IN THE BACK COUNTRY
Hancock County, Tennessee,, must be a -very strange place, says the "New York Times." Until recently Mrs. Eunice Johns attended the Fairmount Grade School there. Apparently she didn't behave herself very well. She giggled, jumped around from place to place in the schoolroom, and would not stay in her seat. The teacher, Wade Ferguson, scolded her, but it didn't do any good. She kept right on jumping around, and wouldn't learn her letters. So he caned her. The next day Mrs. Johns played truant, -but her husband showed up. "Look here," Mr. Johns protested, "you can't whip another man's wife." "Oh, yes, I can—if she comes to my school," Pedagogue Ferguson insisted firmly. Mrs. Johns is nine years old. Her husband is 22.
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Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 12
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127IN THE BACK COUNTRY Evening Post, Volume cxxiv, Issue 148, 20 December 1937, Page 12
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