The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1857-07-09


sheet, and after penance, being received
into the holy church. lie compensated
for past saoriloges by presiding at the
Smithfeld fires. He broke Latimcr's
head with a blow of billet Of wood
and pierced Craumer with a rcd-hOt |
poker. He was servant of his SOW
oreign and his country, and thought
obedience was the first duty Of a sub
jeet
When Elizabeth came into power he
recanted once more, and was so useful
i'm the discovery of plots, and exacting
fines from traitors, that he died i'm |
mensely rich, and was buried in West |
minister Abbey. OF all these changes
Tommy continued ignorant He had
been surprised at the visit of certain
commissioners TO purify the church of /.
popery and break all the crosses; and |
after few years he was again astonished
by another visit of the commissioners
to introduce popery againand restore the
crosses.
"Faddlekicks" he said to an officer
of the first commission, in the year ff-
teen hundred and forty-four, "who
sent thee here TO break off Bridgets
nose and take away the thumb-nails Of
st. Jockster of Coventry"
"Who but the great Master Honey
dew, replied the man, while he piled
the hammer and split St. Bridget's
shoulder into fifty fragments. Gle is
stout and true-hcartcd Protestant, and
high in favor with our Lord the King"
And in fifteen hundred and ffty-fve
he said "By cross and piel who hath
sent thee hither with thy new painted
wooden image? The old Bridget was
good enough for Wei
81 am sent by Sir Stephen Honey
dew" replied the man, fixing the saint
against the wall by a long nail thro'
her leg. "He is a true and holy Catho-
lie, and high in favor with our Lady the
Queen
"Odds Wigginton" said Tommy,
"can this be the husband of Susan
IProddys child?" And he made inqui-
ry, and found that the daughter of
Dodger the miller Of Wakefield, was
Lady Honeydew, one of the grandcst
ladies about the court.
"Hath she ever a son?' he inquired
of the workman, who was giving Brid-
J gets checks a rub with sand-paper
Gay, marry, hath she" he said, ga
goodly boy of ten years old. He new
err missoth burning of herctics for
already the saints have given him a
q spirit of the true faith"
81 wish L could look on him afore
I die" said Tommy; "but there amt
no chance. I've lost my teeth; my
head be bald; my back be bent; l haze
no taste in my mouth; I have singing in
my ears; have congestion of the spleen;
I've a softening of the brain; I'm aflict-
ed with dropsy; I've erysipelas in the
face; I've got lumbar absccss and inter
mittont fever. I must get me to bed,
and die in day at the farthest.'
But Tommy was deceived once more.
When the church-yard of the village
]. was filled with two or three more gener-
10 ations of his contemporaries, when
!, Elizabeth was succeeded on the seat
e which she had made a throne by Scotch
o pedant who made it schoolmastcr' s
stool; when all the England Of his
p, early days had disappeared, and the
d battle Of Bosworth had begun to be
e considered pretty nearly as ancient as
- the battle Of Marathon, there came
3. down gentleman to the little Shrop-
+ shire village, and inquired his way tC
10 Tommy's cottage.
n GLOW do, father?" he said iauntily
g lifting up his Spanish hat, and letting
n the feather trail on the kitchen floor
c awe have heard of thee at court, old
e gentleman, and the king wishes to sec
d thee, Say, wilt jog Londonward, and
f shake hands with King Charles"
O "Tieckins I will, said the old man
e ''for by'r ladye, I began my knowledge
# of Kings pretty early, seeing 1 saw on
o one day both King Richard and King
n Henry. But by the crook O. Glaston
d we must make haste; for 1 haven't long
7, to live now"
n "Have with you, thenI" said the gal
liant. "You shall be the guest of my
!, lord Bemerly and shortly shalt thou
s see his Majesty"
l Lord Bemerly received the Shrop,
d shire peasant very kindly. Lady Be
s merly was delighted to see such an old
- "put," and with the tasteful gracious
s ness Of the time amused herself by put,
p ting vinegar into his beer, and filling
IS his apple pies with pepper and mustard
,, andtyingribbOns across his path to make
n him fall; and once succeeded in trip,
- ping him at the top Of the great stair.
case, and had him taken up insensiblC
p when he had reached the lowest step
n All the gay people in the neighbor.
- hood were enchanted with the infantinC
e Iplayfulness of the countess She wa,
3 the most aristocratio of all the fami
u lies in the country, and so indeed was
f her lord; and between them they con.
C stituted the very acme and perfection Of
Is high birth aud noble breeding
g "Do you know, she said one day tC
n Tommy, "that some Of my ancestors
n came from Shropshire-'tis an immens,
,- time ago, before the Crusades / believ,
and even you weren't born then
d Look-this ring and ohain-did yoJ
y ever see anything more quainta and old?'
t Tommy looked at them as he wal
d told, and stood gazing as if he haC
b. been fascinated by the sight.
"Odd filters he said "Ive seed the,
l. before. Tell me, fair mistress, wha
d was the name o. thee aforo thou was
I married TO my lord2'