tuation. This he soon found in a
gentleman's family named Clarke, who was very glad to receive such a
modest and intelligent young man into his family. This Mr. Clarke was
not a farmer by profession, but a lawyer, and editor of a daily journal
in the capital of Vermont, and only spent a few days in the summer and
fall with his family at the farm. Paul's chief occupation was to attend
young Master Clarke in his sports of fishing, fowling, and riding on
horseback. The duties of his present situation afforded Paul not only
time and leisure to keep up his accustomed religious exercises, but, in
addition, he was able to revise what he had previously studied, and to
add considerably to his stock of useful knowledge. The equal terms and
familiarity in which he stood in his relation with his young employer
afforded him an opportunity of revising Virgil, Sallust, Lucian, and
other classical authors, the use of which he was so long obliged to
discontinue.

Mr. Clarke was delighted when he learned from his son that Paul knew
Greek and Latin much better than his former teacher in the academy. And
this information he knew to be correct, from the fact that he found his
son had learned more during vacation, in company with Paul, than he did
during the whole year before in college. He therefore advanced Paul's
wages by one-third, and prolonged his son's stay in the country beyond
the usual period. This generous and kind-hearted man was also sensibly
affected when Paul, at his request, related how he came to know Latin;
how he was nephew of the grand vicar of Kil----; how he had spent five
years in college; how his father was obliged to emigrate with his
family; how he had died on the voyage; how they were robbed of a
thousand pounds; how his mother sunk under her trials; how he and his
brethren were kidnapped out hither; how the priest of T---- had
advertised for them; and how, "I suppose," said he, "they gave us up in
despair; thinking, probably, that we were lost in some of the late
steamboat disasters; but here we are yet, thank God!"

Mr. Clarke, with the instinct of a true-hearted Yankee, immediately saw
into the snare laid for the faith of the young orphans; and he thanked
his God mentally that he had come to the knowledge of these facts, for
he was the man to expose and reprobate such foul play. "I now well
remember, Paul," said he, "the advertisements respecting you and your
brothers and sister. I shall see to this business, I