The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-03-31

led to extend his expenses--he said una
voidably-in other directions A rough
pony had hitherto contented him to gallop
into the neighboring town for letters, and
to carry him and his valise to the dinner
parties even of the most aristocratic enter
tainers. But now, inasmuch as sometimes
hospitable invitation extended itself to
"the young men," he had felt in duty
bound, for his and their joint accommoda-
tion, to replace the pony by snowy looking
mare, and to invest the legal sum of nine
teen pounds, nineteen shillings and six
pence in the purchase of dog-cart. As
an almost necessary consequence, the boy
"Jim" gave way to grown-up groom,
who did rather less work for considerable
more wages, kissing and whistling over the
said mare and dog-cart in the most know
ing manner and condescending, though
with some scruples of conscience, to clean
boots and knives. Harry's "reminiscences
of his more sporting days were yet fresh
enough for him to make point of seeing
his turnout "look as it ought to do" Jim
and the pony, and all their accoutrements,
were rough, and useful, and cheap, and
made no pretensions to be otherwise. Now,
things were changed, and saddlery and har-
ness of the best There was no economy, rs
Harry observed, in buying poor article)
found their place among the bills at Christ
mas. In short, he was led into maze of
new wants, individually trihing, but col
lectively sufficient to tell upon his yearly
expenditure and he was beginning gravely
to attempt to solve that universal problem
the asses bridge, which the wisest do
mestic economist stick fast at year after
year" where the deuce all the money goes
to ?"-when circumstances occurred which
put all such useless inquiries out of his
head, and indeed put his debtor and cred
itor transactions on much more primitive
footing.
In the final settlements of the accounts
of one of his pupils, who was leaving him
for the university, some Misunderstanding
arose between himself and the father. The
sum in question was but a few pounds but
the objection was put forward in manner
which Bolton considered as rejecting upon
his own straightforward and liberal deal
ing and it so happened that the young
man had, from circumstan ces, been indebt-
ed in an unusual degree to his kindness.
He therefore, | have no doubt, took the
matter up warmly for those who remem-
ber him as l do, can well imagine how his
blood would boil at anything he considered
mean or unhandsome. 1t ended in his in
sisting on the whole amount--a hundred or
so-respecting which the difference had
arisen, being paid into the treasurer of the
county hospital instead of to himself; and
he vowed silently and determinedly, to re-
nounce pupilizing thenceforth forever. In
vain did some of his best friends persuade
him to change his resolution; he kept two
who were with him at the time for few
months, when they also were to enter col
lege; but he steadily refused any other of
fers. He sold off at once all his super
tluous luxuries, and, as soon as practicable,
gave up his curacy and quilted the neigh
borhood, to the general regret of all who
knew him, and to the astonishment of all
but the very few who were in the secret.
When Bottoms friends next heard of
him, he was living in most remote district
of H-shire, on an income necessarily
small for it could have been scarcely more
than the proceeds of his curacy and cur
acies in that part of the country were then
but "a wretched provision for any man
especially for one accustomed as he had
been to good living and good society
However, he was not much troubled with
the latter in his present position; not to
speak of the fact that his nearest convers-
ible neighbor lived seven miles off. Where
ever parsons are mostly poor, and many of
them illeducated, they are not much
thought of, by either farmers or noblemen
And as it did not suit Harrys tastes to
enjoy his pipe and pot in the society Of the
firstas his predecessor had done with much
contentment, nor yet to wait for the arrival
of the one landed proprietor in the
parish before he commenced the morning
service, he was voted by the overseers and
churchwardens to be "mighty set up, }"
and by the squire to be ga d. unmanly
fellow" Both, indeed, soon found out
that they were wrong and the farmers had
the grace to confess it, and came, in course
of time, to believe it possible for curate
to be gentleman without being proud, and
that it was at least as well for him to be
visiting the sick and poor, and overlooking
the parish school, and able to give him a