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But the stress that had been brought to bear upon them by the county superintendent, whose son had been a classmate of the candidate, had been rather too strong to be resisted; and so the "Harvard gradyate man" was coming.
Pop he sayed when we're payin' as much as forty dollars a month we had ought, now, to have a Millersville Normal, and nothin' less. Who wants to pay forty dollars a month fur such a Harvard gradyate that we don't know right what it is." "What pay will Ezra get at Janeville?" Tillie asked.
And so the class was permitted to proceed, without interruption, in its labored conning of the massive eloquence of that great statesman; and the directors presently took their departure in the firm conviction that in Ezra Herr they had made a good investment of the forty-five dollars a month appropriated to their town out of the State treasury, and they agreed, on their way back to Janeville, that New Canaan was to be pitied for having to put up with anything so unheard-of as "a Harvard gradyate or whatever," after having had the advantages of an educator like Ezra Herr.
With Tillie, they were in doubt as to how Jake Getz would receive the news. "Is they a' applicant?" he inquired on his arrival. "Why, to be sure," said Nathaniel Puntz. "What fur would it be worth while to waste time meetin' to elect her if they ain't none?" "Then she's a female, is she?" "Well, she ain't no male, anyways, nor no Harvard gradyate, neither. If she was, I wouldn't wote fur her!"
Getz irrelevantly remarked, "we didn't have no gradyate teachers like what they have now, still. But we anyhow learnt more ACCORDING." "How long does it take you to get 'em from a, b, c's to the Testament?" inquired the patriarchal Dunkard. "That depends upon the capacity of the pupil," was Mr. Fairchilds's profound reply. "Can you learn 'em 'rithmetic good?" asked Nathaniel Puntz.
"Till next Friday three weeks," Absalom replied. "Pop says he don't know what to think about this here man Superintendent Reingruber's sendin' out. He ain't no Millersville Normal. The superintendent says he's a 'Harvard gradyate' whatever that is, pop says! Pop he sayed it ain't familiar with him what that there is. And I guess the other directors don't know neither.
"You ain't a gradyate, neither, are you?" was the president's next question, the inscrutable mystery of the applicant's creed being for the moment dropped. "Why, yes, I thought you knew that. Of Harvard." "Och, that!" contemptuously; "I mean you ain't a gradyate of Millersville Normal?" "No," humbly acknowledged Fairchilds. "When I was young," Mr.
Pop says he's goin' to ast your pop and the rest of the Board if they hadn't ought to ast this here Harvard gradyate to take a couple dollars less, seein' he ain't no Millersville Normal." They had by this time reached the farm, and Tillie, not very warmly, asked Absalom whether he would "come in and sit awhile." She almost sighed audibly as he eagerly consented.
"Well," spoke Adam Oberholzer, as the doctor reluctantly went out, "it ain't ten mile from here she was raised." "Is she a gradyate? We hadn't ought to take none but a Normal. We had enough trouble!" "No, she ain't a Normal, but she's got her certificate off the superintendent." "Has any of yous saw her?"
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