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Masonic Reminiscences.
make him look so cross and so much astonished . " "Why mother , " responded Phil , " don't you know old father Doyle , the parish priest , rides a white hone . " The mother with a look of delighted admiration says , " How clever and shrewd to observe what sort of horse the priest rode , I should never have noticed it , don't you think so , brother ?"
"I think , mam , " returned the blunt Soldier , "it is d—d sill y and absurd to mistake my drunken valet for a priest , because he saw a man ride a white horse . " . " I tell you what , sister , you have made a common fool of the boy , he should be sent off at once to a public school , and I tell you more , I do not wish my nephew , much less my heir , to be made either an idiot or a milksop . "
Incipient hysterical symptoms began lo manifest themselves at the mere hint of a public school , " she would never send him to such a place to have his innocence destroyed and his morals corrupted . " " Nonsense , my dear sister , his morals stand much more chance of being corrupted by your housemaids , and stablemen . " " I ' m quite ashamed of youbrotherhe could never see any thing in my .
, , establishment but propriety and good example . " "Never mind that , Mrs . Simpson , you were never a great witch in the way of knowledge , but perhaps you may be able to make a shadowy guess that there are : some things which we can practice with very little instruction , or example . " Some little vague instinctive notions seemed to affect her , she knew not
why , and blushing , the little lady swept out of the room with Phil grasped so tightly by the hand , as to make him gape like an unfledged bird on the approach of its parent- after a foraging expedition . She was unable to make up her mind whether to laugh or cry , but was fully convinced her brother was a hard-hearted brute , who had no conceptions of nor regard for the feelings of a parent .
When the door closed after her , the Colonel commenced , " Now , brother Simpson , I tell you if that boy be not removed from the tender care of his foolish mother he'll never do a pinsworth of good , he'll be a noodle all his life ; he is now almost at an age when he might don the toga virilis yet you still keep him iu a bib and tucker , he is really as ignorant as an oyster , and not a jot wiser than old Jerry , the fool , in yonder town , who will set
up a cry of anger if you offer him a shilling , but will dance with joy for a halfpenny , and I feel assured , my respected brother , that in your opinion this reaches the very culminating point of folly , " added the Colonel , with a significant smile by no means pleasant to Mr . Simpson , who in the hope of putting an end to the subject observed , " I tell you , Colonel , his mother will never consent to his being placed at a public school , and I
reall y do not think it is worth vexing her about , besides , if as you have suggested , a tutor at home will answer the purpose of preparing him for College and you insist upon his entering , have one by all means . " I shall have nothing whatever to do with it , I ' m sure you must know how distressing the subject is to me ; and you will confer a most particular favor on me , if you will kindly see that a suitable place shall be fitted
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Masonic Reminiscences.
make him look so cross and so much astonished . " "Why mother , " responded Phil , " don't you know old father Doyle , the parish priest , rides a white hone . " The mother with a look of delighted admiration says , " How clever and shrewd to observe what sort of horse the priest rode , I should never have noticed it , don't you think so , brother ?"
"I think , mam , " returned the blunt Soldier , "it is d—d sill y and absurd to mistake my drunken valet for a priest , because he saw a man ride a white horse . " . " I tell you what , sister , you have made a common fool of the boy , he should be sent off at once to a public school , and I tell you more , I do not wish my nephew , much less my heir , to be made either an idiot or a milksop . "
Incipient hysterical symptoms began lo manifest themselves at the mere hint of a public school , " she would never send him to such a place to have his innocence destroyed and his morals corrupted . " " Nonsense , my dear sister , his morals stand much more chance of being corrupted by your housemaids , and stablemen . " " I ' m quite ashamed of youbrotherhe could never see any thing in my .
, , establishment but propriety and good example . " "Never mind that , Mrs . Simpson , you were never a great witch in the way of knowledge , but perhaps you may be able to make a shadowy guess that there are : some things which we can practice with very little instruction , or example . " Some little vague instinctive notions seemed to affect her , she knew not
why , and blushing , the little lady swept out of the room with Phil grasped so tightly by the hand , as to make him gape like an unfledged bird on the approach of its parent- after a foraging expedition . She was unable to make up her mind whether to laugh or cry , but was fully convinced her brother was a hard-hearted brute , who had no conceptions of nor regard for the feelings of a parent .
When the door closed after her , the Colonel commenced , " Now , brother Simpson , I tell you if that boy be not removed from the tender care of his foolish mother he'll never do a pinsworth of good , he'll be a noodle all his life ; he is now almost at an age when he might don the toga virilis yet you still keep him iu a bib and tucker , he is really as ignorant as an oyster , and not a jot wiser than old Jerry , the fool , in yonder town , who will set
up a cry of anger if you offer him a shilling , but will dance with joy for a halfpenny , and I feel assured , my respected brother , that in your opinion this reaches the very culminating point of folly , " added the Colonel , with a significant smile by no means pleasant to Mr . Simpson , who in the hope of putting an end to the subject observed , " I tell you , Colonel , his mother will never consent to his being placed at a public school , and I
reall y do not think it is worth vexing her about , besides , if as you have suggested , a tutor at home will answer the purpose of preparing him for College and you insist upon his entering , have one by all means . " I shall have nothing whatever to do with it , I ' m sure you must know how distressing the subject is to me ; and you will confer a most particular favor on me , if you will kindly see that a suitable place shall be fitted