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Madame Wackernagel at once declared that she would never willingly inhabit a country whose laws and habits suffered women to be so brutally punished for patriotism, and her husband could only agree with her. He has accordingly broken off the engagement, and the Government cannot hope to supply his place.
"Are you goin' to keep on at William Penn all winter, Absalom?" Mrs. Wackernagel asked. "Just long enough to see if he kin learn 'rithmetic to me. Ezra Herr, he was too dumm to learn me." "Mebbe," said the doctor, astutely, "you was too dumm to GET learnt!" "I AM wonderful dumm in 'rithmetic," Absalom acknowledged shamelessly. "But pop says this here teacher is smart and kin mebbe learn me.
At the supper-table, the apparently inexhaustible topic of talk was the refusal of the Hersheys to receive the new teacher into the bosom of their family. A return to this theme again and again, on the part of the various members of the Wackernagel household, did not seem to lessen its interest for them, though the teacher himself did not take a very animated part in its discussion.
"I'll call Aunty Em." "Thank you," he bowed with a little air of ceremony that for an instant held her spellbound. She stood staring at him only recalled to herself and to a sense of shame for her rudeness by the sudden entrance of her aunt. "How d' do?" said Mrs. Wackernagel in her brisk, businesslike tone. "D'you want supper?" "I am the applicant for the New Canaan school.
I'd sooner lose the money than have her spoilt fur me. Now look-ahere, Tillie, you go get them new caps and bring 'em here." Tillie turned away to obey. "Now, Jake, what are you up to?" his sister demanded as the girl left the room. "Do you suppose I'd leave her KEEP them caps she stole the money off of me to buy?" Getz retorted. "She earnt the money!" maintained Mrs. Wackernagel.
Fairchilds inquired curiously. "She'd be set back." "'Set back'?" "She wouldn't have dare to greet the sisters with a kiss, and she couldn't speak with me or eat with me or any of the brothers and sisters till she gave herself up ag'in and obeyed to the rules." "This is very interesting," commented Fairchilds, his contemplative gaze moving from the face of Mrs. Wackernagel to Tillie.
"Oh, Abe!" she suddenly cried, "you ain't tole Teacher yet about the Albright sisters astin' you, on market, what might your name be!" The tone in which this serious omission was mentioned indicated that it was an anecdote treasured among the family archives. "Now, I would mebbe of forgot that!" almost in consternation said Mr. Wackernagel.
"From Connecticut," he replied in a tone that indefinably, but unmistakably checked further questioning. "Now think! So fur off as that!" "Yes, ain't!" exclaimed Mrs. Wackernagel. "It's a wonder a body'd ever be contented to live that fur off." "We're had strangers here in this HOtel," Mr.
Abe Wackernagel, of the New Canaan hotel, was very fond, in the years that followed, of bragging to his transient guests of his niece who was the wife of "such a Millersville Normal perfessor Perfessor Fairchilds." And Mr. Jake Getz was scarcely less given to referring to his daughter "where is married to such a perfessor at the Normal." "But what do I get out of it?" he was wont ruefully to add.
Her glance fell upon her plate, and she applied herself to cutting up her untouched sausage. "Now, there's Doc," remarked Amanda, critically, "he's GOT good manners, but he don't use 'em." "Och," said the doctor, "it ain't worth while to trouble." "I think it would be wonderful nice, Teacher," said Mrs. Wackernagel, "if you learnt them manners you got to your scholars this winter.
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