Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1853-12-30
From Dickens Household Words.
THE FLOWER-BELLS.

Soft Midsummer air, CHEEKY sunshine and
pertumed with all the scents that it had rob
bed out Of his nursery garden, kept in thro'
the monthly roses at the porch and the half
open cottage door, to make itself at home III
George Swayne's room. 1t busted itself there,
sweeping and rustilng about, as if it had as
much right to the place and was as much the
the tenant of it as the gardener himself. 1t
had also a sort of femauine or wilely claim
on George; who, having been spending halt
an hour over short letter written upon u
large sheet, was invited by the Midsummer
air to look after his garden. The best efforts
were being made by his gentle friend to tear
the paper from his hand A bee had come
into the room-George kept bees-and had
been lowering about the letter; so drunk, pos
sibly, with honey that he had mistaken it for
great lily. Certainly he did at last settle
upon it. The lily Was legal document to
this effect:
"SIR-We are instructed hereby to give you no.
tice of the death of Mr. Thomas Queeks of Edmon-
ton the last of the three lives for which your lease
was granted, and TO inform you that you may Of
tain renewal OF the same on payment of one
hundred guineas to the undersigned.
1--WE are, Sir,
" l our there the bee sat on the obedent Ser
yants)
"FLTNT AND GRINsToSE.
Mr.. Swayne granted himself q rule to con-
slider in his own mind what the lawyers meant
by their uncertain PHYSIOLOGY 1t did not
mean, he concluded, that Messrs. +. and G.
were willing, for one hundred pounds, to re-
new the life of Mr.. Queeks, Of Edmonton ::
but it did mean that he must turn out of the
house and grounds (Which had been Swavne's
Nursery Garden for three generations pastl
unless he would pay large fine for the re-
newal of his lease. He WAS but young fell
low of five andtwcnty, who, until recently.
had been at work for the support of an old
father and mother His mother had been
! dead atwelvemonth last Midsummerday; and
! his father, who had been we'll while his dame
was with him, sickeued after she was gone.
and died before the apple-gathering was oy-
er. The cottage and the garden were more
precious to George rs a home than as place
of business. There were thoughts of parting
like thoughts of another loss by DEATH or
of all past losses again to be suffered freshly
and together-whlch so clouded the eyes of
Mr.. Swayne that at last he could scarcely tell
when he looked at the letter. whether the bee
was or WAS not portion of the writing.
An old woman came in with Mldsnm-
mer cough, sounding as hollow as an empty
coffin. She was apoor old creature who came
to do for George small services as a domestic
for an hour or two every day; for he lighted
his own fires, and served up TO himself in the
first style of cottage cookery his own fat ba-
con and potatoes.
Il shall be out three hours, Milly," said
George, and he put on his best clothes and
went into the sunshine. Il can do nothing
better" he thought than to 60 and see tlt
lawyers"
They lived in the City; George lived at
the east end of London, in part now cover
ed with copse and field, and by Swaynes old,
fashioned nursery ground then crowded with
stocks and walltiowers lupins, sweet-peas
pinks, lavender, heart s-ease, boys love, old
man, and other old-fashioned plants; for il
contained nothing SO tremendous as Schizan-
thuses, Escholzias, or Clarkia pullchclaS
which are weedy little atomies, though they
sound big enough TO rival any tree in Leba
non. George was an old-fashioned gardener
In an oId-taShloned time; for VIC have here
to do with events which occurred in the mid,
die of thereign of George the Third. George
them mean George Swayne, not George
Rex-marched off to see the lawyers, who
lived in a dark court in the City. Hcfound
their clerk in the front office, with amarigold in
one of his button-holes; bnt there was moth
ing else that looked like summer in the place
1t smelt like mouldy shut-up tool house;
and there was parchment enough in it to make
scare crows for all the gardens in Kent, Mid
dlesex, and Surrey.
! George saw the junior partner, Mr.. Grin
stone who told him, when he heard his bust
ness, that 1t was in Mr.. Flint's department
When he was shown into Mr.. Flint's room
Mr. Flint could only repeat the instruction.
of the landlord.
You see, my LAD" he said, "these holding,
that have been let hitherto for thirty pound:
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