The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-10-10


to correct certain lacks in his education. -
Thus explainediwhNa man OF bis advanced
age should be attending school-for he wa
twenty-One if he was a day, Belle assured
me. myself was about seventeen. Twas
the only female student of German at the
academy, and it was on that account that
Mr.. Harrison manifested some degree of in
, terest in me, | suppose, for he was almost
enthusiastic in his admiration of that schol.
astic tongue. SO | saw good deal OF him,
after all
The following winter, at party at Mrs.
Sand 5 in Sanford. one bitter cold night |
chanced to be alone with Nellie Wells one
moment IN an upper chamber, which was
used as cloak-roonI for lady guests There
wa furious fire in the stove and its sides
were red-hot. Nellie wk a ra her pretty
girl but rather dull, She wore dress of
ssme gaozf fabric, and going TOO near the
stove il took fire. | ran out OF the room
screaming at the top nj my voice:
Mr. Harrison! Mr.. Harlisonk o! Nh
Harrison!
He came quickly into the hall; saw me;
was up the stairway in bound, and as ] was
running back into the room, he went past
tne, pushing me aside rather Tudey, and
took in all with a Tli.:l, cool glance Nell
he had hauled qnJ!t from the bed that was
III the room. and was trying to stifie the
flames. He threw her on the floor, rolled
her ovar in the Guilt like a mummy, and
eXtingushed the fla les at oncc-huggcd
her, too. She WIS not very badly burned,
after all; and her face WAS not touched by
the tianesS SO thatt she cemGincd as pretty
a. ever.
Remarkably sensible girl" said Mr.
| Harrison, attcrwald, to a group that cluster
ed about him in the parlor. Most girls
wouid have rushed headlong into the hall,
screaming Ike he 10 ked at me-''like
mad. . he added ,%ith quite a, smile. If
ever marry, said he, which | probably
never shall. / shall marry sensible woman
"a woman who would not set up scream
water, but would pull the child out as quick
ly a possible, and send for doctor. -
Somehow, [ was vain enough to think
this sarcastic speech was intended solely to
rebuke me- | knew ] should certainly
scrcrln in such case. 1t was my nature to
scream and how could help my nature?
A S for tt. t 10 j l.. Nrl.iylWells, | hated
ed her. and almoSt wished it had been my
own dress that had caught FIRE only | should
certainly have burned to death before Mr.
Harrison would have come and wrapped me
in quilt and hugged me.
From that day forward some powerful in
fupnru was at work upon me | struggled
bard after that cool manner in dauger which
Mr. Harrison possessed in 20 eminent a de-
gree. even vcntuTc3 III the pursuit OF per
tcci ion to ask him how he could do it.
II suppose said he lit is because
naturally have such an eXtrrr" terror Of
danger in every shape, ,CcI lively syn.
patty with those IN pclI--;lIat / feel very
strongly the necessity for Icing calm when
others are excited. t.ink that whatever
excuse lady has Cor losing her wits-aud
that Is. at the best, very httle--a MAN has
no excuse whatever, l always Try to necp
my wits about me.
10 he calm, then, l., ~lth the Wl'her-
ing irony common to girls oi ttom fourteen
20 eieh'cen,, one only needs to have his
wits about llm.
"t&actjy' ,n'd Eci or to change the
sex. her witt about. her,
Just as. "died, "tAe secret OF wealth
is to get money.
'Alld to keep sad h".
On one thing WAS fully deternlned-he
ne er should hcaI ne scream again,
However, he left the school soon~after;
and | DID lkewi.e IN about SIX months.
| had affected great change iii myself
before meet INN again
Ii
1t was III the summer of the year which
saw ue pass my twentieth birthday, that we
met at Niagara Fails, lie vas there with
his cousin my dear friend, Belle Harrison,
and | with my sister and methcr.
On cer'a9 day we al took walk on
Goat Island, when mother dropped her
paraso and it Sid down the bank, some
fifteen or twenty feet, and out OF reach. -
Mr.. Harrison decended the bank after it,
and, though lie used proper precautions,
his foot clipped on the treacherous soil, as