St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1865-05-18
THE MODEL'S STORY.

cry QUO was against lts MY IatAet
thought it was cnadpe.s. ,My.pother
said she was dreadfally disappointed at
my foolish choice. N y sisters wonder
ed that ! did not prefer; tho army, the
bar, . public Office, anything, rather
than such . profession. As for Dr..
Dactyl (then headmaster Of Muzzing-
ton School where I was pursuing my
curriculum he privately informed me
in his library that any young man who
would wiltully abandon the study Of
the classic authors at my age, and thus
forcgo The inestimable advantages Of a
university career, mustsbe ina = bad way
= The truth "a, the doctor, and T, had
not been on the best of terms. Long
before L, began 10 draw in an orthodox
way from the t.antque,%'Iat Mr.. sMas.
tics atelier ii Berners street, I had had
an idle kuack Of scribbling; and, in
my school hours, this youthful taste
frequently developed itself in the form.
Of caricatore..a = 1'belicve 1 might have
filled portfolio with sketches Of my
schoolfellows. Podgkins, the stcut boy
IN his short trousers !; Dullaway, the tall
Ounce ia the fourth form, Who was al.
ways blubbering over his syntax Moth
er Baseabary. who came to us regulasal
on Wednesdays aud Saturdays with ;
tremendous basket of pastry, and with
whom We used to run up monthly
stick all these characters, / recol-
lect, were depicted With great fidelity
on the ay-leaves Of my Gradus and
Lexicon. Nor did the doctor himself
escape. His portly form, clothed in
the picturesque costume Of trencher.
cap and flowing robe, was too magni6.
cent a subject to forego; and many
were the sheets Of theme paper which
I devoted to this purpose. One uu.
lucky cartoon which I. had impradent-
ly left about somewhere. found its way
into the Doctors awful desk, where it
was reeoeaizeds weeks afterwards by
Simkins, tbird-formr boy, who had
1 .
been sent to fetch the birch. from tha,
awful repository I; and whose informs.
ton to me fully explained how it came
to pass that l had lost at one and the
same time my favorite sketch and the
doctors affections. -~: =.
! I need scarcely say that made nc
endeavor to reclaim this lost property
when I took my fnal congo. The doc
tor gave mea cold aud flabty hand
remarked with peculiar emphasis, that
if I persisted in my wish to become an
artist, he only hoped should devote
my energies in the right direction, aud
not degrade my pencil BY: ]
guessed pretty we'll what he was going
to say; but as We saw the Huntington
coach draw up at that moment outside
his study window, he. was obliged to
stop short in his lecture, had just
time to get my traps together. to give
the doctors niece, Mary Wyllford q
dear little soul Of fourteen, who had
brought me . paper Of sandwiches } q
parting salute behind the dining room
door, shake hands with my schoo'tel.
lows all round, jump on the "Tantivy"
coach beside the driver, and roll out o'
the town. .. ..,. ,.... ........
Ofall the various 6oger-posts which
Time sets up along the road Of life,
there are few, I think, which We re'
member better than that one we leave
behind US on the last day at school
The long anticipated emancipation from
= discipline which in our youthful
dreams We think can never be surpas.
sed for strictness afterwards rose
colored delusion which leads Us to loot
forward to the rest of life Is one great
holiday !; are not these associated 70,
ever with the final "breaking up?" :
What student Of the Latin gramma,
ever drew moral from his lessons? I
20 fortunatos minimum sua 81 boni norint.' .
There is the text staring him in the
face, aud yet he @refuses to liaten to it
The golden age, in his opinion, has be-
gun, instead Of ended. All care, h
thinks, is thrown aside With that old
volume Of Euripides.s At last he Is t
join .sworld in. which the paradigma o
Greek verbs are not important; wher'
no one, will question him about tn
, nature oftAgrari.n laws. Al, gasdea
mus tyifrr! Have We not al cxpe
tienced this pleasure ! =
/ I bad purchased some cigars a MI
fBlovring' 5, il the High street (his bes
medium favored. At fyepence apiece,
with the audaoieu, notion Of Ightin,
one up at The school door but whe1
the time arrived, I confess my oourag