Delaware gazette. [volume] (Delaware, Ohio) 1855-1886, 1867-01-25

1 ting-book," remarked my sporting
friend. Wen give him a benefit now
at any rate I vote We take 1t IN turns
TO puff smoke through the lamp-hole.
Let's look at him /; hs ! cooled down
a little, is about to compose himself to
1 sleep I'll trouble you for his night
cap come and look at 1t, Fred
I did so, and rOared on seeing q red,
woven cap Of eomieaI shape, which ad-
ded very considerably to the lFaseity
Of the Wearer's features:
With perseverance which deserved
a better cause, we each made a tube
of paper, and putting the end through
/ the lamp-hOle, took our turn at 'smOk-
ing him ont and L blush as L now
think how heartily we enjoyed the en-
ragged state in which he paced up and
down the empty carriage, like q Gagged
tiger.
The next time We stopped, however,
1 the guard put his head into our car
riage window and said, with a wink:
Cent? IA in next compartment com
/ plains of your smoking, sir.
Smoking we exclaimed. with
mock indignation. DO we look as
though we'd been smoking What
nonsense + and added in a mysterious
manner, You see there s one vacant
seat ! of course were not going TO tell
tales of the man who occupied that.
All right y said the guard, laugh
ing, l WASH t born yesterday. And
| after a slightly confidential transaction
of a peCuniary nature, left Us In peace.
The snow, which had been falling
heavily al day, now lay thick all
around. Our eyes arehed again, as
we looked out of the window (Which
was itself al frosted over, on to the
dazzling snow which covered all the
landscape and as We stamped our
feet on the floor of the carriage we be-
gan heartily to wish ourselves at our
journeys end, and by the ireside.
Halo what are we stopping for
now I wonder whether we're going
| to do an upset, or anything exciting of
that kind, said Davies, looking out of
4 the window. - don't see a train any
where that we can have a friendly col
lisiou with.
Get out here, gentlemen" " said the
guard, passing the window the line
/ is showed up, and we shall have to
wait till 1t is clear"
The grumbling which this pleasant
1 announcement caused was Immediately
stopped by our hearing the voice of
our dIsagreeable companion 70 the next
compartment.
Line showed up, is it?" said that
gentleman, trying to appear calm in
his fury, "and we get out here F? Oh
and do you suppose [ am quietly GO
ing to submit to this 2 The line ought
to have been cleared ready for US. I
shall bring an action.
z1- II
could they"
Might [ request to know who spoke
to you, sir ? I consider your remark
and interference excessive imperti-
nence.
This was little too bad, and I turn
ed to Jack and whispered that NE
would devise some plan Of giving our
= friend a lesson demOnstrative of the
evils attending bad temper at Christ
mas time.
We were fortunately stopped at a
distance of only two hundred yards
from a station buba very poor station
it was, without any WaitlDg-roOm OF
Fefreshment-roOms.
The statiOu.master, who was pleas
ant sort of a fellow, said we should
q have to wait but a couple Of hours
I and gave Us a f0om3 here We made
the best Of a bad Job, and having sem
for some beer from the nearest pub.
lie" became, as Edwards mathema t.
ically observed, approximately happy
The gentleman, however, had not yeI
vented all his wrath, but kept on an
tathematizing the snow and the railway
people at intervals. After we hac
warmed ourselves Stretcher proposed
l that we should have some songs bu
: as no one volunteered, I suggested
that we should get on our way sooner
; if We all went out and helped to cleal
away the snow from the line To thii
all agreed with the exception of oul
amiable friend of eOurse.)
We had worked away merrily fo,
about an hour, aud were coRgratula
ting ourselves on being able to star
T again, when Jack came running VI
S with a very pleased expression of coun
e tenance, and as he tapped me oD tn,
shoulder l remembered that he haC
e not been with me for the last half
T hour
e Fired, - he said, I've an idea.
e Keep 1t then, / replied, ''fOr it /
: so rare a commodity with you that
c would not deprive you Of it for th
q world"
= Ion GCnaHa anu 4 Il BGll you al
: about it. went up in the room a
the station just now, and found on
n friend the old boy fast asleep in hi
chair, completely collapsed under tn
= soporiio effects of the fire and a glas
b of brandy-and-wate I immediateI
e ran into the village and bought these,
Z he said, showing me a handful c
: screws, a gImlet, and a sCreWdriVer.
o What in the name of egerythiB
4 ridiculous do you want these for p
q asked.
u Don't you see ? we shall be able t
= start directly, now that the line
= clear we meanwhile run up stairs
y and screw the old gentleman firmly In
= to the room-the train goes on-w
e are reyenged for his suEly behavior t
\ US, and he will then learn that 'ol
y gentlemen should not be ill-tempere
at Christmas time.
Captain p l said, always ready t
! fall in with practical joke let US b
i off at once.
If We certainly found the old gentle
a man in as Morphean torpor as v
a could wish. His feet were proppe
a up on a chair, whilst his boots wei
re drying, and he was breathing with h
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+ tic manner.
e shall I put a SNOWFALL into each
7e his boots ?" I said
1T No ! that would beltoo much of
IA good thing, but I'll tell you what yC
- shall do you're rather a swell
ht drawing, aren't you?" I'll just bul
We the end of that beer bottle cork, az
h. you shall artistically adorn his face.
ad That is splendid" he whispered,
I finished off with giving him a mou
ir. tache, which turned up In a facetiol
IN, manner. just move that lookiI
iy glass, and put it so that he may admi
I himself directly he wakes and nc
lie let us be off. -
We walked on tiptoe to the doc
en- The hinges began to creak and co
as the weather was, a faint perspiratit
ell began to develop itself on my torches
ed as 1 noticed the old gentleman mo
le. in the chair; it was, however, only
lat turn his head on to the other should
70 and we closed the door in safety.