The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-08-03

a great advantage over the gentleman
who fell over the bridge. YOu will o.
course be at Ruel tomorrow"
CHAPTER II.
$50 the court comes to-day, mother
/ wish we lived little nearer to the
town."
Nonsense, child; are yoa not salts
fled with the good word of all the lads
about DO they not call you the flow.
er of Ruelr
"They do now, mother; but they will
not tomorrow when they have seen the
queen and the ladies'"
"Bah the queen is old, and has only
ugly women in her train, for fear the
court gallants should make compari-
sons. There will not be in all court a
har dsomer lass than yourself All me
if your father would now but attend to
the farm instead of sitting and drinking
his own wines and cognac all day, !
should indeed be happy, and instead OF
giving you away to that goOd-for-nOth-
ing Guitaut, of the Gardes Colonelle, !
might have had the mayors son for my
son in law"
81 am very glad indeed, my mother,
that you will wive ME to Jules, instead
of to that little Mazarinist, the mayors
son."
Hush. it is not safe to talk like that;
poor folks should know nothing of the
court or its parties. You must be like
your fathers house, free to serve all.
But get yourself dressed, for there is a
traveller coming down the hill-a soldier,
too"
The soldier came in, and was waited
OH by the host in person. After few
questions as to how things were going
on in Paris, the traveller asked "Is your
house fulli
Full, monsieur! We have no one here
all the rooms are to let"
"NO, not all, Jaques," said the wife;
"the best room is engaged by the for
eign lady"
"Foreign lady! what is her name'"
"La Signora Leonora," said Rose; 81
remember it because I thought | had
heard it before"
~ dare say You have, my pretty one,"
said the soldier; "it is the name of the
new Italian nightingale that is to sing
in the woods of Ruel to please the
queen"
"Well, she has engaged the room over
this to be kept for her to meet gentle
man in; her uncle, she said"
"Ah, Indeed, / should like to see
her uncle, for think he's IN old friend
of mine."
But you are from Picardy, Monsieur,
ifI know anything of France"
True, mine host; am from Picardy,
but why should not know La Signora's
unclep
"You are right, sir; but / understand
that he came from Italy with her. and
strange to France"
at may not be the same; still think,
good host, should like to see him when
he comes without his seeing me-"
THAT is very easy; any one from the
branches of the tree yonder can see into
this room quite we'll"
"TH try it. When do you expect the
lady 7" q
This afternoon. She is to meet her
uncle here"
"Well, if you will get me some din
ner in another room, and join me in y
flask, III stay and see the SignOra's
uncle"
The worthy host of the Rose of Ruel
provided the dinner, and Joined the SOL
dier of Picardy over his afterdinner
flask.
81 suppose, now, NJ. Jacques, that this
is not bad trade of yours-this keep
ing of finns and farming together, ought
to make you a rich man. You have
been mayor, of coursep .ss
mot at all, good monsieur. | am as
poor as q church mouse"
You do not say as church rat ~
Monsieur le Capitaine," said the
out loud in Ruel just now about rats at
all, much less about church rats"
"Noi.and why not!" ~.
Because some rats have sharp ears
and sharp teeth"
"You do not seem to like the ratsi'
mo, indeed; the rats are the farmers
enemies in the. country, but it is the
town rat that has done me most mis-
chief"
81 do not understand, NJ. Jaques, how
you, farmer, can be hurt by rats in
town.
Il didn't say the town rats; said the
town rat"
S"Bah! That is dangerous indeed; that
is another thing; but do not still un-
derstand how"
"You see, NJ. le Capitaine, : have
property in the city, and the new edict
of Toise asks me to run myself to pay a
tax to the queen on my property in
Paris that has been mine and my
fathers these eighty years. The good
king Henry ii. little thought that his
law would be forgotten for o hundred
years, and then renewed at the instiga-
tion of creature of Cardinal Mazarin's
to ruin and beggar honest men like my
self" ,.-
"Oh, / see then his eminence is your
rat that eats your Paris corn, eh r.
Truly so, and my barn at Paris helds
more corn than all my barns here pni
together" y q E7YJ .)E
aAnd what do you do to the rats
that eat the corn in the barn of Ruelin
1--WE kill them and trap them and
"And you poison them,r hissed the
soldier into the ear of his host, seeing
he hesitated. u - u ,-.-.. - 4. ..ls -
"Yes, Monsieur le Capitaine, we poi.
son them, that is to say, the country
ratsp - a& zT z 2 4 ~ ~ . "a
.And the town rats also :" g,,g-, CT ; - =
"lf I had the chance. -5a