| THE MISTAKE ABOUT HAMP SEE. |
| KNOTS. |
| TIM AND TIP. |
| THE FLAMINGO. |
| BIG BOY AND LITTLE MAMMA. |
| KINGS AND QUEENS OF ENGLAND. |
| UNCLE HARRY'S FIRST PANTHER. |
| PENELOPE. |
| FLORRY'S HOOPLE. |
| OUR POST-OFFICE BOX. |
| WIGGLES. |
| Vol. II.—No. 95. | Published by HARPER & BROTHERS, New York. | price four cents. |
| Tuesday, August 23, 1881. | Copyright, 1881, by Harper & Brothers. | $1.50 per Year, in Advance. |
THE MISTAKE ABOUT HAMP SEE.
BY GEORGE CARY EGGLESTON.
"Hamp See a dunce! Well, maybe so; but arter what I've seed, it 'ud takea smarter school-master than you to make me think so."
It was old Riley Vaughn who spoke, and although old Riley had noeducation, his hard sense and sound judgment were respected by all themen who sat there in the village post-office waiting for the mail. Hehad[Pg 674] grown prosperous by dint of hard work and good judgment, and hisneighbors were accustomed to ask for and to respect his opinions.
"I did not say precisely that, Mr. Vaughn," replied Mr. Penruddock, theschool-master. "I only said that my best efforts to educate the boy wererendered futile and nugatory by reason of his inexplicable inability tograsp and retain so simple a thing as the accidence of the Latin verb."
"That means, in plain English, that he ain't got no grip on what youteach him, don't it?" asked Riley.
"Yes, that is what I mean," replied the school-master, with somethinglike a shudder at old Riley's English. "But I will make an honorableexception in t