EDUCATION.

Globe, Volume III, Issue 222, 24 February 1875, Page 3

EDUCATION.

There are still a few corners of the Western and Southern States where the schoolmaster has not yet penetrated. A little town in Texas, Avhcnce comes the following story, is one of these places. Some emigrants from Ohio and Illinois settled there, and soon began to agitate for the erection of a schoolhouse and the employment of a teacher. A town meeting was called to consider the proposition ; and one of the northerns made a neat little speech, telling the blessings which education had brought with it to Ohio and Illinois. Then a tall, lank native stood up, "See here, mister—ain't you the machine man?" "Yes," said he, "I did sell some machinery here last year." "Wa'al, when the wheat got ripe, all the people went to neighbour Johnson's to see how yer mowin' machine would operate. We got the 'tarnal thing into the field, and neighbour Johnson he hitched his young filly into the shafts. She allers was a fractious critter, and the first thing we knowed she give a flounce, and caught neighbour Johnson's boy Bill's leg, an' cut it clean orf." [Manifest sensation.] " Then, mister, in just about two weeks, yer pardner he come around peddlin' wooden legs, and neighbour Johnson had to buy one of them ere things. Nice eddicated yeople you ai e ! You understands, you do ! Fust you sell the machines, and then yer pardner he furnishes wooden legs?" This ended the matter, and no school master will be welcome in that village for some time to come.