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

Amanda Liza, with her checked sproni
aud faded calicoes-to think Of her turn.
ing out AZ heiresS! Whew it takes IN,
breath away. What1l Jake do now.
wonder 4? "
Miss jennie Saith was Al ackuoSledg
ed leader in the Squimps Academy. Sh,
had maintained her refund person snC
round. cood.natured face in spite of soul
bread and scant rstious. We thiH aud
staryeling girls looked up to her as stsl
of the 6rst magnitude. We clustert,
around her in high conclsVe, as she sat
on u desk in the school-rOom duriag Oh,
temporary absence Of oVr worthy precept
pr.
"Oh. she'll never think of J axe again, >
cried ssarp-fsced girl in the ,erBcr
IN bet she will, - rejoined Miss Smith
slapping her hand energeticaly on her old
grsmmar Miss Smith had big broth
ors, which may partly account for th'
vim with which she Was won't to exTres
herself But, oh, don't | wish it va,
me To think that Amanda Liza, that
used to lcal my old collars To-"
Young ladies', Miss Bimm" cried I
warning voice wherest jennie, viii
more haste than dignity, abandoned lie
lofty position, AND there was genera
stampede for Mrs Bimm, the head teach
er, came sailing in, followed by Mr.
Squimps, the priscil al. black, tall, sol
ema as the shadow of lamp-post. Nov
Cor stricter rules, logger lectures ON pro
pricty, and a general surviIlauce ioundeO
un"certaiu receEt occurrences"
What woald Mr.. Squimps say? Ay, {,
be sure that was always 4 question Of i'm
portauce, and Mr. Squimps always said 1
good deal Here WAS an especial theme
Tor his eloqoenco; for this case Of poo
Amanda Liza, who had been his bond
slave for ten years. culied ard cornared
rsakiug no slgu and at las; ursjng out t,
have relatious of her oYu and heap 0
money, and leaving bis establishment ''fo
good aad all" iu his absence, was lectl,
too much for human nature, AS he declar
ed. For Mr.. Squimps did not disdain Il
descend to 'tamillar colloquialisms' ouct
iR a While as relief frsm the high men
tai stain of too much Latin and lexicon
Mr.. SQumps should have been public
spcaker-so his vile declared, so all hi
friends atiirmed--on!y the t.ouble was he
sould never have known when 10 stop
There vas no "cork up" to him, the girl
declared. Once gwen little rope, ;
small vexstion an accidental iarIing o
his arrangements, and Mr.. Sqnimps dow
ed out INTO limitless rivers of rhetoric
He urged his point dawn to the last whit
tie, woand up splendidly, touched up his
whiskers, looked around for applause
turned over his wristbands, and, belor,
you knew it, begas again.
This was a splendid opening, this o
Amanda Liza's--a girl, whom he ha'
taken out Of pure" charity when he
folks died Of fever, girl whom he ha,
educated, brought up in his very family
asd-and--and-Mr. Squimps felt him
self possessed On this occasion Of all th'
stock in trade necessary for an orator.
And Mr. Squimps like father to her
toe erred Mrs. Squimps, sleyating he
shrivclled little hsuds.
Mrs Squimps was a small wrlnlled la
dy, rustliug about of an stternoon in ;
stiff voIumisous SILK, so little, so shrivel
led, She seemed to rattle in it as she walk
ed, like withered kernel in a walnu
shell. She had had the b3aeit OF Mr.
Squimps' oIoqucnce the greater part Q
her life, and was much like a worn.ou
tcxt-tLin thumhed and faded,
The good lady was humbly aware o
her dcic eucias A mere bit Of quartz
she did not attempt to shine even in he
husbands refu geace. All real authorit,
in her department was delegated to Mi
Bjmm. wAe carried thjsgs with an air
taught the 'higher braaches," and too
the lead
Mrs. s ,uaps meekly tsos the kitchen
emiuently filter, as her hussasd declared
for that department, which was the found
alton of all others. The foundation pre-
pared under Mrs. Squiinps supervision
was not very substantial , but elegsnc
was the sla, gentiity the law, at thu
academy, as Mr.. Squimps observed, ant
no one asked twice for the sane dish
Au ara,y of hungry girls, he rensrke'
privately to Mrs. Squlmps, would devon
all before them unless properly restrained
Under this aspect sour bread and chill
pancakes were judiclous.
/ Amanda Liza, the girl about whom w
we're Just NOW 10 fitrore, had assistc
Mrs. S9ulnps and the maids in the kitch
en- of a morning, likewise Of an evening
between these she generally sandwiche
the thin hour of study which was demon
mated her "education." She was
slim. drooping-eyed little thing, who nev
] er spoke up for herself andif Jake hadn
/ spoken up for her once in while. | tbln
she would scarcely have held her own c,
Gu under Mrs. Squimps' motherly sway.
"Oid Jake" as We called him, was
hlack,eyed, ragged lad of eighteen, th
factorum Of the school. general fag, boo
black, and boy -oi-all-work to the estal
lishment. with an occasional elevation
coacbman. Jake was subject to a stat
of chronic outbreak, restive, forgetful I
rules and ''drcadful SISSY" the maiC
T! declared But Jake had his ideal, an