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the river for a day. He and one of the boys took their guns and went hunting for quail for our dinner. He left one boy, his little girl and myself to get the dinner. We roasted eggs and potatoes in the ashes. One of the boys fell in a pond with a loaded revolver in his hand but it didn't go off. We built a roaring fire and soon dried him. We had a fine time and went to school the next day and studied all the harder for it. He was quite a hand at teaching us memory gems. The following is one: "No marble statue shall be reared high to mark the spot where kickers lie, but covered over with stones and sticks are the bones of the man who kicks and kicks." During his term we got a new flagpole and Mr. Harry Lauderbach gave us a large flag. But on account of his wife's poor health he could not stay with us.
Mr. Lauderbach came next. We had an entertaining Christmas and he gave us all a box of candy. At the closing of the school he gave us a book apiece. Mr. Lauderbach left us to teach at Encanto.
Mrs. Dana said for me to look over at Professor Baldwin and say that Mrs. Dana is just as cross as two sticks -- but us school children knew better. We appreciated all that Mrs. Dana has done for us and we are very sorry that she couldn't be with us another year. And, we all want to thank her for the play which she has so kindly written for us -- which you will soon see produced. The other day someone called her by the honored name, Mother.
This year we had building paper put on the walls of our schoolroom and a new stove. The boys got us a new clock by promising to chop wood to pay for it to the rest of the year.
Roy Haptonstall will probably be a State Biologist, but will probably have to take someone along to keep his accounts and do his figuring. Hazel Lane will probably be a teacher. She has already decided that when she comes to hard things in arithmetic she won't teach it -- that will save her knowing it. As for me, I don't know what I'd be. But whatever it is, I will have to take someone along to do my writing and to help me with my grammar.
We owe much to our parents, friends, teachers and Professor Baldwin who has so kindly consented to be with us. And, we are grateful for the interest they have always shown in our work.
This is but a stepping stone towards the preparation of life's final examination. And during all our life we will look back with fondest memory of the many happy days we had in the little Cottonwood School.
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