FROM A NEW ENGLAND HILLSIDE. 7 



congenial resting place upon the table or 

 floor.) 



This has been a stirring and eventful week 

 with us. Thursday was the opening day at 

 the school, and the girls have been flocking 

 back by ones and twos and threes and dozens, 

 with trunks and bags and bundles, and the 

 old-time lumbering stage and baggage wag 

 ons have been kept employed to the extent 

 of their capacity. And not only the new 

 girls, and those not new are here, but the 

 ancients, the old timers, the girls of the past, 

 who come only on account of old attractions 

 and to meet each other and to see the new 

 girls, are here in force, and have taken pos 

 session of the pleasant inn, and make its 

 low-studded rooms resound with their busy 

 chatter. 



Beauty may indeed be only skin deep, 

 but it warms the cockles of an old man s 

 heart to see the lovely faces, and witness 

 the fulness of life and boundless enthusi 

 asm of these young maids. It may be con 

 fessed that it has a chastening effect upon 

 him of the more muscular sex to see how 

 absolutely independent of any of his kind 

 are all of this body of Amazons. As he 

 takes his accustomed course along the 

 street he shrinks within himself, and mani- 



