150 © FIRST LESSONS IN SCHOOL-KEEPING.

and made fast the little vessel. A plank was run out,
and two ladies, one old and one young, stepped ashore.
Several children followed ; a servant came out last, with
two large hampers. The old lady addressed herself very
politely to Ludwig, believing him to be the principal per-
sonage, and then to Carl, when she had learned-her mis-
take. She asked leave to join their party, and declared _
her fondness for good music to be such that she could
scarcely refrain from this act of seeming forwardness,

Carl made all the courteous speeches that he
could muster up for the occasion. He said his pupils
were very young, and that they were beginners. He
proceeded, however, with modest confidence, to lead
them in an evening hymn, and wound up with a German
song about the Rhine, in which Ludwig joined both with
voice and instrument. Mrs. Grayson (such was the
lady’s name) and her children were highly pleased, and
next day sent from her greenhouse and garden a basket
of flowers and a profusion of grapes, which Carl said
put him in mind of Germany.

- But all the visits which the young preceptor received
were not equally agreeable. One morning, as Carl,
with one or two of the boys, sat just in the door, en-
gaged upon some lessons, a buggy, or light chaise,
suddenly stopped in the road, and a young man, highly
dressed and foppish in his manners, jumped out. “It
ain’t possible! Sure, this is not the Dutchman? Why,
Adler, is it really you?”