. Tom Browns school-days . ge he had been the atten-dant of a Miss Brown, and had conveyed her about the countryon a pillion. He had a little, round picture of the identical grayhorse, caparisoned with the identical pillion, before which he usedto do a sort of fetish worship and abuse turnpike-roads and car-riages. He wore an old, full-bottomed wig, the gift of some dandyold Brown whom he had valeted in the middle of last century,which habiliment Master Tom looked upon with considerablerespect, not to say fear; and, indeed, his whole feeling toward Noahwas strongly tainted with awe; and when t
. Tom Browns school-days . ge he had been the atten-dant of a Miss Brown, and had conveyed her about the countryon a pillion. He had a little, round picture of the identical grayhorse, caparisoned with the identical pillion, before which he usedto do a sort of fetish worship and abuse turnpike-roads and car-riages. He wore an old, full-bottomed wig, the gift of some dandyold Brown whom he had valeted in the middle of last century,which habiliment Master Tom looked upon with considerablerespect, not to say fear; and, indeed, his whole feeling toward Noahwas strongly tainted with awe; and when the old gentleman wasgathered to his fathers, Toms lamentation over him was not un-accompanied by a certain joy at having seen the last of the wig:Poor old Noah, dead and gone! said he; Tom Brown so sorry!Put him in the coffin, wig and all. But old Benjy was young masters real delight and was a youth by the side of Noah, scarce seventy years old. Acheery, humorous, kind-hearted old man, full of sixty years of [24]. BENJY WOULD INSTRUCT TOM IN THE DOINGS OF DECEASED BROWNS • - ONa Ll SCHOOL DAYS Vale gossip and of all sorts of helpful ways for young and old,but, above all, for children. Jt was he who bent the first pin withwhich Tom extracted his first stickleback out of Pebbly Brook,the little stream which ran through the village. The first stickle-back was a splendid fellow, with fabulous red-and-blue kept him in a small basin till the day of his death, and be-came a fisherman from that day. Within a month from the takingof the first stickleback Benjy had carried off our hero to the canal,in defiance of Charity, and between them, after a whole afternoonspopjoying, they had caught three or four small, coarse fish and aperch, averaging perhaps two and a half ounces each, which Tombore home in rapture to his mother as a precious gift, and shereceived like a true mother with equal rapture, instructing thecook, nevertheless, in a private interview not to prepar
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