Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1866-08-10

Harry was just as outspoken as Joe
and yet, though the pair ate together
drank together, and whenever practica
BILE, worked together, no one ever heard
them squabbling. Whenever they dis.
agreed in opinion they did not quarrel
they tossed. l never knew two such
brothers. There was something so 70.
mantle in the simple character of the
men and their love affairs, that to
watch their fortunes was like reading
an interesting novel in annual parts,
for their course towards prosperity and
matrimory was a zigZag. The first
year knew them, they won their stip-
ulated wherries, Joe at Putney, and
Harry at the Richmond regattas, and
put five pounds in the savings bank.
The next summer being a long and
fine one, water-excursions were con-
slant, and the Hamiltons having new
boats of their own to take pleasure par
ties out in, increased their balance to
forty pounds. The next winter, how
ever, being severe, and the following
summer wet, they had to encroach up
on this sum, and so on. When l got
my old lodgings Mt Paulsham last July,
therefore, one of the first questions
asked Joe, who was waiting my arrival
had reference to his matrimonial pros
poets. ".""." '"'.' 5 a.
ooh, that is all settled now, sir" said
he.
settledw I cried; "are you mar
ried, then?"
"And to Susan Beck ?n
"Surcly; and so is Harry to Betsey,
But will tell you all about it while
you are having your smoke after spin
to the Willows and back. / know you
are longing to get on the river"
Four hours later, when was lying on
the Swan lawn, with blister on each
hand, raw elsewhere, and cigar in
my mouth, Joe told me his story.
What we wanted, you know, sir,'
he began, "was hundred pounds be-
tween us. Well, we were lucky last
summer for what with the ladies who
took Rosebank Villa, and who almost
lived OH the water,-the gentlemen you
were so kind as to recommend me to
who came down for lessons in sculling
an out-rigger which Harry picked ul
for couple of guineas, and whicl
brought us about five shillings a day
right through the season, and an ap
prentice who took some of the work of
our hands, we did very well, and pu
aside tidy sum. Then in the winter
some gentlemen came here 10 look for
good place for new water-works they
are talking of having; and they always
took my boat, and kept me rowing
them half the day; u rare good job tha
was. Altogether, when this season be
gan, we had got our savings up to sew
cnty pounds, and that made us fidgety
| You see, when there was no likclihoo,
OF ourFgetting married so very soon, w,
could all take it quietly enough bu
now that there was q reasonable pros
pect of making up the sum we wantcC
before the winter, we began to get un
easy and restless, and to think the tim,
would never come; and the girls so
into just as great a hurry to get splicec
as ourselves, when they once knew
what n near thing it was. Well, one
day in April, while we were i'm this i'm
patient state, Mr.. Rolleckes, great
gentleman for aquatics, and a patron o
Ours-but You know him--welI, he
came and asked us if we would like tc
make up paif-oar match with tive
Newcastle mcn-forty pounds side
He (Mr. Rolleckes) would stand half o.
it, he said, as he felt sure we ought ts
beat them. .-..F.r
We thought the matter well over
Harry and can so as well as any pail
together, seeing that we have rowed in
the same boat ever since we were able
to handle an oar at all. Still did no
like it. Harry did. .". .
:" If we win the twenty pounds, there
will be only ten 10 make up,n says he.
"Aye," says l, 4" but If we lose it ?"
"Nothing venture, nothing win,'
says he; "toss." ..........g g..
| So tossed. "Heads !" cried he, ant
heads it was /; and so we made tllc
match. z+.... .... ........... ...
We rowed at Mortlake, aud a stiff
race it was; they were good plucket
ones, those Newcastle chaps. First W.
forged a bit ahead, they got the lead by
o couple of feet, and SO on, over thu
whole course. How the people on the
banks and on the bridges did holloo!
know at least / very nearly shut up
for / felt as IL my heart would busrt
but just then Harry, who pulled stroke
sung out, "Now, put OH last spirit =
l managed somehow TO answer TO the
call, and with four strokes we sho
ahead of the other boat; in three NOR,
we were past the winning post.
"Still ten pounds TO raise" grumblet
Harry next day, as we walked along
Hampton road; for we had left tin,
pair-oared outrigger in which we bao
rowed the match at Richmond, where
we had hired it. r.ass .a rs
Eyes" I said, "what stupids we were
not to back ourselves for trife more. ,
1t was a queer thing, but the smaller
the sum we had TO make up the more
we thought of the difficulty of making
it, and the more impatient we became
For my part, l felt as il could have
done. almost anything for that ter
pounds, so as to go home with tn,
means to have the bars published th'
very next Sunday, and get the whole
thing out of one's mind. I was just II
that state when the devil, if he knew
his business, ought to put n pice littl'
bait in q mans way; and to do him
justice, he does not often let the oppor
tunity slip.
You may remember, Sir, that soon az
ter you have crossed Ashton bridge
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