. Home school of American literature: . rd determined tosend his children no more to school, observing thathe never knew any good come of this same readingand writing. Whatever money the schoolmaster pos-sessed, and he had received his quarters pay but aday or two before, he must have had about his personat the time of his disappearance. The mysterious event caused muck speculation atthe church on the following Sunday. Knots of gazersand gossips were collected in the churchyard, at thebridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkinhad been found. The stories of Brouwer, of Bones,and a whole
. Home school of American literature: . rd determined tosend his children no more to school, observing thathe never knew any good come of this same readingand writing. Whatever money the schoolmaster pos-sessed, and he had received his quarters pay but aday or two before, he must have had about his personat the time of his disappearance. The mysterious event caused muck speculation atthe church on the following Sunday. Knots of gazersand gossips were collected in the churchyard, at thebridge, and at the spot where the hat and pumpkinhad been found. The stories of Brouwer, of Bones,and a whole budget of others, were called to mind;and when they had diligently considered them all,and compared them with the symptoms of the presentcase, they shook their heads, and came to the con-clusion that Ichabod had been carried off by thegalloping Hessian. As he was a bachelor, and innobodys debt, nobody troubled his head any moreabout him, the school was removed to a different partof the Hollow, and another pedagogue reigned in xtx x|x xt* v+v CHARLES DUDLEY WARNER. HUMORIST AND JOURNALIST. HARLES DUDLEY WARNER belongs to a class of writers whickhas been aptly called the meditative school in American literature^but few of the so-called meditative writers so sparkle with humor asdoes the genial and humane author of My Summer in a Garden,and few writers of any school have so succeeded in presenting whole-some truth and lofty thought in the pleasing form of humorous con-versation on such common subjects as gardening, back-log fires, and the every-daylife of the farmer-boy. He is one of our leading apostles of culture, and he is himself a glowing exampleof the worth of culture, for he has steadily raised himself from the flat levels oflife to a lofty pinnacle of influence and power simply because he possessed in higlidegree a keen insight, a dainty lightness of touch, a delicacy of thought and style, akindly humor, and a racy scent for human nature. It Avas a long time bef
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