North Iowa times. [volume] (McGregor, Iowa) 1867-current, 1870-03-09
WHOLE No. 500.

presented to the children, who had never
seen anything finer than turf-car, and
once, an old chaise that passed that way
from Killaloe, a spectacle perfectly daz.
sling.
Here was antique splendor. The harness
and trappings were scarlet, and blazing
with gold. The horses were huge, and
snow.white, with great names, that as
they tossed and shook them in the air,
seemed to stream and float sometimes lon-
ger and sometimes shorter, like so much
smoke-their tails were long, and tied up
in bows Of broad scarlet and gold ribbon.
The coach itself was glowing with colors,
gilded and emblazoned. There were foot
men behind in gay liveries, and three>
cooked hats, like the coachman's but he
had great wig, like Judges, and their
hair was frizzed out and powdered, and a
long thick "pigtail," with bow to it,
hung down the back ef EACH
All these servants were diminutive, and
lndicrously out of proportion with the
enormous horses of tho equipage, and had
sharp, sallow features, and small, restless,
frey eyes, and faces of cunning and
, malice that chilled the children. The
little coachman was scowling and showing
his white fangs under his cocked-hat, and
his little blazing beads of eyes were
quivering with fury in their sockets, as
he whirled his whip round and round over
their heads, till the lash of it looked like
streak Of fire in the evening sun, and
sounded like the cry Of legion of
"fllapoueeks'' in the air.
"Stop the princess on the highway |"
cried the coachman, in piercing treble.
stop the princes on the highway /"
piped each footman in turn, scowling over
his shoulder down on the children, and
grinding his keen teeth.
The children were so frightened they
could only cape and turn white in their
panic. But very sweet voice from the
open window of the carriage reassured
them, and arrested the attack of the
lackeys. A beautiful and "very grand.
looking" lady was smiling from it on
them, and they all felt pleased in the
strange light of that smile.
"The hoy with the golden hair, l
think" said the lady, bending her large
and wonderfully clear eyes on little
Leum.
The upper sides of the carriage were
chiefly of glass, SO that the children could
see another woman inside, whom they
didn't like so well.
This was black woman, with won-
derfully long neck, hung round with
many strings of large, variously,colored
beads, and on her head was a sort of tur-
ban of silk, striped with all the colors of
the rainbow, and fixed in it was a golden
star.
This black woman had face as thin
almost as death s-head, with high cheek
bones, and great goggle>eyes, the whites
Of which, as well as her wide range of
teeth, showed in brilliant contrast with
her skin, as she looked over the beauti-
full lady's shoulder, and whispered some>
thing in her ear.
"Yes; the boy with the golden hair, l
think" repeated the lady.
And her voice sounded sweet as sill
yer bell in the children's ears, and her
smile beguiled them like the light Of an
enchanted lamp, as she leaned from the
window, with look Of ineffable fondness
on the golden-haired boy, with the large
blue eyes; insomuch that little Billy,
looking up, smiled in return with wond-
ering fondness, and when she stopped
down, and stretched her jeweled arms to-
wards him, he stretched his little hands
up, and how they touched the other
children did not know; but, saying,
"Come give me kiss, my darling" she
raised him, and seemed to ascend in her
small fingers as lightly as feather, and
she held him in her lap and covered him
with kisses.
Nothing daunted, the other children
would have been only too happy to change
places with their favored little brother.
There was only one thing that was un.
pleasant, and little frightened them, and
that was the black woman, who stood and
stretched forward, in the carriage as be-
fore. She gathered rich silk and gold
en- handkerchief that was in her fingers
up to her lips, and seemed to thrust ever
so much Of it, fold after fold, into her
capacious mouth, as they thought to
smother her laughter, with which she
seemed conyulsed, for she was shaking
and quivering, us it seemed, with sup
pressed merriment; but her eyes, which
remained uncovered, looked apgrier than
they had ever seen eyes look before.
But the lady was SO beautiful they
looked on her instead, and she continued
to caress and kiss the little boy on her
knee aud smiling at the other children
she held up large russett apple in her
fingers, and the carriage began to move
slowly on, and with nod inviting them
to take the fruit, she dropped it on the
road from the window; it rolled some
way beside the wheels, they following,
aud then she dropped another, and then
another, an so on. And the same thing
happened to all; for just as either Of the
children who ran beside had caught the
rolling apple, somehow it slipped into