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Some girls can learn theirselves at home without even a teacher, and workin' all the time at farm-work, still, and even livin' out!" said Mr. Puntz. "I say a girl with inDUStry like that would make any feller a good wife." Getz stared at him in bewilderment. "The members of this Board," said Mr.
Her father's face was apoplectic; he was leaning forward, trying to speak, but he was too choked for utterance. Nathaniel Puntz looked as though a wet sponge had been dashed upon his sleek countenance. The other directors stared, dumfounded. This case had no precedent in their experience. They were at a loss how to take it.
"Won't she be here to-night to leave us see her oncet?" "She won't, but her pop will," answered Nathaniel Puntz; and Mr. Getz vaguely realized in the expressions about him that something unusual was in the air. "What do we want with her pop?" he asked. "We want his wote!" answered Adam Oberholzer which sally brought forth hilarious laughter.
"Yes, I'm talking English," nodded the applicant. "We also believe," he added, growing bolder, "in the fundamental, biogenetic law that ontogenesis is an abridged repetition of philogenesis." "He says they believe in Genesis," remarked the Old Mennonite, appealing for aid, with bewildered eyes, to the other members. "Maybe he's a Jew yet!" put in Nathaniel Puntz. "We also believe," Mr.
"Well, to be sure," granted Mrs. Getz, "I'd like keepin' Tillie home to help me out with the work still. I didn't see how I was ever goin' to get through without her. But I thought when Absalom Puntz begin to come Sundays, certainly you'd be fur her havin' him.
Me and Nathaniel Puntz has a statement to make to the Board that'll chase that tony dude teacher off his job so quick he won't have time to pack his trunk!" "Is that so?" the doctor said in feigned surprise. "Well, he certainly is some tony that I must give him, Jake. Well, good night to yous! Be careful of Tillie's health!"
"Yes, and I never seen a Puntz yet where didn't come by what he set his stubborn head to!" the doctor commented. "It wonders me sometimes, how Tillie's goin' to keep from marryin' him, now he's made up his mind so firm!" "Tillie knows her own worth too well to throw herself away like that." "Well, now I don't know," said the doctor, doubtfully.
"Do you know my pop's Nathaniel Puntz, the director?" "You are a credit to him, Absalom. By the way, will you take a message to him from me? Tell him, please, that the lock on the school-room door is broken, and I'd be greatly obliged if he would send up a lock-smith to mend it." Absalom looked discouraged. A Harvard graduate was, manifestly, a freak of nature invulnerable at all points.
"Well, I don' know I don' know. It would suit me wonderful to get ahead of Jake Getz and them Puntzes in this here thing if I anyways could! Le' me see." He thoughtfully considered the situation. "The Board meets day after to-morrow. There's six directors. Nathaniel Puntz and Jake can easy get 'em all to wote to put you out, fur they ain't anyways stuck on you you bein' so tony that way.
Now Tillie knew that if she allowed Absalom Puntz to leave her in his present state of baffled anger, Fairchilds would not remain in New Canaan a month. Absalom was his father's only child, and Nathaniel Puntz was known to be both suspicious and vindictive. "Clothed in a little brief authority," as school director, he never missed an opportunity to wield his precious power.
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