Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 December 1900 — Old Teacher. [ARTICLE]

Old Teacher.

Among the many epitaphs to be on Burial Hill, In the historic towAraS| Plymouth, Mass., Is one breathcS} such defiance to the wo\j at is seldom found, even on a graves The stone marks the Tabiiha Flasket, a Plymouth who died in 1807. After her busbandraE death it is said that the Widow ket taught a private school of tender years, and thriftily to do her spinning at the same time, When her small charges became ruly aud overstepped the bound* discipline, Tabltha's favorite mode ofl| bringing them to a sense of their wrongSl doing was to pass skeins of yarn undeXg their arms, and suspend them froiEji nails on the wall. A row of little cuflS prits hanging in this way must havK| t>een an amusing spectacle, but It ajH| pears froii Mrs. Flasket’s epitaph th«H| her methods did not always meet wltfll approval ftom parents and friends. Ajlieu, vain world, I’ve seen' eObtigb thee; •AS And r am careless wri*t thou say's4v|tfl| me; jfiS Thy smiles I wish not, rag Nor thy frowns I fear, SH I am now at rest, my head Wes quiet her^Bj