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Two years at Lawrenceburg and he moved to Indianapolis, the capital of the State, his reputation having been carried thither by the member from Posey County, who incautiously boasted that his "deestrick" had the most powerful preacher of any town on the Ohio River. At Indianapolis, Beecher was a success at once.
It was only twenty-five dollars a month, reckoned on the order book of "deestrick four," but there is no telling what it will be on the "other side." But such as Amy can afford to wait for that. "Dodd" went to school to Amy Kelly faithfully all that summer.
Education comes through doing things, making things, going without things, taking care of yourself, talking about things, and when Robert was seventeen he had education enough to teach a "Deestrick School" in Illinois. To teach is a good way to get an education. If you want to know all about a subject, write a book on it, a wise man has said.
Means for the honor of being compared to a donkey was not clear. "I feel in the inmost compartments of my animal spirits a most happifying sense of the success and futility of all my endeavors to sarve the people of Flat Creek deestrick, and the people of Tomkins township, in my weak way and manner."
Then came the walk through the crisp, dry snow to the Widow Barringer's, the sheepish talk with the old lady while Susie "got on her things," and the long, enchanting tramp to the "deestrick school-house."
And sez he: "The first thing I do when I go home will be to send the colt to the deestrick school." I told him the teacher wouldn't want him whinnerin' round amongst her scholars, and mebby gallopin' and snortin' round the schoolroom. But he wuz as firm as adamant in his idee. And Id'no what I shall do about it. But spoze the trustees will have to head him off.
I am sure I shall be pardoned, too, if I still further probe in this direction, and unfold a little more the nature of the circumstances that had to do with the evolution of "Dodd" while he went to school to Amos Waughops, in "deestrick four."
I used to stand in the row of blessed little rascals in the "deestrick" school and read from McGuffey's celebrated literature, "If I-p-p-play with the f-f-f-i-i-i-i-r-r-e I will g-e-e-et my-y-y-y-y f-f-f-f ingers bur-r-r-rned period!" I did not learn it. I wish I had learned by reading it that if I play with the fire I will get my fingers burned.
Quarrel with the theory of corporal punishment as much as you choose, beloved, but when you get a case like "Dodd's," do as well by it as grandpa Stebbins did by him if you can. The "Fall School" in "deestrick" number four had been in session for more than a month when the Weavers moved into the country and came within its jurisdiction.
The old "deestrick" school is passing, and with it the small academies and colleges, each with its handful of students around a teacher, as in the old days of the lyceum in Athens, when the pupils sat around the philosopher in the groves. From these schools came the makers and the preservers of the nation. Today we are building wonderful public schools with equally wonderful equipment.
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