. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . and 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 much 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 dilige
. Beautiful gems from American writers and the lives and portraits of our favorite authors . and 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 much 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 hisstead. xtx X+X Xtx X+X X+>: XTx X+X X^X X+^ J^+X X^V XJX X^X XJX X|X x^x x^x xjx xt> ^|V. 19 CHARLES DUDLEY HUMOKIST AND JOUKNALIST. HARLES DUDLEY WARNER belongs to a class of writers whichhas 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 simj)ly because he possessed in highdegree a keen insight, a dainty lightness of touch, a delicacy of thought and style, akindly humor, and a racy scent for human nature. It was a
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