The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1869-01-04

cnt short and are free from morai 70,
sponsibility for their own and trsataS
are moved about in gangs
like wild beasts. pr;nca+our Gov,
But the journey 20 nroaoS~s h I'm
whatever side it Is 't hpaam.;e.1 nas .no
Gnal nno ~ itself is ugly enough; bat you
ddnrot 90 thither without breathing
t tho s sweetest, freshest air, and encoun-
toring chat delightful sense of romance
which moorland scenery always produ-
ces. The idea of our three friends was
20 see the Moor rather than the prison,
60 learn something of the country
around, and to enjoy the excitement of
eating sandwich sitting on hillock,
in exchange for the ordinary comforts
of good dinner with chairs and tables.
A bottle of sherry and water and paper
of sandwiches contained their whole
banquet; for ladies, though they like
good things at picnics, and, indeed, at
Other times, almost as well as men like
them, very seldom prepare dainties for
themselves alone. Men are wiser and
more thoughtful, and are careful to have
the good things, even if they are to be
enjoyed without companionship.
Mrs. Crocket's boy, though he was
only about three feet high, was a mira
Gle of skill and discretion. He used the
machine, as the patent drag is called,
in going down the hills with the utmost
care. He never forced the beast beyond
a walk if there was the slightest rise in
the ground; and, as there was always a
rise, the journey was slow. But the
three ladies enjoyed it thoroughly, and
Mrs. Trevelyan was in better spirits
than she herself had thought to be pos
sible for her in her present condition.
Most of us have recognized the fact that
a dram of spirits will create,-that So
called nip of brandy will create hilarity,.
OF, at least, alacrity, and that glass OF
sherry will often "pick up" and set IN
order the PROSTATE animal and mental
faculties of the drinker. But we are
not sufficiently alive to the fact that CO.
pious draughts of fresh air-Of air fresh
and unaccustomed- have precisely
the same effect. We do know that now
and again it is very essential to "chaage
the air; :" but we generally consider
that, to do that with any chance OF ad-
vantage, it is necessary to go far atield
and we think also that such change OF
the air is only needful when sickness OF
the body has come upon us, or when 1t
threatens to come. We are seldom
aware that we may imbibe long pota-
tions of pleasure and healthy excite
ment without perhaps going out of our
own county; that such potatlons are
within a days journey of most of us
and that they are to be had for hall
crown a head, all expenses told. Mrs.
Trevelyan probably did not know that
the cloud was lifted off her mind, and
the load of her sorrow made light to her,
by the special yigOr of the air OF the
moor; but she die know that she was
enjoying herself, and that the world was
pleasanter to her than it had been for
months past.
When they had sat upon their hill
locks, and eaten their sandwiches,-re-
GREETING that the basket of provisions
had not been bigger,-and had drank
their sherry and water out of the little
horn mug which Mrs. Crockett had lent
them, Nora started off across the moor
land alone. The horse had been left to
be fed in Princetown, and they had
walked back to a bush under which
they had rashly left their basket of
provender concealed. 1t happeNed, how
ever, that on that day there was no es-
capped felon about to watch what they
had done, and the food and the drink
had been found secure. Nora had gone
off, and as her sister and Priscilla sat
leaning against their hillocks, with
their backs to the road, she could be
seen standing now on one little eml-
nence and now on another, thinking,
doubtless as she stood on the one how
good it would be to be Lady Peterbor-
ough, and, rs she stood on the other,
how much better to be Mrs. Hugh Stan
bury. Only,-before she could be Mrs.
Hugh Stanbury it would be necessary
that Mr.. Hugh Stanbury should share
her opinion,-and necessary also that
he should be able to maintain wife. II
should never do to be very poor mans
wife," she said to herself; and remem-
bered, as she said it, that in reference to
the prospect of her being Lady Peter
borough, the man who was TO be Lord
PeterbOr, ugh was at any rate ready to
make. her his wife, and on that side
there were none of those difficulties
about house, and money, and position
which stood in the way of the Hugh
Stanbury side Of the question. She
was not, she thought, fit to be the wife
of very poor man; but she conceived
of herself that she wCuld do very well
as a future Lady Peterborough in the
drawing rooms-of Monkhams. y
To be Continued.