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She had not ceased speaking, and had scarcely touched the handle of the bell, when there was a deafening clatter of books and slates on the crude benches Feet shod and feet bare pounded the floor Merry yells rent the air On the platfor playfully, fiercely punching, thrusting, and dodging At athree boys were bodily ejecting a fourth, the legs and feet of who over the sill

S drove hurtle past to the playground outside, and when the as clear he entered the church and stalked up the single aisle toward his niece Dolly had turned back to the blackboard, and was sponging off the chalk figures She was quite pretty; her eyes were large, with fathomless hazel depths Her brow, under a h and indicative of decided intellectual power She was of raceful She had a good nose and a sweet, syh suggestive of strength She wore a si could have been reeted his so out and play with the balance an' lihed "You men don't know any more about what a woman teacher has to contend with than a day-old kitten My head is in a constant whirl So now?" Webb shed "Not a thing has happened right to-day George flatly refused to come to school--even defied me before some other boys down the road Thenwith Ann? I remember now that I didn't see her in that drove just now, and she certainly ain't at home, because I'm just from thar"

"No, she isn't at home," Dolly frowned, and, for an obvious reason, raised her voice to a high pitch, "but I'll tell you where she is, and as her own blood uncle you can share rimly pointed at a closet door close by "Open it," she said "The truth is, I told her she would have to stay there twenty h the last recitation for fear she wouldn't get enough air All at once she got still, though she kept up a terrible racket at first"