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Updated: June 1, 2025
The village school-house was a long one built of red brick. It had taken the place of the old log institution in which one generation of Greenbank children had learned reading, writing, and Webster's spelling-book.
Riley and one of the others were so much afraid of the ghosts that "ha'nted" the old house, that they set out straightway for Greenbank, on foot. Pewee and the others searched everywhere for the boats, and at last sat down and waited for daylight. Just as day was breaking, Bob Holliday came down to the river with a towel, as though for a morning bath.
Now that Greenbank had its eyes open for a little time, it was surprised to see that while the cities along the river had all adopted graded schools, de-graded schools, as they were called by the people opposed to them, and while even the little villages in the hill country had younger and more enlightened teachers, the county-town of Greenbank had made no advance.
Three times a week the scholars of the "Greenbank Academy" met at the house of Dr. Lanham to receive instruction from Professor Susan, for the school trustees could not agree on a new teacher.
And what absolute joy to give Moravia such a surprise! to say she was married and free! and had quite as nice things as even that Princess! It was all a simply glorious picture and but for this kind young man it could never have been hers but her fate would have been Samuel Greenbank or Aunt Jemima for four years!
In the village of Greenbank, milking a cow was regarded as a woman's work; and foolish men and boys are like savages, very much ashamed to be found doing a woman's work. Fools always think something else more disgraceful than idleness. So, having seen Jack milking, Riley came to school happy. He had an arrow to shoot that would give great delight to the small boys.
I've been helping him, but he's got to a place where I don't quite understand the thing myself. Now Bob wouldn't dare ask you to help him " "Bring him along. How the Greenbank Academy grows!" laughed Susan, turning to her father. Bob was afraid of Susan at first his large fingers trembled so much that he had trouble to use his slate-pencil.
Greenbank he was so horrid " here she gasped a little for breath "and I happened to see something like a door ajar in the Gainsborough room, so I fled through it, and it fastened after me with a snap I could not open it again and it was pitch dark in that dreadful passage and not a scrap of air I felt suffocated, and I pushed on anywhere and something gave way and I fell in here that's all "
As there were no water-melon patches nor orchards to be robbed at this season of the year, they decided to have an egg-supper, and then to wait for the moon to rise after midnight before starting to row and cordelle their two boats up the river again to Greenbank. The fun of an egg-supper to Pewee's party consisted not so much in the eggs as in the manner of getting them.
But Jack believed in his powers of persuasion, and in the softness of the human heart. He had never had to do with a man in whom the greed for money had turned the heart to granite. Two or three days later Jack heard that Francis Gray, who lived in Louisville, had come to Greenbank. Without consulting his mother, lest she should discourage him, Jack went in pursuit of the slippery debtor.
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