Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1854-11-11

4 CIV tu"HNNIuANN" SN'pOu thV
Doctor.
Yes, and I gave it him an hour ago"
The Doctor turncd with wild eyes to his luckless
child. lie claspcd his forehead with his hands,
and staggered towards the door. His hand was on
the latch, when a burst Of derisiye Slaughter fell
upon his car like rcd-hot pitch. lie looked through
the open window Of his chamber, through the
screen Of ivy, and honeysucblc, and woodbine and
cglantine-he could have looked through the old
cross had it been standing, but it had been lain
low, hundreds of years. lie looked across its
platform, right through the open window of the
widow Ncnturia's cottage and there he saw a rcd
glare rs Of fire burning, and the boy Quandoqui-
dem standing beside it with a lcathcrn satchel in
his hand, and his form redeemed by the reflection
like an imp of lladcs.
Doctor Pautologos tried to move but he could
not. Atlas was tied to one foot, and Olympus to
the other Pcliou sat upon ossa atop of his burn
ing head
The boy Quandoquidcm drew a large sheet of
paper from the satchel, and brandished it aloft.
Had it been a thousand miles of, the Doctor could
have read it. 1t was the title page Of his darling
treatise. The horrible hoy thrust it into the fire,
and then another aud another sheet, and finally the
satchcl itself.
$50 much for the Digammn, old Pan :" he cried
with Il lcroeious laugh, as he stirred the burning
mass with II poker.
" Miscrcrc Domino! !" said Doctor Pantologos,
and he leil down in a dead faint.
Nolumuia and Pulchrior came to his assistance;
and, while the former severely babe him not to
take ON about a lot Of publishing old paper, the
latter administered more ~efCctunl assistance in the
shape of restoratiyes. The rcd-headed children
made Il succes'i ul descent upon the fresh buttered
toast, and ate it up with astonishing r%apidity.
When Doctor Pantologos came to himself he be-
gan to weep.
"My treatise! my treatise 20 he cried. "The
pride, the hope, the JOY of my life! My son and
my grandson, my mother and my wife! Poverty
l have borne, aud scoln, and the ignorance Of
youth, and the neglect Of the wealthy, and the
insolcncc Of this woman, and the ferocity Of these
whclps. Oh, my treatise! Let me die now, for |
have no treatise! ~
lie could say nothing, poor man, but treatise"
and "Quandoquidem," and "~Digamma," weeping
~pitiahly. They were iain to put him to bod and
Nolumuil. rcsCrving for Il more suitable. occasion
the expression Of her sentiments relative to being
called "a woman" and her children "whelps,"
went FOL Mr.. OBleak the apothecary. But, Pull
chrior, somewhat mistrustirg the skill Of that
squintcyCd practitioner, sent off for Doctor lnteger,
VINO was wont to smoke pipes and play c%ribbage
with her papa.
Daring the next fortnight, Doctor Pantologos
drank . great deal of apple tea, and felt very hot,
and talked much nonsense. lie woke up one morn
ing quite sensible, but with no hair on the top OF
his head-which was attributable to his having had
his head shaved. lie was very lauguid, and they
told him he had had Il brain fever.
Doctor lntcger stood at the bottom Of the bed,
bowling and snufing as was his wont. Pulchrior
was standing on one side Of the bed, smiling and
crying at the anne time, to see her father SO well
and 50 i'll. On the opposite side, there stood a lad
with a pale face, a guilty face. but . penitent face
lie held in his hand Il uudle of papers.
"Ionly burnt the title-pagc," he said in a low
voice. a the rest is as safe as the bank"
"ilo has nnrsed you through all your Illness
flllcrcd pulchrior.
" lie has kept the school together said Doctol
Intcgcr.
"Bonus puer!' said Doctor Pantologos, laying
his hand on the head of Quandoquidcm.
What they all said vas true. Thomas the
knuckly had never intended to destroy the Doc
tors treatise, and was gricvously shocked anC
shaned when he saw how well his rusc had sue
ceelcd. Thomas Quandoquidcm was II good lac
Tor all his deficiencies in HE, hec, hoe, and sedu
lousy endcayoured to repair the evil he ha,
done.
I The Vicar, abandoning stone-brcaking and heel
! balling for Il season, had undertaken to teacI
! school during the Doctors illness, and Quandoqui
I dem, the erst Ounce, truant and idler, had becom
} his active and efficient monitor aNirc the littl
boys, shGming the older ones into good order an,
X application, and Introducing a state of d"isciplin
that Accidentium Grammar School had not know
for years. No sooner was school over every day
5 than he FASTENED to the bedside Of the sick Doctor
y And there was no kinder, patientcr, ADLER, usefuI
{ Ter nurse than Thomas Quandoquidem.
And where was the voluminous Nolumnia.-
Alas. the Doctors fever was not a week old whe
she ungratefully abandoned him, and eloped wit
= Mr.. OBleak-red-haired children and all. Nj
O'Blcak forgot to settle his little debts at Acciden
tium and Nolumnia remembered to take, but fol
, got to return, sundry articles Of jewellery an
= clothing belonging to the late Mrs. Pantologos.
> said alas! when | chroniclcd Yulumnia's elopcmcn
but | don't think. setting aside the scandal G
, the thing, that her relatives gricycd very much, o
= that the Doctor was with difficulty coIsoled whe
she and her rubicuEd progeny took their depart
rge.
Doctor Pantologos is now n wlite-headed patri
=. arch, very busy still on the treatise, and very har
ny in the unrcmitting tenderness and care of hi
O children. | say children for he has a son and
G daughter; tie daughter Pulchrior, whom yo
p know, too, though you wogll scarcely ~rocogniz
the knGckly boy who could not say he, haze, hoo
IN Thomas Quandoquidem, Esq, i. ~, who wen
to Cambridge, and took honuurs there, and wa
appointed master of the Free Grammar School Il
a Accidentlum on the retirement Of Doctor Pautolc
Cos. Thomas has written no trcatiscs, but he is a
Z excellent master; and, in addition, succeeded i
- stirring up an earl somewhere, who had twent
u thousand a year and the govt, who stirred up som
prebendaries somewhere, who stirred up a chapte
somewhere, and they do say that the Free Gran
70 mar School at Accidentium has Il sound roof nov
: and that its master has a larger salary, ami ths
"a the boys are better taught and cared for.
m Pleasant tancies. Ihick-coming lancies. Fan
cies hallowed by memory which Il dog's-eare
IL Latin grammar ON this bookstall-the inside of il
II calfskin cover scrawlcd over with schcol-bo
names and dates--can awaken. But, the booI
j. stall keeper is very anxious to know whether | wi
~purchaoo shat ~yoIlum," and | am not prepared
purchase 1t, and the shadows melt into the ire
business day again.
IN
I'd MADAME TALLEYRAND AND DENoN.-It is said
m Madame Ialleyrand that one day, her husbar
ID having told her that Demon was coming to Dime
s. bid her read a little of his book upon Egypt, in
at published, in order that she might be enabled
:. soy snnnfhinr civil ~ him nnnn IL nhhinu -. 1