I spent all grade 1 to 8 in a 1-room schoolhouse. The first 4 years were with an aging male schoolmaster who was good to most students but the Big Boys antics finally got to him and he retired. But the next teacher was a 19 year old beauty right out of teacher's-school and she could charm all the boys with no effort. She had no Big Boy problems that the former teacher had. She soon developed a reputation as being fair, tough and gentle and became one of the best teachers I ever had.
Our Shanty had a boys end, and a girls end as well as a wood storage area for the wood furnace inside the school. During recess one game we'd play was Ante-Ante-over-the Shanty in which we'd split into 2 teams, one team on each side of the shanty. Then a baseball would be tossed over the roof and if NOT caught without hitting the ground was thrown back over, but if CAUGHT, then would allow the team with the ball (the team was now "IT") to raid the other team and throwing the ball at their members. This would 'capture" that HIT player for the IT team and had to occur before that team could scramble to the other side of the shanty for immunity. So during an IT, the teams ended up switching sides of the shanty. This would continue until one side was decimated of players.
Of course the game would be upgraded by the Big Boys to using the schoolhouse instead of the shanty, and because the one-room school house had very high ceilings inside, it was quite a throw especially for the younger players to get the ball over the roof. Needless to say, windows were broken, game Banned (until fixed and paid by culprit) , baseballs trapped in the gutters (Banned again + scoldings). Sometimes the baseballs were confiscated to effect the ban and this would create huge outcries since no baseball game could be played either.
Yes fond memories.
And it was quite common for designated boys to carry wood from the shanty to restock the wood store beside the furnace. This wood store was a huge room about 20x20 area. The actual wood splitting was done by volunteer men of the community but us boys supplied much of the stacking labour.
That schoolhouse was renovated into a nice 2-storey home in 1966 and is still there today.
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