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The signs of that painful struggle slowly faded out of Simeon's face and
there was an unusual calm in the school-room.
Perhaps a quarter of an hour elapsed. I was thoughtfully engaged in
hearing one of my classes when startled by the sound of a window closed
with a sharp bang. At the same time arose the universal voice:
"Simmy B.'s got out o' the winder! Simmy B.'s got out o' the winder!"
I looked out across the snowless fields, and there having already scaled
two fences and put many a good rod between himself and the scene of his
brief imprisonment, I beheld, borne as on the wings of the wind, the form
of the retreating Simeon.
An incident at the close of my first week in Wallencamp was the visit of
the "Turkey Mogul." Such was the name given by the Wallencampers to Mr.
Baxter, the superintendent of schools.
Mr. Baxter lived many miles away in Farmouth, and was, properly, the
visitor of the schools in Farmouth County. Wallencamp was not in Farmouth
County. Nevertheless, Mr. Baxter had charge of the Wallencamp school. I
had been informed that he drove over at the beginning and close of each
term, put the scholars through the most "dreadful examins," and gave an
indiscriminate "blowin' up" to persons and things in the place.
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