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These things don't happen to a man every day, and especially to beggin' your pardon to a man as young as yourself, sir. But the Democratic party of the th deestric' of Illinoy knows a good thing when they sees it. Sale's unconscious sarcasm hurt me. 'I have sounded them to the bottom, he went on, 'and it's Holloway, Holloway, Holloway, everywhere. Now you'll let us put you up, won't you?
I reckon, says I, that I hev ploughed in the fields o' haffen the men in our deestric'; I hev worked in the tan-yard; I hev been striker in the blacksmith shop; an' all the time that pot, aforesaid, b'iled at home, an' 'Fambly' tuk thar dinner thar constant, with thar fingers, ez aforesaid. But 'Fambly' warn't so durned ragged, nuther.
Such a girl exerts a great influence in her school and mountain home. An enthusiastic mountaineer described an example in this wise: 'I tell yeou hit teks a moughty resolute gal ter do what that thar gal has done. She got, I reckon, about the toughest deestric' in the ceounty, which is sayin' a good deal. An' then fer boardin'-place well, there warn't much choice.
"They hev tole me ez how it air agin the law, bein' ez I lives out'n the deestric'." The teacher elevated his grizzled eyebrows, and Ike said, "I kem hyar ter ax ye ef that be a true word. I 'lowed ez mebbe my dad tole me that word jes' ter hender me, an' keep me at the forge. It riles me powerful ter hev ter be an ignorunt all my days."
Even after the usual annual three months of the "deestric" for several years, he had felt that his solemn promise still bound him to allow her at least one year at the seminary.
"That means I were senator state senator which makes any common man honer'ble, accordin' to law, which it's useless to dispute. I were elected fer this deestric', which covers three counties," he said proudly, "an' I served my country in that capacity." "Oh, I see. But you're not state senator now?" "No; Kleppish beat me for the nomination, after I'd served only one term." "Why?" "Eh?
"Oh, I knowed I war powerful pop'lar in the Sycamore Gap deestric'," he said, dropping his lowering manner, that had somehow been perceptible in the darkness, and wagging his head from side to side with a gesture of great security in the affections of Sycamore Gap. "Sycamore Gap's all right, I know; I'll poll a big majority thar, sure."
Whether the Student advertised for a school, or whether he fell in with the advertisement of a school-committee, is not certain. At any rate, it was not long before he found himself the head of a large district, or, as it was called by the inhabitants, "deestric" school, in the flourishing inland village of Pequawkett, or, as it is commonly spelt, Pigwacket Centre.
'Most reemarkable hoss. 'Good stepper, too, said Dean soberly. 'Splendid! said Uncle Eb. 'Can go a mile without ketchin' his breath. 'Thet so? said Dean. 'Good deal like Lucy Purvis, Uncle Eb added. 'She can say the hull mul'plication table an' only breathe once. Ye can learn sumthin' from a hoss like thet. He's good as a deestric' school thet hoss is.
Despite his anxiety a slow light of ridicule began to kindle on his face; his curling lip showed his strong white teeth. "Waal, by gum! ye mus' hev been a sight ter be seen! Ye, forty or fifty years old, a-settin' on the same seat with the chil'n at the deestric' school, an' a-competin' with the leetle tadpoles fur 'Baker an' Shady' an sech!"
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