True American. [volume] (Steubenville [Ohio]) 1855-1861, 1857-02-25
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tFrom the New York Ledger
BOARDING THE MINISTER.
BY sYLvANus COBB, JR.


BY syLvANUs COBB, JR.
"Bus you don't mean to ssy that
you're going TO hoard him :"
:" told him that we would"
But it mustn't be. What have
a minister in the house all the time p
''And why no, :"
"Because it'll just keep US in starch
aud buckram for ever! You shan't do
it," n
II have given my woHl,"
"Then, Iii make this house too hot to
hold him !! Mark my words |"
This conversation was between Mr..
Thomas Proctor, master carpenter, and
his daughter Kate. Kate Proctor was a
ig ghthearted, joyous, laughter loving
girl, of eighteen or nineteen; plump and
rosy her bright face all smiles and dim.
pies, and her heart as pure and tender as
could be. Ever since she could remem-
Der. she had sat in her lathev's pew every
Sunday, and listened to the dark and
gloomy preaching Of Rev. Calvin Lea.
DOR She could remember how he had
frowned upon her from tlla. high pulpit
when she saw was little girl, and how
he had chided her AT her own house for
being SO rude. The only thought she
held Of" The minister" was of white
neck-kerchief, very starch and prim--a
face long and stern, and lrown always
ready for a smile or jest, like as a
cloud sweeps over the sunny landscape.
. He shan't come - she repeated !,
and her sunny curs shook again as she
brought her head back with determine.
tion. "Let him find a place somewhere
else. There are the Moregood family !;
they are just tue ones to board him.
They Can be as gloomy as he can. How
l should love to see them at the table 10.
gether. The old lady would draw down
ner face-so;- -" and Kate gave an imi-
'ation of the imaginary facial elongation.
-" And then the minister would draw
down his longer still; and then Miss
Prudence would try to outdraw them
both and by and by somebody's Jaw
would become dislocated."
And hereupon, Kate burst into a fit of
laughter. Her father shook his head,
and with some light remark turned
away.
A few evenings after this, Kate had
an invitation to spend the evening with
Mrs. Dunklee, a friend of The family.
She went with her father and mother.
Quite little company was present, and
the evening promised to pass pleasantly.
Among the visitors was a young man
who W introduced as Mr.. Charles Lind.
say. lie was somewhere about four and
twenty, and not only man of superior
intellectual appearance, but also Of much
personal beauty. He seemed to take
quite fancy for Kate, and ere long the
feeling was reci procaed. t'The light
hearted girl had never before met with
one who SO completely pleased her.
Staid and over modest people she did no,
like !; nor did she like such wild, reck.
less men as she had often seen. An 10.
norant man she could not endure; and a
man who assumed airs on the strength of
his knowledge she abominated. But
Charles Lindsay was nothing like any of
these. he displayed deep knowledge
withou, seeming to know it, and he was
as gay and happy as could be, without
the least coarseness or loss of dignity.
The fact was just here, though Kate did
not probably see il at the time: He en-.
gagged her heart, and at the same time
kept firm hold upon her repect There
was peculiar air of elevated refinement
which at once manifested itself 10 her.
and commanded her admiration; ard she
admired it because she discovered II
without his trying to show it. And then
she had found such a fund of wit aud hu.
NOR IN him which, while it captiya,ed
her with It's brilliancy, did not fail to en-
terrain her with its point and sound
sense.
Kate was chess player, aud at length
she discovered thai Mr.. Lindsay under.
stood the game. She proposed a trial, 10 |
which he gladly acceded. The irsl,came
she won. The next he won; and the
third was drawn game.
AT nine o'clock MIR. Proctor and his
wife had TO go home, but Kate could no,
think ofleaying SO early. !" We will see
her safely home, said the host, Mr..
D.unklee; and thereupon herparenls went
without her.
"Only think. cried Kate, after laugh
lad passed upon some joke Of her own,
9 Pa says he is going to board the
minister, Did you ever hear of such a
hing 7"
"Oh, ! have heard Of things worse /,
han that" returned Lindsay, smiling.
He sat BY her side, and gazed into her
ace as he spoke. Suppose your faith.
" should take tiger into the house, for
Instance 7"
"Ho-you can chain tiger" the n
yirl returned "but you can't do that to