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promptly answered the doctor . `` That there Board ai n't conferrin ' William Penn on no one where do n't suit 'em pretty good ! They 're a wonderful partic ` lar Board ! '' After supper the comely Amanda agreed eagerly to the teacher 's suggestion that she go with him for a walk , before the convening of the School Board at seven o'clock , and show him the school-house , as he would like to behold , he said , `` the seat of learning '' which , if the Board elected him , was to be the scene of his winter 's campaign . Amanda improved this opportunity to add her word of warning to that of the doctor . `` That there Board 's awful hard to suit , still . Oncet they got a Millersville Normal out here , and when she come to sign they seen she was near-sighted that way , and Nathaniel Puntz -- he 's a director -- he up and says that would n't suit just so well , and they sent her back home .