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"Who'd a thought a mischeevious little tyke like her would ha' turned out a first-rate learner, after all?" queried Auntie, beaold-bowed spectacles "I al'ays tol' ye, Ezry, ye'd be proud o' her soood teacher; that's one thing," said Ma, amiably "Sis never done near so well before; at least, not till last terht Sue was anythin' reood teacher?"

"No, she ain't," I responded, with quickened beating of the heart Criticism of teachers was admissible in my code of ethics, but justification must follow; thereat me curiously "Ever ketch her in athe book"

I ran and fetched a well-thu n words

"There," said I, spreading the speller flat on the table and pointing with er "French word for 'Mister' Teacher called it 'Monshure,' just as they all do But that's wrong To-day I showed her how it is See, the book says it's pronounced 'm-o-s-s-e-r' and that littlee' 'Mosseer' is right But when I showed it to teacher, she looked at it awhile, and then she wrinkled up her eye-brows, and whispered it once or twice and said: 'Oh, yes; "mosser"' And she made us call it 'mosser' all the rest of the day, too," I ended triuht; 'mosser' ain't it!" volunteered one of the hired ered to hear the discussion "I've heerd that word a thousan' tiue 'round it, nohow"

"Yes, I know", said Pa "you go call Frenchy"

Joe Lavigne, summoned from the barn, came, followed by all the rest, curious to see anted--a rough, kindly gang ofboots

"Joe," said Pa; "you say 'Mister' in French"

"Ya-a-as, M'sieu' Weensheep, so I call heem: M'sieu'; M'sieu'; M'sieu'"

Very carefully Frenchy pronounced the clipped word

"That's all, Joe; I s'pose book French is a good deal diff'rent froht anyhow, for the book says so Teacher had ought to know enough to go by the book, I sh' think"

"Tain't her fault, Pa," I said, relenting "She never went to any good school I want to go somewhere where the teachers know a real lot; not just a little bit e-- "I want to go to the University, like--like Mr Burke"