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Updated: May 2, 2025
Old Jack Means, Hannah talked cheerfully, almost gayly. It was something to have a companion to talk to. It was something to be the victor even in a spelling-match, and to be applauded even by Flat Creek. And so, chatting earnestly about the most uninteresting themes, Ralph courteously helped Hannah over the fence, and they took the usual short-cut through the "blue-grass pasture."
After that they serenaded a few of their favorite faculty. Then they had a reformed spelling-match, to prove how antiquated their recently finished education had already become. Finally they sat down in a big circle on the grass and had "stunts." Babbie recited "Mary had a little lamb," for possibly the thousandth time since she had learned to do it early in her junior year.
And now a woman was to teach the school: she was only a little woman and yet the boys obeyed her, and I had come to think that a woman could teach school nearly as well as a man, when the awful announcement was made that thereafter every week we were to have a Friday Afternoon. There were to be no lessons; everybody was to speak a piece, and then there was to be a spelling-match and that was all.
The big boys were droning lazily over their books, the little boys, in the forms just below his desk, were bubbling over with spirits spirits of whose origin there was no reasonable ground for doubt. Suddenly Hughie Murray, the minister's boy, a very special imp, held up his hand. "Well, Hughie," said the master, for the tenth time within the hour replying to the signal. "Spelling-match!"
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