The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-05-18

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y are no gentlemen and know no bet
2, ter"
= With that he pulled a silk handzer
e chief out Of his pocket, threw it Ovel
/ his lace and began to give evidence o.
z siumber.
( Whether it was his example Ol
II the mOnOtOnOus noise Of the train a.
J. it sped along, or that our powers o.
Il chatting were exhausted, know not,
u but anyhow We, too, began to feel in.
clined for nap. But having no sucI
red and yellow silk handkerchief tC
keep out the light, we found the lamp
: an intOlerable nuisance, with its iu-
eessantly Pickering light.
!, Bother il Can We blow it out ~
4 exclaimed.
- Not if We cracked our cheeks. But
- I've notion :" cried ever ready-wit-
ted Jack. "Hand me that old boys
a hat"
"What for T21I asked as / handed
o him the article m question. 1t was
e worn and rusty, but well brushed and
/ well shaped.
4 80 make an extiuguisher Of" re-
piled Jack; and 50 saying, he fitted
/ it on 70 the lamp, making the globe
! act like the bald head Of the owner of
: the hat. 1t flied TO a nicely, and so
I tightly as to keep it well in its place.
The arrangement answered splendid
: ly, and not a glimmer Of light was to
= be seen.
? When the train stopped at Swim
: dom we awOke, and rushed out of the
carriage to embellishments, quite for
getting our fellow passenger and his
! hat. On returning, we found they
: had both flown. Soon after, however,
| among the passengers on the platform
, we found our friend. He was vainly
endeavOring to put on his hag comfort
ablyi it rolled off twice, and twice
narrowly escaped beng crushed un-
der foot, for the hat, owing to its hav-
ing been placed on a round, warm OBJ
Iject, had become perfectly circular,
and as a hat is usually oblong, it
would consequently not fit. At last
the poor old gentleman, wearied with
the effort, crammed his hat tightly
down and disappeared into another
carriage shaking mis- fist at us, for we
had our heads out of the window, and
We were laughing loudly at the sue
cess OF our poor, silly, cruel trick.
AT this juncture a guard came to US
and said, 'If you please, young gen.
tlemen, party tells me you've been
smoking and annoying him."
"Smokingp' cried Jack "Bless
your heart, no. We know better"
Annoying him! Quite the other
way ] assure you, guard, l said, slip
ping a shilling ia his hand. Jack did
the same.
"All right, gentlemen, replied the
venai guard, with wink and smile
as he went out.
When he arrived at Worcestershire,
Jack left me. 1 had a cold, lonely
Journey to my destination, little sta
tionju beyond Hereford. When 1
arrived it was nine O'Clock; a dark,
raw night; was sleepy and tired.
For somemOments l could not find
my pOrtmanteau; then my hat box
was missing, and while I was search
ing, the guard was exclaiming about
the delay on the train. At last Il was
all found, theguard whistled, the train
moved of, and was left standing on
a little country platform, in strange
place. --t. -a -.
Amy cabs or flies to be got here ?"
L asked the station master.
'sDear me! no sirI" was the reply.
"Bet we can get, you somethingdOwn
in the town. Where is it to go, sir?"
'1 want to go to Mr.. FOsberry's, of
Castleton Hail." l replied. Itt F.
'.Mr. Fosberry's," said one Of the
porters. "All right sir. Why his
carriage was here only a minuteago."
'sHereW said 1. ooh, it's for me,
then. I expected him here to meet
me.n t u
mo sir; leastways it is gone, and a
gentleman in it, said the man. "I
didn't see who-unless it's himself"
"What a bore ~ exclaimed. "He
must have thought was not coming.
All through the delay of looking for
hat blessed hat box"
Like enough, sir" said the porter
a, ,sIvll,' said I, t'SetsIs lI.s tl.v traI.--
paced the wretched little station
till it came, with my mind full of the
coming meeting, rehearsing my first
speech to my dear cousin. When the
conveyance came, l asked the driver
how far we had to go.
"How far, sir ?' said he. "Oh!only
about four miles"
/ got in, and we bowled along the
dark, narrow lanes. After half an
hours drive we entered some hand
some iron gates, and drove into what
seemed to me, in the dim light, a
very extensive park. Then after a
while we rolled along a smooth, wide
avenue, with splendid old trees on
each side. The whole aspect impress
me with the idea of a grand estate,
and L questioned the driver on the
subject
"Indeed, it is a big place, sir" here
piled. "Tis about fifteen miles around
the estate. En-, Mr.. Fosberry's very
rich. People do say he has two hun
dred thousand pounds to leave, if he's
a penny, besides this property"
My heart swelled as We rOlledalOng.
In fancy saw this splendid estate, and
the e2OO, 600, all my own, and was al
ready settling what l would do when
l was ruler here. Driving through an
other pair of gates, we drew up at the
steps of a large barOnial hail, with
massive wings and tower and huge
low windows, all ancestrally gray, and
very impressive in the light of the
moon, that had risen since our drive.
My driver jumped down and pulled
the bell. The peal resOunded through
the house like the clanS Of6 trumpet.
A fOotman in livery flung open the
door, and was admitted into a hall
glowing with light and warmth, and
then shown into a large, brilliantly
lighted drawing room. A young and
lovely girl, elegantly dressed, rose from
the piano as l entered, and bow
ing gracefully, Immediately with
dIew.
''If that is the. niece" thought !,
diving here will be Elysium."
A moment later and the tall foot
man reappeared. He apOlogized for
his masters nOn-appearance, aud re-
qupstod me to obey the instructions of
a note which he banded me from a
massive silver salver.
1 tore it open and read:
Mr.. PHILIP FOsBERRY WILLIAMS:
The next time you travel by raIl, do
not smoke nor annoy old gentlemeni
do not make the inhrmities Of age
and seeming poverty your laughing
stock: do not tell yoIr friends of your
great expectations; do not plot TO marry
"a horrid ugly old neiee;" do not speak
of your crackbrained relatives; do
not make extinguishers of old gentle
mems hats; do not be slangy, vulgar,
and insulting to strangers; do not
: nourish vain hopes Of inheriting me
and finally, do not lose any time in
: leaving forever the house or your old
= fireworks" of a fellow traveller
PHILIP FOsBERRY.
!, P 81 enclose a e20 note to pay your
expenses.
How 1 got out Of the house-hOw I
! got back to the station, and spent the
night in wretched inn-hOw I re-
turned to town and told my enraged
relations my woful tale, wherein ]
: played such a sorry part-hOw my alb
ject letter of apology was returned un-
read-I cannot tell.
know old FOsberry died worth the
e2OO, 900, leaving his niece sole heiresS
) and that I quarreled with Jack Evans
about il; nor have ever spoken to
! him since.
DFHidlcal
The next annual session OF tine
E Grand Grove Of the L. s, will be held
in the city of st. Paul, Minnesota.