48 PEEP AT OUR NEIGHBORS.

Doctor Windman seemed always to
have his head as full of learning as his
saddle-bags were of medicines. He was
in the constant habit of using, even on
the most common occasions, the longest
and most out-of-the-way words, and of
tying them together into the hardest and
most fantastic knots. A perfect volcano
of Latin and Greek would issue from his
mouth at times.

A most extraordinary person was this
Doctor Windman. He was small, so far
as his physical structure—borrowing, for
the occasion, a couple of words from the
doctor—was concerned. But his mind!
to the youngsters in Willow Lane it ap-