Andy the Acrobat / Or, Out with the Greatest Show on Earth

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Out With the Greatest Show on Earth
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1907
Andrew Wildwood!
The village schoolmaster of Fairview spoke this name in a tone of severity. He accompanied the utterance with a bang of the ruler that made the desk before him rattle.
There was fire in his eye and his lip trembled. Half of the twenty odd scholars before him looked frightened, the others interested. None had ever before seen the dull, sleepy pedagogue so wrought up.
All eyes were fixed on a lad of about sixteen, seated in the front row of desks.
The name called out applied to him. It had been abbreviated so commonly, however, that its full dignity seemed to daze him for the moment.
Andrew Wildwood slowly arose, his big, fearless eyes fixed dubiously on the schoolmaster.
Yes, sir, he said.