. St. Nicholas [serial]. e, exceptwhen he made trips away for a few months. Hemade himself loved as a curate, and two yearslater he became rector. He had married a shortwhile before, and now he settled down to hislifes work. Settled down is not the right expression. Hegot up and went for that work. Day or night,early and late, tireless and splendid, he was atthe service of his parishioners. He would helpthem thresh their wheat, and talk to them, manto man, while he did it. The farmers came to himfor advice on their crops, so did the game-keepersto talk of pheasants, and the trout-fishers of fi
. St. Nicholas [serial]. e, exceptwhen he made trips away for a few months. Hemade himself loved as a curate, and two yearslater he became rector. He had married a shortwhile before, and now he settled down to hislifes work. Settled down is not the right expression. Hegot up and went for that work. Day or night,early and late, tireless and splendid, he was atthe service of his parishioners. He would helpthem thresh their wheat, and talk to them, manto man, while he did it. The farmers came to himfor advice on their crops, so did the game-keepersto talk of pheasants, and the trout-fishers of fish. He loved and played with the children, and chat-ted on household matters with the a soul in the parish could read or write,but he got up night-schools and taught them; hegave talks, and he saw to it that every one cameto church, rounding up the men for the morningservice, and the women and children in the after-noon. One of the bishops who ordained him com-])lained that his sermons were too colloquial,. riiulc-rapll by Llliott ,V l-ry, CUAKLES KINGSLEY. but the people liked that. They understood himwhen he preached, and they liked what he said. The rectory was very old, adorably pretty, andsimply covered, inches deep, with ivy and climb-ing-rose and jessamine. It was low, however,and in rainy weather the near-by pond would over-flow the lawn, and then the lower rooms of thehouse. Several nights, before they got the drain-age properly fixed, Kingsley and his wife, withthe two servants, spent hours bailing out waterand plugging leaks. But that was in the early days of their lifethere. Before long, with loving care and muchlabor, the rector had the rectory as sound andsafe as it was lovely, bowered in the great treesaround it, in sight of the square-towered church 70 BOOKS AND READING of red brick, and the quiet churchyard where henow lies buried. Here, then, this fiery-souled man wrote, andpreached, and strove mightily to set all thingsright, or to
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