The Cleveland leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1865-1865, 1865-07-22

10 Wild 8 HickWlch1 % DOmS
sble than q short pipe TO smoke through
Olspham, our caravan starts on agar, ana
We are much cheered by the populAee, IN
respect particularly of our eighteen gallon
cask, which bespeaks large mesns and
boundlea hospitality. At Chapman we all
feel that we have done 3 very long stage OF
the Journey, and get out in a body to vary
the private provision with q few pubic
house biscuits and just & little drop
of something short, while Mr.. Povey
waters the horses and rubs them down,
prepsrstory to another start. We
make a great many stages on the road.
We halt at the Cock and Sutton, and at all
the hostelIies beyond that until we come to
the open country, when, there being no
more half. or three qusrter-wsy houses TO
stop at MI. Povey, by general desire,
drawns the two s. OF the road upon 3
patch of grass, where we Immediately pro-
ceeded 70 consume the brisket in q regular
manner
Before we resumed our seats, a little diff
ference had occurred between two young
men respecting two young women, when,
as were passing through the village OF EP-
som, burst out into an angry eDulllLloni
mingled with female screams, that msy
possibly have suggested TO the Epson
schoolmaster, looking over his garden wall,
that we were 8 party of Romans and Ss-
bines preceding to the lsthmiAn games.
mot having Adams Antiquities al hand,
/ take Lord PalmeIsson Is my classical
guide, he being generally q safe card to go
by) These little differences, however,
were soon arranged, and precisely at noon
Mr.. Povey, whipping his horses up for the
last grand display of mettle, drove us trl-
umphantly on to the course. Our carriages
were drawn up on the brow Of the hill
overlooking the gipsies tents, and consld-
erably in front of the grand stand. We
did not pay anything TO go on the course,
and none of our fashionable friends came
round csdglng for brisket and stout, as l
understood was the custom in 8 rank q lit
lie higher up and this was fortunate for
the brisket was wearing 8 very scrappy as
pect, and the stout was at that low ebb
when malt liquor endeavors TO make up
for other short comlngs by assuming an ex-
t~raordinary amount OF body.
Leaving the vsIs TO Mr.. Povey, who
had seen 8 great many Derbies, and tsth-
omed sll their empty pleasures, snd drain
ed a few of their empty bottles, when ms
patrons were not locking, we, the comps-
nv which he had brought down on the
present occasion for the moderate charge
of five shillings q head, pixies included, dis
persed ourselves over the hill and the dale
10 epioy ourselves. This is what We did.
We played at three sticks q penny we
guessed which thimble the pea was under,
and guessed wrong; we SHE'D little balls
at pins, and knocked them down instead
of going through them; we raced up and
down the hill; we role on donkeys 1 am
sure that young man thought l had adesign
to ride away with Matilda to far distant
lsndsG and went into gypsy tents and had
our fortunes told
Now here I come to the occasion when
there was very nearly being blood between
me and that young man. The gypsy was
telling Matilds's fortune, and she told her
that there were two young men IN love
with her, one dark and the other fair, but
that the dark young man loved her best,
and would be her future husband. Now, L
was the dark young man, and when the
fair young man heard what the gypsy
said, he looked clasp kniVes-especislly
that particular clssp-knife with the horn
handle which she had used to carve the
pork pie At the fete chsmpetre down the
rosd-st the dark young man, and sug-
gested having q quantity, not precisely
stated, Of the fluid necessary to his exist
eIce Had not the bell rung at
that moment for the great race OF The
dsy-on which the fair young man
stood 10 lose hslf-s-crown-it is pos
sible that the fluid might haso h"% ~
uaVIng attacked the nose-Dsgs early sue
nose-bsgs gave in early, and, after the
race we we're driven to recruit our exhaust
cd energies, so far as o means would al
low, in tents and booths, where the beer
was as excited and frothy as the company
in general, and where the boiled beef stood
all over in q state of Geld perspirstion, as II
If had betted rashly and WAS afraid of los
ing. There was music in these booths,
and we danced q little, and sang 8 little,
and, becoming free and light ofhesrt, stnck
dolls in our hats, some of US even reaching
that point of happiness which manltese
itself in the assumption of false noses. we
we're in no hurry TO leave the Downs. Did
YOU ever know the gallery boys to leave
the theater until the last piece was played
ont TO the end, even if it we're n O'CLOCK
in the morning 7 1t is all very well for
the stalls and boxes, who erjoy themselves
every night in she week but the gallery
which has a treat only 10Y and then,
likes TO receive the full value for its Six
pence.
We were very jolly on the road home.
We gave an itinerant coInet.a piston
lift, and he played to us all the way. W.
chsfed the gentle people IN the drsgs sno
phaetoDs, and asked the gentlemen in white
hats, who their matters were, which wa
| the popular piece Of wit at that time. We
| exchanged about half a qusntern of gin
the last o~fliquor-for g bottle OF sparkling
Moselle, with some young guardsmeD, who
admired Matilda, and onc more stirred vi
the jealousy of her young man, who never
theless psrtook Of the Moselle. We stop
ned At every house of entertainment OF
| the rosd, and when we had no house o
entertainment TO stop at, we drew up GU
caravan by the wsyside,snd disPorted our
selves on the grass. A poet OF the las
century would have called US 'Jocun(
svains,n II, was near ss possible TN
bslf wsy house where we found
Addle going at full blast in the parlol
and we ali danced polkss, while Mr., Pove!
invoked the horses and washed out thel
mouths. 1 never knew such horses IS MI
Poyey's for wanting their mouths washes
out and slwsys when he stopped for ths
humane purpose Mr.. POvey washed out hi
own mouth, but not generally a. his owl
expense
We we're not SO lively towards the latte
part of the journey home; bnt we Wer
happy, and the young women slumbere
peacefully in IN engaged manner on tn
shoulders Of the young men-except IN on
or two instances, when The young me
themselves slumbered in an engaged mar
ner on the floor of the vsn-And the eornt
woke up at the corner of Little Gree
STREET TO signalize U return with a bla'
OF triumph. We paid Mr.. Povsy nv
shillings q head, and bidding him gooc
nightSor rather morning, for 1t was pai
l2-assured him with all sincerity thai v
had never spent q more jolly day IN u
whole course Of vi lives.
And now l come to relate how l went I
the Derby the other day as a swell. Thi
carriage and pair, I will confess at ono
was q Joint stock affair. 1t happened tn
way: MI. Candy, who Is addicted to tasl
ion, and with whom I have the honor to
acquainted, said to me one dsy, "WM yo
90 down TO the Derby with US z" mesnin
BY the plural personal p%ronoun Mrs. Gand
and himself. I rashly said "Yes," al
found afterwards that 1 was expected
nay half the charges. "How will you go