Weekly Trinity journal., 1869-04-10


different apparel only shook his head in men
acing manner and showed his teeth the more.
Towser, be quiet, sir; how dare you-Tow,
Tow, Tow-Towser-(here he nearly had bit
Of my calf off you nasty, brutal dog 60 away,
sir-go; amt you ashamed of yourself Drops
of foam oozed through the teeth of the ferocious
monster as he stood up, with tail erect, at these
reproving words, but he manifested no signs of
remorse sorrow. My situation became serious
in the extreme; what if he choose to sit there
on my personal apparel, until?
''At this idea, too terrible to be concluded, a
profuse perspiration broke out all over me-
Presently, feeling little cold, went back into
the lake again to consider what was best to be
done, and revolving the fell design of euticing
Towser into the water and there drowning him.
Abuse and lattery being equally thrown away
upon him, l tried stones heaved at him with all
my force the largest pebbles could select, the
majority of which he evaded by leaping from
side to side, and those which struck him rem
dered him so furious that | believe he would
have killed and eaten me if he could, but still he
would not venture into the water after me.
''At last the time was drawing on apace for
the appointed interview which ] had once looked
forward to with such delight and expectation
was fain, in an agony of shame and rage, to
hide myself in dry ditch in the neighboring
copse, where could see what took place, with
out being seen, and there covered myself over,
like babe in the woods, with leaves Presently
my Lucy came down, a trife carefully
dressed than usual, and looking all grace and
modesty the dog began to howl she drew
near she saw him and she my clothes, and
then the notion that was drowned U could see
it in her expressive countenance) flashed upon
her at once; for instant she looked as
though about to faint, and the next she sped
off again to the hotel with the speed of deer.
g Gracious Heaven determined upon rescu-
-
perishing in the attempt, and rushed out of the
thcket for that purpose but my courage failed
me as neared the savage animal, and | found
myself in some confused and palpitating manner,
back in my dry ditch again, with the sensation
of the loss of blood and pain my retreat had
not been effected-perhaps because there was
nothing to cover it-without considerable loss,
and the beast had bitten me severely. protest
that, from that moment, frightful as my position
was, it did not move me so much as the rehec-
tion of the honOrs that would be showered down
on that vile creature. | knew that he would be
considered by Lucy and the rest as sort of dog
of Montargs, an afectionate and sagacious crea-
ture, watching patiently at his appointed post
for the beloved master that would never return
to him.
q Presently they all came back, Lucy and her
mother and all the maid servants from the inn,
besides my fellow students and fishermen with
drag-nets, and a medical man, with blankets
and brandy (how envied the blankets and the
brandy y AS | expected, neither the women's
cries nor the mems labor in vain distressed me
half so much as the patting and caressng of
Towser; if she could have only known when she
dropped those tears upon his cruel nose that
there was a considerable quantity of human
1esh-my fesh-at that moment lying in his
stomach in an undigested state. l could not re-
press groan of horror and indignation.
''' Hush, hush,' said Lucy, and there
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Towser licking his chops. | was desperate by
this time, and hallooed out to my friend San
ford Sanford and nobody else to come into
the copse with blanket. | remember nothing
more distinctly. Immediately peals of laughter,
now smothered, now breaking irrepressibly
forth expressions of thankfulness, of affection,
of sympathy, beginning-but never finished
burst in upon, as it were by floods of merriment,
and the barking, the eternal barking of that ex-
ecrable dog.
81 left Killarney that same evening Lucy,
and the mother of Lucy, and my felow-students
and the abominable Towser l left them for
good and all and that was how my engagement
was broken off, and why there is no Mrs. Peony
Flush," concluded the curate who had turned
from rose-color to deep carnation, and from
that to almost black, during the recital
l felt for my poor friend deeply, many
others did to whom told this under the seal of
secrecy, and who revealed it to their families
In place of the religious boOk-markers. with BIZ
bles and crosses and crowns worked on them
which used to be rained upon Mr.. Flush during
the summer months from anonymous but not al
together unknow hands, he now received SINH
lar encouraging tokens of Il more earthly char
acter: wreath of orange flowers, with q Hope
on, hope ever" under it, in floss silk, and q
vignette, on perfumed cardboard, of Robert
Bruce and the spider, with a medieval ilumna-
ton, signifying; 'Never despair he was also
presented by some humorous artist with the
miniature of dog couchant upon a heap of
something, and "Semper idelis'' underneath.
His misfortune, however, was in fair way of
being forgotten, but for What occurred last sum-
mer.
company as then. Our hotel was filled to over
flow; two of our riding donkeys died from ex-
haustlon, a third edition was called for of the
guide book, and the bathing machines were en-
tirely reserved for the ladies' use 1t was not
this last circumstance, for Peony Flush never
5athed, but the first, which interfered with our
good curate's comfort. The inn being full, its
landlady sent her respects to Mr.. Flush, and
would he afford her the temporary loan of
room in his house for widow and her daughter
who had written for apartments the day before
and were coming on that evening in the expec-
tation of finding them? To refuse to perform a
kindness never entered into the good fellows
feeling heart, but this request yexed him
mighty. The information that the ladies we're
of a sumptuous character, and Travelled With two
riding horses, as well as their own carriage, af-
fected him nothing. If they had been pedestri-
ans, and were about to appear in walking
grove of band-bokes, they would have alarmed
him quite much.
He was not sure if it woald not be indelicate
for him TO put his boots outside the door a.
night, and be gave orders that his linen shouIo
be remored-half dry-from the lines IN tne
back garden. 1t would be a relief TO n'm' he
said, if | would reside in the house during W
stay of the two visitors; and, at all evsHe h;ab
must dine with him the first evening,
agreed to do The curate's dinners we were da-
neat; his hossekeeper-who PerIecLss u hons
stood him. and was not altogether wi'noa. mp
think of Turing him down from respscs ,. 70 ;.t
r;monrebad way of anointing cnck with
lemon which. before bad feasted al the Dose-
nn, had met With only in books. J therefore
.s;;.;onslv rode few miles in the afternoon in
There vas a good one to be got generally on
The br;dle road by the sea coast, which cuts
through the sheep and cattle pastures, aad :