Litchfield enquirer., 1862-10-16

to laugh tremendously, and told me to put the egg que y in it's place and then perhaps the little wobbn would come back. Which hope the nttle beggar did. At the top of the long walk at Rockingham there is summer house though why so called l don't know. for i've been down there hunting at Christmas and there it is just the same Aen. However, this summer house is built of twunks of twees in what they call twells work, all twisted together you know, in a sort of vewy perplex hing way and lined with bark. Now 1 thing of it I think it's called |" wustic" work, I spose be- cause it's only found near gentlemans houses. However it's jolly sort of a place with a lot of ferns and things about, and behind there are a lot of shrubs and bushes and pwickly plants which give a sort of rural or acruscal, which is it blest if know, look to the place, and as it was vewy warm. thought if I'm ever to make an ath of myself, of mythelf, by pwoposing to this girl, wont do it out in the eye of the sun its so pwecious hot. So pwoposed we should walk in and sit down, and so we did, and then began:
 Miss Chafingham, now, don't you think it doosid cool?"
 "Cool, Lord D." she said; why, thought you were complaining of the heat" ''.
 "l beg your pardon" l said ;"I-1-can' t speak vewy fast (the fact is, that beathly l wasp was UuGulLS dDOuG ulo dC IuC LuOiLCuG,j and I hadn't quite finished my thentence. I was going to say, don't you think it's doocid cool of Wagsby to go on laughing -at-a fellah as he does P
 "Well, my Lord" she said: '1 think so too and l wonder you standit You have your rem sdy, you know"
 "What wemsdy!" I said. You-you don't mean to say ought to thwash him, Miss Char. lotte?'
 Here she, somehow began to laugh, but in such peculiar way that l. I couldn't think what she meant.
 "A vewy good idea," Isaid. live good mind to twylt. l had on the gloves once with lay figure in painters studio, and gave it an awful licking. It's true it, it didn't hit back, you know I, did all the hitting then. And pwaps, pwaps Wagsby aoo,tld hit back. But if, If he did anything so ungentlemanlike as that could always, always-."
 Always aobat, my Lord ?" said Lofty, who was gong on laughing in mos hystewlcaliy manner.
 "Why could say it was mithtake, and, and it shouldn't happen again. you know"
 Admirable policy, upon my word," she said and began titterlng again. But what the douth amused her so never could make out. Just then we heard sort of rustling iu the leaves be- hind, and confess felt wather nervouth
 Its only bird,' Lofty said, and then We began talking of that little wobin wed bweast, and what wonderful thing Nature is, and how doosid pwetty it was to see her laws obeyed. And 1 said, "Oh, Miss Chaf6ngham, if 1 Was wobbin--"
 "Yes Dundreary," she anthered, vewy soft and sweet. And thought to mythelf Now wuminate again, but she bwought me to my thenses by thayIng
 "1es ?' inteWWogaLivey.
 If 1 wath wobbin, Lofty, and you wath a wobbin-"I exclaimed, with voice full of enothun.
 Well, my Lord r
 Wouldn't it be jolly to hatch one $ own eggs for breaktatht?'
 The above wasn guile what 1 was going to say, but just at that moment there was another ruthling behind the summer house, and 1 thought heard a thort of thtiaed laugh I started to my feet, for, haven't wobberies been often committed Tn these kind of places? thought of Wush, Burke Manning, and a lot of atthathins and thnalhng up the only weapon al hand, my umbwela Ia jolly little green silk one without which never go out.) l wusilel behind into the shwubbery By jove! 1 never did such a thing before und Iii take vewy goud care its the last time. The beathly bSalnbl. s cau5h me in all diwecthuns, about my coa., about my wethcut, about my, in thort, every where and one ufthose confsounded fungus things thort of imltathun muthroom clled d puff bail, exploded under me when fell and covered me with powder. 1 was in an awful thtate.- The worst of it was, might have just as well stopped where was. There was no fellah 5e- hind the hummer houth but, confound it all, when looked in at the window there 1 thaw that bwute Wagsby in his leather overaIls. with that beathy fishing rod of his talking to Lofty
 " Whats the WOW, Dundweawy ?" said he swimming at me out of the little window. "Whats the WOW ?' l said. " Why that $ the vewy thing 1 wanted to know, heard a sort of wustling behind here and I wusled in to see what it was, but cant find anything at all ex- cept a lot of bbeathy pwickly plants and a muthroom that, goes off with bang by thpon. taneous combustion"
 :" flaw haw, ha ha." said Wagsby and began laughing in dweadfully idiotic sort of way, " hee hee what a stunning lark!''
 e. tell you whit," 1 said, ' if that ,cas a lark it must have been stunning one to mak, al that wow"
 Upon this he began to woar again, and said '" Mo- old fellow, q hate man who calls me old fellow, it's SO beastly familiar) "All right, he sail, ct was only Tow sr.' | And what the dooth is Tow. sir?" said I.
 "Towzer, my dog, he ran on before me afte, q rabbit ant chased it into the shrubbery, and here he is, lie down Towzer, lie down sir r
 And then heard great yelping and bow wowng, and howwd gweat New .fouudland monthter rushed upon the scene l It's vewy lucky had my little gween uEn bwsl a with me, for the moment came out o the shrubbery this dithsuthting quadruped, thi: Towzer jumped upon me and had the gweat est difficulty in maintaining my equ'libwium.
 "sts only his play, my Lord, down Towzer down' cried Wagsby, gwnning like baboon wastcoat." So he whissled and called the bwute away, and then explained that he hat come down from the Hall on purpose to fetcf us back (confound him) as they had just aw . wanged to start on one of those col meat ex curslons, no that's not the word, 1 know, but i has something to do-uith cold meat, pie, pick nic--that's it--they wanted us to go picklckiuy 1 mean picknicking with hem. Here was dithappointnent-Just as thot to have nc e little flirtathun with Lotty, to b , Interrupted in this manner! Was ever any thing so provoking? And all for pie knic, thort of-oI early dinner without chairs or ta in such wage
 We're going to pull up the river" sai, Wagsby. ' I've got an out rigger down at th' ferry. Of course you'll take an oar my Lord 1?
 70 certainly" said I. I didn't exact know what he meant then, for you see I'm no a boating man; but as for taking an oar-an, fellah can do aat 1 thought-they're not st vewy heavy. o yes," said I, I'll take al