Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1857-01-08

! had gone forward, and one by one was drop
ped by his new friends for although they
might pardon strange behavior in one of them
selves, they could not put up with the liber
ties of man that some remembered an Office
boy in Blexborough The end of it was that
he made jolly companions Of whoever would
be jolly with him. and ended by marrying the
daughter and barmaid of Bob Carter, of the
Swan inn, bouncing girl of eighteen.
Now the lawyer had a son whom he had
brought up for the church, and was at college
long enough, though he never became pal son,
nor did he agree at all with his father He
used to be away great deal travelling. until
his father came into the property. Then he
returned with his wife, a very nice lady.
The father and son, whom We call the young
Squire, did not get on at all together-they
| were 80 different The old lawyer was loud,
noisy and hearty the young Squire was pale,
shy, and silent. He had not married accord
ing to his fathers liking. and he did not push
himself forward He liked his book and hated
the bottle.
"When lawyer Rigors married Kitty Carter,
the young Squire left the park and went
abroad, travelling in foreign parts-France
Italy, and such like for the old gentleman
made them handsome allowance. At length
took all the care Of him she could-was taken
sick, fingered for several months, and died
"Of course the young Squire was sent for
it turned out that he had left a curious will
that no one could understand, with all sorts of
directions but above all, great income and
one of his best estates for life. if she did not
marry. to Kitty. They say the look the Squire
gave Kitty when the will was read was awful.
tn1 hof ba Hl,, af ha vii
noting the hand-Kitty, who was always
friendly soul--held out to him.
Now, when the old lawyer died. | will say
there was not more beautiful place in the
kingdom You wen. mp drive through the
little park, after passing the lodgeg gate under
an avenue of beech and oak trees-that led
straight to the lake fed by the springs that
| flowed out in a waterfall and went murmuring
along for mileS-a stream Swarmng with trout
On the other side the lake was the place, a
stone house, standing behind some terraced
gardens that led down to the water, with rich
parti-coored beds dotting over the green lawns
| fianked by groves and bright evergreens.-
Behind the house the lawns and gardens rolled
until bounded by plantations where vistaS
opened views of the distant hills and the pas
| ture fields of The home-farm. The range of
walled gardens were placed on the warm south
side, quite out of sight ; the best fruit trees
had been grown ever since the monks made the
gardens. The old lawyer spent thousands in
building graperies and pineres, for he prided
himself on having the best of everything.
"To walk out on autumn event e on
these terrace-gardens, all red and gold and
| green with flowers, and turf and evergreen.
and see the lake where the cOOtS and wild
| ducks played and the swans sailed proudly
and the many colored trees of the park where
the pet deer lay or browsed, with everything
as perfect as men and money, scythes and
| brooms and weeders, could make it. Often |
was up by daybreak to see that the gardeners
made all ready for LAWYER Rigors to see, when
he came from his annual London visit
| "And the house was fine old place, e,-suites
of rooms, one leading from another, without
end, and great hall and long gallery where
the family portraits hung, and the lawyer put
up a billiard table where he and his friends
played in wet weather.
THE old lawyer was buried before the let
ter telling of his death reached his son, so Mrs.
Kitty cleared and went up to her jointpre house
and from that up to London, where she met
young Mr. Rtgors, aud heard the will read.
We had orders to get all ready to receive
him. | mind it as if it was yesterday, seeing
the big travelling coach, piled with trunks and
; impcrialS come up the avenue aud wind round
the lake, as fast as four horses could trot.-
The children had their faces all out of the
windows, wild with delight, and in a minnie
after the coach stopped at the hall-door the
boys were out and over the gardens pulling
the fruit, and into the stables, and then back
to the house and running races through the
corridors.
"At first, the Squire, as we still called him,
kept up some thing of his fathers style, though
he put down four horses to a pair and got rid
of a lot of idle men servants The calls of
/ those gentry that came he returned, but ex
cused himself OIL the ground of i'll health and
the education of his children from receiving
formal company.
1.-THE children were very happy-every day
hunting out new stores and treasures, riding
the ponies and donkeys, and making all sorts
of pets in the preserves and on the hone-farm.
But month by month expenses were cut down,
until at length the Squire sent for me-having
taken it into his head that | was the steadlest
fellow thcre-and told me that he was not
what people thought but very poor, and that
everything must be made to pay. The game
keepers were all to 20, except two woodmen,
and all the fancy gardeners The old lawyer
had dozen one for each department All
the land that could was to be let, and the fruit
and vegetables sold He did not say this at
first, but he limited, and understood him.
Do the best you can, says he, don't ask me for
money, and shall expect the house well kept
in dairy and poultry, and the land in hand to
pay a fair rent
'In two years you never saw such ruin
I verify believe the masters fractions mean
ways broke his lady's heart anyhow she
pincd away and died before the worst. After
her death the Squire went fairly wild on saving.