School Days in the Fifties
by William Milford Giffin (9780217044486)

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER XI. MARY M. AND HER INFLUENCE. Now what of the third teacher we recalled in Chapter VIII, Mary M. ? Can we ever forget her ? What an influence she had over us What nice ways she had. The school was almost like home. When night came we longed for morning. What good times we had No sitting up straight then like little sticks, to show off for company. Why, we even talked once in a while No doubt we gave her a great deal of trouble at times. No boys could be as full of fun as we were and not give the teacher trouble. Notwithstanding all this we loved her dearly. We learned things, too, that we have never forgotten,? things that we feel have always been useful. Yet, strange to say, ask us to name some of the things and we would hesitate, and ask just what they were, we answer, " Oh, we feel it. Do you understand, we feel the good she did. She made us look higher, to long to do something. Not by talking to us about it. If we were doing anything wrong, her eyes would tell us to stop. All she had to do was to look at us and we would feel ashamed that we had not been doing our duty." How wonderful the power of an influence. Let me quote a verse from a poem writes ten by the man whom " Daddy " W. came so near sending to States Prison. " For good or bad our lives and influence make; Perchance to live and spread when we are dead. E'en as the pebbles thrown into the lake Will move the waves in widening circle spread, Each circle wid'ning, wid'ning till it break Upon the margin of its little sea, So every influence doth its journey take Perchance to break upon Eternity " There is one point I recall that we all liked but could not then perhaps have told just what it was, viz.: She knew more of the subject than she had occasion to teach. She felt that if she knew no m...

USD $14.14

   Dispatch: Immediate - In Stock