The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1865-09-01

| IL the reign OF an ancient king Of
Great Britain, whose name was George,
and no consequently is supposed 70 have
tiourisbed this side, both OF lie Conquest
! by the Norman William and the Reior-
nation Of our Church under the renowned
British B.uoJea,d, Heary The Wifekiller
and about tie period the British stage
coach first sPrang lato existence under the
form and condition OF snail, and the Ii
tie Of diligence, there Peared-by the
side OF q highway, which ran along the
southern coast OF England, and led to that
! spot Win an awful name, still called the
Lands End "a solitary public house, with
a little circular piece Of ground before it.,
ant an apple orchard thickly planted with
trees behind il; beyond which, again, vas
d place called The Garden though it
must be acknowledged, that those who
did call 1t SO were very courteous and lbe-
raj in lAcir epishess. Every one who has
seen Mount AJgacumbe, knows well that
tho most luxurious Vegetation that it is
possible TO imagine, can be produced at
the very verge of old oceans reign bu,
no such pains as are there bestowed had
beer given to the vegetable kingdom OF
tho garden Of which speak, aud scanty
array OF catbages, turni ps, and carrots,
was all that spot Of ground could boast
Even that was looked upon in those days
all bu. miraculous, considering that lie
/ garden crept TO the very edge Of the ciiiE
which oyeGhung the sea ; and Neptune,
as ifludignaut at tao presumption Of the
thing, would come angTily up TO the very
bottou ii the bank at high water, during
ST! seasons Of the year, but, when be got
choieIic il the spring ald autumn, wouIt;
bcstow buffet with bis trident upon the
cliff Itself, which swept away, from time
10 time, TOw Of c&bbages or bed OF
onions, together win the soil in which
they were planted, The house Itself had
M aspect sonewha! gloomy, and lis gables
Were turned towards the road, the entrance
being reached by q step, not un but down.
Tie face Of The landlord was a merry
face aud gag, bu! with all that he was a
pruden. man, he took care that his vii
should so as far as it would, made ope
joke serve many customere, had loud
laugh to answer any question that be did
not choose 20 give more definite reply
to, eked out his meaning by knowing
look, which IS not tangible to the fang5 0!
the law, aud always spoke well Of the jus
tee OF the peace. HIS wife looked as il
size could have been quaker; she was an
Anabaplist, however, and j. is supposed,
or at least was supposed by the people ID
the nelghborhood, that the beer in that
house turned more rapidly sour than il
any other in the country.
1t was a nasty, squally, rainy afternoon;
and the diligence was winding slowly
along upon tie aforesaid road, at the ave
rage pace OF three miles and a hall an
hour, While tie rain kept boating ia at
various points of the crazy and i.l-contri
Ved vehicle, when one traveller il the IN.
side said to another; Forty miles more,
Frederick, forty miles more"
Aye" said The other, sand this snail
OF machine goes on as if it never intend
ed to arrive at the end of the journey"
While your heart hies On the wings
Of love- replied tho frs. who spoke,
and yet cannot reach Mary's fee. any
faster than the diligence"
The Two gentlemen who thus conversed
were the sole tenants of the machine, and
they were both young men of FIVE OF six
and twenty years OF aye. The one =, 10
WAS called Frederick, and whose name
was, moreover, Prevot, was by far III,
handsomest Of the two, ard upon the
whole very good looking man, though
there was a certain grave and anxious
look about his countenance, which those
Who loved him-and his friends sister
Mary, was one of those who loved him
rnost-caIled deeply interesting; while
those "ho did not love bin pronounced it
to he gloomy and suliou. Sulen he was
not, for MS was, in ,rrh, very quick and
.mPe-pon5 nature; bat he Aal strong
imagination, and was bY 20 means eddie
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