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Updated: July 13, 2025
Patsy had hot biscuits for supper, and Jack's especial weakness was hot biscuits and maple syrup. "As to her age," remarked Shorty, "it's a cinch she ain't no spring chicken, seeing she's the Old Man's sister." "Is she a schoolma'am?" Happy Jack's distaste for schoolma'ams dated from his tempestuous introduction to the A B C's, with their daily accompaniment of a long, thin ruler.
After that they gossiped and compared notes covering the two years since they had met until it was time for Kitty to go home. Very shortly thereafter almost, it seemed, by return mail Hazel got replies to her letters of inquiry. The fact that each and every one seemed bent on securing her services astonished her. "Schoolma'ams must certainly be scarce out there," she told herself.
"That there ain't no colony It's nothin' but a bunch of schoolma'ams!" "That lady ridin' point is the lady herself," Andy murmured, edging behind Weary and Pink as the flutter came closer. "That's Florence Grace Hallman, boys."
In May Cupid shoots blindfolded millionaires marry stenographers; wise professors woo white-aproned gum-chewers behind quick-lunch counters; schoolma'ams make big bad boys remain after school; lads with ladders steal lightly over lawns where Juliet waits in her trellissed window with her telescope packed; young couples out for a walk come home married; old chaps put on white spats and promenade near the Normal School; even married men, grown unwontedly tender and sentimental, whack their spouses on the back and growl: "How goes it, old girl:"
The schoolma'ams were just leaving as we entered the door, and all we saw of them was the trail of their descending robes. I was very sorry for this, for I have a good many friends among our own schoolmistresses, friends whom I never saw, but know through the kind words they have addressed to me.
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