Chapter 4

WILLARD GLAZIER AT SCHOOL.

School-days continued.--Boys will be boys.--Cornelius Carter, the teacher.--Young Willard's rebellion against injustice.-- Gum-chewing.--Laughable race through the snow.--The tumble into a snow-bank, and what came of it.--The runaway caught.--Explanation and reconciliation.--The new master, James Nichols.--"Spare the rod and spoil the child."--The age of chivalry not gone.--Magnanimity of a school-boy.--Friendship between Willard and Henry Abbott.--Good-bye to the "little deacon" 42