The Old-Time
Spelling School
IN THREE PARTS
PART I—GOLDEN VALLEY
PART II—THE CONTEST
PART III—MUSICAL
BY
JOHN G. ELLENBECKER
MARYSVILLE, KANSAS
H. M. & L. R. Brodrick, Printers
MARYSVILLE, KANSAS
1922
Copyrighted, 1922, by
JOHN G. ELLENBECKER
Marysville, Kansas
 Dedication
This little volume is respectfully inscribedto the schools of Marshall County, Kansas—itspatrons, teachers and pupils—in humbleacknowledgment of the great good theseschools have done for our citizenship and ourgovernment.
 Preface
This poem was not written to bring fame,nor to waft a fortune; for, fame and fortuneare but small incidents when compared withthe higher things in life. It was composedmore for pleasure—the pleasure of meditatingon, and the commemorating of, thesplendid people who were among the manyfine early settlers of this state; and likewiseto impart this joy to the readers who mayperuse this little story of pioneer days.
Then the old “Spelling Down”—once socommon in schools and so brilliant for itsacademic value, and keen social enjoyment—shouldbe rescued from oblivion; yea evenrevived.
If the sending forth of these simple stanzasshould bear any fruit, may some of thesebe the happy harvest.
—The Author.
Sylvan Heights,
Marysville, Kansas
Dec. 24, 1921.
THE OLD TIME SPELLING SCHOOL
PART I
GOLDEN VALLEY
O worthy friends, at last we’ve met again;
I feel that we have met in days before;
And hope as gladly now as we did then,
To contemplate some things in days of yore;
In those days when our parents still were young,
And we in youth around the school house swung.
It won’t take long—a fleet winged hour or two—
So, let us raise the curtain of the past,
And bring again those good old days to view,
Which are long fled in years that sped too fast;
Let us together take a pleasant trip
On mem’ry’s wings for kind companionship.
In those good times of years long, long ago
Were many hardships, that we should forget;
But still, among these troubles, toils, and woe,
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