Shreveport daily news., 1861-07-03
Selected Expressly for the Nsus.
The Scottish Landladys and her
LOdgcrS.
A PATHETIC AND BEAUTIFULLY TOLD
TALE, BY MIR. GAIT.

TALE, BY MIR. GAIT.
After a short pause, Mrs. Winsom
resumed her narrative, saying
"But ye'rc no to think lodging
house is free from calamities, for I
can assure you, that soon after the
jocose days l had with the Lus-
irons, met with sore trial. 1t
came to the misfortune Of a sweet
young miss, who was bcguiled from
her parents by u dragoon oficer-one
Of your prodigals that defy the Ten
Commandments and the laws of man,
with mustophaS on their upper lips
no that he was to be objected to on
account of his visogonomy, for in
truth he was an Absalom Of beauty,
and had II tongue to vile the bird
from the tree. Indeed, after I saw
him, almost tho't the poor maiden
was butlightly to blame: and l never
could satisfy myself how so brave Il
gnll;,nt-so tree-hcarted and fair
spollcn,-corld bea perjured wretch !;
but, for all my womanly indulgence,
he was 50, and l was condemned to
acknowledge it by my conscience, as
! crooned i'll the watches Of night
"Miss Fatirna Camomile was one
Of the seven daughters of the Rever-
end DR.. Camomile, by his third wife,
who, according to the most authentic
accounts, had fewer children than
either Of the two who We're her ances-
tors in his bosom.
The Doctor kept school for
select young gentlemen, ordained for
a classical wav Of life and out Of
il came to pass, that when Captain
Rampant w;,s a bit laddie, he was
sent by his doers to learn Greek
and La,in with the WORTH Docto,
who surely was most superior
man.
Miss Fatima and the Captain,
when they were playing bairns-he
Il hirky laddie, and she II hardy las
sie--tell into love, according to the
fashion Of teens and lnona-c, and be-
trothcd VOWS Of everlasting pcrdi-
ton, if they proved false to one an
other.
"But it came to pass, as in course
of nature it was to be looked for,
that his friends took him from the
Doctors school, and placed him in
the army, where, as might have been
expected, he grew, being a handsome
Young man, and a great ne 'er-do- weel.
After some five or six years, his re-
Simcntals were quartered in town
contagious to the village where Miss
Fatima lived with her father and the
multitude Of her sisters in the enjoy
mcnt ofcvery comfort, and the pleas
ant innocence Of Il classical acale-
my.
Out of the accidencc, the Cap
tain-or, as | should call him, til,
Hornet, for he was as yet not farthe,
promoted-rcpaired his old acquain-
tance with the Doctor, and renew ed
his familiars with Miss f'atima, ul
til off they came in Il chaiseand-four
making a loupmentinto my first floor
as if they had been a real man anc
wife, according to the Gospels o,
| the Bishops OF London, or the Arch
bishop of Canterbury.
"Well, you see, being in my house
began to have my doubts of tht
sincerity ofthe marriage. ! couldn't
tell how such doubts arose-that was
impossible; but thought they wer,
overly fond to be by themselves
nobody came nigh them-and one
Sabbath night | said to myself, is
no wonderful that never Il young
lady comes to speir for Mrs. Ram
pant, if it were only to get insigh
into the nature of matrimony! III
short, before Monday morning | wa:
worked into a persuasion that Mrs
Rampant was not a creditable lodger
Young, lovely, and lamenting-to
she was often in tears-l discernee
there was Il doubt: and what woult