Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1869-06-23
WHOLE NUMBER 376.

4 says: You'd better have a nip QUITO
the Easter egg, sir; it's held lucky here
to do that; and, any way, it'll warm ye.'
He wanted deal o. pressin,' but at
last he agreed; so we had an Easter egg
shell between us. Mr.. Chabot drank
first. Then Mr.. Philip tried his hand.
But, law! 1 saw he wasn't used to neat
spirits, he made such a splutterin', and
coughed till I thought he'd ha' chOak-
ed.
Gone the wrong way, sir says I.
he looked away, still cOughin' and rub
bin his stomach.
my-inside-nearly to Gin
DER Ihurd him blurt out to Mr.. .Chabot.
Then he rushed off to get the tickets.
Friend amt partial to a raw nip, sir,
says I. Mr.. ChabOt laughed and said
mo; that's taste he hasn't acquir-
ed yet
in few minutes we heard the train
comm. Mr.. ChabOt slippeda sovereign
into my hand, and thanked me for driv-
in him and his friend I followed him
to the platform; the two of 'em jumped
into first class carriage, and the last I
saw Of 'em was as the train was mOvin'
off. They both looked out of the WIN
dow, laughin' and wavin' their hands
at me. 1 waved my hand back to 'em,
and then the train went out into the
darkness and I lost them.
The next mOTnin' there was such q
hubbub and tO-dO over yOnder as you
never heard. Miss Susie wasn't to be
found anywhere,-hadn't slept i'm her
bed all night and was gone nobody knew
where. Ye see they went to bed so
early they adn'tmfssed her over night.
Well dye know, I was that stupid that
IneVer guessed what had happened, till
my Betty she comes up 60 me and
says
YOU'RE a nice sort o. feller, Joe! \
fine mess you've gOtyOurselfintO And
you the father of a family, tOOp
'Messn says l. What dye mean?
''What do I meanH says She why
you ought to be ashamed O. yourself, not
to know better than help a young girl
like that to run away from her home!
Ie're nigh as big villain as the man
she's run away with
Will ye believe me, even then I didn't
see what she was dTivin' at, till she went
on, with face the color o. raw beef
Don't tell me you know nOthin'
about it, don't stand there and look so
innocent. How would they ha' got
away if it hadn't been for you drivin'
them? All, get away with ye! it's
enough to make an honest woman
ashamed of her husband, so it is
Now I saw it plain enough. Mr..
ChabOt and his friend!-the drive to the
station! 1t nearly took my breath away
as the truth burst upon me. The young
gentleman that sat behind had been
Miss Susie Carter! We'll, of all the
neat tricks ever played, there's none
comes up to that says I to myself,
Then I turns to Betty and says
''I'll take my solemn oath, Betty, I
never guessed what was up till this min
ute. AS true as I'm standin' here, had
no more notion that the young fellow
with Mr.. ChabOt was a lady, than I'd
have now, that you're Queen Of Eng
land
TT was a long time before the old
oman would believe me, but she come
round at last; and when old Carter came
to hear of it, my word, didn't he swear
and wasn't he mad! Didn't he pitch in
tome neither! But I gave him as good
as I got; and when he told me I had
helped his daugter to escape, I gave him
the lie fiat. He sWOre he'd have the
law on me. But young ChabOt wrote a
letter eXOneTatin' me from all blame,
and sayin' was as innocent as a babe
unborn, which was gospel truth; and the
old man came to me afterwards, and
said he was sorry for the hasty words he
had spoken,
II had a letter from the young scamp,
too, thankin' me in the name of himself
and his wife (they were married as soon
as they got to LOndOn)fO the kind ser
vice I had done them. He said Mr.
Philip wished ME to know that though
he was willing to forgive, he never
could forget the agony and tortured had
put him to by pressing him into taking
that dreadful hot brandy out OfthG lucky
egg-shell, which he was afraid to refuse
lest he should rouse suspicion.
After hOldin' out against 'em despeF- /
ate for six months or more, old Carter
came round and gave in, and made the
best Of it; and it wasn't bad thing, for /
young ChabOt had money of his own. !
1t was when they came down here, man !
and wife, to stay with the old man, that
they gave me yOnder egg you asked |
about. It's pretty thing, tho I don't
know what it's made Of,-sOme kind of
French plaster, / take it. They said it
was q fitting token to recall that MEM
Orable night: and more especially Miss
Susie-ALrs. ChabOt, thatis-said to keep
alive the remembrance of that awful
eggsheu full O. brandy.
well, [ was riled q bit, at first, at the
trick they had played on me, and at the
way they had made me their tool, but
have never regretted dOin' them the
service. [ believe it was a kindness to
them after all; for they loved one anOth-
er, and they'd only ha' been miserable, |
if they had been separated. And it's
my belief, sir, that if there was q little
more of that sort o. love which made them I
young folks run away rather than be
parted, between many husbands and /
wives that gets married in a proper and /
respectable way, this world 'Ud be /
sight happier than it is