tim for the hickoryism; and a few flourishes of the axe felled trees and saplings for fuel, seats, tables, and arcades. "What's the use of a Barbecue any how?"

Well, its uses to Guzzleton may be mentioned in some other work. But we answer now by asking :-Has not a man, who ranges in a wide forest untrammelled by artificial forms, an invincible love of freedom?-Will not he who feasts like Homer's heroes despise the meannesses of a huckster's life?-Can he be content to live on alms of broken meat and filthy crumbs ?-Is there much hope of subduing men whose pastimes are to the effeminate, labours !

And, dear reader, out there the noble Declaration of Independence itself, when properly read and commented on, as to-day by John Glenville, has an effect on backwoodsmen, such as is rarely felt now in here! Oh! could you have seen Domore, and Ned Stanley, and old man Ashmore, and Tom Robinson, rise at one or two places and clench their rifles convulsively—and with tearful eyes and quivering lips stand intently gazing on the face of that reader !— oh! could you have heard the enthusiastic cries, at the close, that came warm bursting from the very hearts of our congregation, men, women and children-then would you have deemed perilous the attempt to put, by force, a yoke on such necks! Vain the belief that our native woodsmen can be tamed! Numbers may, perchance, have destroyed their forest bulwarks-but in the doing, woodsmen and their foes would all have fallen down slain together!

I only add that notwithstanding the continuous feasting of many hundreds for four or five hours, large quantities— nay, heaps of provisions, were left; and that these in the spirit of native western hospitality, were divided among the poorer of the guests, who carried away with them food enough for a week.

The day passed without any important accident or lasting anger. It was, indeed, very like the colour and thrill

of visions in my dreaming age ! I have pic-nicked in pretty places, and with amiable and excellent people-I have heard sweet music and merry laughter in the graceful and dwarfish groves of the east-but the thrill came not there! My poor, foolish fancy wanders then far away off to that wild plateau of the Silver River, and sighs for the sylvan life of that rude Barbecue!

CHAPTER LXIV.

"Eloquar an sileam ?"

"Out with it, sir!"

"Spectatum admissi risum teneatis ?"
"You won't laugh then?"

CLARENCE's prediction to Harwood was soon verified. One member of the Faculty being ingeniously managed according to the sensitiveness of his temper, the other was to be dealt with on the first fair opportunity. Our worthy President. aimed now to be the Government; in humble imitation of dear old President Hicoryface-but not by the same means. Hence he now treated Harwood as a child, and began to represent him as lacking manly judgment; and secretly, like Ulysses, by asking insidious, ensnaring, and doubt engendering questions.

At last a noble and ingenuous young man refused to acquiesce in an unnecessary and arbitrary change of arrangement for an exhibition, having previously received a solemn pledge from the President that the change should not be made; and that change being, notwithstanding, now made and, without the consent of the Faculty. On this, the Government and without any conference with his cabinet, pronounced in public an immediate sentence of dismission on young Heartly. But in this the Faculty neither could

nor would concur; since the President had first violated a solemn promise, and then out of revenge wished to inflict summarily a very disproportionate punishment. Hence, Harwood not only refused to acquiesce in a hasty decision, but he in private even earnestly remonstrated with the Doctor; after which Harwood saw Heartly and advised him not to leave Woodville till regularly and legally ordered so to do by the Faculty.

Well, this was just what the worthy President desired; and he forthwith, both publicly and privately, denounced usher Harwood as having rebelled against the Government ! Nay! as guilty of resistance and ingratitude to his father! And, therefore, Harwood himself must and should leave the College! He declared, and in no measured terms, that it was High Treason in Mr. H. to visit a dismissed student; and then the President himself, that very day, did visit the same dismissed student, and implore him to remain, saying he never would have suspended him had he not been secretly advised so to do by Harwood himself!

This placed our learned men in what is called hot water ; and gave us a beautiful illustration of the scriptural sentiment, "how beautiful a thing it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!"

Harwood as yet believed no plan was laid for his overthrow. He thought the Doctor was sorry for his haste, as he both in public and private, professed to be, himself attributing his own rashness and forgetfulness to the disordered state of his nerves; and, as young Heartly had by the Doctor's own decree, been reinstated. Still rumors were afloat that mischief was brewing. Harwood, however, uttered no threat and laid no plans either of attack or defence, but was, as usual, wholly and laboriously busy with the duties of his office. He rarely, in truth, taught less than five hours a day, and oftener more than six!

On the contrary, the President true to his favourite rule,

that his main duty was "to watch and administer the discipline," rarely taught more than One Hour a day; and that, sometimes, on horseback! Hence he had abundant leisure to exercise, as he termed it, "parental care and government over all!"

The extent and mode of this care and government may be understood by what was afterwards called in the Purchase the Celebrated Saturday."

On that day Harwood, just before the bell for morning exercises in College, when all the Students and all the Faculty statedly assembled for certain duties, knocked at the door of Little College, and thus, in evident perturbation, addressed Mr. Clarence :

"Clarence! something is brewing, I do believe”— "Why?"

"The Doctor has sent for eight or ten Students for a body guard !"

"A body guard against what?"

"I can't imagine: the Manton's were asked-and Bloduplex told them he was in fear of some violence, and asked their aid in protecting him. One brother went; the other declined, and has just now given me the information. What can the man be about ?"

"Your ruin! But why does so large and able bodied a man ask for a guard, and in addition to his sword-cane ? or why does he not apply to the civil authority? Hark! there's the bell

"Yes! and see !-there, sure enough, is Bloduplex coming not only with his sword-cane, but with at least twelve of the Students around him! What is he driving at?"

"Let us go-we shall soon find out?"

All now entered the Hall and took their places. The Faculty as usual ascended the Rostrum; where the Government took his customary central seat, between Cla

rence on his right and Harwood on his left. And then, immediately after Prayer! solemnly and tearfully done by the venerable Pedagogue, that curious personage com. menced as follows:

"My dear (mellow voice)-children :-For I must call you children,—I shall not pursue the ordinary course of our duties to day. Instead of that I design to go into a full explanation of the nature and propriety of my government. But as some things, by certain persons, have been said against that government, I beg leave to read to you first, my dear children, a few out of very many papers and testimonials in my possession, to shew you what good judges in other places have thought about me as a President, and what they do yet think."-(Here the President read his certificates, consisting of official dismissions from sundry ecclesiastical and literary bodies, and several highly lauda. story letters and notes from former pupils; and among them a very eulogistic one from the Hon. Stulty Pistolpop, who probably admired the Clergyman's sword-cane-propensities: the effect of all which documents being very happy on the Judges-the Students now seated below as a court of appeals and making them, for a time, think their Father the Government was really as great and good a man as he was cracked up to be,)-" And so you see my dear children (voice very tender)-may I not consider myself after all this competent to the government of this college?

"But I wish now to say that my system is wholly parental. It is not regulated by printed or written rules and laws, or by the precedents of other colleges, where some people have imbibed arbitrary notions: no, the parental system is that of a father in governing his family-it depends on circumstances-it differs with cases. Some Faculties govern only by rules-rebuking, suspending, expel. ling, according to the letter. They will take no pains to discriminate; they fix the iron bed and stretch out and lop