Wyandot County Republican. [volume] (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1869-1903, 1872-07-04
UPPER SANDUSKY, OHIO, THURSDAY, JULY 4,

violently as to make the jolly miller start
and look serious, that think you'll be
an internal fool"
"Why? If you were going to bet,"
said the miller, anxiously, "would you
still back Mor?"
"Tll stake my life on him." answered
Mr.. Stanhope- Brown.
"The betting-men would rather have
your money!" remarked the miller, smil-
ing: "I don't know that they'd object to
take both, but they'd prefer the money"
"I must be off," was Mr.. Stanhope-
Browns rejoinder; "we've been chatter
ing for an hour, and l shall hardly catch
my train. Make yourselves as happy as
you can without me-" he added, with
sad smile.
You'll be home by seven, George" his
wife called after him
eff live" he replied.
He always says that" remarked Mrs
Stanhope- Brown to her sister.
"He seems very low this morning." was
the reioinder; "I'm so sorry he couldn't
go with u.s."
''Oh! he is so good" replied Mrs. STAN
hope, Brown; che wouldn't stay away for
the world, unless he were i'll; the firm
speak so highly of him; and do so hope
his last little speculation may turn out
well-he is so anxious to see little of
| foreign life"
"He said all his little ventures had been
| successful, bar one,'" remarked Mrs.
| Tamlin.
EYES," said Mrs. Stanhope- Brown,
"that is the one. don't know what it is,
as don't understand funds and that sort
of thing''
And so they conversed, while Mr.. Tam
| lin and George were watching at the win
| dow, round which the pretty creeper
| climbed, the pedestrians and the vehicles
growing every minute more numerous
and noisy, and incompatible with the or
binary habits of the aboriginal denizens
of Clapham.
At eleven a. m, there drove up to Mrs.
StanhOpe-Brown's cottage a 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.. Stanhope-Brown 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
grievously annoyed on his railway jour-
ney, and on his walk from the station to
the office; for his ears had caught moth
| ing but buzzing sound, in which no
| words were clearly distinguishable but
"Mor" 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 "tenner" on Beggar-
man. He was not member of the
"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 Gown commissioner, and the
afable man at once replied, in answer to
question, that sit was all one and the
same frm," and volunteered to give the
jovial miller, as an old customer, a
"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 a hearty meal, with a good
many ibations 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
proclaiming, at the risk of breaking a
blood-vessel, their earnest desire to "bet
against Mor ;" but they wouldn't offer
more than three to two, though occasion
ally queerlooking customer, who, even
if he were not a native of the Principally,
bore the lineaments of a Welsher, was
liberal enough las money was no object
to him) to offer sovereign to anybody
to make bet," and an additional calf
pint" over the Odds At last the course
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 thundered and the col.
ors flashed the crowd closed in behind
the horses as they passed the winners
number was duly hoisted and the miller's
wife read, "No. ~
Beggaaman's won," roared the ex
cited miller; "but dang me if 1 didn't
think it was Squoggzes; : 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
Atfability's 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 a policeman, .grinning, 'jest as
the 'osses passed the distance-post, with
Beggarnadn a-pullin' double"
Tho r,,i11or oI oh fol 70
party, but with the assistance of cham
payne he coon recovered his spirits
Twenty pounds gone," said he, with q
rueful grimace at his wife. swell, twenty
pounds won't break me; but if ever sci
eyes on that internal Welsher, I'll break
every bone in his skin"
"Ahi" said the two sisters, reproach
fully, George was wise; he never BETS
''Stuffp' growled the miller. "You wo
men would have been the first to crow il
I'd brought the money back VII me- Il
amt betting, it's swindling that lost me
my twenty pounds"
The handsome little boy had been look
ing wonderingly from one to another.
'You'l never bet, Georgy, will your
said his mother, drawing him close tc
, her.
"Not l." replied the boy, laughing
J ''I'll be like dad"
The miller looked little disconnected
and drew attention to the fact that tht
horses were coming out for the next race
, and the whole party became absorbed il
the proceedings, and divided their time
; between watching preliminary canters
and breaks away, and downright racing
amidst an uproar caused by Ethiopian
t melodists, mountebanks and the like
until the last event was decided. The1
they set out for home, with little George
: as happy as a king; for round his caI
were stuck innumerable dolls; on wha
/; pugillsts call his ''smeller'' was a falls,
l nose of gigantic size; and in his two
: hands were two wind instruments, whicl
he used alternately for the production O
i sounds delicious to boys and pandemoni
: acs. By half-past six, p. m, they haC
reached the pretty cottage, between Bal
: ham and Clapham, in condition whicl
/; the miller acknowledged was appropriate