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Page 32
[Illustration]
WHAT HAPPENED.
BY HOWELL FOSTER.
A very respectable Kangaroo
Died week before last in Timbuctoo;
A remarkable accident happened to him:
He was hung head down from a banyan-limb.
The Royal Lion made proclamation
For a day of fasting and lamentation,
Which led to a curious demonstration:
The Elephant acted as if he were drunk--
He stood on his head, he trod on his trunk;
An over-sensitive she-Gorilla
Declared that the shock would surely kill her;
A frisky, gay and frolicsome Ape
Tied up his tail with a yard of crape;
The Donkey wiped his eyes with his ears;
The Crocodile shed a bucket of tears;
The Rhinoceros gored a young Giraffe
Who had the very bad taste to laugh;
The Hippopotamus puffed and blew,
To show his respect for the Kangaroo;
And a sad but indignant Chimpanzee
Gnawed all the bark from the banyan-tree.
DRIFTED INTO PORT.
BY EDWIN HODDER.
CHAPTER I.
THE BOYS OF BLACKROCK SCHOOL.
Dr. Brier considered himself the principal of Blackrock School, but the
boys in that establishment often used to say to each other that Mrs.
Brier was really the master.
Not that she intruded into any sphere which did not belong to her, but
she took such a deep interest in the school that she had the welfare of
every boy at heart, and Dr. Brier was one of those amiable men who
never act except in concert with their wives, and he had, moreover,
good sense enough to see that oftentimes her judgment was better than
his own.
At the time our story opens, the school was in a very flourishing
condition. It contained about eighty boys, the tutors were men of
unquestionable ability, and so successful had the Doctor been in
turning out good scholars that he had applications from various parts
of England, in which country our story is located, for the admission of
many more boys than he could possibly receive.
Among the institutions of the school was a weekly reception in the
Doctor's private drawing-room, when twenty boys at a time were invited
to tea, and to spend the evening hours in social enjoyment.
It was a very good thing, for it gave Mrs. Brier an opportunity of
becoming acquainted with the boys, and it enabled them to see the
Doctor, not in his professional character of principal, but as a kind
and gentle host.
At some schools, where a plan of this kind has been adopted, boys have
been inclined to look upon it as a great bore, and have dreaded the
return of the so-called social evening, when they would have to be, for
some hours, in a state of nervous anxiety, lest they should be
catechised in a corner, or be betrayed into something that they would
be sorry for afterward.
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