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future chum the studious and exemplary bearer , Forbearance Smith , to whom you are desired to thow a becoming respect . Your obedient servant ,
Erasmus Snufflegrcu . " Rather relieved by my lenient sentence , ( for till the next shedding of his well-saturated coat , the sky-blue body , and red mane and tail of the President ' s once gray mare would interfere with that esteemed animal ' s usefulness , ) I received Mr . Smith with more politeness than he expected . He deposited his hair trunk in the vacant bed-room , remarked with a good-humoured smile , that it was a cold morning , and seatin g himself in my easiest chair , opened his Euclid , and went to work upon a problem , as perfectly at home as if he had furnished the room himself , and lived in it from his matriculation . I had expected some preparatory apology at least , and was a little annoyed ; but being upon my good behaviour , 1 bit my lips and resumed the " Art of Love , " upon which I was just then practising my nascent latinity , instead of calculating logarithms for recitation . In about an hour , my new chum suddenly vociferated * llureka V shut up his book , and having stretched himself , ( a very unnecessary operation ) coolly walked to my dressing-table , selected my best hair-brush , redolent of Macassar , and used it with the greatest apparent satisfaction .
" ' Have you done with that hair-brush ? ' I abked , as he laid it in its place again . " ' Oh yes !' € ( * Then , perhaps , you will do me the favour to throw it out of the window . '
"He did it without the slightest hesitation . He then resumed his seat by the fire , and I went on with my book in silence . Twenty minutes had elapsed , perhaps , when he rose very deliberately , and , without a word of preparation , gave me a cuff that sent roe flying into the wood-basket in the corner behind me . As soon as I could pick myself out , I flew upon him ; but I might as well have grappled wilh a boa-constrictor . He held me off at arm ' s length till I was quite exhausted with rnge , and , at last , when I could struggle no more , 1 found breath to ask him what the devil he meant ?
' • To resent what seemed to me , on reflection , to be an insult ;* he answered , in the calmest tone , ' and now to ask your pardon for a fault of ignorance . The first was due to myself , the second to you . * «• Thenceforth , to the surprise of everybody , and Bob Wilding aod the tutor , we were inseparable . "—vol . i . p . 168 .
An adventure at Niagara will make our readers still better acquainted with Job Smith . < c It is necessary to a reputation for prowess in the United States to have been behind the » heet of the fall ( supposing you to have been to Niagara . ) This achievement is equivalent to a hundred thower * baths ,, one severe cold , and being drowned twice—but most people do it . "—vol . i . p . 05 .-
The two friends performed the exploit in company with th # lovely Miss ¦
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1836, page 353, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2658/page/25/
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