Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. V, No. XXIX., October, 1852

CHAPTER XX.--A NEW LODGER.

The long vacation saunters on toward term-time, like an idle river very leisurely strolling down a flat country to the sea. Mr. Guppy saunters along with it congenially. He has blunted the blade of his penknife, and broken the point off, by sticking that instrument into his desk in every direction. Not that he bears the desk any ill-will, but he must do so...