The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1865-03-07
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4 'fou scaly Narinint, you know bow
/ lo'lay oat your money. you do OBJ
served the driver Of a Hanson cab TO
his late fare, as be was endeav0ring
70 ascend the stately steps Of The Me-
galberlom club house with dienited
inconsistencies why, blessed il I
don't think, by your white eboker, as
though you was parson; but you re
nothing better than q tub-ranter.
Don't speak to him, sir, (here lie raj
sed his yoiee), for be Is no gentleman,
10 assure you. This last sentence
was addressed TO myself, who Ras
standing on the top Of the steps in
question, and very embarrassing re-
mark !, was ] had not tie least in
ientiou OF speaking to the person al
luded 90, who was indeed an utter
stranger 10 me bot having been thus
maliciously invoked, | could not even
afford a tacit encouragement 10 such
observations 90 | waved my hand TO
the cabman in sign that his presence
was obnoxious. and smiled spon the
approaching stranger, as though /
would say: "Never mind, sir this is
the sort ol insolenes which sll men
who ride in cabs are more or less sub
jscted to-
'Sirpence from Temple Barr con-
iinued the driver, proclaiming With
Vehcmence the heinous crime of the
accused. Il believe he expects to 20
TO Pairodice for siKpence. Don't you
never let hiP belong TO your club, sir,
mind that
1t now became absolutely necessa-
ry, as member Of the Megalherium,
that | should speak a word OF indol-
enee to this stranger, upon the treat
ment TO which he had been subjected
at our very doors. and ! did so. He
returned his thEhks IN q manner, the
corteousness oi which rather increas-
e1 iay sympathy for his position, and
then pushed open the folding doors.
Now, don't you let him into your
club, sir, repeated the cabmau with
great earnesmess, and making no sort
of preparation for moving away for
lie u scaly varminLif over there vas
one
Unwilling 10 be the recipient Of
these extreme opnions,I wsyelf with
lrcs ipto the club, and was about to
proceed up stairs, when | heard my
osn name meatioDed.
'Ihdt is Mr. Charles Selby,' OBJ
served the hell porter in reply to some q
,bservation Of The stranger. The 9th /
" mr.. Sebly's initials are f..
j did not know his Christian name I.
cpiied the aew corner ! 'butI suppose i
hat Mr.. +. L. Selby is the gentleman
an in scsrca OF. Can you favor me !
With hiss pro1en, address, {
A. the porter seemed 10 have some .
Gicu.;y ~ supplying the information n
equife5- ! Iurned back at once, and
add II yoa want my cousin Franks 9
ircotion, | can give il you, sir : and n
did SO, aud he wrote it down in his .
ocke! book. lie was q thin spare +
ian, sith shaggy brows oyerhanging j
@d gray eyes; aud. indeed, there 81
.aa i general sir Of severiy about /,
IA, which ia 40. promise much in c,
10 wey q eStfs Ypene 10 cabmen
/ volunteer gFatuit'es Of any kind tc
Ut his Soicc was singularly soft, and oil
IS ais engaging. lie again thanked d.
e, and left him, rather pleased that m
bad done so grateful iellow-crcaturc W
eivility, but never expecting TO look
pon his iion- gray eountenancc any ii
ore. My astonishment, therefore, m
as considerable, when, a few weeks
lcrwards, ! received the following b,
Ter from my cousin Frank, who is Al
with foreign house in the of
ty; ne
'DERR CHARLEs--I have just been bi
legraphed TO Riga. There is one ps
ing you can do for me, il you will, h,
my abscence-grt Doodle into che ro
egatherium. Substitute Jour name ri,
bis proposer, instead Of mine, and m
AXE what whip you can lie is q or
arm man, and useful 10 az here of
ou have already a slight acqaaint- Ol
zee with him, il seems 90 il will be ne
e more easy for you to oblidge in vi
is matter, your afeelionats kinsman 81
"F. II. SELBY.' of
'sP. S. lie says you behaved We oil
courteously 10 him once, about H
bnan.' al
But for that postscript should never wa
We eonjeciured who Mr.. Doodle was. If
le description would not have help. an
me 10 recognize him. | should iac
{ have considered him warm rrsn ter
/ rather the reverse. don't think wi
hould have even thought him a me
Ibable man, ss the great lexicogra. roc
er terms il; but this recommen nda- no,
n from my cousin was final upon the
It point. He would surely have it .
re. have asked me- 10 introduce q ser
n into the Megaiherium solely be- imI
lse be was an advantageous CON- car
rcial connection. Of
As The ballot was to come on 10 dor
ee weeks, and three candidates out cub
'our had been black-balled at the sha
election through certain cliquish ing
ueuees, there vas no time 70 be
if Doodle was 10 be brough, in Ria
ierefore called upon him At his re- nan
snee in Tyburnia. and announced last
intentions in bis favor. was as It.
,leasaully impressed with bis per- and