Phenix gazette. [volume] (Alexandria [D.C.]) 1825-1833, 1825-03-26

whether ne had key that would open
the drawer. The man, who was new
conner, turned pale as death, but it APP
peared rather from rage than guilt,
and fariously replied, "You might as
well say, at once, that took the note
Merry calmy rejoined, 81 do say So"
Gle me stick, gle me stick = cried
old Crispin, who took it all for grant
ed; and snatching up a boot-tree,
would have levelled the man with the
floor. "Hold, Hold exclaimed the
spectators let US hear further.
q say, young man, you took your
masters note, a one pound note Of
Smith &sCo's bank, Nottingham It
was, it was returned Crispin, and a.
gain heaved the boot-tree aloft.-
'Hold,' said Merry, be calm, do the
man no injury what number was the
note "now asked the trembling culprit.
Merry paused.
THAT'S matter / have overlooked;
keep the man here; will 60 and con-
suit my book; you shall know in S
minutes He went and returned al
most simultaneously: 1T was of such
a number, and it will be found in a GER
tain moving grass field, under three
pebbles At once Crispin uttered a
dreadful shout, and struck at the cul-
pfit, but e,leaped over the stall, shot
through the clamorous crowd, and was
gone. The crowd pursued with. ter
rible uproar, and Merry and his friend
pursued with equal eagerness /; for they
expected no less than his death, if he
were caught, and in fact they came up
Just in time to save him. The enraged
throng had seized him, and his clothes
were literally rent to shreds, and his
bare head was covered with blood, the
consequence of a desperate struggle to
escape and his enemies were just in
the act of hosting him over the bridge,
on which they were, into the river
The voice of Merry arrested their
hands, and they permitted him to de-
part. The money was found exactly
as described"
| This was a wonderous tale 10 be sure,
and l FASTENED to myfriend for a solu-
ttion; after some joking and equivoca.
ton, he told me, laughing that the
plough, as every one must suppose, he
had seen about an hour before. For
the discovery of the cobler's note, he
was, like his brother conjurors, indebt.
ed to good fortune. Walking, accor-
ding to custom, early in the morning,
to some part of his estate, he had been
observing to aneighbor whom he had
met, that he expected to have all the
country about him for intelligence on
losses and crosses. At that time they
spied the aforesaid journcyman snob
busy in field of moving grass, and
guessing it was for no good purpose,
they concealed themselves till he was
gone, when they found the note above
described made memorandum Of it,
and left it well owing it would be soon
missed by somebody.
My friends reputation was BY this
stroke of fortune at once established
and his house was crowded with visi-
tors, particularly ladies, to inquire par
ticulars, and to add a modest hint on
the great service his knowledge must
be of to his friends. But his purpose
was answered-his garden, his orchard,
barns, poultry yard turnip fields, and
even sheep walks, which had been plum
dered in spite of boards exhibiting tire.
mendous threatenings of steel traps &
spring guns; in spite Of handbills, and
offers of reward by the association for
the prosecution Of felons-now retain
ed their respective charge unmolested,
while the outrageous conduct of the
villagers fully justified his avowed de-
termination not to employ his learn
ing in future except for his own advan-