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Kephart the Hunter

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  • 26 The Berea Quarterly Greenberry." "Yes, to be sure, but he taught the little kids. You see, Bill's pap was a trustee and said he wouldn't hire Greenberry unless Greenberry would hire Bill. Now Greenberry received fifty dollars a month as principal, so he hired Bill at a dollar a day to teach the beginners." "Was Bill a regular teacher?" "No, he hadn't been to school for several years." "Had he a certificate?" "Oh, no, he had only finished the third reader when he quit but wasn't that enough for teaching the little kids?" All this gave me something to puzzle over. I had seen only one room. There were three teachers. I myself have taught and have found that even one teacher in a room sometimes has her hands more than full. I could not quite figure out the arrangement. We turned back. We must have missed the teacher somehow or other. School had "taken up" by the time we returned but almost half of the seats were empty. An hour later every seat was taken, some holding three instead of two. Those children were not suffering from nervestrain because of the presence of the school system! I wondered how the teachers had patience with so many stragglers, but Greenberry told me afterwards that "it really didn't matter so much. It was just reading that hour." How did they manage the teaching? It was all so easy. "Teacher" had the east side. Greenberry the front and Bill the southwest corner. The room was very quiet since only the teachers wore shoes! Then I listened to the teaching. With a pang, the pity of it all came over me. The gap was so great between all things within and all things without
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