"Early School Rules"

Now be honest. How many of you pulled these kinds of pranks when you were kids?

Early School Rules of etiquette from around 1900:

"Neither boys nor girls must wink at one another. Boys shall not carry any girls in their arms or on their backs unless heavy rains or mush ice have made the creeks and branches impossible to cross. No hugging, squeezing, or kissing shall take place while the girl is being transported across the water...Don't pretend to see ghosts in an effort to frighten younger pupils...You shall not go in swimming naked within 200 yards of the schoolhouse...You shall not bring to school any hawk's claw for use in pinching the ears and noses of others...Do not put any dead pigs, polecats or other dead animals in the schoolhouse loft to create a stink...You shall not argue hotly as to whether the earth is round or flat".

North Carolina Mountain Folklore (1972)