The workingman's advocate. [volume] (Chicago [Ill.]) 1864-1877, 1870-10-15
TALE OF THE R3RDERS.
THE STORY OF CLARA DOUGLAS
Hr JOHN MACSAT WILSON.

d. 4.r maid tlat loves
n.r, out % sea upcn shaft sred plank,
Al1 ults lcr trust ia miracles for safety "-OH I1y
! am a peripate,ic genius, wanderel
by rJiession, sort of Salathiel Secundus
81 doomed for a term" like the ghost Of
lIamlct's papa, TO walk the earth, y
whether | will or not. Here, however, the
smile stops for ms aforesaid gbostsbip
could traverse, if be chose, amid chimes far
away, while the circuit Of my peregrina.
tons is, has for sometime been, and must,
for some short time more, necessarily be,
confined to the northern extremity Of "our
tight little island '-rmgO rocato-Sco.-
land. In my day have seen many
strange Sights, and met with many strange
tlcos-made several hairbreadth scapes,
and undergone innumerable peri BY food
and field On the wings Of the wind-that
y, on the top Of a stag coach have
passed through many known and unknown
towns and villages; have visited on foot
and on horseback, for my own special
cdiitIti0n and amusement, various ancient
ruins, foaning cataracts, interesting rocks,
and dismal looking caves, celebrated il
Scottish story. But better far than that,
and Gcarcr to my soul, my foot has trod the
floors q, ! may say, all the habcrdashcrs
shops north of the Tweed; in short, most
patieu; reader, | am travelling bagman
70 this capacity | have, for years,
poramhulaiod among the chief towns Of
Scotland, taking orders from those who
we're inclined to give them to me. and
giving orders to those who were inclined to
take them from me, unless with a doEcuer
in perspcctive-yiz, coachmen, walters,
bar maids, e hoe genus omae. From those
Of the third class, many are she witching
smiles lighting up pretty faoes-many tbt
indignant glances shot from deep love
dartug eyes, when tier under ncighborrs,
the lips were invaded without consent Of
parties, which have saluted me every
where ; for the same varied feelings, the
same sudden and unaccountable hkings
aud dislikings, have place in the breasts of
bar maids as in those Of other women. As
is the case too with the rest of their sex,
there ere among them the clumsy and the
handsome, tie plain and the pretty, the
scragey and the plump, the old and the
young hut Of ali the bar maids | ever met
with none charmed me more than did Mary
of the Black Swan, at Atonby Ia my
eyes she inherited all the good qualities !
have here cnumerated-that is to say, she
was handsome, pretty, pl~np, and young,
with a form neither too tall nor too short /;
but Just the Undesirable happy size
between, set off by manner peculiarly
graceful
It was on a delightful evening in the
early spring, that | found myself seated,
for the Grst time, in a comfortable little
parlor pertaining 10 the Black Swan, and
Mary attending on me-she being the chief,
nay, almost the only person in the establish
mynt WHO could serve a table. | was
struck With her loveliness, as well as
captivayod with her engaging manner, and
though J had for thirty years de6ed the
articles of blind Cupid, now felt myself
III .c olcc over head and ears in love with
ibis village beauty. Although placed in
so low a sphere as that in which then
boheld Ter, there was something about
hcr that proclaimed her to he Of gentle
birth. Whoever looked upon bcI counter
arcc, lelt conscious that there was a respect
due to her which it is far from customary to
extend to girls il waiting at an inn. Hers
were