Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-07-24

teen hundred and forty-four, "who sent
thee here to break off Bridgett's nose and
take away the thumb-nails of St Jocks
ter of Coventry p
"Who but the great Master Honey
dew" replied the man, while he piled
the hammer, and split St. Bridget's shoul-
der into fifty fragments. "He is stout
and true-hearted Protestant, and high in
favor with our lord the King"
And in fifteen hundred md fify-fve
he said, "By cross and pie !who hath sent
thee hither with thy new painted wooden |
image? The old Bridget was good
enough for We"
81 am sent by Sir Stephen Honey
dew," replied the man, fixing the sain'
against the wall by a long nail through
her leg. "He is a true and holy Catho-'
lie, and high in favor with our Lady the
Queen"
"Odds Wiggington p said Tommy "can
this be the husband of Susan Proddy's
child ?" And he made inquiry, and
found that the daughter of Dodger, the
miller of Wakefield, was Lady Honey
dew, one of the grandest ladies about the
court.
"Hath she ever son ?" he inquired Of
the workman, who was giving St. Bridg-
cts cheeks rub with sand-paper.
"Aye, marry, hath she," he said, ga
goodly boy of ten years old. He never
misseth a burning ofheretics; for already
the saints have given him o spirit of the
true faith"
81 wish I could look on him before l
die" said Tommy but there amt no
chance. "Pve lost my teeth; my head
be bald; my back be bent l ha' no taste
in my mouth; have singing in my ears
I've congestion of the spleen; I've soften
ing of the brain I'm afflicted with drop
sey I've erysipelas in the face /; I've
got lumbar abscess and intermittent fever
l must get into bed and die in a day al
furthest."
But Tommy was deceived once more
" nen the churchyard of the village was
t filed with two or threo more sonerrtiors
: of his cotemporaries when Elizabetl
was succeeded on the seat which she hat
!, made throne, by Scdch pedant wht
5 had made it a schoolmaster's stool; wheI
t all the England of his early days had dis
0 appeared, and the battle of Boswortl
r had begun to be considered pretty near
/ ly as ancient as the battle of Marathon
r there came down a gentleman to the it'll
4 Shropshire village, and inquired his wa.
q to Tommy's cottage.
d How do, father p he said jauntil
y lifting up his Spanish hat and letting tn
l feather trail on the kitchen foor. "W
have heard of thee at ., drt, old gentle
: man, and the king 5sbea to see thee
It Say, wilt jog Lo,,onwa. I'd, and shak
# hands with King ,s0rl... ~
r "Ffekins k 1 will'Eeat N tbs. old man a.; 'fo
l. by'r ladie. I began M ~~e of king
o pretty early, seeing IN HENjn da
: both King Richard a--D--o ,-leanr!.
l. But by the crook o'Glaston, we mu
le make haste for I haven't long to liV
st now."
l. "Have with you, then !" said the ga
e. Iant.' "You shall be guest of my Lon
Bemerly, and shortly shalt thou see II
le Majesty"
" Lord Bemerly received the Shro
of shire peasant very kinkly. Lady Ben
1e erly was delighted to study such an o
I'd put" and with the tasteful graciousne
i'd of the time amused herself by puttir
lie vinegar into his beer, and filing bis app
Elf pies with pepper and mustard, and tyil
lie ribands across his path to make him ia
ed and once succeeded in tripping him
ed the top of the great staircase, and b
nd him taken up insensible when he b
he reached the lowest step.
er All the gay people in the neighborho
it were enchanted with the infantile pla
,er fulness of the countess. She was t
,ly most aristocratic of all the families in t
ar country and so indeed was her lor
es. between them they constituted the We
of acme and perfection of high birth a
lar noble breeding.
INT ado you know" she said, one day
nd Tommy, "that some of my ancestors car
a from Shropshire-'tis an immense til
ago, before the crusades, l believe-a
he even you weren't born then. Look-t
full ring and chain-did you ever see al
ing thing more quaint and Old?"
Sc Tommy looked at them as he was tc
ter and stood gazing as if he had been fai
NV mated by their sight.
mr. "odds filters" he said, ave seed IL
,p- before. Tell me, fair mistress, what '
nd the name a. thee before thou vast m