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HTML version by Al Haines + + + + + + + + + + THE SNOW-IMAGE + + AND + + OTHER TWICE-TOLD TALES + + + + LITTLE DAFFYDOWNDILLY + + By + + Nathaniel Hawthorne + + +Daffydowndilly was so called because in his nature he resembled a flower, +and loved to do only what was beautiful and agreeable, and took no +delight in labor of any kind. But, while Daffydowndilly was yet a little +boy, his mother sent him away from his pleasant home, and put him under +the care of a very strict schoolmaster, who went by the name of Mr. Toil. +Those who knew him best affirmed that this Mr. Toil was a very worthy +character; and that he had done more good, both to children and grown +people, than anybody else in the world. Certainly he had lived long +enough to do a great deal of good; for, if all stories be true, he had +dwelt upon earth ever since Adam was driven from the garden of Eden. + +Nevertheless, Mr. Toil had a severe and ugly countenance, especially for +such little boys or big men as were inclined to be idle; his voice, too, +was harsh; and all his ways and customs seemed very disagreeable to our +friend Daffydowndilly. The whole day long, this terrible old +schoolmaster sat at his desk overlooking the scholars, or stalked about +the school-room with a certain awful birch rod in his hand. Now came a +rap over the shoulders of a boy whom Mr. Toil had caught at play; now he +punished a whole class who were behindhand with their lessons; and, in +short, unless a lad chose to attend quietly and constantly to his book, +he had no chance of enjoying a quiet moment in the school-room of Mr. +Toil. + +"This will never do for me," thought Daffydowndilly. + +Now, the whole of Daffydowndilly's life had hitherto been passed with his +dear mother, who had a much sweeter face than old Mr. Toil, and who had +always been very indulgent to her little boy. No wonder, therefore, that +poor Daffydowndilly found it a woful change, to be sent away from the +good lady's side, and put under the care of this ugly-visaged +schoolmaster, who never gave him any apples or cakes, and seemed to think +that little boys were created only to get lessons. + +"I can't bear it any longer," said Daffydowndilly to himself, when he had +been at school about a week. "I'll run away, and try to find my dear +mother; and, at any rate, I shall never find anybody half so disagreeable +as this old Mr. Toil!" + +So, the very next morning, off started poor Daffydowndilly, and began his +rambles about the world, with only some bread and cheese for his +breakfast, and very little pocket-money to pay his expenses. But he had +gone only a short distance, when he overtook a man of grave and sedate +appearance, who was trudging at a moderate pace along the road. + +"Good morning, my fine lad," said the stranger; and his voice seemed hard +and severe, but yet had a sort of kindness in it; "whence do you come so +early, and whither are you going?" + +Little Daffydowndilly was a boy of very ingenuous disposition, and had +never been known to tell a lie in all his life. Nor did he tell one now. +He hesitated a moment or two, but finally confessed that he had run away +from school, on account of his great dislike to Mr. Toil; and that he +was resolved to find some place in the world where he should never see or +hear of the old schoolmaster again. + +"O, very well, my little friend!" answered the stranger. "Then we will +go together; for I, likewise, have had a good deal to do with Mr. Toil, +and should be glad to find some place where he was never heard of." + +Our friend Daffydowndilly would have been better pleased with a companion +of his own age, with whom he might have gathered flowers along the +roadside, or have chased butterflies, or have done many other things to +make the journey pleasant. But he had wisdom enough to understand that +he should get along through the world much easier by having a man of +experience to show him the way. So he accepted the stranger's proposal, +and they walked on very sociably together. + +They had not gone far, when the road passed by a field where some +haymakers were at work, mowing down the tall grass, and spreading it out +in the sun to dry. Daffydowndilly was delighted with the sweet smell of +the new-mown grass, and thought how much pleasanter it must be to make +hay in the sunshine, under the blue sky, and with the birds singing +sweetly in the neighboring trees and bushes, than to be shut up in a +dismal school-room, learning lessons all day long, and continually +scolded by old Mr. Toil. But, in the midst of these thoughts, while he +was stopping to peep over the stone wall, he started back and caught hold +of his companion's hand. + +"Quick, quick!" cried he. "Let us run away, or he will catch us!" + +"Who will catch us?" asked the stranger. + +"Mr. Toil, the old schoolmaster!" answered Daffydowndilly. "Don't you +see him amongst the haymakers?" + +And Daffydowndilly pointed to an elderly man, who seemed to be the owner +of the field, and the employer of the men at work there. He had stripped +off his coat and waistcoat, and was busily at work in his shirt-sleeves. +The drops of sweat stood upon his brow; but he gave himself not a +moment's rest, and kept crying out to the haymakers to make hay while the +sun shone. Now, strange to say, the figure and features of this old +farmer were precisely the same as those of old Mr. Toil, who, at that +very moment, must have been just entering his school-room. + +"Don't be afraid," said the stranger. "This is not Mr. Toil the +schoolmaster, but a brother of his, who was bred a farmer; and people say +he is the most disagreeable man of the two. However, he won't trouble +you, unless you become a laborer on the farm." + +Little Daffydowndilly believed what his companion said, but was very +glad, nevertheless, when they were out of sight of the old farmer, who +bore such a singular resemblance to Mr. Toil. The two travellers had +gone but little farther, when they came to a spot where some carpenters +were erecting a house. Daffydowndilly begged his companion to stop a +moment; for it was a very pretty sight to see how neatly the carpenters +did their work, with their broad-axes, and saws, and planes, and hammers, +shaping out the doors, and putting in the window-sashes, and nailing on +the clapboards; and he could not help thinking that he should like to +take a broad-axe, a saw, a plane, and a hammer, and build a little house +for himself. And then, when he should have a house of his own, old Mr. +Toil would never dare to molest him. + +But, just while he was delighting himself with this idea, little +Daffydowndilly beheld something that made him catch hold of his +companion's hand, all in a fright. + +"Make haste. Quick, quick!" cried he. "There he is again!" + +"Who?" asked the stranger, very quietly. + +"Old Mr. Toil," said Daffydowndilly, trembling. "There! he that is +overseeing the carpenters. 'T is my old schoolmaster, as sure as I'm +alive!" + +The stranger cast his eyes where Daffydowndilly pointed his finger; and +he saw an elderly man, with a carpenter's rule and compasses in his hand. +This person went to and fro about the unfinished house, measuring pieces +of timber, and marking out the work that was to be done, and continually +exhorting the other carpenters to be diligent. And wherever he turned +his hard and wrinkled visage, the men seemed to feel that they had a +task-master over them, and sawed, and hammered, and planed, as if for +dear life. + +"O no! this is not Mr. Toil, the schoolmaster," said the stranger. "It +is another brother of his, who follows the trade of carpenter." + +"I am very glad to hear it," quoth Daffydowndilly; "but if you please, +sir, I should like to get out of his way as soon as possible." + +Then they went on a little farther, and soon heard the sound of a drum +and fife. Daffydowndilly pricked up his ears at this, and besought his +companion to hurry forward, that they might not miss seeing the +soldiers. Accordingly, they made what haste they could, and soon met a +company of soldiers, gayly dressed, with beautiful feathers in their +caps, and bright muskets on their shoulders. In front marched two +drummers and two fifers, beating on their drums and playing on their +fifes with might and main, and making such lively music that little +Daffydowndilly would gladly have followed them to the end of the world. +And if he was only a soldier, then, he said to himself, old Mr. Toil +would never venture to look him in the face. + +"Quick step! Forward march!" shouted a gruff voice. + +Little Daffydowndilly started, in great dismay; for this voice which had +spoken to the soldiers sounded precisely the same as that which he had +heard every day in Mr. Toil's school-room, out of Mr. Toil's own mouth. +And, turning his eyes to the captain of the company, what should he see +but the very image of old Mr. Toil himself, with a smart cap and feather +on his head, a pair of gold epaulets on his shoulders, a laced coat on +his back, a purple sash round his waist, and a long sword, instead of a +birch rod, in his hand. And though he held his head so high, and +strutted like a turkey-cock, still he looked quite as ugly and +disagreeable as when he was hearing lessons in the schoolroom. + +"This is certainly old Mr. Toil," said Daffydowndilly, in a trembling +voice. "Let us run away, for fear he should make us enlist in his +company!" + +"You are mistaken again, my little friend," replied the stranger, very +composedly. "This is not Mr. Toil, the schoolmaster, but a brother of +his, who has served in the army all his life. People say he's a terribly +severe fellow; but you and I need not be afraid of him." + +"Well, well," said little Daffydowndilly, "but, if you please, sir, I +don't want to see the soldiers any more." + +So the child and the stranger resumed their journey; and, by and by, they +came to a house by the roadside, where a number of people were making +merry. Young men and rosy-checked girls, with smiles on their faces, +were dancing to the sound of a fiddle. It was the pleasantest sight that +Daffydowndilly had yet met with, and it comforted him for all his +disappointments. + +"O, let us stop here," cried he to his companion; "for Mr. Toil will never +dare to show his face where there is a fiddler, and where people are +dancing and making merry. We shall be quite safe here!" + +But these last words died away upon Daffydowndilly's tongue; for, +happening to cast his eyes on the fiddler, whom should be behold again, +but the likeness of Mr. Toil, holding a fiddle-bow instead of a birch +rod, and flourishing it with as much ease and dexterity as if he had been +a fiddler all his life! He had somewhat the air of a Frenchman, but +still looked exactly like the old schoolmaster; and Daffydowndilly even +fancied that he nodded and winked at him, and made signs for him to join +in the dance. + +"O dear me!" whispered he, turning pale. "It seems as if there was +nobody but Mr. Toil in the world. Who could have thought of his playing +on a fiddle!" + +"This is not your old schoolmaster," observed the stranger, "but another +brother of his, who was bred in France, where he learned the profession +of a fiddler. He is ashamed of his family, and generally calls himself +Monsieur le Plaisir; but his real name is Toil, and those who have known +him best think him still more disagreeable than his brothers." + +"Pray let us go a little farther," said Daffydowndilly. "I don't like +the looks of this fiddler at all." + +Well, thus the stranger and little Daffydowndilly went wandering along +the highway, and in shady lanes, and through pleasant villages; and +whithersoever they went, behold! there was the image of old Mr. Toil. +He stood like a scarecrow in the cornfields. If they entered a house, he +sat in the parlor; if they peeped into the kitchen, he was there. He +made himself at home in every cottage, and stole, under one disguise or +another, into the most splendid mansions. Everywhere there was sure to +be somebody wearing the likeness of Mr. Toil, and who, as the stranger +affirmed, was one of the old schoolmaster's innumerable brethren. + +Little Daffydowndilly was almost tired to death, when he perceived some +people reclining lazily in a shady place, by the side of the road. The +poor child entreated his companion that they might sit down there, and +take some repose. + +"Old Mr. Toil will never come here," said he; "for he hates to see +people taking their ease." + +But, even while he spoke, Daffydowndilly's eyes fell upon a person who +seemed the laziest, and heaviest, and most torpid of all those lazy and +heavy and torpid people who had lain down to sleep in the shade. Who +should it be, again, but the very image of Mr. Toil! + +"There is a large family of these Toils," remarked the stranger. "This +is another of the old schoolmaster's brothers, who was bred in Italy, +where he acquired very idle habits, and goes by the name of Signor Far +Niente. He pretends to lead an easy life, but is really the most +miserable fellow in the family." + +"O, take me back!--take me back!" cried poor little Daffydowndilly, +bursting into tears. "If there is nothing but Toil all the world over, I +may just as well go back to the school-house!" + +"Yonder it is,--there is the school-house!" said the stranger; for though +he and little Daffydowndilly had taken a great many steps, they had +travelled in a circle, instead of a straight line. "Come; we will go +back to school together." + +There was something in his companion's voice that little Daffydowndilly +now remembered; and it is strange that he had not remembered it sooner. +Looking up into his face, behold! there again was the likeness of old Mr. +Toil; so that the poor child had been in company with Toil all day, even +while he was doing his best to run away from him. Some people, to whom I +have told little Daffydowndilly's story, are of opinion that old Mr. Toil +was a magician, and possessed the power of multiplying himself into as +many shapes as he saw fit. + +Be this as it may, little Daffydowndilly had learned a good lesson, and +from that time forward was diligent at his task, because he knew that +diligence is not a whit more toilsome than sport or idleness. And when +he became better acquainted with Mr. Toil, he began to think that his +ways were not so very disagreeable, and that the old schoolmaster's smile +of approbation made his face almost as pleasant as even that of +Daffydowndilly's mother. + + + + + + + + + +End of Project Gutenberg's Little Daffydowndilly, by Nathaniel Hawthorne + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK LITTLE DAFFYDOWNDILLY *** + +***** This file should be named 9244.txt or 9244.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/9/2/4/9244/ + +Produced by David Widger. HTML version by Al Haines + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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