Kilmeny of the Orchard

body in Lindsay for three generations

back.

“ They have no living children, but Old Bob has a black cat which is his especial pride and darling. The name of this ani- mal is Timothy and as such he must al— ways be called and referred to. Never, as you value Robert’s good opinion, let him hear you speaking of his pet as ‘ the cat,’ or even as ‘Tim.’ You will never be forgiven and he will not consider you a fit person to have charge of the school.

“ You shall have my room, a little place over the kitchen, with a ceiling that fol- lows the slant of the roof down one side, against which you will bump your head times innumerable until you learn to re- member that it is there, and a looking glass which will make one of your eyes as small as a pea and the other as big as an orange.

“ But to compensate for these disad— vantages the supply of towels is generous and unexceptionable: and there is a win-

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