Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1860-08-25
Mtstelloneous
From tn. Ladies, Own BOOK.
TIMOTHY P%oTTLEDoT.

tWelvo month's visit TO my brother, and was nm
ishing a round Of farewell calls. The servant well
coined me with q smile, and usbered me at once
into the back parlor where aunt Mills and my pref
ty cousins we're gathered round the fire. So a place
was made for me, and | drew in, and we oil chat
ted about the absorbing subject.
Poor laddie,' said aun. Mills, and you are re.
ally going away to India
No doubt oil that aunt. But never mind l
shall soon be back
i hope you may. Dick hope and trust you
may said aunt Mills, shaking her head with a
dismal and foreboding expression. I have known
a great many 60 out to India who never came back
again. You must take great care Of yourself. The
itieors are very dangerous; ratilesnOkes, too-they
swarm 10 the bejs, Pm toldI
| promised to be on my guard against these in
'truders and Aunt proceeded to detail several en-
'couraging cases Of persons who had been pouncsd
upon by hungry tigers and torn in small pieces
She specified, however, the case Of q lady who
had frightened a royal Bengal ty hosting an UNI
brella in its face-an expedien. to which she strong.
ly urged me TO resort in like circumstances. !
promised to make a note of it, and in the mean.
time got my cousins to sit down to the piano.
They sung sung Home, sweet home and will ye
no come back again p and other appropriate airs
very sweetly-especially Kate, who sings like a
nightingale, If you know what like that is, which
/ don't. But she sings sweetly at all events /;
with such expression, too, as if her whole soul
were it it.
They wished me to spend the evening with them,
but | could mott had promised to take tea with
my old school mate, Timothy Pottledot. So | rose
to 20. proposed a parting kiss all round, and
aunt Mills, of course, submitted with matronly
dignity. The young ladies, on the contrary, were
instantly in a autter Of CONSERVATION, and it was
only after n violent struggle with each, that l
succeeded. As for Kate, when her turn cahie,she
darted out Of the room and up stairs. l pursued
madlv. four steps at q sine. There was a great
deal OF darting to and fro. out of one room into
another, but at last we both tumbled promiscuous'
" into q corner, and | got one OF the most dell
cious kisses l ever had before or have had since.
The point being gained. Kate came down stairs
with me quite submissiycly; and then aunt Mills
and the whole 5evy of cousins galheredin the vesti-
bule to see me away. After q few words OF mu'
iual encouragement, and a final warning from aunt
Mills respecting the tigers, l sailed out on the
way to Timothy Pottledots. 1t was q raw gusty
night, and 1 was glad enough when turned into
the passage leading to Tins lodgings. 1t wGs
Ozark passage, and l had to grope my way along
til! l reached the foot Of the stairs. felt my way
up a prodigious length of stairs very cautiously
for | was 10 momentary dread Of finding mysel
launched down into some unseen abyss. l hat
gone up what seemed to my excited imagination
about q mile and a half of stairs when l reached
the TOP landing and succeeded in f finding the door
- Ill L.nI1o h,k - yoin
so l used my knuckles. / knocked for some tint
without effect. but at last the door was opened BY
q woman whose form was dimly visible in the
light of an oil lamp in a remote kitchen.
Us il the milk p said the woman, in a hal
whisper. | informed her that l was not the milk
but a friend Of Mr.. Pottledot; is he in Sh'
said>he was, and when l had stepped in, she shu
the door behind mo, and after knocking at anoth
err on the opposite side of the dark passage opened
il and showed me in. Timothy was sitting at hi
desk writing by the dull light of q tallow candle
which was reared like a light house upon a pill
Of books. lie got up and wrung my band afec
t~ionately, but the poor fellow was clearly in YER
low spirits. didn't wonder at it the place wa
was too disual for anything else. 1t was a col
uncomfortable room, with chilly draughts BLOWN
ABOUT, anu tue hluuO III iOOeSJ III TX ilan'
A few black cinders were carefully gathered int
the centre Of the CRATE, from the middle of whic
aIose a slender thread Of smoke that wandere
disconsolute up into the chimney.
sit down. said Tim, placing a chair for me clos
to the feuder you look c'ld.'
should imagine that I did, for l felt like a
ioicle so to please Tim / held up my feet towar
the CRATE, though | might as we'll have held theI
out Of the window.
IL isn't very good fre,' said Tim, taking u
the poker. and looking dismally at the cinders
don't know what's wrong with il. 1t seems 10
perpetual state either of death or resurrection
II was clearly in a state Of death at that parti
uiar moment, and held out a very little prospe
of a speedy resurrection, although Tim, (who ,fo
tunately, did not use the poker, or he would in
vitality have extinguished ~ knelt down and BILE
ct the cinders till they were colder and black
that ever.
Never mind said Tim, rising. wen have t
that will be better The bell was not in wor
ing order, so be went himself to order Mr.
Blobbs to bripg the tea. Mrs. Blobbs took
very long to execute this order that / just began
think that she had DO intention of executing it
all, when she appeared with a small tray furnis
ed with a teapot, q plate Of salt butter, two slic
of under done toast, and four ~farthing biscuit
which Mrs, Blobbs had evidently been ~instruct
TO provide for the occasion. The tea turned out
be luksWarm, and Tin had to 90 ir quest If Nj
Blobbs for teaspoons and cream. lie return'
with a couple of pewter teaspoons, but nothil
in the shape Of cream was to be had-the mi
boy having neglected to bring any and Mrs. Blob
bagiog nobody in the house to send for it. So
sat down and drank the lukewarm tea, which BIO
10 taste and color a remarkable resemblance to
infusion Of SIENNA, Tim had evidently intended
give me a comfortable tea, so he was sadly disp
tied though l drank the tepid compound al
chewed the underdone toast with as great
appearance Of relish as l could possibly assume
by the way said Tim, Frightening up, :