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rt'-TTTCIHtHHHB mmemmtiMamimMUXTwmvrrmmmManwMmMMmiu No. 3. A Visit to a German gymnasium. 323 "WIibii I Bleep I drenni, when I wnke, I'm weary, Heat I can ut "nno for thinking o' my dcnrlo." Ami us to HiUtic, she had told Elsie that she could live just us well without John Howard, and that she could live just as serenely happy as though nothing had happened ect., cct., and ol' course we have no riglit to doubt her veracity, though we did lind marked in her "Lady of The Lake," and written on the fly-leaf ol some other favorite work, this rather talc-telling passage: " Bill he who stem a strewn with sand, And Tetter flame with flaxen band, lint yet a linrder tank to prove, Hy Arm resolve to conquer love." But we pass on in our narrative to more important matters. At the end of the two months, Howard graduated, getting all the honors which he had sought, and came home. Again on Sunday morning he sat with his moth er in a front pew, while his father, with more than his usual eloquence, preached from the pulpit. Hattie Gleeson, as of old, sang in the choir. Now I suppose our readers are expecting that some hid den plot being revealed at this juncture, or some catastrophe happening, there will in some strange way be brought about an understanding and reconciliation between these two unfortunatr. individuals. But no such thing takes place, as, indeed, you will And to be. generally the case in the lives and quarrels of common-place lov crs. John somehow found it quite im possible to keep from stealing an occa sional glance towards Miss Gleeson, and Haltic in turn found it impossible to keep from glancing toward John now and then. So that, while each affected to assume an air of uttter nonchalance, each found it quite impossible to look towards the other without having their eyes meet. And there was something, too, in these optical collisions, that would make them both lower their glances, hitch around a little uneasily, and, on the whole, feel very much like two fools. The sermon came to a close, thedoxolo gy was sung, the benediction pronounced, and people bogan to 111c out of the church. Miss Gleeson resolved that she would walk boldly down the aisle, and turn her eyes neither to the right side nor to the left. She shut her teeth tightly together, and kept her resolution until she came oppo site the seat where John Howard had been sitting, and where he was now stand ing, leisurely twirling his hat around his thumb, when this imperturbable gentle man stepped out into the aisle, offered his hand in a very mechanical, matter-of. course sort of way, and said, " How do you do?" His brisk, business-like man n er was too much for Iluttie's consistency. She shook hands, smiled in spite of all her efforts to refrain from so doing, and very soon this j'oung gentleman and lady were passing out of the church together, and chatting jocosely over tilings past, present and to be. John's grave oiFence, which had been the cause of the rupture, was either pardoned, forgotten, or never mentioned, we know not which; and two years later, when he had been licensed to preach, and was stationed on a circuit in the southern part of the state, Hattie went with him, lest he, being away from her long, should be at some sort of mischief that might be the cause of another schism- Sylvester. A VISIT TO A GERMAN GYMNASIUM. It is one of the simplest tasks in the world to obtain an exact and comprehen sive knowledge of the Geiman system of public instruction. This is true partly, because the utmost liberality is shown to the stranger who wishes to inform him self by actual observation; but chiefly because it is a system in the true sense of the word. On the other hand, the foreign, er who desires to gain a clear idea of American education, has a formidable and perplexing task before him. Not on ly does he find each state of the Un ion possessed of its own system of public
