Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1889 — A Substitute. [ARTICLE]

A Substitute.

A lady who is opposed to corporal punishment visited a Boston school where tim rod was beiug appljed. Before going away she said a lew words to the offender, and asked him to cotnc and see hbr on a certain evening, promising that her d ing'iter should sing and play to him. He said he would come, and at the appointed time a boy dressed in his be-1 w-ts ushered into her parlor, and for an hour or more; his kind entertainers devoted themselves to his enjoyment. Afterward the older lady took him one side and began to speak of the importance of g.>.»l behavior -and OWiehce to rules, when she was interrupted with: “Oh, I ain’t that fellar! He gin me ten cents .to cum ImAid w l>itn. IJ *-Texw Siftings.