Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 227, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1912 — Cause for Consternation. [ARTICLE]

Cause for Consternation.

The inexperienced district schqol teacher -had exhausted all other expedients for the maintenance of discipline. Going out into the school yard, she broke off a good-sized switch that was growing there and administered primitive punishment to Jimmy Kelley. There were strange expressions of horrified amazement on the faces of the children, and when school was dismissed at noon they gathered in excited groups and talked in whispers. Finally the teacher’s curiosity could stand it no longer. Calling Henry Thomas to her, she demanded the cause of the discussions. “Why—why—why, teacher,” he stammered, “that —that switch you licked Jimmy with —that was the tree we all set out last Arbor day.”—Harper's Magazine.

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