t with such a condition of countenance did
not favor correct recitation of the tougher names in Deuteronomy; so, it
can be a cause of surprise to no one, that, when called on at prayers,
and prompted by a ridiculous neighbor, little Briggs sometimes asserted
Joshua to have driven out the Hivites and the Amorites, and the
Canaanites and the Jebusites, and the Hittites and the Perizzites, and
the Moabites and the Musquito-bites, for which he was regularly sent to
bed on Saturday afternoon, as he had no pocket-money to stop, his papa
desiring him to learn self-denial young, as he was intended for a
missionary; though goodness knows that there wasn't enough of him to go
round among many heathen.

From this specimen of discipline may be learned the entire Barkerian
system of training. I was about to say, "_ex uno disce omnes_," but, as
it's the only Latin I remember from the lot which got rubbed into--or
rather over--me at Barker's, I'm rather sparing of it, not knowing but I
can bring it in somewhere else with better effect. As with the Word of
God, so with that of man,--the grand Barkerian idea of how to fix it in
a boy's memory was to send him to bed, or excoriate his palm. If
religion and polite learning could have been communicated by sheets,
like chicken-pox, or blistered into one like the stern but curative
cantharides, Mr. Barker's boys would have become the envy of mankind and
the beloved of the gods; but not even Little Briggs died young from the
latter or any other cause, which speaks volumes for his constitution....

The two Misses Moodle came to establish a young ladies' seminary in the
village of Mungerville, on whose outskirts our own school was situated,
bringing along with them, as the county paper stated, "that charming
atmosphere of refinement and intellectuality in which they ever moved";
and, what was of more consequence, a capital of twenty girls to start
with. Professional politeness inspired Mr. Barker to make a call on the
fair strangers, which the personal fascinations of the younger Miss
Moodle induced him to repeat. The atmosphere of refinement and
intellectuality gradually acted on him in the nature of an intoxicating
gas, until at length, after twenty-five years of successfully intrenched
widowhood, he laid his heart in the mits of the younger Miss Moodle, and
the two became one Barker.

As a consequence of this union, social relations began to be established
between the two schools. Mrs. Bark