Brings back memories. Hard to remember back that far, but I think we had about a dozen students in our one room. No lights, old Army stove sat on the end wall. Remember one cold winter day our sweet, heavyset lady teacher had just loaded some extra coal and was standing about a foot in front of the stove, reading to us. The bottom damper on the lower door was slightly cracked open for a little air. The teacher always dressed in dark navy blue dresses that came about six inches below her knees, and matching nylons. It was so quiet in the room that all you could hear was her voice when she spoke and the slight roar of the fire. Took about five minutes and pretty soon we heard a faint rumble from the stove, a few more seconds and we heard it again. The teacher wasn't paying any attention to it but the whole class knew what was going to happen in a minute or two. The third time it rumbled it was accompanied by a huge explosion of coal gas. The stove jumped a little off the floor and a big cloud of gray smoke came out of the damper. Teacher kind of jumped up and to one side and looked back at the stove and said, "Oh,My Goodness". The whole room burst out laughing for several minutes. Finally the teacher told us to calm down and pay attention. We just kept laughing. She said,"What is so funny?" We all at the same time just pointed our finger at her and said,"Look at your stockings!" She looked down. Somehow, the explosion had cut both nylons off completely around her legs, about halfway up from the tops of her shoes to the bottom of the hem on her dress. The bottoms had fallen down on top of her shoes. She said, "Oh,My." and proceeded on with the lesson. After that she always stood off to the side of the stove. You had to have been there but it was funny.
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