" When Mrs. Dozier heard their resolution, she smiled, and said:
"Before those gentlemen deny my ability to impart knowledge and work
with my fingers at the same time, I would like them to visit my school,
and judge me by the result of their observation."
A knock at the school-room door, a week later, startled the children,
and a committee of trustees entered. Mrs. Dozier received them in the
most ladylike manner, and after they were seated, she called each class
at its appointed time. The recitations were heard, and lessons
explained, yet no one seemed disturbed by the faint, but regular, 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.
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