. The Hoosier schoolmaster; a novel . imperatives he boxed one of his boysover in one direction and one of his girls over in theother. I believe in trainin up children to mindwhen theyre spoke to, he said to Ralph apologetic-ally. But it seemed tot he teacher that he wantedthem to mind just a little before they were poken to. Praps youd like a bed. Well, jest climb upthe ladder on the outside of the house. Takes upa thunderin sight of room to have a stairs inside,and we hant got no room to spare. Youll find abed in the furdest corner. My Petes already gothalf of it, and you can take tother hal
. The Hoosier schoolmaster; a novel . imperatives he boxed one of his boysover in one direction and one of his girls over in theother. I believe in trainin up children to mindwhen theyre spoke to, he said to Ralph apologetic-ally. But it seemed tot he teacher that he wantedthem to mind just a little before they were poken to. Praps youd like a bed. Well, jest climb upthe ladder on the outside of the house. Takes upa thunderin sight of room to have a stairs inside,and we hant got no room to spare. Youll find abed in the furdest corner. My Petes already gothalf of it, and you can take tother half. Ef Petegoes to takin his half in the middle, and tryin tomake you take yourn on both sides, jest kick this comfortless bed in the furdest corner,Ralph found sleep out of the question. Pete tookthree-fourths of the bed, and Hannah took all ofhis thoughts. So he lay, and looked out throughthe cracks in the clapboards (as they call roughshingles in the old West) at the stars. For theclouds had now broken away. And he lay thus. PETE JONES. A NIGHT AT PETE JONESS. 65 recounting to himself, as a miser counts the piecesthat compose his hoard, every step of that roadfiom the time he had overtaken Hannah in thehollow to the fence. Then he imagined again thepleasure of helping her over, and then he retracedthe ground to the box-elder tree at the spring, andrepeated to himself the conversation until he cameto the part in which she said that only time andGod could help her. What did she mean ? Whatwas the hidden part of her life ? What was theconnection between her and Shocky ? Hours wore on, and still the mind of Ralph Hart-sook went back and traveled the same road, overthe fence, past the box-elder, up to the inexplicablepart of the conversation, and stood bewilderedwith the same puzzling questions about the boundgirls life. At last he got up, drew on his clothes, and satdown on the top of the ladder, looking down overthe blue-grass pasture which lay on the border be-tween the
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