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The switch came down on the poor little hand with an angry swish. Cynthia winched. "Now you go back and study. No going out to play for you this morning. Jane Mason, you're the biggest dunce in school." The two other girls did better. Then the bell rang and the girls came in with flushed and laughing faces. Cynthia studied her two words over until they ceased to have any meaning.
Billy fled sobbing to Margaret's breast. "Why Billy!" she chided. "Don't cry, you little dunce! That's what we've all prayed for these many years; but you must be mistaken about Kate. I can't believe it." Billy lifted his head. "Well, you just have to!" he said. "When I say I saw anything, Uncle Wesley knows I did. The city man was dancing with her. They danced together and Elnora laughed.
Nay, it is sometimes remarked that the school dunce meaning the one who does not like often turns out well afterwards, as if idleness were a sign of ability and character. A much more sensible explanation is that the so-called dunces are not exhausted before they begin the serious business of life. It is said that boys will be boys; and one can only add one wishes they would.
I may add that it is well to bear in mind the converse of this; to remember that body and mind rarely grow in equal proportion at one time; that the incorrigible little dunce, though not likely to prove a genius as he grows older, will yet very probably be found at twelve or fourteen to know as much as his playmates.
I loved to look upon the heavens, and to bask in the rays of the sun, or to sit beneath hedgerows and listen to the chirping of the birds, indulging the while in musing and meditation as far as my very limited circle of ideas would permit; but, unlike my brother, who was at this time at school, and whose rapid progress in every branch of instruction astonished and delighted his preceptors, I took no pleasure in books, whose use, indeed, I could scarcely comprehend, and bade fair to be as arrant a dunce as ever brought the blush of shame into the cheeks of anxious and affectionate parents.
They need guidance and direction and the majority of them, either the sharp spur of necessity or the relentless urge of an ambition which will not be denied. Almost without exception we have found that the only difference between genius or millionaire and dunce or tramp is a willingness to pay the price.
Again the cry rang out; but now the scout recognized it and a faint smile shone upon his face. "It's the dunce," he exclaimed. "Pumpkin! Pumpkin! Come here!" A moment of silence followed and he called again. Then from the brush which grew among the rocks emerged the form of the half-witted boy.
She thought, "Well, he of course thinks me a silly little dunce; but I do like our blacks, and if I ever own any of them, I’ll first teach them to read and then send them all to Liberia." Full of this new plan, she forgot Dr. Lacey and ere she was aware of it had reached the store. She procured the articles she wished for, and returning to Mrs.
She was, in fact, no dunce, though she had not been disciplined in the conventional routine of education; and as for training in the higher sense, she could not have grown into a more upright or good girl under any guidance, than under that of her tender and careful mother. And in appearance what was she like, this Bessie Fairfax, subjected so early to the caprices of fortune?
"I am glad you are smart in anything," thought Philip; for he knew that Nick was a hopeless dunce in school duties. "I hope your father'll live a good while," he said politely. "Yes, of course," said Nick lightly. "I'd be sorry to have the old man pop off; but then you never can tell about such a thing as that."
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