The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1869-08-06
General amttlligente.
CABMAN's STORY.


"What was the quccrost thing Ms over
happened 20 me since I Ina been on the
mukl We'll, there has becu u many Quoor
things, aud one a most terrible one. We
Four.whcclcrs sees a deal of life; much
moro than them 'ansom chaps does, not
withstandiug the little hole in the roof
through which they looks down upon par
ties when parties isn't aware. They drives
fast and fast folks. aud some has an idea
that IL Is only fast life n Is life; but you
knows better. sir, I dare saw"
| was taking u long street drive upOn the
box seat ofn ''gruwler," with my family in
the interior, buuud for n distant railway
station, aud / had put n certain question 10
NY Cuhmau, iu hopes that hisau6Wer might
make the Journey loss tedious. He was %
young fellow, suuutly dressed, and drove a
horse so unusually %quick-paccd that I felt
quite % scruplc of conscience in not iu0uir-
ing into his merits. But then I had asked
"a Cahman about his horse before, and the
consequence had boon most disastrous. as
had az asking u High Church Clergyman
about his thaucul, ora W~lotudinurian abuut
his complaints; there had been no end To
the subject ut all and now l congratulated
myself upon my rcticoncc, for n cohman's
lu~ng-wiudcducss is inverse proportion to
That OF HIS stood, and since, when my in
uuiry had only been directed tn human af-
fairs, my Jehu showed signs Of yorbosity,
what would he not have been uhnught u
upon thee subject oNhorSctcsh2
"WhUt was the quoeryd thing as ever
happened 10 mo as u hackmuu? Well, per
haps this un was, or mt all events. j re-.
member II best, because II happened tome
only last week. O, my! yes, Il was a rum
my gol' And with that, my friend was 30
uckled with the recollection. that lao rolled
ON his seat till / Thought he would Layo
rolled of 10, while the rcius 40 shook In his
hand that the speedy horse, who took il
for n sign that he was "callcd upon, SHIRT
ed OIL ut score, and missed only by an inch
or two of making himself q uasscugcr in a
iltHon bus that CHANGED Ia be- before NJ
with the door open. This formed, Of courso,
the introduction 10 an exchange of repnr-
tees bctwCcn hoe cab and my impulsivo com
pauiuu, in which the latter Ind decidedly
the better OF IL; and then, 10 my great re-
lief uur had come in for my share Of cpl.
thets,) we shot into n bystrect, moro suit
able to the composition and appreciation
of narrative.
at was down by Cayendish Square that
! took horup q well-loOking woman ofuiue
IA twenty, or thoreabOuts, aud a perfec'
lady. Not only wcll-drpssed, but weli-mnn-
uercd and alablo, which is what I goes hy,
more than all the fine feathers as a bird can
wear. kebman, says she, drive me 10
the nearest chemist and / druv her nc
cOrdiugly.
"But She did not get what sLo wanted at
that shop, for she says: Drive mo 10 mn
other chemist And / druv her. Isbould
think we went io o matter of fifteen chem
lists, and yet she couldn't rot what she WINS
IN search Of That, | began 10 think, was
% little queer, because chemists mostly has
things one wants spirits, or what docs as
Wei, Tor instance, on u wet Sunday when
The pubhcs is closed besides, yurythinp
M ono can possibly not want, in them green
and blue bottles. So, SAYS !, gccinp her
look Almost as bluo as they: What il il
you do want, momy'
'Wanty said she, in n slow, absent sort
OF way, which made me somehow got il inIo
my head land it's there stilD that whit she
did want, poor soul, was p'iRan, well, /
want To go into tho country
Country! says ], quite cheerful: "you
have got into the keb with the riuLt horse
Tor that mem. lie can go u straicher. Ie |
can. Where DO you wish 10 go TOT"
wanl, says she, speaking just like
one IN n dream, 81 want 10 go To Bath"
NOV Bath was rather n long order. even
Tor my nag here, and / toldher so.
VERY good, says she. 'Driyo me TO
another chemist"
''Ihcu as 1t didn't seem of apv cnnso-
qucncc 10 herself whore she wns dIuv I
took her mp Mazda m (where INV stable
ISL and tried a chemist or two i'm those
parts but none of them had got the tbipg
sue wanted any more than the others. and
she looked more concerned and voxed than
ever. She was such "A pcriec' ndy TO look
nt, and 80 ailable that 4 tolt pity for hrr;
aud though it WINS not To my advantage.
said, says /, ~ you really do want to 20
Bath. ] had better drive YOU to the Grcat
western Hallway, whore you can take tho
=" An, says she with a sort ola shrink,
ns though somebody had struck her. lint
isn't that Paddington Statiom?'
Well, men,, said |, gll not deceive
yOn, lt~certainly is
"'Iou are u good man" says she. Il
wish everybody was like you' (Which was
very kind of her, I'm sureJ but [ can't 20
TO PaddingtonS Station, because my husband
~ there waiting for me-
"Wel, Tor all ] know This might be n
very good reason; | know many n GOOD wo-
man ansom kebman's wives az avoids
P~addington Station on that account and
small blame 10 them. SO since the chem
couldn't snit hor, / offers her nm alter
native OF my own
Alternative. saidI, inyoluntarify.
VERY likely, sir; only / always calls il
alternative, " ropliedmy Jehu, coldly. Thai
offended him by my foolish parliemlarity,
it cost me a %fourpenny Cigar ont of MY
iase to r~e-establish his good hunIor.
well, continued he, putting slowly and
poaking with greater delibcration than
yer, % IL ! can't take you to Iiathy says /, |
| can take you 60 s~omosherea on tho way
say Windsor. ~ q ~
How much wonld that be- says she.
ont her purse. J
We couldn't do il, speaking for horse
nd man, under two pund, mem, and q
here's not another horse ON our mnk az
ould do it at all .f"
I" Two pund is n large sum, saws she. a
(" Well says ], say Ealing. Twin take /
to ealing Station, mem, for twelve !
nd-six, including all these chemists'-and. i
indeed, l had got off and on my box, for a G
natter of forty times, by this; SO / don't 1
link II was unreasonable. 1 would not s
ave been hard upon that ere fare. ifit was 4
yer 80, partly because of the bison as [
nd in my mind, and partly because she /
MS such a p6riec' lady, !