The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1860-03-28


broken up by coup d'etat. This was easily
effected by redistributing the seats and ar
rsnging the schOlurs sccording to classes,
so that mischievous fellow, charged full of
the rebelIious imponderabIe, should find him
self between two on.conductors, in the |
shape of small boys Of stsdious habits. 1t
was managed quietly enough, in such plau.
sible sort Of way that it's motive was not
thought of. But its effect was soon felt
and then began a system of correspondence
by signs, and the throwing of little scrawls
done up in pellets, and announced by pre-
Iiminary GheInS to call the attention of the
distant youths addressed. Some ofthese were
incendisry documents, deVoting the school
master 10 the lower divinities, as "a
stuck up dandy" asia - sight to big for
his,' etc., and holding him up in variety Of
equally forcib@e phrases to the imagination
OF the youthful community of school district
No l, Piswacket Centre.
Presently the draughtsman OF the school
set a caricature in circulation, labelled TO
prevent mistakes, with the schoolmaster's
name, An immense bell crowned hat, and
a long, pointed, swallow tailed coat showed
that the artist had in his mind the cohVen-
tional dandy, as shown in prints OF thirty or
forty yeUrs ago, rather than any human as.
poets Of the time. But it was passed round
among the boys and made it's laugh, helping
OF course to undermine the masters author
;tv, as Funch or the Chariua~i takes the dig.
nity cut OF an obnoxious minister. One
morning. on going to the school room Master
Langdon found an enlarged copy OF this
sketch. with its label, pinned on The door.
An insidIous silence prevailed, looked as il
some plot wss b'e"ing. The boys were
ripe for nj chief, but s,raid.
They had really 20 fsuIt to find with the
master, except that he was dressed like q
gentlemen, which a cert1in class OF fellows
slWavs consider personal insult to them.
selves. But the Older ones we're evidently
plotting, std NOR" thsn ohce tie wnrDing
0h'na was hrSrd, aud dirty little scrsp OF
paper rolled into w,d shot from one sec,
to smother. One Of these happened to strike
the s,ove-tunnel, and lodged on the masters
desk. He WAS cool enough not to seem to
nYtire it. He Sc urcd il, however, and found
an opportunity to look at it, without being
observed by the boys. 1t required no imme.
, diate notice.
He who should have enjoyed the privilege
OF looking upon MIR. Bernard Langdon the
next morning, when his toilet was about hal
/ finished, would have had a very plessan,
gratuitous exhibition. First he buckIed the
straps Of his trowscrs pretty tightly. Their
, he took up q pair Of dumb. bells and swung
, them for a few minutes then two grea
"Indian Clubs" with which he enacted al
Y sorts OF impossible looking teats. His limbs
I were not very large, nor his shoulders re
D markably broad but if you knew as mucl
t of the muscles ss all persons who look a
0 statues and pictures with critical eye ouah
e to have learned-if you knew the trapsxiuS
Q lying diamond shaped over the back an
}. shoulders like monks cowl-or the deltoid
6 which caps the shoulders like an epaulett
n or the triceps, which furnishes the calf q
}, the upper arm-or the hard knotted biceps
is any of the great sculplurol land marks i
g fact-you would have said there was pre-
o ty show of them beneath the satiny shin c
e Mr.. Bernard Langdon. And if you had see
70 him when he had laid down the Indian club
e catch hold of leather strap that hung frol
v the beam of the old fashioned ceiling, ar
Il lit and lower himself over and over agai
Re by his left hand alone, you might have thougl
IS it very simple and easy thing to do, unit
I'd you tried it, Mr.. Bernard looked at hinse
IL with the eye of an expert. "Pretty well
10 he said "not so much fallen off as expec
i'd ed" Then he set up his bolster in We
nd knowing sort Of a wAy, and delivered two
three blows. straight as rulers and swift
ny winks. THAT will do" he sold. Then,
ay If determined to make certainty Of his CO
nd dition, he took a dynamumeter from one
in the drawers OF his old Veueered bureau.
no FIRST he squeezed it with his two hands.
il Then he placed it on the floor and lit,
he steadily, strongly. The springs cracked a
th creaked the index swept with great stri
1t lar up into the high figures OF the scale i;
We wns a good lit
He WINS satisfied. He sat on the edge
d, his bed and louked at his cleanly shap
ok arms. 81. strike one OF these boobies
as am afraid shall spoil him." he said.
@, this young m an, when weighed with his clt
re at the College, could barely turn one hu
nd dred aud forty two p unds in the scale-I
- heavy weight, surely /; but some of t
lie middle weights, as the present English cho'
IRE pion, tor instance, seem to be OF a far fu
I'D quality Of muscle than the bulkier fellow
ed The master took his breakfast with 60
nd appetite that morning, but was perhaps raj
ss er more quiet than usual. After breakfa
ID, he went up stairs and put on high, loo
ss frock, instead of his usual dress coat.
nd his way to school he met Alminy Cutie
US who happened to be walking in the 9th
er direction. "Good morning, Miss Gutter
m, he said for che and another young lady h
in been introduced to him, on a former ocC
u. | .;on in tho ,SanNl nhraaa Of nnlite ancietv