Not only for the sake of my story, which would not have been worth the telling if the spelling-school had not taken place, but because Flat Creek district had to have a spelling-school.

It is the only public literary exercise known in Hoopole County.

It takes the place of lyceum lecture and debating club.
Sis Means, or, as she wished now to be called, Mirandy Means, expressed herself most positively in favor of it.

She said that she 'lowed the folks in that district couldn't in no wise do without it.

But it was rather to its social than to its intellectual benefits that she referred.