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"I reckon we might as well let it go at that," he returned, with bitter briefness. Two months before this time Helen Messiter had been serenely teaching a second grade at Kalamazoo, Michigan, notwithstanding the earnest efforts of several youths of that city to induce her to retire to domesticity "What's the use of being a schoolmarm?" had been the burden of their plaint.
"I feel like an honester man." "Perhaps I can do something to-night at Mrs. Taylor's," she said, looking at her paper. On it were a few words crossed out. This was all she had to show. At this set task in letter-writing, the cow-puncher had greatly excelled the schoolmarm! But that night, while he lay quite fast asleep in his bed, she was keeping vigil in her room at Mrs. Taylor's.
And, why, out of all the roses of the world, had these two been chosen, still, so late in the year, to hold up the tattered standard of Summer? The same mystery was again presented to us a little farther along the road, as we stopped at a lone schoolhouse among the hills, the only house to be seen, and asked our way of the young schoolmarm.
With incredible speed the poised head shot forth. Ajax laughed. The snake was recoiling, as he struck it on the neck. Instantly it writhed impotently. My brother set the heel of his heavy boot upon the skull, crushing it into the ground. "Now let's sit down," said he. "Hark!" said the little schoolmarm. Another snake was rattling within a yard or two of the first.
Yesterday, while he was spending a little comfortable money at the Drybone hog-ranch, a casual traveller from the north gossiped of Bear Creek, and the fences up there, and the farm crops, the Westfalls, and the young schoolmarm from Vermont, for whom the Taylors had built a cabin next door to theirs. The traveller had not seen her, but Mrs.
"You're no schoolmarm!" exclaimed Drake; "you please me." "The worst of a bad thing," said the mild Bolles, "is having time to think about it, and we have been spared that." "Here they come," said Drake. They did come. But Drake's alert strategy served the end he had tried for. The drunken buccaroos swarmed disorderly to the door and halted. Once more the new superintendent's ways took them aback.
There was an automobile on that car addressed to Miss Helen Messiter. Now, automobiles are awful seldom in this country. I don't seem to remember having seen one before." "I see. You're quite a Sherlock Holmes. Do you know anything more about me?" "I know y'u have just fallen heir to the Lazy D. They say y'u are a schoolmarm, but I don't believe it." "Well, I am."
Buck was cracking two walnuts in the palm of his hand and let his lazy smile drift her way only casually. She stamped her foot. "I tell you I'm the teacher. It is necessary I should be there." "You a schoolmarm!" he repeated, in surprise. "How old are you?" Her dress was scarcely below her shoe tops.
She'd be just the schoolmarm for Bear Creek!" "She's not much like the eating-house lady at Medicine Bow," I said. He gave a hilarious chuckle. "No, Em'ly knows nothing o' them joys. So yu' have no notion about her? Well, I've got one. I reckon maybe she was hatched after a big thunderstorm." "In a big thunderstorm!" I exclaimed. "Yes. Don't yu' know about them, and what they'll do to aiggs?
Somehow, a spinster lady who had taught school and such a school as Poketown's for twenty years, should have fitted the well-known specifications of the old-time "New England schoolmarm." But Amarilla Scattergood did not. She was a little, light-haired, pink-cheeked lady, with more than a few claims to personal attractiveness yet left.
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