Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1857-09-26
Sclctt Talc.
GASTON,
TIL e LITTLE WOLF.


In 1924 an old lady, named Madame de
Sariac, living in Gascony, had one of those
nursery fights with her grandson, aged seven,
which at the time are treated as eternal sins,
and afterwards regarded as prospective yir-
tues. Young master had been required to
kneel and demand pardon for some misdeed
young master refused. Backinginto corner.
he doubled his little fists and in q voice of
infantine thunder exclaimed, Touch me if
you dare y Old grandmamma Sariac was
fain to leave her iebellous descendant to his
own devices which rehelious descendant
was Guston de Raousset- Boulbon. the Little
Wolf of that Castor household. On another
occasion the Little Wolf, offended by Bap.
tiste, ordered Baptiste out OF the house.
The old servant, not taking the dismissal Of II
baby much to heart, remained, and the next
morning performs his services as usual Little
Wolf furious, appeals to grandmamma.
Grandmamma, indignant at this baby nva-
son of her her authority, upholds Baptisto.
Very well y lisps Little Wolf, in an
agony OF passion, then you must choose
between him and me. If he stays 60"
True to his word, the young autocrat dis
| appeared that very night, aud was only recov-
cred when be had wandered three good
leagues away on the Toulouse road Another
NJ .
10 Comte de Raousset- Boulbon, senior, came
to take him TO the Jesuiis College ut Fri
| bourg; and papa Boulbon was a man so cold
to stern, so severe that even the Little w oil
was daunted, and preferred the woods and
hunger to that iron face aud icy heart. This
| time he was two nights in the forest but the
old count caught him ut last aud hauled him
| off to Fribourg. ....
The Jesuits received him kindly and edu.
| Gated him judiciouSly. He had been eight
years al the college, aud had never received
a punishment in any shape, when enc day
he was seventeen now--the reverend father
ordered him to knecl during the evening
| lesson, as eXpatien Of some collegiate ofiense
Of which he had been guilty. ... .t ...
81 will only keel before Cod" he said tC
the father Gralice ... . .....
lyon must obey or leave tho college,
answered the father. ...f ...
MY choice is made" replied Gsston, ant
he left the college that very evening. ..t
A short time after this he game of age
lis father called him into his stndy, and il
the presence Of a notary gave him up all th'
accounts of his minority, putting him in i'm
mediate possession of the fortune devolvin,
on him through his mother, and taking hi
receipt with the terrible formality and uutonl
| htOu-iiho oohultg VI busNu'
remained a short time with his father afte
this, but the severe role of the old royals
) was not much TO his taste and, in feY
; months the young Comte de Raousset- Boul
bon, handsome, ardent, rich, accomplished
! and generous, found himself in tie full foo
of Partisan temptation and Parisiaa excess
He was not long in wearing off the thi
lacker of modesiy and humility with whic
his collegiate education might have covere
his natural impetuosity not long either i
forsaking the white flag. in allegiance TO whic
he had been brought up, for the tri-color an
the faith OF la jeune France. A year {
Parisiap life sent him down TO hs father
house very different being to what he wa
9 even When he left it. From the royals
school-boy had emerged the republican dand
Papa Boulbon was Mortified. After Dime
while CASTOR smoked his cigar on the terrac
q he said to his wife (Gastor's moiher-in-lau
his own mother had died when he was q
infant y ~
MADAME, it will be painful to me TO dispu
with my son impossible to support his opp
sition. You see him. He returns 10 us fro
: Paris with beard. and cigar between b
n lips. Let the cigar pass but tell him,
: pray you, madame, that il does not become
man Of his birth 10 wear beard like mouji
i and that ] shall be obliged to him IL he W
+ make sacrifice of IL TO my wishes"
" Gaston's beard was very nne one he W
proud Of III aud il added not little to
beauty but the old man was not one to 81