The Andrew County Republican. [volume] (Savannah, Mo.) 1871-1876, 1873-10-17
THE PIG-TdX.

We were sitting one summer evening
in the window of our reading-room at
Lanhowell, looking out rather sadly on
the scene before us. The coach had
Just come in from Morvaen, and its pas.
sengers were dismounting, and its
smoking horses were finding their OWL
ways stableward, while the stable
helpers were busy Harvesting in the
fresh team; and We looked at this
rather sadly, because it was the last day
of the old coach. The new station of
Llynpenmaen was to be opened on the
next day, and the coach was to cease
running and be superseded by the rail-
way bus, which was now standing in its
brilliant new paint drawn up against the
side of the hotel.
"'Deed, it will be fine thing for the
town. said the doctor, who was of the
party.
Yes, my boy, indeed it WILL" cried
Lawyer Evans. "I shall do all my
business now in London. No use wait
ing for assizes and circuits now. shall
take you ell up to Westminster now, my
boys -
"Devil doubt you" said the Captain,
making face. "What! as if you
didn't ruin us quick enough the old
way All, well, 1 liked the old times
best. You'll be a shabby outskirt of
Manchester by and by"
go, but, Captain, consider the mo-
ton of the times !" cried Jones Bryn-
bella, who was manufacturer and a
radical; "consider the progress OF the
intellects."
"Pooh, intellects !" cried the Cap,
tain contemptuous,y; "why, you aren't
patch upon what your fathers were.
Why, Jones, I've seen your father drink
forty glasses Of ale, and then cheat
sober man in the bargain.
"Well, yes, he was wonderful man
my father, wonderful! "
"And there was Lawyer Roberts, who
robbed everybody right and left, and
lived like a fighting-cock for fifteer
years and wasn't found out till aftel
the funeral, when all the parish fol
lowed him to the grave. Oh, don't tall
about intellects ]"
"Inteed, he was very clever, yes
sure"
"Well, now, and where can you shoy
me man like Sir John? Do you re
member what Sir John did at the tim
of the Crimean war ?"
"No; inteed, 1 forgot" :"
you'll remember, 1 daresay, that
while the war was going on, the Gov
ernment put on a shilling income tax?
SHILLING in the pount 2 cried Sir John
shilling in the pount!' Why, thatI
be pount day ont of my pocket.
tam! can't stand that And he cam
down. to the Plas from London, wher
he'd been attending Parliament, IN
very bad temper The rent-day WIS o
Just then, and the tenants dinner; an
at the dinner, Sir John made a speec
as usual. MY frients, he said, we ar
engaged in tremendous struggle, in
very pig war. We must all put on
shoulders to the wheel, for the sake
our Queen and country. If need is, 20
must rally ropnd your old chief, 10
should have heard the roar there WA
for they were all very fond OF Sir John
and indeed his strong ale was somethin
to be remembered. But, he went Oh
when silence was restored, we must
make sacrifces--you, and l, and ever.
body have to make 'em first OF al
Do you know what the war costs m
my frients and tenants? I'll tell you
more than q pount day - Den
af.uyt!' cried all the tenants "a pon
day? Think of that, David 5
John paying pount day TO the wa
Daar me i'-'And now, my frients al