The Vermonter Volume 18-20 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1913 Excerpt: ...one and one-half miles in the opposite direction. I thought by this time I should receive a raise in wages and asked for $2.00 per week. The committee man and I parleyed for awhile and then said he was willing to split the difference giving me $1.75 per week and still board around and the bargain was sealed. The school was situated at the top of a clay hill and made up principally of mischievous boys who evidently thought I didn't amount to much and the first day made it very interesting for me. They made up mud balls with which they filled their trousers' pockets as they sauntered up the hill and before the day had ended I discovered the ceiling was dotted with these balls. I finally became master of the situation and passed a very pleasant term with these same boys. My ambition had risen with each raise in salary, which reached the culmination for that year in receiving the enormous sum of $3.50 per week, with a steady boarding place. To be sure I had to sleep with the baby of the family and walk through drifted roads for two miles or more to my school. Neighbors were very kind and I sometimes got a ride when it would have been impossible to have gotten there any other way. Two tall striplings of that school stand out in my memory, the one for knowing so little and the other for knowing so much. To the former I said one day after his recitation (?) "Be seated please." He stared at me and I repeated the command. As he still remained standing I said "Well sit down then" and he then grasped the situation. The other, a boy two years my senior, completed the practical arithmetic that winter. It made me "go some" as we express ourselves today to keep the problems worked ahead of him. This I always did the evening before the day of ...