Plymouth advertiser. [volume] (Plymouth, Ohio) 1853-1988, 1853-11-19


scaPe-grace, ready for any wickedness.
with him, and use him as stslking-horse
in the villainy about be attempted.
"Hsve you mind for a peiee of sport. |
tonight, my fine fellow 2" said the man
TO Harry "or is this noise mere bully
ing of yours :"
Now Hurry's courage was not the val
or of punch, and he boldly spoke:
d" Nay. try me: I'm ready for any
sport; my legs get steadier every minute"
Il wonder" continued he, with Sc
rious air. "why my drunks couldn', be
more equally divided between my lead
and my heels. I musI manage tha, in
future. Well, your fan; what is it !
Neither you nor the noble chief seem TO
re endowed N;;h very sportive faces,
Rather gloomy kind of fun you mus,
engage in, opine."
You must know, lhen,' answered the
man, that we are TO enter house opposite
the green; have an appointment there with
the girl there; she is bound as servant to
the owner, and we nre to get her off clear
of he town before daylight. IT'S our only
chance. Honorable in'entions-msrriage
YOU know: ha !-ha ha! Wonny back.
ker aids me for q guinea. and the same
amount I'm willing to offer you for your
services, 10 make sure
Whose house is it!' inquired Harry,
pricking up his ears.
odd Cornwright's; the girl is his ser.
want, and beautiful as an angel.
''fhe devil she is = thought Harry
There's no servants there but Dinah, and
she is as black as a crow. Good con,in.
ued he, aloud; i have a grudge agains
that same Cornwright. and III go with
you with all my heart.
Notwithstanding Harry leaned heavily
upon the Eng|ishman's arm on the route
from the chapel to the green lane leading
10 his fathers garden, the fumes of the
punch were fast disappearing under ,hl
danger that threatened his family.
'Here we are at last,' whispered til,
Englshman. as they reached the wall
Now, Wonnybackker, give US your shoul
der to scale this And over went the two
followed by the agile Indian.
Bother it said John Cornwright a.
he observed them from a dark corner q
the shed; there are three of them; on
more than bargained for.'
Stealing to the back door of the house
the leading ruifian took out the imple
ments of the trade and CONNIE need hi
: work.
f.he girl be willing. as you say she is
che ough. not to have lef. you any of ,hi
business to do said Harrj, approaching
followed by the Indian:
' Keep quiet boy! savsgely whispere
the burglar; but at this moment the repo
Of the bIunderbuss, and scream from tn
house, were heard at the some momen
and the man with heavy groan fell to til
ground. The gallant Indian, uttering
| poor imitation of the war-hocp. turning I
fly toward the fence, but Harry seized hil
with grasp of iron, and they rolled o
y y the ground together. Then out rushe
:, old John Cornwright, and with a heav
J., oaken cudgel, welded by on arm accu
toned to a edge.hammer, he pounded tt
pair Justify.
For Heavens sake stop. father ? erie
, Harry; don't you know me-Harry p
But the old man needed nothing, uni
;. . Kate and Dinah came rushing from Il
. . house with lantern, and then Harry al
Indian we're found senseless.
u MY God!' exclaimed the blacksmith
), my boy in league with breakers !!
No! no it is not so, depend upon i,
cried Kate. You have hurt him DANCE
ously, father: pray God you have not xii
ed him!'
+ And contemporary chronicles rela
. how the two villains were secured, IL
% Englishman MORALLY wounded; how fla
- ry was conveyed 10 the house how
a had brain-fever on account of his ini
!. = ries from the cudgel: how he was broug
70 10 the brink of he grave how, when
recovered, a strange but glorious revol
u = tion was discovered in his habits ho
q he was never afterward seen in liquor
" how he married the young ladv for who.
dear sake he had broken the nose of d
u British sergeant; how he afterward
- came captain in the Revolution a,
and how Wonnybackker, the debauch
brave, received his deserts, which. y,
= may rely upon it, was no easy affair
those days.