Democratic Sentinel, Volume 2, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1878 — Quick on the Trigger. [ARTICLE]

Quick on the Trigger.

“You will please observe,” said old Mr. Lambwell, as he led us through his school the other day, “ that the boys are required to display the utmost attention to quietness anddiscipline, and in a short time become even divested of that most annoying disposition to tease each other; in short, soon settle down in all the gravity of mature years, under the wholesome system I have introduced. ” . We at this moment arrived in front of several boys who were standing around a bucket of water, and one had just charged nis mouth with the contents of a tin cup, while the old gentleman was stooping to recover his pen from the floor, when another, passing behind, snapped his finger quickly beneath the drinker’s ear, and caused him by a sudden start to eject the contents of his mouth over the pedagogue’s bald pate. Starting upright, with his hair and face dripping, the master shouted : “ Who did that?” The party unanimously cried out, “Jim Gun, sir.” “ Jim Gun, you rascal, what did you do that for ? ’ Jim, appalled at the mischief he had done, muttered out that it was not his fault, but that Tom Owens had snapped him. This changed the direction of old Lambwell’s wrath, and shaking his cane portentously over Owen’s head, he asked : “ Did you snap Gun ?” The culprit, trembling with fear, murmured : “Yes, sir ; I snapped Gun, but didn’t know he was loaded. ”