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Old Fisbee had come (from nobody knehere) to Plattville to teach, and

had been principal of the High School for ten years, instructing his

pupils after a peculiar fashion of his own, neglecting the ordinary

courses of High School instruction to lecture on archaeology to the

duetful and absent, lost

in his few books and his own reflections, until, though undeniably a

scholar, he had been discharged for incompetency He was old; he had no

to do The blow had

seean to drop in at the hotel bar,

where Wilkerson, the professional drunkard, favored him with his society

The oldof the end He sold

his books in order to continue his credit at the Palace bar, and once or

twice, unable to proceed to his oelling, spent the night in a lumber

yard, piloted thither by the hardier veteran, Wilkerson

Theafter the editor took him home, Fisbee appeared at the

"Herald" office in a new hat and a decent suit of black He had received

his salary in advance, his books had been repurchased, and he had become

the reportorial staff of the "Carlow County Herald"; also, he was to write