New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1874-11-26


the United States, By Ar. Reade
CONTINUED PROM Yesterdays TRIBUsEl
Passing over an easy job or two, and few
melancholy cases, in which he had Owed and
CROPPED the river, and restored dead bodies
to their friends, / come now to passage
which but for its truth ! should hesitate to
relate exactly as he told it me but, if were
to yield to squeamishness and slur it, chap
ter of human nature, revealed to me, would
by me be melnly carried to my grave and
hidden from the sholars of other ages and
nations.
Thus, then, it was-James Lambert was
bathing in the Clyde one evening at the hour
when it was allowed at that epoch.
Suddenly Mrs. Cooper, that kept the So
ciety's house, cried to him over the window,
Grin, Jamie Lambert, there is a ladde in the
water"
Up ran James Lambert. but tho boy had
sunk bystander directed him to the place
but it is not so easy to mark the exact spot
where q body has disappeared in the water;
and James Lambert dived twice and came up
without the Child. He diyed third time and
CROPPED along the bottom. lie was down so
long that the cry got up he was drowned too
Others secuted the idea. James Lambert
drown They had known him cross the Clyde,
under the water, from bank to bank. Some
time having elapsed since the first
alarm, people had poured across the green
and down the banks, and there was quite
crowd there murmuring and gazing, when up
came James Lambert, painting, with the child
in his arms
There was roar of exutation at the sight, but
James Lambert did not hear it, and did not
see the crowd. Takc note of that fact) His
whole soul was in the lovely boy, that lay
white and ihanimate in his arms. lie ran into
the house utterng cries of concern
"But, when I got him in the hoOse, he
opens ae eye On me-like bonny blue bead
it was. Eth! l was happy; was happy. 1
ged the bonny BARN kiss and hands him to
the wife, and orders her to the fire WI him.
Then I'm going DOT, when a. of sooden
finds haena a steek on me, and twa hundred
folk about the doOre. Wad ye believe it,
,c2 the great excitement nerer kae0 L tras
nakit, till saw the folk, and bethougdt me.
rims back again, and at the stair-iOot there's
a bundle O. linen. / was ma lang mapping my
sell, | can tell We, and DOT | comes, as bold
as brass, in the wife's apron and
muckle sheet. The sight o. me made
the lasses scairt and skirl 90; for l
was like a corp just pOppit GOT o. the grave
( went for nv clothes and-they were away.
Nv bluid gat up at that, and chackit them salr.
TIech.; saws /, 'Ye maun be q caGld-harted SET
O, thieves saws /, 'to taxi my very clles. when J
was doing mons part. Bymby go sees
Young Teddy in silk gown, wagglng on me
(TO. and she points to a hedge near by. so l
went, and there was my claes. She had put
them aside for me, we ken, and kept her ee
on them. Wasna that thouchtiul o. lei
nOOf
at was indeed"
"Aweel, SIR, got my things on at the hedge,
an tied I'D the wife's bundle, and cam forud:
and by this time the folk was dispairsed like.
But the same young Teddy was walking to
and fra, with her cen doom, rehecking like.
She wagged on me, and | came TO her.
So she askt me who / was, and tollt her
was a cotton spinner, and they caei me James
Lambert. SO then she lookit at ne full, and
says she, james, arc we married ga yes
ma'am,' says |, this three years. 80 she
looklt me all over, in vara CURIOUS way;
and she says saftly, 'James-it is-a-great-
ptv-yere married-for yere vlra-Sallant-
man, So We see, sir, could hae had a young
leddy-for her ee tclpt me mair nor her words
if I had M had the WIFE But then I'd no
haze had the wife. So it comes a to the same
thing
stared at him with surprise, for to me il
did not seem quite the same thing to marry
high sympathy swift intelligence, and plenty
of money and to marry poverty, plus grovei-
ling mediocrity. However ii was not for me
TO satirize conjugal affection and It's amlable
decisions. But l proposed tle young lady's
health, and we drank it cordially.
By this time I conclude have SO spoiled the
readers of John Lambert, that they VIII care
for no passage of his extraordinary career,
that does not offer some new feature. SO |
90 from water to the double peril Of ice and
water at the freezing point.
at was a hard winter; and Ind charge o
the gentlemen belonging to the skating club.
So had to go to Hugginfeld lOch. Bnt was
clean wastit there. | was armed WI ladders
an ropes, and corks. Mon, ony fIle can stand
and fling gear till droonin3 bo1g. And
cat an awful afiront Until the bargain; they
castit in my teeth that l was partial, and
saved the rich afore the poor Moo lei
naebOdy droon, but my bargain was WIN 'he
club to save them first 4; so behooyed TO KEEP
TO the contract Aweel then ana nae execn
ton there worth speaking o.; the tainS I'm
coming tae was at the bend of the Clyde they
ga, the peat bog A numbsr WAS skating Oh
the river, aud the ice began to heavc an
shake VII the high tide. SO L chased all the
boys aft VII my belt. and warned the men
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