The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, July 1897 - April, 1898 Page: 290
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290 Texas Historical Association Quarterly.
switches to umpire the game, and he decided to administer im-
partial fate. I do not remember the number of strokes, but 1 re-
member thinking it unjust that the boys who had lost in the game
should suffer as much in the award as those who prided themselves
on their stock of infrangible glass. For many years, however, I
have coincided with the old teacher's view, and wish that his policy
could be extended to parties and nations as well, they being but
children of a larger growth.
Though the hours of school seemed to me of wearisome length,
yet school was turned out time enough for us all to go leisurely
home before sundown. Our house was about two miles, most of
the way across a prairie, but crossing a small stream, whose clear
water babbled over "the stones in the brook" where I loved to play.
My brother would sometimes wait with me, but he sat on the bank,
very much engaged in his books. I remember his puzzling over
the mystery of the extremes and the means in the rule of three,
and saying that if he could learn that rule and the square root he
would be through the arithmetic and would "know it all." The
Robinson Crusoe boy, of whom I have spoken, accompanied us to
school, and one day took it into his head to teach us some arithme-
tic. There were five cows grazing by the side of the path, and he
maintained that there were fourteen, proving it in this way: There
are four in a bunch on the right and one by itself on the left; four
on the right and one on the left make fourteen. We admitted the
correctness of the numeration in the abstract, but could not see
the cows in the concrete. "Well," said he, "apply your arithmetic;
when you buy cattle count the old way, but when you sell cattle
numerate them." For some reason this little jest remains in mem-
ory, and I have moralized upon it, like Dr. Franklin on his whistle,
until at times it seems that the world is divided into two principal
classes-those who count in the old way and those who "numerate."
To everything there comes an end, and so at last Dyas' school
also ended, and one little scholar at least went running home joy-
fully carrying his books to stay. The patrons of the school were
much pleased with our old teacher and he with his new location.
They had arranged for him to open a permanent academy, and he
departed for Ireland to bring his family. He sailed from New Or-
leans, but the vessel was never afterwards heard of.
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Texas State Historical Association. The Quarterly of the Texas State Historical Association, Volume 1, July 1897 - April, 1898, periodical, 1897/1898; Austin, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth101009/m1/316/: accessed April 28, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Texas State Historical Association.