American citizen. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 1864-1890, 1872-07-06

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"Why? If you We're going to bet
said the miller, anxiously, would 70
| still back Wor?"
"rn stake my life on him." answere
Mr.. Staahope-Brown.
| 1.-THE betting-men would rather hay
your money!" remarked the miller, smi
ing 81 don't know that they'd object {
| take both, but they'd prefer the money. y
81 must be off," was Mr.. Stanhop,
Browns rcioindcr; "we've been chattcl
ing for an hour, and | shall hardly cate
my train. Make yourselves as happy a
you can without me-" he added, with
sad smile.
You'll be home by seven, George" hi
wife called after him.
"If I live" he replied.
He always says that" remarked Mrs
Stanhope- Brown to her sister
'He seems very low this morning." wa
the reioinder; ''I'm so sorry he couldn
go with u.s."
ooh. he is so good" replied Mrs. Stan
hope Brown; che wouldn't stay away TO
the world, unless he were i'll; the firm
speaks highly of him; and do so hop
his last little speculation may turn GU
well-he is so anxious to see IA little o
foreign life"
"He said all his little ventures had beef
suCCCssiul, ptli oio, iehhai heu MI )
Tamlin.
EYES," said Mrs. Stanhope- Brown
''that is tie one. l don't know what il is
as don't understand funds and that sor
of thing"
And so they conversed, while Mr.. Tam
lin and George were watching at the win
dow, round which the pretty creepel
climbed, the pedestrians and the vehicle.
growing every minute more numerous
and noisy, and incompatible with the or
binary habits of the aboriginal denizens
of Chaplain.
At eleven a. m, there drove up to Mrs
Stanhope- Browns cottage wagonette
with a pair of good horses. Hampers
were put in; blue wells were assumed by
Mr.. and Mrs. Tamlin, Mrs. Stanhope-
Brown, and little George; and away they
went in grand style to the Derby. 1t was
the jolly miller's principal holiday; he al
ways insisted. to use his own language,
upon standing the trap;" and the only
drawback to his enjoyment of his great
annual festival was, that he never could
induce his dutiful brother -in-law to take
part in the EpsO n carnival.
Meanwhile, Mr.. StanhopeBrown was
seated at his desk in his own room, doing
all the work there was to do on the Derby
day; and that was, apparently, to walk
about and bite his nails. He had been
annoyed on his railway jour
ney, and on his walk from the station to
the office; for his ears had caught moth
ing but a buzZing sound, in which no
words were clearly distinguishable but
"lNor" and "Bar one" Until nearly two
o'clock he paced the floor of his private
room, and then he went out to luncheon.
About the same time, at Epson, his
relatives were at the height of their en-
joyment. The miller, as good as his
word, had at the earliest opportunity
gone off to put his "tenncr" on Beggar-
man. He was not a member of the
g ring" and he had, therefore, been de-
lighted to find an affable man presiding at
a board on which was the name of
Podex for Podex was the name of the
miller's town commissioner" and the
affable man at once replied, in answer to
a question, that cit was all one and the
same firm" and volunteered to give the
ovial miller, as an old customer, n
pint" over. The "pint' was not liquid
measure, but, otherwise pronounced, a
point" over the odds. So the miller re-
turned rejoicing to his relatives; and
they all made hearty meal, with a good
many libations of champagne to prepare
them for the imminent Derby. There
had been some change in the betting.
There were voices shouting "Three to
two on the field" and 1.-TWO to one bar
one;" and Stentor and Leviathan were
at the risk of breaking a
their earnest desire to bet
against Mor :" but they wouldn't offer
more than three to two, though occasion
ally a queer-lOOking customer who, even
if he were not native of the Principally,
bore the lineaments of Welsher, was
liberal enough las money was no object
to HIM to offer sovereign to anybody
to make a bet,'' and an additional calf
was cleared; the dog was driven mad :;
the dust-cloud was raised hats were
taken off; the sea of faces heaved and
roared the hoofs Numbered and the col
Ors flashed the crowd closed in behind
the horses as they passed the winners
was duly hoisted and the miller's
wife read, "No. T."
Beggarnan's won," roared the eX-
cited miller "but dang me if didn't
think it was Squoggles;; at any rate, it was
too near to be pleasant"
Babel at once set in and continued !;
and in the midst of it all the worthy mil
Ter went in search of the affable man who
professed to represent Podex & Co. But
place knew him no more /; the
man and the board had vanished togeth-
er ; and the only information the miller
could obtain was coldly impaired in two
words cooked it."
81 see i'm getting ready to step it," re-
marked policeman, grinning, lest as
The 'Osses passed the distance post, with
Beagarman a-pullin' double"
The miller returned chop-fallen to his
party, but with the assistance of cham
pagne he COON recovered his spirits.
Twenty pounds gone" said he, with a
L..
won't break me; but if ever l set
Eyes on that Internal Welsher, I'll break
Every bone in his skin"
'Ah!' said the two sisters, reproach-
July, George was wise he never bets"
''Stuffr' growled the miller "You wo-
men would have been the first to crow if
I'd brought the money back WI me. 1t
lint betting, it's swindling that lost me
ny twenty pounds"
The handsome little boy had been look
ng wonderingly from one to another
you'll never bet, Georgy, will your"
aid his mother, drawing him close to
Ter.
Not l." replied the boy, laughing;
I'll be like dad"
The miller looked little disconnected,
md drew attention to the fact that the
lorses were coming out for the next race;
md the whole party became absorbed in
he proceedings, and divided their time
between watching preliminary canters,
md breaks away, and downright racing,
midst an uproar caused by Ethiopian
nelodists, mountebanks and the like,
until the last event was decided. Then
hey set out for home, with little George
IS happy as a king; for round his cap
we're stuck innumerable dolls; on what
,ugilists call his "smeller" was a false
nose Of gigantic size; and in his two
lands were two wind instruments, which
he used alternately for the production of
sounds delicious to boys and pandemoni-
lcs. By half-nast six Il IN they had