Such was his dictum and Mrs. Williamson enforces it . `` I shall teach this week out and then the spring vacation of three weeks begins . I want you to come over and take my place as pedagogue in the Lindsay school for the last week in May and the month of June . The school year ends then and there will be plenty of teachers looking for the place , but just now I can not get a suitable substitute . I have a couple of pupils who are preparing to try the Queen 's Academy entrance examinations , and I do n't like to leave them in the lurch or hand them over to the tender mercies of some third-class teacher who knows little Latin and less Greek . Come over and take the school till the end of the term , you petted son of luxury . 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 XXXXX .
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