Litchfield enquirer., 1874-01-22

The winter school proved to be qIlite different from the fall Many new faces were among the pupils-some of the old ] ones missing-among the latter Fife Broomfeld
 "She has taken 8 school, away in the south part of the town" Rose Peter vol unteered this information when she came 1 to the desk, after school, to consult Mr. Wlllet as to what she had better read in Latin. ''lsnt it funny to think of Fife teaching? ?'
 Hl have no doubt she will do we'll, was the answer. Other things being equal, have always noticed that the best be- haved scholars made the best teachers" :"
 'Oh you don't think would make 8 very good teacher, then, do you? I was very naughty, last term, you know, but I'm going to be good enough, this, to make it all up." And Rose lisped off her little speech in such an innocent, childish manner, and looked so charmingIy pretty all the while. that more impossible man than Ralph Wiliet might have been capti- vated; he was not at all. sOf course. Fife will do we'll" she continued, s'sho is such splendid girl. I want to go out and see her, some Saturday, but father is always too busy to carry me-
 Where was Ralph WilIett's gallantry that he did not offer his services as escort on this plain hint? But he didn't; only resolved that he would go by himself at the earliest possible opportunity. There was nothing out of character even for married man to take an interest in his former pupil, and watch her success as teacher.
 He went accordingly, the very next Sat urday. How charmingly dignifed the little school-ma'am was, and how her sun- ny presence lit up the dingy old school house The school was notoriously hard one, but she was beginning finely, as Ralph assured her, and added that he should come again, by and by, to note her progress.
 Somehow OF other, he did not enjoy the winter term as we'll as the fall His moth CT noticed the change in his letters, and spoke of it in hers.
 ''I don't think you're enjoying your school as we'll as you did in the fall. Your letters are not so eheery."
 "Why don't I enjoy myself so we'll ?' Ralph asked himself. '.Ail is harmonious in school" Then he laid the blame upon the cold weather, and the bad roads which hindered his long walks, but somehow all his cogitations would come around at last to Fife Broomfeld, and he would fall to wondering how she was getting on, if she had to burn green wood in that rusty, three-legged stove, if she was contented boarding around, etc. And in school hours, when some blundering pupil was mixing moods and lenses, in hopeless tangle, trying to conjugate amo, or stand ing at the blackboard, helpless in the mazes of geometrical problem, 1t was certainly curious how his thoughts al- ways reverted to Fife, the musical way in which Latin verbs in all their forms came readily from her lips, and the clear-headed and neat headed way in which she would elucidate problem. Fife Bloomfield It was not the most harmonious name in the world, but he found himself often repeating 1t mentally, oyer, as if 1t were strain of music.
 Near the close of the term he went again to visit the school. We'll might he feel pride in his pupil as he noticed the results of her winters work. Rude gawky boys were transformed into young gentlemen, and romping, hoydenish girls into young ladies-all through her gentle influence. Their progress in learning had been both rapid and thorough, and Ralph, in his de- uSnti HaS uOI dt dII SpdTIuS oi HIS SEcO- miums. The school-ma'am took them as demurely as though they were matter of course, seeming to feel in no wise flat tered, and Ralph somehow felt himself her inferior.
 ''She's just the one for a teacher" he said to himself, as he pursued his solitary way homeward. What splendid wife she would make for some man who intend ed to make that his hfe-work He did not go home at the winter vaca- tion, it being only for week. 'It's almost too bad.i' Mrs. Watkins said to him consolingly, ''I dare say it looks long time ahead before you will see your wife"
 gs1t does, really, replied Ralph, with a blush that set Mrs. Watkins into silent admiration of hls modesty.
 Mrs. Elliot informed the curious ones that MT. Willett sent out letter to his wife, every day through vacation, and was obliging enough to show to several the white monogram envelopes, whereon 'sMrs. Ralph WiIlett, in writing almost as handsome as engraving, stood, to their minds, as an evidence of high marital af- lection. z~s The spring term opened with 2 great increase of scholars, and Ralph needed