Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1855-05-23


way by the bullet, for the repeater was one oi
| Barrauds, never known to fail before, and the
circumstance occurred at seren O'clock
/ could continue, almost al iafnifana, an ac-
count OF the wars which this Helen occasioned,
but the above three specimens will, / should
think, satisfy the the peaceful reader. ] de-
light not in the scenes of blood, Heaven
knows, but was compelled in the course of a
few weeks, and for the sake of this one wo-
man, to fight nine duels myself, and know
that four times as many took place concerning
her.
forgot TO say that Jowler's wife WAS half
caste woman, who had been born and bred er-
tirely in India, and whom the Colonel had
married from the house of her mother, a ma
tive. There were some singula. rumors
abroad regarding the latter lady's history--it
was reported that she was the daughter Of a
native Rajah, and had been carried off by a
poor English subatern in Lord Gives time.
The young man was killed very soon after, and
left his child with its mother. The black
Prince forgave his daughter and bequcathed
to her handsome sum of money. l suppose
that it was on this account that Jowler marri
ed Mrs. j., creature who had not, do be-
lieyc, a Christian name, or a single Christian
quGlity-shc was hidcous, bloatcd, yellow
creature, with leard, black teeth, and red
eyes: she was fat, lying, ugly, and stingy-she
hated and was hated by all the world, and by
her jolly husband as deyoutly as by any other.
She did not pass month in the year with
him, but spent most of her time with her
tive friends. ! wonder how she could have
given birth to SO lovely createre as her
daughter. This woman was Of course with the
Colonel when Julia arrived, and the spice Of
the devil in her daughters composition was
most carefully nourished and fed by her. If
right jilt now; she set the whole cantonment
by the cars; she made wives jealous and hus-
bands miserable; she caused all those duels of
which have discoruscd already, and yet such
was the facination of THE WITCH that I still
thought her an angel. l made court TO the
nasty mother in order to be near the daughter;
and listened untirngly to Jowler's intermin-
able dull stories, because was occupied all
the time in watching the graceful movements
Of Miss Julia.
But The trumpet Of war was soon ringing in
our ears; and on the battlefield Gahagan is a
mani The Bundelcund Invincibles received
orders to march, and Jowler, Hector like,
donned his helmet, and prepared to part from
his Andromanchc. And now arose his per-
pcXity what must be done with his daughter,
his Juliai He knew his wife's peculiarities of
living, and did not much care to trust his
daughter to her keeping; but in vain he tried
to find her an ASYLUM among the respectable
ladies Of his regiment. Lady Clutch offered to
receive her, but would have nothing to do with
Mrs. Jowler; the surgeons wife, Mrs. Sawbonc,
would have neither mother and daughter
must have a house together, and Jowler knew
that his wife would fill it with her odious
blacsamoor friends.
[ could not, however, go forth satisfied to
the campaign until learned from Julia my
fate. l watched twenty opportunities to see her
alone, and wandered about the Colonel's bun
galow as an inferior does about public house
marking the incomings and the ougoings of
the family, and longing to seize the moment
when Miss Jowler, unbiased by her mother or
her papa, might listen, perhaps, to my elo-
quence, and melt at the tale of my love.
But it would not do-old JowIer seemed to
have taken all of sudden to such fit of do
mesticity, that there was 10 finding him ont
of doors, and his rhubarb colored wife Il be-
lieve that her SKIN gave the first idea of our
rcgimental breeches), who before had been
gadding ceaselessly abroad, and poking her
broad nose into every menage in the canton
ment, stopped faithfully at home with her spouse
Ny only chance was to beard the old couple in
their den, and ask them at once for their cub.
So called one day at tiffin odd fowler
was always happy to have my company at this
meal; it amused him. he said, to see me drink
Hodgson's pale ale Il drank two hundred and
thirty-Eour dozen the first year Twas in BengaD
and it was no small piece of fun, certainly, to
see old Mrs. Jowler attack the curric- bhaut;-
she was exactly the color of it, as have had
already the honor to remark, and she swallow
equaled, except by my poor friend Dando, a
propos dhuiires. She consumed the first three
platefuls with fork and spoon, like Chris
tian; but as she warmed to her work, the old
hag would throw away the silver implements,
and, dragging the dishes towards her, go to
work with her hands, flip the rice into her
month with her fingers, and stow away guam
$50 admirably the performances of these
watches, which will stand in any climate. that1 re-
peatedly heard poor Macgillicuddy relate the fol-
lowing fact. The hours as 1t is known. count, in
Italy, from one to twentyfour: ne day Mae. land
I,rr ~
from t5rcHtgf foy es soon a. he crossed the
Alps IL only sounded as usual &C. orc q