Courthope one follower among us) had emigrated west when still young,
leaving _Windsor Forest_ as his only monument and sole and sufficient
title to immortality.
CHAPTER XVIII
THE NEW SCHOOLMASTER
Mr. Trigg recalled--His successor--Father O'Keefe--His mild rule and
love of angling--My brother is assisted in his studies by the priest--
Happy fishing afternoons--The priest leaves us--How he had been
working out his own salvation--We run wild once more--My brother's
plan for a journal to be called _The Tin Box_--Our imperious editor's
exactions--My little brother revolts--_The Tin Box_ smashed up--The
loss it was to me.
The account of our schooling days under Mr. Trigg was given so far
back in this history that the reader will have little recollection of
it. Mr. Trigg was in a small way a sort of Jekyll and Hyde, all
pleasantness in one of his states and all black looks and truculence
in the other; so that out of doors and at table we children would say
to ourselves in astonishment, "Is this our schoolmaster?" but when in
school we would ask, "Is this Mr. Trigg?" But, as I have related, he
had been forbidden to inflict corporal punishment on us, and was
finally got rid of because in one of his demoniacal moods he thrashed
us brutally with his horsewhip.
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