"I went and did not stand upon the order of my going. Mrs.
Williamson is She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed. She has an inconvenient
habit of making you realize that she is exactly right, and that
you would be all kinds of a fool if you didn't take her advice.
You feel that what she thinks to-day you will think to-morrow.

"In Charlottetown I consulted a doctor. He punched and pounded
me, and poked things at me and listened at the other end of them;
and finally he said I must stop work 'immejutly and to onct' and
hie me straightway to a climate not afflicted with the north-east
winds of Prince Edward Island in the spring. I am not to be
allowed to do any work until the fall. Such was his dictum and
Mrs. Williamson enforces it.

"I shall teach this week out and then the spring vacation of
three weeks begins. I want you to come over and take my place as
pedagogue in the Lindsay school for the last week in May and the
month of June. The school year ends then and there will be
plenty of teachers looking for the place, but just now I cannot
get a suitable substitute. I have a couple of pupils who are
preparing to try the Queen's Academy entrance examinations, and I
don't like to leave them in the lurch or hand them over to the
tender mercies of some third-class teacher who knows little Latin
and less Greek. Come over and take the school till the end of
the term, you petted son of luxury. It will do you a world of
good to learn how rich a man feels when he is earning twenty-five
dollars a month by his own unaided efforts!

"Seriously, Marshall, I hope you can come, for I don't know any