Several of the boys who were down in the yard rushed up in
great haste to this classmate's room. It happened to be unlocked.
They got in without knocking and found him undressed with
nothing on but his nightgown. His bed happened to be near
the fire, and standing up on the edge in front of the fire
was Bishop Williams's works. It turned out that he was in
the habit of thoroughly warming the book and then of putting
it in the bed before he got in himself, so that it would serve
the function of a warming-pan. The young gentleman turned
out in after life to be a very distinguished Bishop himself,
an eminent champion of the doctrines of the Episcopal Church,
which he had doubtless acquired by absorption.
The boys were always ready for mischief and always kind and
easily moved to sympathy. One day just before prayers there
was found on the square in front of Willard's Hotel a large
load of straw. The owner had stopped and unhitched his horses
to feed them at Willard's stable. Some mischievous boy set
fire to the load and it burned with a blaze which illuminated
the whole neighborhood.
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