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Kephart the Hunter

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  • "Good's a man, come fodderin' time" 27 those walls. I edged up close to Greenberry's quarter to hear spelling and definitions. Qualities, q-u-a-1-i-t-i-e-s, tracts of charity. I came close. It sounded so odd. Tracts of charity? Noble handed me a book. Then it was, "Traits of character." But to eleven years, one has no more meaning than the other. Yet my self-satisfied self had insisted blindly upon the need of "education." regardless of the content of the word. Yet how could Greenberry do better? He had just gone through the same mill himself. Line after line of oral spellers rolled off the words they never wrote, never would see outside the spelling book, and yet the little rascals who had not caught on were counted stupid. How I longed to put my arm around Almy, who stood at the foot of the class and explain away that abstract act of memory. She was too sensitive to learn to spell that way and yet she knew of no other way. But she was getting so big that she would not go more than that year. Mam needed her anyhow. "Haint ary a youngun in school 's handy at home as Almy, 'n she's good 's a man, come fodderin' time," Tildy explained to me. For this mother like many another had suspicion that her child was not so stupid after all. She had breathed her hope to "teacher." "I 'low, gin she'd go way 'ninst strangers, she wouldn't feel so 'shamed. But pap'll send the boys first 'n they's seven o' them ahead 'n her even come she is the oldest." "Teacher" interested me especially. She was so full of buoyant young strength. Education was getting beneath the surface with her. She had only
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