rs, ate a cold breakfast that had been
laid out for him the night before, and set off to walk five miles to his
schoolhouse.

He usually reached it at half-past six; opened and aired the room, and
made the fire; and then sat down to read law until the arrival of the
hour for the commencement of the studies.

He taught diligently until twelve o'clock; then he dismissed the pupils
for two hours to go home and get their dinners; he ate the cold luncheon
of bread and cheese or meat that he had brought with him; and set off to
walk briskly the distance of a mile and a half to Shelton, where the
court was in session, and where he spent an hour watching their
proceedings and taking notes. He got back to his school at two o'clock;
called in his pupils for the afternoon session, and taught diligently
until six o'clock in the afternoon, when he dismissed them for the day,
shut up the schoolhouse, and set off to walk home.

He usually reached Woodside at about seven o'clock, where he found them
waiting tea for him. As this was the only meal Ishmael could take home,
Hannah always took care that it should be a comfortable and abundant
one. After tea he would give Reuben his lesson in bookkeeping, post up
the day's accounts, and then retire to his room to study for an hour or
two before going to bed. This was the history of five days out of every
week of Ishmael's life.

On Saturdays, according to custom, the school had a holiday; and Ishmael
spent the morning in working in the garden. As it was now the depth of
winter, there was but little to do, and half a day's work in the week
sufficed to keep all in order. Saturday afternoons Ishmael went over to
open and air the library at Tanglewood, and to return the books he had
read and bring back new ones. Saturday evenings he spent very much as he
did the preceding ones of the week--in giving Reuben his lesson, in
posting up the week's accounts, and in reading law until bed time.

On Sundays Ishmael rested from worldly labors and went to church to
refresh his soul. But for this Sabbath's rest, made obligatory upon him
by the Christian law, Ishmael must have broken down under his severe
labors. As it was, however, the benign Christian law of the Sabbath's
holy rest proved his salvation.

CHAPTER XLVIII.

ONWARD.

The boldness and the quiet,
That calmly go ahead,
In spite of wrath and riot,
In spite of quick and dead--
Warm energy to spur him,
Keen enter