Literary cadet, and Saturday evening bulletin. [volume] (Providence, R.I.) 1826-1827, 1826-11-18


Dutchman, that he followed the customs
of his countrymen, and the practices of his
fathers before him and that it did not be-
come the like Of him to presume to be wi
ser or better than his ancestors, who were
honest men, and who, he believed, had
gone to Heaven. The appearance of re-
spect, however, with which he received
these reproois, went far to reconcile Jedi
dlah to his practical neglect of them, and
kind OF friendship at length grew up be-
tween the two settlers and their families.
Yok's pretty daughters came constantly to
attend Williams meetings, and Williams
son was frequent and welcome visitor at
the house Of the hearty and hospitable
Dutchman
foks family, with the exception Of the
negro domestcs have mentioned, con-
sisted only of himself and his two daugh-
ters. Mary, the elder, was somewhat tall,
with delicate shape, and a peaceful, i'll
nocent look. The climate, and three gem
eratIons Of American descent, had COM
pletely done away in her personal appear
ance all traces Of her Dutch extraction, ex-
cept the fair hair and the light blue eye
She was sincere, single-hearted crea-
ture, whom the experience Of eighteeu
years had not taught that there was such
thing as treachery in the world 1t was NO
difficult matter to move her either TO smiles
or to tears, and had she lived in this novel
reading age, she would have been inevita-
bly, spoiled. As it was, the poor girl had
no book but the Bible, Of which there were
IN fok's family several copies in The old
Dutch letter, and she was forced to con-
tent herself with weeping over the fortunes
OF ruth, and the esurIection Of Lazarus
Geshie, her sister, little more than year
younger, had an appearance Of firmcr and
more sanguine health than Mary, and all
that eXcess Of animal spirits and love Of
milth, with which youth and high heath
are generally accompanied. She was rud-
der, shorter in stature, and fuller in her
proportions than the elder sister, and under
the shade Of her thick brown hair, her
bright eye slione out with look SO arch
and full of mischief, that, like the sun in
June, it was not thing to look long upon.
The two sisters, though so little alike.
were both as kind and good as the day is
long, and were acknowledged to be the
handsOmest girls in the settlement Peo-
pie, however, were divided in opinion, as
to which was the handsomer and more
agreeable of the two. The greater num-
Der gave the preference to the blooming
and sprightly Geshlc, but James Williams,
the son OF Jcdidial, thought differently.
Young Williams, who had como with his
father to the new settlement, was frank.
high-spiritod, giddy young ielow. He had
given some proofs of iorwardness, in early
youth, and his father had set his heart up-
on NJ
ming lights Of the Church. cmuuting iii
the pulpit the cloqucnco of Soloman Stod-
dard, and the sound doctrines of Jonathan.
Edwards. He had sent him 20 Yale Col
legc, to furnish his mind with the ncccssg-
ry worldly learning, trusting to his own
prayers, and to Providence, for the pety
that was to fit him for the work Of the Mr-
lstry. But his expectations were wretch
edly disappointed--for the young man
proved refractory under the discipline of Il
College, and made so good use of his OPP
portunities Of rebellion, that in less than
year he was expelled. lie came home.
TO read Horace and shoot squirrels, and
bear part in the psalms sung at the NEE
tings for religious worship held at his ia,
theirs lie could not make up his mind to
GO back to the labors of husbandry, and
yet was uncertain to what other course
of life to bctake himself
Young men, who have nothing else to
do, are apt to amusc themselves with ma
king love. Time hung heavy on tho
hands of James Williams, In the new and
thinly inhabited settlement lie wandered
the old woods, that stretched away on all
sides, till he was weary he found them
altogether too gloomy and too silent for
Ills taste I; and when their echoes wero
awakened by the report ofhis own fowline
piece, by the cawing OF the crow, or the
Shrek of the hawk, he could not help
thinking that these sounds would intercs.
him more, if they conveyed human mea-
ming. He grew tired of reading Horace,
in place where nobody cared for his Lat
In AT length he would shut his book, and
lay his gun on the two wooden hooks in
his fathers kitchen, and walk down to the
house Of honest Yok Suydam, where the
good Dutchman greeted him with cordial
grasp Of the hand, and his daughters with
smiles. James was soon master of Dutch
enough to tell the story Of bic college
pranks, which usually called hearty
laugh from the old gentleman, a sentence
or two Of kind expos,ulation from the elder