gular, click
of knitting needles. For hours those gentlemen sat in silence, deeply
interested in all that transpired. When the time for closing school
arrived, the teacher invited the trustees to address her pupils,
after which she dismissed school, thanked her visitor for their kind
attention, and went home without learning their opinion.

The next morning she was informed that the Board of Trustees had met
the previous evening, and after hearing the report of the visiting
committee, had unanimously agreed that Mrs. Dozier might continue her
school and her knitting also. This little triumph was much enjoyed by
her friends.

The following year she was urged to take the school on Sugar Creek,
where the children were older and further advanced than those at
Auburn. Her connection with this school marked a new era for many of its
attendants. Mr. J. Miller used to relate an incident which occurred a
few days after she took charge of those unruly boys who had been in the
habit of managing the teacher and school to suit themselves. "I will
never forget," said Mr. Miller, "how Mrs. Dozier took her place at the
table that morning, tapped for order, and in a kind, but firm, tone
said: 'Young gentlemen and young ladies, as a teacher only, I can not
criticise the propriety of your writing notes to each other when out of
school; but as your teacher, with full authority in school, I desire
and request you neither to write nor send notes to any one during school
hours. I was surprised at your conduct yesterday, and should my wish be
disregarded in the future, will be obliged to chastise the offender.'
She called the first class, and school began in earnest. I looked at her
quiet face and diminutive form, and thought how easy it would be for me
to pick up two or three such little bodies as she, and set them outside
of the door! I wrote a note and threw it to the pupil in front of me,
just to try Mrs. Dozier. When the recitation was finished, she
stepped to the side of her table, and looked at me with such a grieved
expression on her face, then said: 'Mr. Miller, I regret that my eldest
scholar should be the first to violate my rule. Please step forward.' I
quailed beneath her eye. I marched up to where she stood. The stillness
of that room was oppressive. I held out my hand at the demand of that
little woman, and took the punishment I deserved, and returned to my
seat deeply humiliated, but fully determined to behave myself in the
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