New Orleans Republican. [volume] (New Orleans, La) 1867-1878, 1874-12-06

thisl there have been men in the name o
men, that we're little mair than broom
besOms."
acquiesced.
"'Twas ma for sport neither. The lass
knew the water, and ran STRAIGHT to the
/ deepest part, opposite Nelson's Monument;
easy eneuch. Size was ma ashore moment
when in she fees again, the daft hizzy. Moo
| the water maistly cOOls thir sort O. lasses,
| and reconciles them to terree firmee. But
| she was distrackit; she was just a woman
| that wanted to die. So went in again and
| lectured her a the time l was pulling her
| oot 'Hae We a quarrl wi Him that made
We, ye daft GUNNER ~, says |; and held
| her on the bank itsel: but if l was strong
| in the water she was stronger on land wi
| her daftness, and she flung me off. and in
again. Vera weel, my leddy,' says !. Sac,
dye ken what did moor
| ''No"
! II Just drooned her. pit her heed under
| water, and kept there till made her taste
| the bitterness o dethe for her guide, We ken.
| Hech. SIR, but it sickened her O. you game.
| She brought up a quart o. Clyde, and then
she lay and rolled bit, and pu'd the grass.
| and then she sat mp quiet as lamb; and
stood sentinel over her leddyship, and my
claes dripping. BY this time wheen folk
/
| was wi her step forrud and complain to
! me. 'Ye'd little to do to interfere. says he;
! she was wi me. she was ma wi yOu.'
| What says I, dye begroodge the lass her
life!' Not L. says he. but y had no need
to NEEDLE; what's your businessr So gied
| him his answer. Says l: You have taen her
| character. and turned her on the marcy of
| the warld. and moo it's a your yexatiOn that
We could ma be rid of her in the Clyde. But
she shall outlive tO.. ye blackguard,' says
I, please GUIDE. So then he challenged me
to fight. But as mad ready to take of my
coat q fine lad steps forrud. and lays his
| hand on my arm. 'Ye're no fit for him.
says he, IAN we've done your wark, says he,
| and this is Mines SO at it they went, and
t'other stood up and fought for about five
minutes. But oh. he mapped it. My lad
| Just hashed him. Ged him twa black cen.
| and at the hinder end laid him sprawlin'
| and smothered j. bluid."
| ''But the wOman!'
| She ma woman. She was but lassie,
| about nineteen"
Little fool! and thought shc was ruined
| for life-when all her life was before her. ;"
| Eye may say that. slrr: why. that very
I year wasna she married on a decent trades.
man! I often saw her after she was mar.
| ried: but she wadna speak to me. She
I couldna look me straight j. the face. She'd
say. Guide morning though-when she
cuu,ina get by me-"
f! "Cngrateful little brute
| Ma. Ma; it was ma ingratitude ava; IL was
| Just shame. Aweel, she medina run fra me
moo: for Gamma see her. nor Ony Of those ]
haze saved"
! This made me gulp bit. and, when had
| done, said. ''She measured you by her
1 small self. She would have been sure to
| bab. 10 such q cases SO she thought you
! would
/ "Awee', them" said he. "she was mistaen;
for maup tell We that some mischief maker
! let on something or other about it to her
I man, and he was uneasy. and came and
asked me if twas true had taken his wife
out O the water. a. said l, her and twaf.
rec mair.' What had she to do i the
l. mine was to tax her oot.' He questioned
me had she been drinking. Like enough
says l. but couldna say He questioned
me. and questioned me; but pit the collar
on. We ken. behooved to clear the wife a.
could. I didna lee. neither; but was
afflicted wi sooden ObleeyiOn O sma' par.
teeculars. haw! haw. didna think muckle
a. said SO. aud whaur was the sense o him
| diving into her past life. to stir the mud :"
! Passing over an easy joo or two. and q
! few melancholy cases. in which he had diyed
and CROPPED the river, and restored dead
bodies to their friends. l come now to q
passage. which but for its truth. should
hesitate TO relate exactly as he had told it
me; but if / were TO yield to squeamishness
and slur it. a chapter OF human nature, re.
vealed to me. would by me be nieanly Car.
ried to my grave and hidden from the
| scholars of other age. 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
/ c;efv's hOusa cripi tO him Ovar th0 NJ in6nuy
"Rin Jamie Lambert. there is a laddie in the
| water
! Up ran James Lambert. but the boy had
sunk: a bystander directed him to the place,
| but it is not SO easy to mark the exact spot
where a body has disappeared in the water,
| and James Lambert diyed twice and came
up without the child. He diyed q third
time and CROPPED along the bottom. He was
| down SO long that the cry got up he was
drowned too. Others secuted at the idea.
James Lambert drown: They had known
| him cross the CLYDE under 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
| 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 uttering cries
| OF concern.
but. when I got him in the moose, he
| opens ae eye on me-like bonny blue
happy: ged the bonny BARN q kiss and
hands him TO the wife. and orders her to
| the fire wi him. Then I'm going GOT, when
a of sooden finds haena steek on me.
and twa hundred folk about the doore.
! Wad We believe it. ui' great excitement, I
Ac,er k"e~ ] 'c"s nahit. till l saw the folk.
and bethought me l rims back again. and at
T! the stair-foot there's a bundle o. linen.
was ma lang mapping myself. can tell We.
wife's apron and a muckle sheet. The
sight o me made the lasses scairt and skirl
~; for was like corp just poppit DOT q
the grave. went for my clothes and
they were away. My biuid gat up at that,
and l chackit them sair. .Hech,' says l,
'Ye maun be cauld .hairted set o. thieves
says l. ito TAX my very claes. when was
| young Teddy in a silk gown wagging on my
| ~. and she points to hedge near by.
| So went. and there was my claes. She
had put them aside for me. We ken, and
kept her ee on them. Wasns that thocht.
| full . her nOo:'
"It was. indeed"
'Aweel. SIR. got my things on at the
hedge an tied up the wife's bundle. and
cam forud; and by this time the ielk was
dispairsed like. But the same young Teddy
was walking to and ira. with her cen doom.
rejecting like. She wagged on me. and I
| came to her. So she askit me who was,
and teli't her was a cotton spinner, and
| they caed me James Lambert. So then she
iookit at me full. and says she, james, are