"There," said he, emphatically, as if he had fulfilled his mission, at the same time placing the pitcher near his father's plate upon the table. The good man took it up, examined the contents with a critical eye, poured out a glassful of the sparkling liquid and drained it to the last drop. "Ah," said he, with a sigh expressive of great satisfaction, "_that_ is something like water! _that_ does a man good!" This evidence of parental fallibility Master Willard enjoyed hugely, but it was many years before he ventured to give his father an opportunity to join in the laugh at his own expense, by telling him of the occurrence. CHAPTER IV. 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." Willard Glazier was, by no means, what is termed a bad boy, at school. It is true he was full of mischief; was the last in for study and the first out for recreation, but he was neither disobedient nor inattentive to his lessons. One scholarly element, however, he lacked. The bump which phrenologists term reverence had small development in him at this period of his existence. His record always stood high in the matter of lessons, but low in the matter of conduct. Instances of insubordination occurred whenever he thought he was treated unfairly, while no boy was ever more ready to submit to authority when wisely and justly administered. The following incident is an illustration in point: One of his teachers bore the name of Cornelius Carter. We have been unable to ascertain this gentleman's nationality, nor would his history, if known to us, be pertinent to this work, but we have reason to believe that he was of Scottish descent, if not actually a native of that "Land of brown heath and shaggy wood, Land of the mountain and the flood." At all events he possessed all the sterling qualities of that clear-headed people. A man of fine parts and scholarly attainments, earnestly bent upon doing his whole duty, vigorous, energetic and thorough in everything, Carter was just the man to conduct a school with mathematical precision, but at the same time, his natural irritability was such that the whirlwind was less fierce than his wrath, when the latter was aroused. About the time of his advent among the pupils at the Little York public school, gum-chewing had become an accomplishment among the boys, and though it was a species of amusement positively forbidden, was carried on surreptitiously throughout the school.