. A family flight around home. ANDIRONS AND CRANFS. 50 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. in the village street, encrusted in a kind of frosting of new snowlike wedding-cake, forbade this scheme. Meanwhile the gentlementalked on, never weary of old reminiscences. Mr. Horner had been fitted for college at Montpelier, Vt.,. THE OLD PLACE. by Professor Bruce, in his charge, and boarding in life of several years made them intimate, and a friendshipwas formed of the lasting sort, which comes from true respect andgratitude on the part of the younger man, and affectionate appro-bation on t
. A family flight around home. ANDIRONS AND CRANFS. 50 A FAMILY FLIGHT AROUND HOME. in the village street, encrusted in a kind of frosting of new snowlike wedding-cake, forbade this scheme. Meanwhile the gentlementalked on, never weary of old reminiscences. Mr. Horner had been fitted for college at Montpelier, Vt.,. THE OLD PLACE. by Professor Bruce, in his charge, and boarding in life of several years made them intimate, and a friendshipwas formed of the lasting sort, which comes from true respect andgratitude on the part of the younger man, and affectionate appro-bation on the older ones side. The difference in years was notexcessive; for Mr. Bruce was but a young man just graduatedwhen he began his career as a schoolmaster. He was now some-what over sixty. He married, in early life, a Utopia girl, a cousinin fact of the Horncrs, and as on the death of her parents sheinherited a comfortable little property, Mr. Bruce then bought thewhole Horner estate, with its old-fashioned house, large barns, and PROFESSOR BRUCE. 51 ample farms; and thus it came about that he was now occupyingthe homestead where Mr. Horner was born, and where he andhis brothers and sisters passed the happy days of their youth. Mrs. Bruce never had any children; Mr. Horner rememberedher as a delightful little
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