Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1872-02-21
Harum scarum and The Doctor.

g "l never see a dwarf pear tree" said Nh
p BoyntoD, "without thinking Of those in DR.
& Torsey's garden at Kent's Hill, where use,
to 60 to school. For the doctor, besides dis
charging his duties as President Of the semip
airy and college, in manner at once efficieu
and successful, still found time to cultivate
choice garden, as well as instruct his 'youn.
men in the piscatorial art occasionally.
"Well, the doctors dwarf pears were botl
the admiration and envy Of many of BIZ
boys
The autumn was there, they hung exu
berantly full, and many longing look USED
to penetrate the picket fence that then sur
rounded them. But the doctor was an ugly
man to make raid on. Besides the decided
advantages Of bis position, he was commonly
reported to sleep with one eye open,-if in.
deed he slept at all, which some doubt, since
he was known to be abroad at all hours of tho
night There was, moreover, an air aud bear
ing about him which seemed to say, TRY
this, or that, if you dare, but pity you II
you do
"But there we're at this time there two
young chaps whom, not to call their names. [
will designate as Harum and Scarum,
for they were pretty barum scarum fellows,
sent there for the Doctor to take charge of.
since nobody else could
How to steal those pears without uppleas.
ant consequences was a problem which for a
long time had been tasking the brains of both
Harum and Scarum.
" At last they hit upon plan. Waiting
till past midnight Of dark, cloudy night,
they sailed out through the back way Of the
boarding house for the front doors las
everybody who has been there well knows)
are, or at least used to be, locked every night
at ten.
" Harum took bis water pail be was a
short, puggy fellow. While Scarum, on the
other hand, girded up his loins for race
he was long legged specimen, lean and tall
Proceeding to the Doctors garden, they
quietly scaled the fence Harum. with his
pail, then concealed himself by lying fat on
the ground under row Of currant bushes
while Searum, fixing his hand upon the lar.
gest Of the pear trees, gave it a shake which
brought of every thing on it.
Almost simultaneously with The shake, |
the doctors feet were heard to strike on the
hoor Of his chamber. Scarum leisurely got
back over the fence, which he had lust accom-. |
lished, when the door few open he then ran |
away down the sidewalk with great pounding
and catter.
"The doctor glanced hastily into the garden
AL was quiet there-and then gave
chase
"On went Scarum, clop-o-ty-clop, c!op-o.
iy-clop' down the plank sidewalk past the
boarding house, with the pit-pat pit-pat of the
hind. But coming presently to turn in
the way, Searum leaped over the fence, and
took to tha woods, which there begin to skirt
the road. And having the route previously
mapped out, succeeded under cover Of dark
ness, and after hot chase, in eluding his pur-
,uer and getting back into the boarding house
undiscovered.
"Harum, meanwhile, had prospered abun-
iantly. He had gathered up the pears-a
neaping pAilful-and got safely back aud
housed, long before Scarum got in.
." So far, so good and the worthless could
not see why they hadn't done the doctor fair.
~ But when the class in rhetoric came to
-ecite, the next morning, of which Harum and
Scarum were members, the doctor, entering
rs usual, suddenly fixed his eyes on Hsrum
md exclaimed
go Go to your room, sir, and bring that pail
If pears here Immediately"
"An order, the sudden and unexpected char
lcter Of which took Harum so back, that he
'beyed without a word. Yet how the doctor
got his information, or was thus able to spot
he culprit, nobody knows to this day--but
himself. "-ZionS' hdrocate.