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

| CONOICu COIuuIOlB nA0 GPCNhAFFA bAAaW
hat, swathed in q wisp of green bad. 1t
only required the arrival of Miss Croucher
in q pair of open-work silk gloves, in which
her hands we're caught like two red null
lets in bag nets, to reduce Mrs. Candy TO
that depressed condition when the female
spiritsreqhire burnt feathers and cognac.
1t was clear that we never could allow cur
selves to be driven 10 Epson bys man in 8
speckled straw hat; so Mr.. Candy rugged
him out with 3 hat Of his own, adorned
with q silver band hastily obtained from q
shop in the neighborhood. To be sure Mr..
Candy hat was q little too large for the
man, but with 3 padding of brown psper 1t
fitted pretty well until it came down over
lis eyes with the exertiOn of driving, when
the vulgar people on the vsD and omnl-
buses told him to "come out of it" There
was no doing anything with Miss Crouch
or. for, though she wore black net gloves,
she had money, and no relations but the
Gsndys. So we started, and tried to look
IS like swells ss we possibly u UNDER
the circumstances.
MI. and Mrs. Candy sat on the back seats
and lolled as gently as anybody could loh
and Miss Croucher anu l sat on the narrow
front seat as uncomfortable as anybody
could sit. We didn't talk much, that not
being genteel; and we didn't have any
thing to eat the whole way, that also not
being genteel; and when the driver sug-
gested the necessity OF washing out the
horses mouths, he was told that it could
not be permitted 1 had little flask of
brandy-and-ws,er in my pocket, and would
have given the world TO take a pull at It
but 1 felt that it would not be genteel and
proper. 1 should have liked to smoke, but
thai was altogether out of abe question.
Our driver, finding that we were very
genteel, took up by short cuts, and avoided
Us much as possible the stream of vulgar
life. This was favorable to the msinten-
ance of our dignity but every now and
then, when We were driVentO join the crowd
at a conveyance of the roads, we were
taken down 3 peg by those vulgar fellows
on the buses asking our driver to come out
of that hat. I will ssy this Of u driver,
that he was better known, and had q larger
circle of acquAintsnce, than any OF US.
Twenty times, ct least between London snd
EPSON, persons in vehicles (generally on
the box seAt) nodded their heads or jerked
up the handles of their whips in token Of
recognition. Several persons called him
Familiarity, George, and one asked him
"where he 6gu it FROM" which l under
stood to refer to the pheeayton, as George
called it. This mystery was cleared up
after wards, when we learned thRt George
was by normal profession q csbman, who,
on Derby and other high days and hOli-
days, did 8 little livery business on his own
account, using his own horses and, and dig
ging up q Gpheesyton" where he could find
one in any mound devoted TO the shooting
of vehiculsr rubbish.
We paid q guinea to go upon the course,
and, the horses having boon removed, We
we're seized upon by q dozen halfnSked
clamorous fellows, who drAgged the phesy-
ton this way and that way, and showed,
and pushed and pulled, until 1 thought
the phesytOn would have been deprived OF
its head. Each one of the dOEan fellows
declared that to him belonged the sole
merit of having pulled vi about and de
manied money and Wouldnt 60 away till
he got it. The other fellows, seeing that
we we're swells, insisted upon brushing US,
and when we resisted and exhibited our
own clothes brush, they cried, "Yahl shah
BY I" st us, and brought down upon the
phesyton the attention of all the drsgs by
which we were surrounded, and which en-
tireIy shut out our view of the race course.
We were 80 blocked in among tho mass OF
carriages on the hill, that 1t was impossible
to get out, even on foot so Mr. Candy
and, l who had designed to walk about
with the view of being seen by our friends,
we're obliged To remain Ia the carriage.
By comparison, with others, our hamper
was not such,s grand affair IS it had prom
ised when Mr.. Candy was packing the
sparkling" Besides the hampers from
] D@-l-.---l l4--1 -Sse1J PeShou va
paper shavings, ours showed its hons
made origin most unmis' skably. 1t was
composed Of brown wicker, and 1t YVES
packed with straw. We hsd forgotten to
| provide Ourselves with 8 champagne open
or, and as Mr.. Candy wouldn't hear
| of sucn q thing as knocking the
tops Of the bottles of, we were lain to
allow George TO operate upon the wines
with an instrument which he usually EN-
ployed to pick out stones from the horses
foot. Wo had omitted 30 bling champagne
glasses, and were obliged 10 drink the bub-
bling wine out of tumblers, which wss quite
az agreeable to ourselves, but msy have
looked like psle ale to our ~neighbors- A
leg of mutton, with salsd and mint sauce,
was substantial, but it rather paled its ele-
gance beside fowls tied up with white rib
bon. Yorkshire pies, and decorated lobster.
We we're very quiet st lunch, and L am
sure no one could have said that we were
other than most genteel and respectable
people, if George had not persisted IN
thumbIDg his cold lamb, instead Of eating
it from s plate. George was incorrigIble.
He sat down upon the hamper, al
smoked a short clay pipe under our very
noses, and, what was worse, under the very
noses of the drags. He lesnt famiiisrly
over the side of the pheesyton, and pro-
posed that we should get u pasweep among
ourselves, "just to give an interest to IT.
like" a proposal which was Indignantly
rejected.
Every time the bell rang we stood up IN
the ~pheeayton, but could see nothing ex-
cept the backs of the people on the drags
Immediately before us. Nevertheless, we
T preserved our gentility to the last which
wss the hour of six, when George, with the
aid of many volunteer ~ostlers, hauled US
out from the mass of vehicles In which we
we're imbedded, and put US on the road.
The horses were put to, George mounted
the box, and away we went
1t was not long before we were sssalled
with a shower of chsf and peas. George
; WAS commanded for the hundredth time to
come out of his hat. Miss Croucher was
| asked for q lock of her hair, and frequent
! inquiries were made for Mr.. Candy and
|, myself if we didn't feel very well. This
/ last being q sarcastic sllusion to the rigid
gentiIity of our behavior. Miss CrCuchel
. laughed outright at a joke once, and Wa
3 reproved by Mrs. Candy. She didn't
/ laugh again for two miles; no more did l
8 and the consequence was that the joker
q were more severe upon US than ever
. GWss we 80 VERY nl2" "Would we TAKE
e. a drop of summaI to cheer US up9' "Hsc
{ we lost heavy on Bresdalbane, or wha
n was tn And when q van fell behind
t and caught US up again, the people cried
9 HSlsp bangl here We are sgsinr and SAM
|. HSoiolly, sojolly, oh "inmOckery. EVentht
{ Mossoos, elsted with the success OF Gladia
Q teur, chafed US in broken English. Dread
g ing three more hours Of this, 1 came to
secret understanding with Miss Crouchel
o It was, that we were to smile privately q
our sssailants, with the view of c%oncilisi
ing their. This we did most deliberately
erinning like Cheshire cats at all the jokes
and playfully, in q kitten-like wSy, putin
"a nm our DAVIS TO ward off the sportIve pea