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She could not quite make up her mind to touch the feverish bills with the cankering copper in them, and left them airing themselves on the table. The document she held ran as follows: Silas Peckham, Esq., Principal of the Apollinean Institute, In Account with Helen Darley, Assist. Teacher. Dr. To Salary for quarter ending Jan. 1st, @ $75 per quarter . . . . . . $75.00 Cr.
All this was internal, chiefly, and of course not recognized by Mr. Silas Peckham. The idea, that any full-grown, sensible man should have any other notion than that of getting the most work for the least money out of his assistants, had never suggested itself to him. Mr. Bernard had gone through this paroxysm, and cooled down, in the period while Mr.
In fact, these Annual Reports were considered by Mr. Peckham as his most effective advertisements. The first thing, therefore, was to see that the Committee was made up of persons known to the public.
It is not till one has topped Peckham or Hackney that a more extended horizon bursts on the eye, and one catches sight of the glittering summits of Belgravia. Account for it as we may, the phenomenon of a woman in the enjoyment of every comfort and luxury that wealth can give, but ready to barter it all for a few crumbs of contemptuous notice from persons of rank, is by no means uncommon.
Peckham gave very little personal attention to the department of instruction, but was always busy with contracts for flour and potatoes, beef and pork, and other nutritive staples, the amount of which required for such an establishment was enough to frighten a quartermaster. Mrs.
And Lewis Peckham found himself wooing health at the cost of music, and earning his living as prosaically as any mere bread-winner of them all. The "straight tip" on the Yankee Doodle proved to be an exception among its kind. The Y. D. which he had bought at ten cents, ran up in a week to twenty-five cents.
Silas Peckham had some contrivance for packing his Committees, whether they happened always to be made up of optimists by nature, whether they were cajoled into good-humor by polite attentions, or whether they were always really delighted with the wonderful acquirements of the pupils and the admirable order of the school, it is certain that their Annual Reports were couched in language which might warm the heart of the most cold-blooded and calculating father that ever had a family of daughters to educate.
"No maka troub', Signore," whined the Italian master of the bear in about the same tone Bruin himself had begged. Mr. Day was helping the overwrought Miss Peckham to her feet. "Of all things!" he muttered, "Take her out the other way, Janice do." "I wash my hands of you!" repeated the spinster, scarcely aware yet of what had happened. Then she suddenly descried the bear again.
"It had broad, alternate rings of red and black," replied Miss Peckham, with the air of one quoting from an authority, "the distinguishing marks of the coral snake, one of the seventeen poisonous reptiles out of the one hundred and eleven species of snakes found in the United States."
It was now eleven o'clock, and the battle-field of last evening was as we left it. Mr. Peckham's visit was unexpected, perhaps not very well timed, but the Colonel received him civilly. "Beautifully lighted, these rooms last night!" said Mr. Peckham. "Winter-strained?" The Colonel nodded. "How much do you pay for your winter-strained?" The Colonel told him the price.
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