Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1871-07-06
Gales aud Skettl,ts.
NEXT DOOR TO PULLMAN.

llNC it lDoAlCN bONi dll ANSAb
door to Bulliman's". The deserted house
| have taken was never christeDed. 1t has
been called by various names, each man
who came TO it giving it a new appella
ton | prefer to have q local habitation
without name-"The post of honor is a
private station that is my motto; bills
are therefore sent as due from Next door
TO Bulliman's" and they are duly paid.
Bullman's is a ladies' school. There is
no male Bulliman. There was one, who
says his mild relict, ''was an officer in her
majesty's forces" Officer is a wide word.
There are officers in her majesty'5 Gus
toms. and in the local police-a force
which, though very efficient, has the ben
eft OF being composed of officers. But
the deceased Bulliman--meek fellow,
with a tremendous beard, a weak head,
and a consumptive chest-was neither in
the police, nor in the customs, nor in the
post-otfice. Neither was Bulliman an
officer in any regiment. lie served, how
ever, in the Crimea; and his grateful
country has pensioned his widow in so i'll
sufficient way that Mrs Bulliman is fain
to keep school. The truth is, that William
Bulliman was the commissariat depart
ment; and being of Il tender conscience
as well as having "consumptive chest"
he, after the terrible revelations abont our
starving troops, and famished horses,
"took i'll" and died. ale was tender
hearted fellow, and never ought to have
been called Bulliman," said his widow. as
if there was something terrible in the
name.
His widow was n faint hearted, mild lit
tie creature, as any one might see but
she had two little children, as different
from herself and the deceased officer as
well as could be. Her theory about the
matter was, that they favored grandfather ;
and from the stories told about him.
think they must have done So Grandfa-
ther Buliman, a fine, dashing fellow
had been a parson, and was an officer in
very different army. From the story of
his life, one might have supposed that the
Reverend Bulliman acted up to his name,
and that his sons spirit was thereby
crushed. BY the rule of contrary, he had
married very meek, but tall creature.
whose nature had been bequeathed to the
officer" while the fierceness and dash of
the gallant drill-sergeant in the ranks ofthe
''Onety-first regiment was given to his
grandchildren. Dick and katey Happily,
towards their mother these children
showed nothing but tenderness and love.
Dick had been well educated, as the
children of most genteel widows are.
Poor creatures, how they do pinch and
screw for the result; and sometimes, how
poor one il is Dick, however, did all in
his power to make his mother happy
came out well in his examinations, went
in for chemistry ,and was soon decently
employed in the analysis OF water, sew
age and other pleasant matters. The
British public, year or two ago, had a
scientific craze; and Dick was lucky in
taking advantage of it. He was not at
present highly paid, but he delighted
in his work, and was.full of hope. katey
helped her mother in the school, and was
rather high church. She affected the SER
mons Of the Rev. Pincher Twills, who
vacillated between evangelical preaching
and an ornamental ritual; was ritualistic
in his service, and evangelical is his SER
mons; and who, consequently pleased
neither party. katey read St. Augustine
and St. Thomas-a-k kempis, went so far as
always prefixed IS" before the names of
the apostles, as if each was named Sam
uel and was very particular in turning to
lilC tdSl. lICl CulGl lQNc lOl IllutilSlll
was, however, seen in the decorating the
miserably ugly brick and stone church of
BoXley down, built i'll the style of the cell
ebrated 1910 Gothic.
Dick Bulliman's dash, courage, good
humor and fun, made him great favor
lite; SO much so, that, when he came to
BoXley Down, he had to sleep at far
distant cot from the seminary, where ne
smoked like lime kiln, and kept, it was
Supposed, unearthly hours. As, how
ever, he was found, winter and summer,
splashing in 4 huge washing tub-an ex-
tempoized bath-at six in the morning,
these wild reports are to be put down as
eXaggerations. Katey defended Dick in
any OF his excesses, and against all ene
mics; and the dozen or 50 young people
ut Bulliman's-whow were instructed in
primness, preciseness, piety, and pretty
ways by Mrs. Katey Bulliman-all agreed
that schoolmistresses' sons were generally
Doors, and that Mr. Richard was fine
young fellow
In the deserted cottage with no name,
a large and productive garden, { fine view
at the back, and roomy interior, in
which lived, | had for my companion
Jack Romilly ofthe -th, a crack regiment,
almost equal to the celebrated Onety-first,
and has all the victories of Great Britain
upon its flaggs. Jack was rath-
er stupid than otherwise at college ;-had
come away thence without distinction;
but having something to do, he with that
resolution which dull people
have, went in and did it. He proceeded
to the school of the most celebrated cram
mer in town or country, at Croydon,
worked like horse upon system, and
came out at the very head of the direct
commission examination with the enor-
nous and utterly ineomprehensible num-
ber below. There you see his name =
Romilly, John-Private tuition-l,-
203, ,456. Was he not clever fellow ?
Jack never, to this day, knew how he did
it; and, after his success, presented a
gold watch to Capt Stuffem, his crammer,
and relapsed into his stupidity.
He had one other noticeable clement in
him, this Jack Romilly. He was jealous.
He was Jealous of me. his old school and