Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1894-10-11
CHAPTER vi.

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There was no time lost In setting the
experiment going, and il was soon in
full swing. Its birth pangs were aw-
full, and embraced in their throes q
great number OF persons. The par
SO quite peculiar to themselves that il
is impossible to eXpound them to an
unsympath,zing public,
The tortures that couple endured
during the first months after the initial
stage OF intellectual development had
been instituted and was being dealt
with. were severe, but they were in no
wise connected with their chlldren's
anguish at the sudden and unexpected
onslaught on their higher paris.
Their misery arose chiefly from the
iarrlng and inconveniently close con
tact with tutors, whom, in their I'M
conscious Christian way. they found il
their duty to admit for some part OF
every day into the edge Of their lives.
This was d terrible discipline, more
especially as during these times the
unhappy Instructors also thought il
their duty To ease off their slough of
learning and TO expand their social
parts, and thus the manufacture OF
small talk became daily necessity
in the lives of the distracted pair,
They had both taken infinite pains to
provide silent entertainment for their
guests-or rather succession of guests
in the tutoring line. The standard
scientists were first tried, and these
seeming to have but little effect, a
whole CARLOAD of mixed literature, in
Guiding all the rag-tag and bobtail Of
fiction the bookseller wanted to get off
his hands, was imported and spread
about enticingly; theology and ethics
were also given Il show, till at last all
the tables at one side OF the room We're
spotted with slate, yellow and dull
blues and browns, and every form OF
journal from the Times to the Police
News was scattered broadcast over
the place, all with view to lay hold
on the tutorial mind and keep 1t in
dependent Of its entertainers.
Directly the tutor for the time being,
entered at his appointed hour, they
rose simultaneously from their work,
as II the same spring moved them,
hurried toward him with outstretched
hands, sat down side by side facing
him, and broke into conversation,
which If gaspy, and ut times incense
auent from the sudden unheaval Of
waves Of thought in one or other Of
them, was kept up with gallant relent-
lessness till the period Of detention
was at an end.
As soon as the clock announced this
event, they broke off suddenly with
a click, and the tutor was, so TO speak,
shot out. and the rent he had made in
the lives of his entertainers was
patched up as we'll as might he for
that day.
But during the entire first course Of
those tutors, Mr.. and Mrs Waring
felt always as IL they were suffering
from ragged edges.
As for Gwen and Dacre, their first
taste of reclamation from the savage
state, was bitter. sudden and condign.
seems the last thing in
the world capable of soothing the saw
age breast, especially If the savage
who owns it Is young and In rude
health.
Then Mary suffered. 1t was q hard
blow to find her fledgelings torn from
her in one fell stroke, and only al
lowed to return at ODD moments for re-
pairs to skin and clothes.
Poor Mrs. Fellowes fretted herself
into a regular feYerish attack.
As for the tutors themselves, the
less said of their sufferings the better.
Three succumbed to them in four
The one that followed, a most ex-
cellent person and cut out for a fam
lily man, broke off his engagement for
fear OF consequences, his slight SUBJ
stratum Of scientific knowledge having
got SO much stirred up while at War
ing Park, that he grew bewildered.
II such results as he had to deal
with, he reflected. were to be seen in
the green tree what might not come
to pass in the dry? And he was well
aware of the cloudy ancestry 81 his
lady-love, and on his own side had not
very much to boast Of 1t was I'M
fortunate But it certainly did seem
saerilegious impertinenoo In him to
attempt what his betters had so
egregiously failed In.
TO BE Continued