Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1861-12-28
VOLUME 4.
From Chambers Journal
IN A GENTL LEMAN'S FAMILY.

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You, the general public, remember
doubtless 4hat have had difficulties to
contend against for these last six or seven
years, in getting private tutors for my
boys. In the advertisement sheet of the
Times newspaper, and under the head Of
Education you cannot but have often
perused that rather compact statement,
lust within the fve.shilling charge, Of ex-
actly what is wanted in the tatorial line
BY A. T., in Derbyshire " In a gentle
mans family at a picturesque village in
the north"-I put in the word "pictur-
esque,' not at all because the prominent
feature Of The place, which is sngularly
bleak, is tumble down old granary, upon
a very unproduc,ive moor, bu. because l
thought it might attract draushtsman;
in which case my boys would gain on &C
complishment, in addition to the usual
branches Of education, which yet should
no, be an extra" an opportunity Of max
ing himself nobly useful the idea which
that happy turn Of expression conveys is,
it is right to state, borrowed from the cias.
sizes; but the phrase is all my own" is
offered to any gentleman Of character and
at,ainmen,s in the capacity Of tutor 10
three intelligent youths. Fer intorma-
tion regarding salary, &C., &C., apply to
~
had some CONSCIENTIOUS doubts about
referring inquiries to those initials, on ac-
count Of my surname not beginning with
4, and Of my Christian name being vii.
liam; but these were overruled by NV
wife. She objected strongly to my real
address being giving in the paper, lest il
should be supposed-so she argued, and
/ AM not bound to find her reasons, but
only TO render her obcdience-that was
connected with the public press.
Never said she let me see you so
forgetful of what stock came Of, ~ to
put your name in the columns Of a news.
paper, William Nor, indeed, am like.
ly to forget it, since am reminded Of it
every day OF my life. 1t was a grea. blow
to my good ladys importance when Mr..
Donald Macdcrmot OF Glensarithcoe. N.
b., having answered our advertisement
and our requirements, came down to Peak
ton from his Highland eyrie and ancestral
home. He gave us to understand that he
was in bis own country perso"age OF
great power and dignity, three generations
o. least in advance Tor rather behind) any
southern pedigree He would have pre-
(srred, as he confded to his pupils, to
have been called by his territorial name
Of Glensarithcoe. had not its lnconven-
ience to our English tongues been tremen,
dous but be was known, among ourselves,
by q title conferred upon him by my daugh-
ter Georgiana-", the Macdernot, as con
vsying in some degree an idea of the sin-
Rular and almos: lerocous animal which
be really was previously wounded by the
assumption of this gentleman from North
Britain, while her moral dignity, as you
shall hear, received at the same hands a
shock from which she never completely
rallied.
The young man had been with us for a
month or two of spring. time; and the
first summer day had just arrived when
was awakened from my afternoon nsp in
the library by succession OF agon'z'ng
screams from my wife and daughter.
heard them scamper up stairs into my
bed room, aud lock and double lock the
door, after which they began to scream
afresh with uudim inished vigor. instant
yly few to their assistance on the wings o
husband and father but it was long
before the hysterical Indignation Of ths
ladie. would allow them to find words tt
explain themselves. S.#E.
1--WE suddenly came upon Glengargar,
sobbed my wife. ..s I
"Yes," interrupted my daughter, "upo'
the Macder. der-der mot at the corner Q
gsavel.walt." as@
Eyes and what do-do do you thinl
William cantinued her mamma; ther
he was, this beau-beau-beau.iful t0ta
of yours without any .es.a g. @a
" Yes, pspa.' corroborated Georgian
"without any at oil. fsaa
Without any what p cried impat
emily. "speak ous-what has ho n
,go.?' aaee, lro
"No tut--tut-tut-trousers on, e.
claimed the wife Of my bosom, relapsir
into Mysteries.
At this moment, Papa, papa shr'ek'
my second son from without, IN an ee'se
there's Donald Macdermot, Esq, wa
ing about in tho costume OF his natl
land, and the coo. and the houssma