. The Hoosier school-master : a novel . s MarthaHawkins, the Squires niece, and his housekeeper in his present • bereaved condition, leaning over the palings—pickets • she calledthem—of the garden fence, talking to the master. Miss Hawkinswas recently from Massachusetts. How many people there arein the most cultivated communities whose education is partial! Its very common for school-masters to dig in the elementsat the East, proceeded Miss Martha. Like many other peopleborn in the celestial empires (of which there are three—China,Virginia, Massachusetts), Miss Martha was not averse to remind-
. The Hoosier school-master : a novel . s MarthaHawkins, the Squires niece, and his housekeeper in his present • bereaved condition, leaning over the palings—pickets • she calledthem—of the garden fence, talking to the master. Miss Hawkinswas recently from Massachusetts. How many people there arein the most cultivated communities whose education is partial! Its very common for school-masters to dig in the elementsat the East, proceeded Miss Martha. Like many other peopleborn in the celestial empires (of which there are three—China,Virginia, Massachusetts), Miss Martha was not averse to remind- MISS MARTHA II AAV KINS. 93 ing outside barbarians of her good fortune in this regard. It didher good to speak of the East. Now Ralph was amused with Miss Martha. She really had agood deal of intelligence despite her affectation, and conversationwith her was both interesting and diverting. It helped him toforget Hannah, and Bud, and the robbery, and all the rest, andshe was so delighted to find somebody to make an impression. MISS MARTHA HA WRESTS. on that she* had come out to talk while Ralph was at work. Butjust at this moment the school-master was not so much inter-ested in her interesting remarks, nor so much amused by heramusing remarks, as he should have been. He saw a man comingdown the road riding one horse and leading another, and he o o recognized the horses at a distance. It must be Bud who wasriding Meanss bay mare and leading Buds roan colt. Bud hadbeen to mill, and as the man who owned the horse-mill kept 94 THE IIOOSIER SCHOOL-MASTER. but one old blind horse himself, it was necessary that Bud shouldtake two. It required three horses to run the mill; the old blindone could grind the grist, but the two others had to overcomethe friction of the clumsy machine. But it was not about the horse-mill that Ralph was thinking,nor about the two horses. Since that Wednesday evening onwhich he escorted Hannah home from the spelling-school hehad not seen Bud Means.
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