The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1874-02-27
@isteIlanepns SeIfrtiuns.
JAKE'S LUCK.

| "WhateYer will Mr.. Squlmps say
Oh, girls, to think of fit-poor, wash
led-out Amanda Liza, with her check
aprons and faded calicoes-to think
Iof her turning out and heiress L
Whew! it takes my breath away,
What'l Jake do now, 1 Ronder?"
Miss Jennie Smith was an acknow-
tledged leader in the Sqpimps acade,
my. She had maintained her 70,
tund person and round, good-natpr-
ed face in spite of sour bread and
scant rations. We thin and starVel-
ing girls looked up to her as a star
of the first magnitude. We cluster
ed around her in high conclaVe, as
she sat on a desk in the scho0l.room
during the temporary absence Of our
worthy preceptor.
"Oh, she'll never think of Jake
again." cried a sharp.fseed girl in
the corner.
'I'll bet she will" rejoined Miss
Smith, slapping her hand energetic
ally on her old grammar. Miss
Smith had "big brothers, (which may
partly account for the way with
which she was wont to express her
self. "But, oh, don't / wish it was
me! To think that Amanda Liza,
that I used to lend my old collars
to-" -
"Yonng ladies, Miss Bimm!" cried
warning voice (; whereat Jennie,
with more haste than dignity, aban-
doned her lofty position, and there
was a general stampede for seats as
Miss Bimm, the head teacher came
sailing in, followed by Mr.. Sqnimps,
the principal, black, tall aud solemn
as the shadow Of lanp-post. Now
for stricter rules, longer lectures on.
propriety, and general surveillance
founded on certain recent occur
rences.n
What would Mr.. Sqnimps say?
Ay, to BY sure that was always 3
question Of Importance, and Mr..
ISquimps always said a good deal
Here was an especial theme for his
eloquence; for the case Of poor
Amanda Liza, who had been his
bond slave for ten years, cpfed and
cornered, making no sign, and st
last turning out to have relations Of
her own and a heap of money, and
leaving his establishment @fOr good
and alp in his absence, was leetle
too much for human nature, as he
declared. For Mr.. Squimps did not
disdain to descend to familiar col
loquialismsp once in s while as a re-
lief from the high mental strain of
too much Latin and lexicon.
Mr.. Squimps would have been q
public speaker-so his wife 4declar-
| ed, SO all his friends ahirmed-only
the trouble was he would dneVer have
known when to stop. There 9as no
"cork up" to him, the girls declared.
Once given a little rope, a small vex
alton, an accidental jarring of his
arrangements, and Mr.. Squimps
flowed out into hmitleas rivers of
rhetoric. He argued his point down
to the last white, wound up splen-
didly, touched up his side-Ehiskers,
looked round for applause, turned
over his wristbands, and before you
knew it, began again. Il
This was a splendid opening, this
of Amanda Liza's-a girl whom ne
had taken out Of "purs charity
when her folks died Of fever, a girl
whom he had educated, brought up
in his very family, and-and--snd
Mr.. Squimps felt himself possessed
on this occasion of all the stock in
trade necessary for an orator.
sand Mr.. Squimps like q fsther to
her, tool" cried Mrs. Squimps, ele-
waiting her shriVeled little hands.
Mrs. Squimps MAS asmall BTink-
led lady, rustling about of an after
noon in q stiff Yoluminous silk, so
little, SO shriveled, she seemed to rat
tie IN it IS she walked, like 3 Wither-
ed kernel in q walnut shell. She had
had the benefit of Mr. Squimps' elo-
quence the greater part Of her life,
and was much like a worn out text
thin and thumbed and faded.
Thegood lady was humbly aware
| of her DEFICIENCIES. A mere bit Of
quartz, she did not attempt to shine
even in her husbands refulgence.
All real authority in her depart
ment was delegated to Mis- Bimm,
who carried things with an air,
taught the "higher branches" and
took the lead.
Mrs. Squimps meekly took the
kitchen, eminently filter, as her hus-
band declared for that department,
which was the foundation of all 9TH
ers. The foundation prepared un-
der Mrs. Squimps' supervision was
not very substantial. But elegance
was the aim, gentility the law, at the
academy, as ME. Squimps observed,
and no one asked twice for the same
ldish. An army Of hungry girls, he