Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1873-11-26

asd secured, washed cut his sole white
shirt. busted aud Strengthened bis bat
tered old hat, and mended his trousers.
Deeply interested in J.ke's fortune, we
watched the proceedings.
but Jake SAID Jennie Smith one
day, what are yon to do fer a eoat o.
Unhappy suggestion! Jake looked
sghsst He hadn't thought Of that. Ger
tainly he couldn't make Ais appearance in
that Oyergroun coaehnan's rig, in which
he was WoR, TO illustrate the scaicmical
responsibility on tn, road. And be had
nsthing else. No necessity had ever be.
fore developed itself for anything save
shirt sleeves aud vOoen jacket
An awful pause came over our deliher-
ationS for Jake. Miss Smith whisi!ed,
asd finally suggested. her waterproof
We were all ready to fling ours at his feet
but Jake couldn't 20 mufiled like an
Italian brigand. lie shook his head.
Night closed without any solution Of
the difficulty, but we trusted that some.
how the lads quick wit would find way
out Of it.
The next morning, however. new SEN
satien turued us from the contemplation
of Jake's disasters. The house had been
robbed. We we're all terribly scared, and
Mr.. Squinps WAS in fever Of declama-
ton aud wrath. His coat--hs bost-be-
loved b!us-black coat, in which ho was
went to dignity trustee meetings, orna-
ment his pew Of a Sunday, and pay visits
Of state to his patross-his coat had been
stoleE. HIS coat. man 50 devoted to
tbs interests Of education that he scarce
ly had time to 90 10 the tailor's to think
that an ungrateiul, inappreciate idle world
should have permitted him to be robbed !
lie ravad, be stormgd, he threatened ven
gance, he lccturcd us on the degcneracy
of the times, and forgot our latin.
Vague forebodiDgs oflurking assassins,
masked robbers, and frequent skirnlishes
into the wardrobe and dormtorics about
this time kept us all in nervous furry.
to the exclusion of all thought of Jake.
But late one twilight afternoon, as re sat
huddled in tho windows Of the oug school.
room waiting the supper-bell, VIC saw him
issue from the euthouse, Oh, horror
Oh apparition of terror! For with its
tails nearly touching the ground, his long
sleeves overlapping hands, Jake wore with
out doubt the missing coat, boldly march
ing in his stolen dnery down towards the
road in front of us all.
In sight of sharper eyes toe, it seemed,
for not far from the honse Mr.. Sqnimps
himself pounced upon him
Poor, kind, light-hearted Jake We
held our breath that day and the next,
for Jake had been marched of to prison,
and Mr. Sguimp's cloqueuc, and morality
were ia full flow. lie said onglr grace
than ever at dinner aud we were all glad
whep, hungrily eyeing the scanty board,
we heard the visitors bell summon him TO
the parlor think we were in better APP
petite than usual that day, and VIC left
little behind us for our Montor as We fled
up stairs towards tue school.room. Pass
ing the parlor door there rushed upon us
a little figure in a trailing silk dress and
bonnetful of noddipg French flowers. 1t
was Amanda Liza.
"Oh, girls" she cried, Historically,
bcwildcrcd with an apparent desire to en-
brace the whole troop. Poor Jake ~
Mr.. Squimps, tall and solemn, rose
with dignity, and closed the parlor door
upon their further conference. We heard
him make this consoIing remark
81 always knew he'd come to no good :"
1t seems that Amanda had learned Of
Jake's miskap through some stray news
paper, where the wel-known name of the
virtnous and vepgetul Squimps had met
her eye. She oomprehended the situation,
aud came to the academy to plead for her
old friend. .# a.r.
We waited the news Of Jako's fate
breathlessly, nodding and whispering
among ourselves. For there would be a
trial or something terrible, of course we
hardly knew what. Mr. Squimps was
away all the afternoon, the classes were
denoralized and We stood idly gazing out
Of the window at four o'clock, when
carriage came up the drive. To our
amazement Jake sat on the box, eate and
erect. He spraug down and opened the
door with flourish, and out stepped Mr..
Squmps.
The girl pleaded SO hard that | have
decided not TO prosecute" said Mr.
Squimps and if a splendid new ceat fresh
from the tallor's and plump slken purse
of unknown manufacture had anything to
do with the decision we were not informed
Of it.
"And I'm gong to live with Miss Man.
dy Liza forever |" cried Jake, when he
came among us, his face lit with glory
as il se were departing for heaven.
Would Amanda Liza dress him in blue
coat and brass buttons, and make him her
csachman at good wages? All, what q
rise for poor Jake! Amanda Liza was
his saint, his angel, the hem of whose
whose garment he touched reyerently.
There was no commonplace element about
such love as this, and Jake would be con-
test to let down her carriage steps and
look after her ponies all the days of his
life, We thought. And that was the last
we saw Of him at the Squinpses'.
But years after, when | was travelling
in Australia with my husband FIr, Smith
and myself were invited to the ranch Of
one Of the magistrates there, whose broad
estate covered miles of mountain and
meadow. and who owned almost literally
! "the cattle upon thousand hills" In
the lady of the mansion a delicate and