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 do n't know any other fellow I can ask . The work is n't hard , though you 'll likely find it monotonous . Of course , this little north-shore farming settlement is n't a very lively place . The rising and setting of the sun are the most exciting events of the average day . But the people are very kind and hospitable ; and Prince Edward Island in the month of June is such a thing as you do n't often see except in happy dreams . There are some trout in the pond and you 'll always find an old salt at the harbour ready and willing to take you out cod-fishing or lobstering . `` I 'll bequeath you my boarding house . You 'll find it comfortable and not further from the school than a good constitutional . Mrs. Williamson is the dearest soul alive ; and she is one of those old-fashioned cooks who feed you on feasts of fat things and whose price is above rubies . `` Her husband , Robert , or Bob , as he is commonly called despite his sixty years , is quite a character in his way . He is an amusing old gossip , with a turn for racy comment and a finger in everybody 's pie . He knows everything about everybody in Lindsay for three generations back . `` They have no living children , but Old Bob has a black cat which is his especial pride and darling . The name of this animal is Timothy and as such he must always be called and referred to . Never , as you value Robert 's good opinion , let him hear you speaking of his pet as ` the cat , ' or even as ` Tim . ' You will never be forgiven and he will not consider you a fit person to have charge of the school . `` You shall have my room , a little place over the kitchen , with a ceiling that follows the slant of the roof down one side , against which you will bump your head times innumerable until you learn to remember that it is there , and a looking glass which will make one of your eyes as small as a pea and the other as big as an orange . `` But to compensate for these disadvantages the supply of towels is generous and unexceptionable ; and there is a window whence you will daily behold an occidental view over Lindsay Harbour and the gulf beyond which is an unspeakable miracle of beauty . The sun is setting over it as I write and I see such a sea of glass mingled with fire as might have figured in the visions of the Patmian seer .
A vessel is sailing away into the gold and crimson and pearl of the horizon ; the big revolving light on the tip XXXXX the headland beyond the harbour has just been lighted and is winking and flashing like a beacon , '' ` O'er the foam Of perilous seas in faerie lands forlorn . ' ''
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