Drift from Two Shores

ng on the trees, and the white pine hams for Western consumption were gradually rounding into form under the deft manipulation of the hardy American artisan. The honest Connecticut farmer was

s only seven miles from Hartford, and the surrounding la

age was the home of the three young heroes who

olutely forced to study their lessons. The sickening fact will hardly be believed, but during school hours they were obliged to remain in their seats with the appearance at least of discipline. It is stated by good authority that the rolling of croquet balls across the floor during recitation was objected to, under the fiendish excuse of its interfering with their studies. The breaking of windows by base balls, and the b

chuckling in their glee, little knew what was passing through the cold, haughty intellect of Charles Fanuel Hall Golightly, aged ten; what curled the lip of Benjamin Franklin Jenkins, aged seven; or what shone in the bold

e-ship and its sole survivor at twenty-five, with a wild intermediate career of unmixed piracy, until the Rebellion called him to civil service again as a blockade-runner, and peace and a desire for rural repose led him to seek the janitorship of the Doemville Academy, where no questions were asked and r

hat East Injymen dead. We used to call him little Weevils, he was so young-like. But, bless your hearts, boys! he wa'n't anything to little Sammy Barlow, ez once crep' up inter the ca

es big for him?" asked B. F

young Jenkins wit

was a small, a very small man? R

eamed in the faces o

d C. F. Hall Golightly, lifting h

. It was allowed that he had pizened his schoolmast

it to the janitor. It was his father's best bran

boy!" he said, in a voice

he youthful Jenkins, "but it's

er grocery," said Pirate Jim, "o

s. Since he became a tyrant and usurper, and forced me to

Ha, we want action-action! We must strike the blow for freedom to-night-aye, this very night. The scow is already anchored in the

ughty crest of their youngest comrade-the bright, the beautiful Bromley Chitterlings. Alas! that very moment o

udies, young gentlemen," he s

is last wor

t!" screamed

emper tyrannis!" said

gainst his empty stomach, brought the tutor a limp and lifeless mass to the ground. Goli

ets," said the p

d nothing but a Harva

ly," said

s!" cried the enthus

stood gazing thoughtful

government and the common school system. What the c

screamed

olightly s

hall not become a pir

Chitterlings

the delegates of another. Nay, turn not away. Let us be friends, purs

Pirate Jim?"

ise money on the watch to purchase

ful spirits parted, brigh

ademy, quickly followed. By the lurid gleams of the flames, a long, low, sloop-rigged scow, with every mast gone except one, slowly worked her way out of the mill-dam towards the Sound. The next day three boys wer

ding-school of Madam Brimborion was visited stealthily, and two of the fairest heiresses of Connecticut-daughters of the president of a savings bank, and insurance director-wer