The Evansville journal. (Evansville, Ind.) 1834-184?, 1845-03-13
FRoA THE LIFE OF MANsIE WATCH, TAILOR IN
DALKITH.
THEBLOoDY BUSINESS.

So stands the Thracian huntsman with his spear
Full in the gap, and hopes The hunted boar
And hears MIN in the rustling wood, aud sees
his course at distance by the bending trees
And thinks-lie comes my mortal enemy,
And either he must tall in fight or l..
lDryden's Palamon and Arctic.
Nay, never shake thy CORY locks at me
Thou cansi not sa | did it!-[Maebeth.
1t was a fine summer morning, somewhere
about four o'clock when | wakened from my
nights rest, and was about thinking to bestir
myself when | heard the sound of voices in
the kali yard stretching south from our back
windows. / listened-and | listened-and
| better l~istened-and still the sound of the
argle-bargling became more distinct, now in
a tieeching way, and now in harsh angry
tones, as if a quarrelsome disagreement had
taken place. | had not the comfort of my
wife's company in this dilemma; she being
away, three days before, OIL the top of Tam
ME Trundle the carriers cart, TO Lauder, on
a visit TO her folks there; her mother, (my
guide mother like,) having been for some
time i'll with an income in her leg, which
threatened TO make a lami;er of her in her
old age, the two doctors there-not speaking
of the blacksmith, and sundry seekly old wo-
men--not being able TO make nothing of the
business; SO none happened to be with me
in the room, saving were Benjie, who was
lying asleep at The back OF the bed, with his
little Kilmarnock on his head. as sound as a
top. Nevertheless, | looked for my class;
and on opening one half of the window shut
tiers | saw four young kirkies, well dressed
Indeed three Of them customers of my
own--all belonging TO the town; two o fthen
young doctors, one of them a writer's clerk
and the other a grocer; the whole of them
looking very fierce and fearsohe, like turkey
cocks; staggering about with arms as ifthey
had been the kings Dragons; and printing
a pair of pistols, which one of the surgeons
a spirity ~out-spoken lad, Master Blister, wa.
holding in his grip.
was jaloused at once what they were af
ter, being now a wee up to fire arms; so
saw that skalth was TO come of it; and tina
| would be wanting in my datyun four heads
first, as a christian; second as a man; third
as a subject; and fourth, as father; if | with
held myself from the scene; nor lifted NJ
my voice, however fruitlessIy, against sucl
crying iniquity, as the letting out of human
blood: SO forth i hastAnad, halfd-e~~e, -~i+4
my grey stockings UP my thigh, over m,
~lcorduroys, and my old hat above my cowl Il
the kail-yard of contention.
| was just in the nick of time: and m,
presence checked the %effusion of blood for
Elittle-but wait a wee. So high and furiou!
were at least three of the party, that | saw i
: was catching wa ter in a seive to waste word
: on them, knowing. as clearly as the SUI
serves the world, that lnterceding would b.
of no avail. Howsoever, made a feinI, ant
Threatened to bowl away for a magistrate, j
they would not desist from their barbarou
and bloody purpose; but f'fegs, | had bette
have kept my counsel till it was asked for
'Tailor Mansie," quoth Master Thoma'
Blister, with a furious cock ofe the eye--h'
was a queer Eirish birkie, come over for hi
Education, "since ye have ventured to thrus
e your nose, ~mavoureen," said he 'where no
bodyinvited ye, you must just stay said he
'and abide by the consequences. This is al
affair of honor" quoth he; ''andi if ye ven
iture 10 stir one foot from the spot, och then
ma bouchal," said he, "by the poker of 81
Patrick, but whisk through ye goes n o
these leaden playthings, as sure as ye eve
spoiled a coat or cabbaged broa dcloth! Y,
have now come out, We obserye--hark We,
said he--"and are art and part in the bus
ness; and, if one, or both, Of the principal
q be killed, poor DEVILS" said he, "we are a
like liable to take our trial before the just
i ciary Court, bark ye; and, by the powers,'
said he, 81 doubt not but, on proper consid
Grafton, ma chree, that they will allow us t
get off mercifully, on this side of hanging, b
u verdict of m~anslaughter."
'Od, | found myself Immediately in
scrape; but how to get out of it baf1ed m
gumption. 1t set me all a shivering; yet
thought that, come the worst when il woult
, they surely would not hang the father of
of a helpless small family, that had nothin
but his needle for their support, if | made
proper afidavy, about having tried to max
peace between the youths. So, conscienc
being a brave supporter, | abode in silencl
though not without many queer and qua
mish thoughts, and pit-patting of the hear
not ~unco-pleasant in the tholing.
IN "Blood and woundsim bawled Maist'
+, Thomas Blister, alt would be a disgrace 70
lie ever on the honorable profession ofphysick
De egging on poor Master Willy Magneezt
whose face was as white as double bleache
: linen, ''to make any apology for such an i
suit. Arrah, my honey! you not fit to do
Tor a cat--you not fit to bleed a c%alf--yt
not fit to poultice a pig-afier three yea
apprenticeship" said he, sand a winter wi
Doctor Monroe BY the cupping glasses
'Pocrates," said he, land by the Pistol
"a Gallon, but would have caned him on Il
" spot, if he had just let out half as much