But I didn't expect you to come from under the scow." How glad I was that he had been standing there watching for me to come up! If he had not been there, or if his legs had been green or the color of water, I believe I should have drowned.
I always liked the boy after that, though, of course, there was no particular reason for it.

He was a boarder.

His parents lived in New York.

Samuel Colbert was his real name, and the title of Rectus he obtained at school by being so good.

He scarcely ever did anything wrong, which was rather surprising to the rest of us, because he was not sickly or anything of that kind.