The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1874-12-24

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er end laid him sprawlin' and smothered
i'bluid."
"But the woman2 ?"
She twas ma a woman. She was but a
lassie, about nineteen"
Little fool and thought she was ruin
ed for life-when all her life was before
her."
"Ye may say that, SIR; why, that very
year wasna she married on decent
tradesman? / often saw her after she
was married but she wadna speak to
me. She couldna look me straight i the
face. She'd say, Guide morning. though
when she couldna get by me-"
"Ungrateful little hrutep
ma ma; it was ma ingratitude ava
it was just shame. Aweel, she medina
run fra me moo; for Gamma see her, nor
ony of those l hae saved"
This made me gulp bit, ana, when |
had done, | said "She measured you by
her small self She would have been
sure to blab in such case, so she thought
you would"
"Aweel, then" said he, "she was mis-
taen; for | maun tell ye that some mis-
chief-maker let on something or other
about it to her man, and he was uneasy,
and came and asked me if twas true |
had taken his wife out O. the water. 'Ay,'
said |, her and twarree mair.' What
had she to do i the water p says he
That's her business SAYS !, mime was to.
TAX her oot' He questioned ne had
she been drinking. Like eneuch,' says
l, 'butI couldna say. He questioned me,
and questioned me but | pit the collar
on, We ken. l behoOged to clear the wife
a. | could. | didna lee neither; but |
was afflicted wi sooden obleevion O.
sma' parteeculars, haw haw l didna
think muCkle O yOn earle. He had
rare guide wife; they a. said so, and
whaur was the sense o. him diving into
her past life, to stir the mud?"
Passing over an easy job or two, and a
few melancholy cases, in which he had
diyed 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
saueamishness and slur it,a chapterof hui
man nature, revealed to me, would be by
me meanly carried to my grave and hid
den from the scholars 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
Society;s house. cried to him over the
window, "Rin, Jamie Lambert, there is
laddie in the water"
Up ran James Lambert, but the boy
had sunk bystander directed him to
the place; but it is not so easy to mark
the exact spot where body has disap-
peared in the water; and James Lambert
dived twice and came up without the
child. He diyed u third time, and groped
along the bottom. He was down so long
that the cry got up he was drowned too.
Others secuted the idea. James Lambert
drown! They haG 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 a crowd there murmuring and
gazing, When up came James Lambert,
painting, with the child in his arms.
There was a roar Of eXultation at the
sight, but James Lambert did not hear
it, and did not see the crowd. Take note
of that fact.) His whole soul was in the
lovely boy, that lay white and inanimate
in his arms. He ran into the house ut
tering cries of concern.
But, when got him in the hoose, he
opens ae eye on me-like bonny blue
bead it was. Ehl | was happy; | was
happy. | gied the bonny BARN a kiss
and hands him to the wife, and orders
her to the fire wi him. Then Pm going
oo1, when a. of sOoden finds haena
a stock on me, and twa hundred folk
about the doore. Wad ye believe it, Up
The great excitement ReUer kReW trdS adkit,
till 1 saw the folk, and bethought me.
rims back again, and at the stair-foot
there's a bundle o. linen. | was ma lang
mapping myself, | can tell ye, and GOT
come, as bold as brass, in the wife's !
apron and muCkle sheet. The sight o
me made the lusses scairt and skir (RJ (; |
for was like corp just poppit DOT o the
grave went for my clothes and-they !
were away. My bluid gat up at that, and
| chackit them sair. 'Hech, says |, 'Ye !
maun be a cauld-hairted set O. thieves,
says |, to tax my v ry claes, when was
doing mons part. Bymby (S) sees a
young Teddy in Il silk gown, wagging on
me (1J, and she points to a hedge near
by. So | went, and there was my claes |
She had put them aside for me, we ken,
and keepit her ee on them. Wasna that
thouchtful O. her noo~
at was indeed"
"Aweel, sirr, got my things on at the
hedge, an tied up the wife's bundle, and |
cam' forud: and by this time the folk |
was dispairsed like. But the same young |
eddy was walking to and fra with her |
head doom, ,reaecking like. She wagged on |
me, and came to her. So she askit me |
who was, and telPt her | was cotton |
spinner, and they caed me James Lam
bert. So then she loOkit at me full, and |
says she, James are ye marriedP ? oh |
yes, MAN, says l, this three years So
she lopkit me all over, in vera curious
way and she says saftly, 'James-it is
a-great-pity yere married-for yere |
ara-gallant-man.' So ye see, sir, |
could hae had young leddy-for her ee
telpt me mair nor her wOrds-if had ma |
had the WIFE But then I'd no hae had |
the wife. So it comes a. to the same
thing"
| stared at him with surprise, forto Inc
it did not seem quite the same thing to
marry high sympa by, swift intelligence,
and plenty of money, and to marry pow
erty, plus groyelling mediocrity How
ever it WIS not for me to satirize conjugal |
affection and its amiable delusions. But
proposed the y'ung lady's health, and
we drank it .ordidlly.
BY this time l conclude have so spoil
ed the readers of John Lambert, that |
they will care.for no passage of hisextra-
ordinary career that does not offer some
new feature So 90 from water to the
double peril of ice and water at the ireez-
ing point
at was hard winter; and [ had |