Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-10

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cured 1t, however, and found an op1ortuni-
ty to look at 1t without being observed by
the boys. 1t required no immediate notice.
lie who should have enjoyed the privi-
lege of looking upon Mr.. Bernard Lang
don the next morning, when his toilet was
about half finished would have had a very
pleasant gratuitous exhibition. First, he
buckled the strap of his trousers pretty
tightly. Then he took up pair of heavy
dumb-bells and swung them for few min
utes then two great Indian clubs with
which he enacted all sorts of impossible
looking feats. His limbs were not very
large nor his shoulders remarkably broad;
but il you knew as much of the muscles as
all persons who look at statues and pic
lures with critical eye ought to have
learned-if you knew the trapesius lying
diamond shaped over the back and shoul-
ders like monks cowl, or the deltoid,
which caps the shoulders like an epaulette
or the h4ceps which furnishes the calf of
the upper arm--or the hard knotted biceps
any of the great sculptural landmarks, in
fact-you would have said there was a
pretty show Of them, beneath the white
satiny skin of Mr.. Bernard Langdon. And
if you had seen him, when he had laid
down the Indian clubs, catch hold of a
leathern strap that hung from the beam of
the old-fashioned ceiling, and lift and lower
himself over and over again by his left
hand alone,you might have thought 1t a very
simple and easy thing to do, until you tried
to do il yourself. Mr.. Bernard looked at
himself with the eye of an expert. 'Pret-
I,ty well he said, not so much fallen off
as | expected Then he set up his boil
ster in very knowing sort of way, and
delivered two or three blows straight as ru-
lers and swift as winks. That will do
of his condition, he took dynamometer
from one of the drawess of his old veneer
ed bureau. First he squeezed it with his
two hands. Then he placed it on the floor
and lifted steadily, strongly. The springs
cracked and creaked, the index swept with
a great stride far up into the high figures
of the scale; it was good lift. He was
satisfied. He sat down on the edge of his
bed and looked at his eleanly-shaped arms.
If / strike one of those boobies, / am
afraid / shall spoil him, he said. Yet this
young man, when weighed with his class
at the College, could barely turn one hund-
red and forty-two pounds in the scaie-not
heavy weight, surely; but some of the
middle weights, as the present English
champion for instance, seem TO be of far
finer quality of muscle than the bulkier
fellows.
The master took his breakfast with a
good appetite that morning, but was per-
haps rather more quiet than usual. After
breakfast, he went up stairs and put on a
light loose frock, instead of his usual dress
/ a
stylish one. On his way to school he met
Alminy Cutterr, who happened to be walk
ing in the other direction. Good morning,
Miss Cutter he said; for she and another
young lady had been introduced to him, on
former occasion, in the usual phase of
polite society in presenting ladies TO gentle
men-'Mr. Langdon, let me make y ac-
quainted with Miss Cutterr; let me make
Y acquainted with Miss Braowne.' So he
said, Good morning. to which she replied,
Good morning Mr.. Langdon. Haow's
your health p The answer to this ques-
ton ought naturally to have been the end
of the talk but Aminy Cutterr fingered
and looked as if she had something more
on her mind.
A young fellow does not require great
experience to read simple country girls
face as if it were sign board. Alminy
was good soul, with red checks and bright
ewes, kind-hearted as she could be, and it
was out of the question for her TO hide her
thoughts or feelings like a fine lady. Her
bright eyes we're moist and her red cheeks
paler than their wont, as she said, with her
lips quiveriDg-'Oh, Mr.. Langdon, them
boys II be the death of ye, if ye don't
take CARL
why, what's the matter, my dear 2
said Mr. Bernard, Don't think there was
anything very odd in that my dear at the
second interview with village belle /; some
of those women tanners call g'H My dear
after FIVE minutes acquaintance, and it
sounds all right as they say ii. But you had
better not try it at a venture
II sounded all right to Alminy as Mr..
Bernard said it. Ill tell ye what's the
matter she said in frightened voice.
Abhner's go'n' to car his dog, n he'll set
him on yer sure 'z'r' alive. rs the same
cretur that haaf eat up Eben Squires's lit
tie Jo, year come mex Faast day.
/, Now this last statement was undoubted-
Iy over-colored as little 10 Squires was
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