The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-06-06

bands age, and whose temper was there
fore naturally sourced by the persistency
with which people whom they met on their
wedding tour would mistake them for
mother and son. After his marriage Mr..
Johnstone happily refrained from assimila-
ting his domestic arrangements to those
of his royal prototype, but the ruling pas
sion broke out when he came to build a
home for himself on a small estate belong
ing to his wife near the mouth of the
Pavilion alluded to; a style of architecture
which suited Mrs. Johnstone also well
enough, as, in addition to the associations,
more than half the rooms in the building
could be used for nothing but the storing
up of jams and pickles, the concoction of
which articles was the delight of her life.
she managed to preserve herself-whether
with sugar or vinegar, decline to state
for fifteen ye ars after marriage, and then
she turned to mould, leaving her husband
in a position to set up a grocery, had he
been so minded. He was not; neither did
he relapse into the sowing of wild oats, per-
haps because his morals had improved, but
also because it was doubtful whether the
soil would stand a second crop. He visited
London only occasionally, and then his flag
was pulled down. Hosting and lowering
that flag was his morning and evening
amusement. On royal birthdays and coro-
nation days he fired twenty-one small can
nopu on;no from, ono to anothar with n rod
hot poker, which was quite sight. Other
wise he vegetated, and differed from a tur-
nip principally in being occasionally bored
and entertaining vague wishes that some
eligible woman would look him up and
marry him. But the years passed away
George the Fourth became the prey of
worms and satrists; generation sprang
up which knew little of that model gentle
man, and had the bad taste to dislike that
little. Mr.. Johnstone could not now have
gone about with ten yards of table-cloth
round his neck, and coat buttons between
his shoulder blades, without causing the
very sheep to baa at him. He modified
his apparel, therefore but his heart clung
to the old times, and hugged the old resem-
blance $50 he still had his wig made up in
the exact imitation of the ex-dandy's hair,
still adopted his favorite attitudes, still took
scented stuff. With his elder and only
good terms. He owed him no grudge for
having been born first 4; he forgave him for
selling the small landed estate which had
, been in the family fora respectable number
of year but when he disgraced the name,
by succession of petty tricks and contri-
vances for raising few pounds, and especi
ally when he tried to make milch COW OF
him, he quarreled with him. His enmity
dissolved, however, in the news of his deatl
by drowning while crossing over the Jersey
and he hurried to London at once, anG
brought Annie to his Chinese home, will
dispatch and secresy. 81 am glad to adop
you, my DEAR" he said, "but l do no
want to adopt all your creditors"
1t had been struggle to Mr.. Johnston,
to break up the ordinary routine of his ex
istence by establishing his niece as mistres
of what had now for years been bachelo
home but it almost always pays to DO the
right thing, and he was rewarded for hi
= conquest of habit and Incidence by being
released from the thrall of his housekeeper
= a tyrannical, stupid, pilfering, tipling dam'
to whom he had not dared to mention hi
intentions with respect to Annie, which
indeed, had from the circumstances of tn,
q case been necessarily conceived and execu,
s ted very suddenly, and upon whom thi
G niece of her masters (term of courtesy
(; burst therefore like thunderbolt from
+ clear sky.
= Annie's society had one curious effec
: upon her uncle it resuscitated all his hank
, ering after second marriage. For if h
+ was to have a lady at the head Of his hous,
: why, he reasoned with himself, should i
S not be wife? So Irritation which hat
S been budding between Mr.. Johnstone and
t Miss Plumptree, of Southend for the las
= three years, began to throw out decided
) shoots 1t was not so very absurd. MI
d Johnstone was q little over sixty, and Mis-
}. Plumptree was little over forty. Bot
k were comfortably of, and had calm AM
+ sober leanings toward matrimony. Mis-
G Plumptree was lot only forty, but fair an,
It fat--just such figure as the monarch Q
+, Mr.. Johnstone's soul would have admire,
IS and this fact tended greatly to feed the ma
It ture flame. Then there was increased in
Z, timacy, for whereas he had only met occa
r sionally before his niece came to live wit