rted that theological
students developed a third eyelid,--the nictitating membrane, which is so
well known in birds, and which serves to shut out, not all light, but all
the light they do not want. Their little skirmishes did not prevent
their being very good friends, who had a common interest in many things
and many persons. Both were on the committee which had the care of the
Library and attended to the purchase of books. Each was scholar enough
to know the wants of scholars, and disposed to trust the judgment of the
other as to what books should be purchased. Consequently, the clergyman
secured the addition to the Library of a good many old theological works
which the physician would have called brimstone divinity, and held to be
just the thing to kindle fires with,--good books still for those who know
how to use them, oftentimes as awful examples of the extreme of
disorganization the whole moral system may undergo when a barbarous
belief has strangled the natural human instincts. The physician, in the
mean time, acquired for the collection some of those medical works where
one may find recorded various rare and almost incredible cases, which may
not have their like for a whole century, and then repeat themselves, so
as to give a new lease of credibility to stories which had come to be
looked upon as fables.

Both the clergyman and the physician took a very natural interest in the
young man who had come to reside in their neighborhood for the present,
perhaps for a long period. The rector would have been glad to see him at
church. He would have liked more especially to have had him hear his
sermon on the Duties of Young Men to Society. The doctor, meanwhile, was
meditating on the duties of society to young men, and wishing that he
could gain the young man's confidence, so as to help him out of any false
habit of mind or any delusion to which he might be subject, if he had the
power of being useful to him.

Dr. Butts was the leading medical practitioner, not only of Arrowhead
Village, but of all the surrounding region. He was an excellent specimen
of the country doctor, self-reliant, self-sacrificing, working a great
deal harder for his living than most of those who call themselves the
laboring classes,--as if none but those whose hands were hardened by the
use of farming or mechanical implements had any work to do. He had that
sagacity without which learning is a mere incumbrance, and he had also a
fair share of tha