St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1874-05-29
Only a Partition.

.'IIark | hear wheels. mother" cried
a y"ung girl. laying down her work and
leaning forward to listen.
"Wcll, they may roll up as fast as
they like. child. Tea is all ready and
the chambers us sweet as ii rose. though
I'm dreadful sorry hadn't put the spare
room in order for him. it seems 50 mean
To give Il stranger the unfinished room.
most wish you'd have put bunch of
dahlins i'll to cheer ii up II little" said
the kind mother.
"Iumph, I'll see him first before
waste my compliments OH him. replied
the girl.
Father says hes quite IL gentleman.
suggested the mother.
perhaps he Is one of fathers kind of
gentlemen. If he does not swear. nor
spit Oh the carpet, nor put his feet on
the mantel- piece. father will think hes
Il gentleman. But I've no doubt he'll
he rusty. fussy old fellow. with red
hair and plaid shawl round his >houl- =
der>. There's the stage
The Young man who had come to
teach the winter school ut Bell Haven
was no rusty. fuSty old fellow with Il
plaid shawl Oh. hut spry young junior
from Harvard, with Il great Sole-lcather
trunk, Il large valise. Il wrlting-deSk. Il
travelling blanket in Il wrought shaw
strap, and Il great black dog.
lie shouted to Euoch. the farm boy,
who sat astride the fence admiriug the
horses. to take in the small articles.
while the driver unstrapped the trunk ;
and then he whistled to Nero" and en-
tered the house with him.
Before he was seated the Young girl
fresh from boarding school had decided
he was "a gentleman" although his
hair was red.
Royal Winter (he called the name
"Roy"0 proved IL most genial young fcl-
low. and the school children who the
season before had been snapped at. and
twitched, and tantalized by IA coarse
man fit only to drive cattle, thought an
angel had come down to them. Maria,
the squire's daughter, was equally
charmed with him, as an agreeable
companion in her quiet home, and al
most regretted, after all, that she had
not encouraged her mother to give him
the best chamber.
But Roy, who had mania for fresh
air, was delighted with the unfinished
room, with its bright pine boards, golden
i'll the sunlight and Odorous of the forest
and its view of wood, and hill, and
vale, SO far exceeding that from the
other windows.
Everybody in the house was agree.
able. He soon felt that he was favor
ite, and boy-like, was jubilant over hi,
success in the house and at school.
He talked, he whistled, he sang, he
showed off his dog, and he played
checkers with grandpa" whose time
hung rather heavily on his hands. He
was only twenty -one. but he felt thai
he was brilliant youth, and he lei
other folks see that he felt it.
lie told the sensible old squire how
he had entered Harvard without con
dltions, kept ahead of every body, anC
was the favorite of the faculty. Ht
told what "a popular preacher his fathel
was in one of the suburbs of Boston
how lovely his mother was, how beau
tiful and accomplished his sisters were
and how important every one though
1t was that he should keep horse, a
Cambridge
But for all this weakness he was
nice, kind fellow, and had in him 18th,
making of a splendid man." when, a
grandpa said, he should have '.cut hi
wisdom teeth"