, 1860-02-04

i Snupcu Al1us. II a1I3he Dut u sAIOos wv
b.es, / am afraid shall spoil him" he said.
Yet this young man, when weighed with his
class at the College, could barely turn one
Hundred and forty-two pounds in the scale
not heavy weight, surely; but some OF the
middle weights, Us tho present English cham
pien, for instance, sem to be Of 4 far finer
quality Of muscle than the btlkier fellows.
=. The master took his breakfast with a good
appel te that morning, but was perhaps rather
more quiet than usual After breakfast he
went upstairs and put on q light loose frock,
instead Of lis usual d1ess.coat. On his way to
| school he met A1miny Cotterr, who happened
to be walking in the other direction. ''Good
morning, Miss Cutter" he said; for she and
aaothcr young lady had been introduced to
him. on former OCCASION, in the usual phrase
| Of polite society in presenting ladies' to gen.
tlel,cn-:'Mr Langdon, let mo. make r ac-
| 4uainted with Mits Cuterr; let me make =
acquainted with Miss Braowue." So lie said
*Good morning; to which she replied, " Good
nlorniu, Mr. Langdou. uuow's your haalth?"
The answer to this question ought naturally
to hare been the end Of the talk; but Alminy
Cuserr fingered and looked as il she had some
| thing more on her mind.
\ young fellow does not require great ex-
Hericnce to read d simple country girls face as
if it were sjgnboard. -Alminy was good
soul, with red CHECKS and bright eyes, kind
hearted as she coufrrt and it was out Of the
question for her to hide her thoughts or feel
| ings like fine lady. Her bright eyes were
moist and her red cheeks paler than their went
as she said, with her lips qu7vering-@o Oh,
Mr.. Lausdou, them boys y be the death Of ye,
| il you don't take carl"
Why, what's the matter my dear = said
Mr.. Bernard Don't think there was anything
very odd in that s:my dear" at the second in
! teryicw with a village belle; some Of these
womcn.,auers call a girl Ny DEAR" after
five minutes acquaintance, and it sounds all
right a. they say it. But you had not better
try it at venture. =.
| 1t sounded all right to Alminy, as Mr.. Ber-
nard said il am tell ye what's the NATTER"
she said. in frightened voice. "Atbner's
| go.n' to car bis dog, n he'll set him on
ye'z sure 'z'r' alive. rs the sause cretur that
Iaal eat up Eben Squire slittle Jo, year come
| lex Faast-da:.'
| Now this last statement .was undoubtedly
oveE-colored; as littlcJo squires was running
| alons the vi]ase-with an ugly scar on his
| arm it is true, where the hcast had caught
him with his teeth, on the occasion Of the
child's taking liberties with him, as he lad
hcen accustomed to do with gooa-tempered
| newfoundland dog, who seemed to like being
| pulled aud hauled round by children After
this the creature was commonly muzzled, and.
as he was fed On raw meat chiefly, was always
| ready for dight, which lie was occasionally
INDUCED in when anything stout enough to
match him could be found in any Of the neigh
boring villages.
Tiger, or, more briefly, Tige, the property
Of Abner Briggs, Junior, belonged to species
not distinctly named in scientific books, but
well known to our country-folks under the
name ''Ya1lah dog" They DO not use this
expression as they would cay black dog or
ec!tite dog, but witL almost as definite mean
ng as wien they speak Of a terrier or spaniel.
4 "yallat dog is large canine brute, If a
dingy old-i!aunel color, Of no particular breed
butchers shop, or rots alongside team,
looking as if he were Lisgusted with tho
world, and the world with h,1n. Our inland
population, while they tolerate Kim, speak Of
him with contempt. Old -, Of Meredith
Bridge, used to twit the sun for not slining
OIL cloudy days, swearing that, il lie hung up
his "Eallah dog" be would make i better
show Of daylight i country fellow, abusing
4 horse Of his neighbor's vowed that "if he
lad such a hoss, he'd swap him for syallall
dog and then shoot the dog
Tige was an il-conditioned brute by n1turc,
anu art had not improved him by cropping his
ears and tail, and investing him with Il spiked
collar. lie bore OIL his person, also, various
not ornamental sears, marks Of old battles: Gor
Tige lad fight il him, as was said before, and
az might be guessed by a certain bluntness
| about the muzz!e, with projection Of the
lower jaw, which looked as it there might be a
bulldog stripe among the numerous bar-sinis-
ters Of his lineage
1t xas hardly fair however to leave Aln,iny
Cottcrr waiting while this piece Of natural lis
tory WAS telling. rs she spoke Of little Joe,
who had been 4:haaf eat up By Tige, she could
not cont lin her symlathics, and began to cry.
| "Why. my dear little soul" said Afr. Ber-
nard, ''wl,at are you worried about? used
IN play with bear when was a boy: and the
bear used to hug me, and used to kiss him.
I -so!'
It was too bad Of Mr. Bernard. only the sec.
ond time he lad seen Alminy; but her kind
feelings had touched him, and that seemed the
.alminy looked round 10 see if anybody was
near; she saw nobody. 40 Of cnnrse it would
10 no good to .sholer." Sho saw nobody;
but Il stout young fellow. leading yellow dog,
nnzzlcd, saw her through crack in = picket
fncc. not 4 great way of tho road- Many a
year be had been 'hangin' 'raoun'h -Alminy,
aud never did he sec any encouraging look, or
hear any 'Eeh;lvc, naow!' or "come, naow,
amt yc 'sl,amed?" or other lorbfdding p1rnse
Of actllicscepcc, such Us village bellies under
stand Us well as ever did the ny1nph who
tied to tho willows iu the cologne We all re-
member.
No wonderl lie was furious, when he saw the
scl,ool master. who had never seen tho girl
until within a week, touching with his lips
those rosy cheeks which lie Ind never dared
approach. But that was all; it was 4 sudden
impulse; and the master turned away from the
young girl, laughing: and telling her not tt
tret herself about him-hc would take care O
himself.
So Master Langdoa walked on toward Iii:
school-house. not displeased, perhaps with lii
little adventure, nor immensely elated by it
for he was one Of tho natural class of the sex
s,ibduers, and had lad many smile wltlou
asking. which had boon denied to tue fecbl'
youth who try 10 win favor by plcadln:
tl.cir passion in rhyme. and even TO the NOR
formidable approaches Of young officers il
j. volunteer companies, considered by many t
; bo quite irresistible to the fair who have SIC
bcheId them from their windows in the cpau
! lcttes and plulncs and sashes Of the "pig
, = wackct 1nyinriblcs," or the "1Iackmatac]
Rangers"
Master Laugdon took his seat and bega'
the exercises OF his school. The smaller boy
t recitcd their lessons well enough, but some c
l tho larger ones were negligent and st,rly
lie noticed one or two OF them 1ookn
! toward the door, rs if expecting somebnd
1 or something in that direction. At hall
r past nine o'clock, Abner Briggs, Juuiol
!. who had not yet shown himself made hi