New Orleans daily crescent. [volume] ([New Orleans, La.]) 1851-1866, 1858-12-25
wind ana weather Permitting.

4 4 fWel yes of course | am. Did you ever know
The to be unwel2 dom run myself to death about
1lese coniounded dirty narrow streets, to make my.
elTtbe lean asthmatical, dyspeptcallooklng mai
tiduaI that you are Cad, how yoa stand i don
| know. .,..,..
Int then Pm a business man, and family man, you
| know and can't always leave just when llke'
Well I'm neither, thank fortune, and can come
lind 90 when please. And that reminds me am
going out on a cruise next week IN my new yacht.
Jenkins and Massie and two or three others of your
Bid cronies will go with me, and there is just one
berth left for you. What do you say, will you go"
Thank you, Jack, nothing would give me more
pleasure but"
None of your butts to me, now know what
YOU are going to say all those excuses about bust
ness cares wife is lonesome without you, and baby
has got the measles, l have heard them thousand
times. tell you Charlie Irueman you arg htl,hS
yourself with close application and breathing th's
nasty, impure air. Come out with me WeeS ana
try the rough fare of old Neptune, and Il send you
back again with color on your eheeh' au d tstg u.
your eye such as your wife hasn't seen since tne Gays
you came courting It'll do you good, man II Il
do you good try It once.
\ Il know 1t would do me good, Jack. never see
Won Int | envy your fresh color and your hearty
looks but then il you had the care OF family,
you'd know the difference"
Z. or! hang care care killed the cat Twenty
families wouldn't alter me jot. But here you are,
ten years younger than l, and tied down to regular
tread.Tn round of duties. Wife, baby aud the shops
tell you it is making an old man OF you before you
have seen your prime. Break loose for once, and
how you'll like it. If it don't do you good Ill never
ask you to try it again.
aWell, Jack, believe will When do you start u
"Next Monday morning Be ready now. without
fail. Eli expect you.n
'tI'll be with YOU wind and weather permitting"
With a cordial shake of the hand tile two friends
parted Mr.. John Benton hopeful that he should
once enjoy the company OF his old friend, and
still rejoieed in the prospect of seeing him en-
JOY few days of relaxation from the severe labor
and application to which, like too many other of our
business men, he accustomed himself; and Mr. True
man. with the reflection Of honest Johns earnest and
cordial greeting still glowing at bis heart yet more
than half doubling whether the pretty idea OF
weeks freedom from care and taste of real earnest
life and enjoyment of nature could ever be realized
Their next meeting was in Mr.. Bent0n's room, the
Saturday evening before the anticipated cruise;
]" Good evening, Charlie Trueman,' exclaimed
| Captain Benton, as his acquaintance delighted to
style the master Of the pretty yacht Syren. Glad
! to see YOU 1t isn't often that I'm honored with
| call from you steady home-loying, family men. j
suppose my rooms don't look quite as cosy and in
wiling though they were rugged up little ottener
/ by a feminine. Landlades are different sort OF
4 craft from wives, you know. Sometimes I'm thank
ful for it, too they sail good deal steader 10 the
eye Of the wind than your light, fanCyrigged craft
/ Women are very well in their way. make it point
never to quarrel with them; but never want to owe
them any obligations that can't pay in good, hard
bullion. So long as l keep my distance and am
| prompt in all my money matters never lind any
difficulty Bat about your cruise. You'll he ready, /
| hOpe?"
I'm very sorry, jack but am afraid it won't be
convenient for me to por
Not convenient? Why thought all that sort of
thing was settled You gave me a promise, old boy
and Charlie Trueman used not to be the man to
break his word for little inconvenience. You'll
have to give me better reason than that before I'll
let you Off
Well the truth of the matter is you know, Jack,
Tbadnt consulted my wife when | told you Id 90.
You know said wind and weather permitting
Yes. know YOU did, " said Mr.. Benton drily sit
struck me at the time there was something in the
words l didn't quite understand. So it seems the
weather was little squay when you got home, was
it2n
Why not exactly that replied Trueman, g Mary
is one Of the best OF women but they are all little
crotchety, you know, d she don't like to have me
90 anywhere without her. / went off for days
shooting in the country and got cold, and was i'll
for week afterwards and ever since then she has
opposed my going anywhere for pleasure unless she
could 20 too which Of course wasn't to be thought
of in this case.n
Thank goodness, nObOdy's daughter is in any
such trbulatlon on my account, said Benton. But
how is it, Charlie about her going into the country
seems to me she generally goes oil somewhere, don't
she?n
"0h yes, she has never failed a summer yet since
we were married of spending at least six weeks in
the country
''You go with her, Of course II
"No, haven't time. lgenerally get out to see her
about once week but you know can't leave bust
ness in business hours"
There it is again! | tell gu! Charlie, what be
tween your business and your family you are no bet
| ter than slave-nota whit better. Your wife IS a
nice little woman know but she Is crotchety
Charlie, as the very dence; and 1t IS high time she
had some of these airs taken out of her. She'll be
the death of you in five years more. Just see how
you've altered in the last i've years. A man that
hadn't seen you in that time would mt know you
positively he wouldn't. ! don't want TO raise any
tracas in anybodys family but Just wait I'LL get
back from this trip, and II dunt show That little
wife of yours her folly, then II own myself mistaken
Captain Benton went on ms cruise, ana MIR. True
man stala ut home am not sure mat several tlmes
IN the course oil that week ne dlu IoloW WIN ms
mind eye the Syren, careeTlng Ja4ntly before the
breeze under the skiltul guidance OF her merry cap
tain and am not sure thai the thought Of Mary
and the children, whom indeed he dearly loved ana
prosperous business to which ne Devoted himself WIN
indetatigable energy, prevented his drawing deep
sigh, and hall enYylng Captain benton ms freedom
from care, his warm honest soul, ana MS merry
yacht life. But Mary was little inclined to jealousy,
and he must smother both the sigh and the thought
which gave rise to it before be reached home One
evening" shortly after the return OF the syren from
her cruise, Captain Benton called at Charlie True
mans,
/" Good evening, Charlie-good evening, Mrs True
man. hope see you well, Well, Charlie, am come
oreport myself after the last cruise. Had glorious
time old fellow; 1t was pity you couldn't go with
u.s. Never mind, there's a chance for you yet. I'm
going to start out again tomorrow morning, and this
time you must go" and he brought down his hand
upon Charles knee with an emphasis that was really
startling. Charlie ventnred some obJecuons.
: MOI WORD, SIR, not wera. I'VE leI you On
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