Des Moines courier. ([Ottumwa] Iowa) 1848-1854, 1851-04-11
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WariloWs of Welland;
Or, the Modern Prodigal.

longing TO his Grace Of Rutland, stand
ing in an airy little market-place of that
clean looking town, and commanding,
from its windows, pleasant peeps Of the
green hills and the. great Wicksop
Woodslwhich shut out the view of Chats
worth, the Palace Of the Peak, which
lies behind them. Many travellers who
used to traverse this road from the south
10 Manchester, in the days of long coa-
ches and long winlry drives, know well
the Rutland Arms" and will recall the
sound OF the guards buge, as they
whirled up TO the door amid throng Of
srooms, walters, and village. idlers, the
ladder already taken from its stand by
the wall, and placed by the oflicous
Boots in towering position, ready at the
instant OF the coach stopping, TO clap it
under your feet, and facilitate your des-
cent. Many travellers viii recall one
feature of that accommodating inn, which
uniting aristocratic with commercial en-
tertaiument. has two doors; one lordlv
ard large, 10 front, 20 which all carriages
OF nobility, prelacy, and gentility nalu-
rally draw up; and one at the end, 10
which all gigs, coaches, mails. and still
less dignifed conveyances, as naturally
are driven. Our travellers will as Wv
idly remember the passage which recei-
we'd them at this entrance, and The room
TO she left, the Travellers Room, into
/, which they were ushered. 10 tia, cor
ner room, having windows tothe market.
place in front, aud one small peeping
window q, the side, commanding the
turn at the north road, and the interest
ing arrivals at the secondary entrance.
we now introduce our readers. ,.... l,.
Here sat a solitary gentleman. He
was man apparently of fve-and thirty;
tall, considerably handsome; n face of
the oval character, nose little aqualine,
hair dark, eyebrows dark and strong,
and a light, clear, seli-possessed look,
that showed plainly enough that he was
man Of active mind, and well TO do in
tie world. you would have thought,
from his genlemanly air, and bv no
means commercial manner, that he would
have found his way in at The, great front
door, and into one of the private rooms;
but he came over night by the mail, and
on being asked, on entering the house,
by the waiter, 10 what sort of room he
would be shown, answered, carelessly
and abruptly, sang where .s.h ...u.f
Here he was, seated in the back left
>hand corner of the room, large screen
between himself and the door, and be-
fore him a table spread with goodly
breakfast apparatus--coffee. eggs, fresh
broiled trou. from the neighboring Weye,
and a large round of corned beef, as a
deTRier resort. r IA ....s...l, a.
., II was morning as desperately and
delugingly rainy as any that showery
region can send down. In the phrase of
the country. it siied down, or run, as il
through sieve. Straight down stream
ed the plentenus element, thick inces-
SAINT, and looking as il il would hold on
the whole day through. 1t numbered
onibe Roof, beat sonorous tune on por-
ches and projections of door and win
dow. splashed in torrents on window
ellis, and streaming panes. and rushed
along the streets in rivers. The hills
were hidden, the very fowls driven 10
roosi--and not soul was to be seen Out
ofsdoors. a aH s - E.
Presently there was sound of hur-
rying wheels, spring-cart came up to
the side door, with two men in it, in
thick great coats, and with sacks over
their shoulders; one huge umbrella held
over their heads, and they and their
horse yet looking three parts drowned.
They lost no time in pitching their um.
brella 10 the osiler, who issued from the
passage, descending and rushing into the
inn. In the next moment the two coun.
trymen, divested of their sacks and
great'coats, were ushered into this room
the waiter making sort of apology,
because there was fire there--it was in
the middle Of July. The two men, who
Sappealed Peak farmers, with hard hands
which they rubbed at the fire, and tanned
and weather-beaten compilations, order.
ed breakfast--of coffee and broiled ham
(which speedily made its appearance
'on table placed directly in front OF the
before solitary stranger, between the side
lookout window and the front one.
They looked, and were soon perceiy-
ed by our stranger, to be father and son
sIhe old man. of apparently upward o.
sixty, was a middle sized man, of nc
Herculean mould, but well knit together
and with face thin and wrinkled as
with lifelong acquaintance with care
andsiruggle. His complexion was more
like brown leather than any thing else,
and his hair which was thin and grizzled
was combed backward from his face
and hung in masses about his ears
The son was much taller than the father
astooping figure, with faxen hair, 9
large nose, ligh, blue eyes and altogeth-
era very gawky look.
'"- The old man seemed to eat with little
appetite, and TO be sunk into himself al
N ne was oppressed by some heavy
trouble. Yet he every now and ther
reused himself, cast an anxious look a
his son, and said "Joe, lad, thou eat
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