Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1889 — First Grade at Sixty. [ARTICLE]

First Grade at Sixty.

“Where are you going with those books, auntie?” The remark was addressed to an aged negress who was climbing the hill in the direction of Spelman seminary yesterday afternoon with a slate and a lot of school books under her arm. "Gwine to school, chile.” “To school at your age?” “Oh, I ain't quite yet,” she said, her eyes twinkling through a pair of steel-rimmed glasses and her gray hair elustering about her wrinkled brow in a regular Uncle Remus looking manner. “Are you learning anything?” “uh yes, I’se gitten de hang er dese books right erloug. W’y, w’en I startsd ter de school I didn't know nary letter, but now since I been gwine ter flat lady up dar I’se got so I kin put dese letters tergedder des as cute! But i mus’ keep erpodgin’, ca’se der bell rung an’ I’ll be tardy an’ git er black ma’k I ’specs.” Saying this the old lady trudged on up the hill like any school girl. Even at her advanced age she is determined to get an education.—Atlanta Con.