?" "Sir, we are honored, not intruded, as you shall witness. Will you give yourself the pain to enter the school-place? I say not schoolhouse; 'tis, as its humble teacher, not fitly so nominated.
The simple country schoolhouse that year, dreary and cheerless enough to the pert Miss who had come out from Topeka to teach there, and incidentally to collect twenty-five dollars a month from the school board, was to be the scene of the initial change in Lizzie Farnshaw's life.
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