The Cecil Whig., 1874-05-16
For The Cecil Wing.
GAN DER TRUE TALE"

host, fat, rudy y-faced fellow, usually brim-
full Of fun, and ready to crack joke with
any one, entered his cosy little dwelling
with a most lugubrious expression upon
his rubicund countenance. He cast fond
lingering look upon his pretty wife and
blooming daughters, then the tears gath
cred in his eyes and with a mournful groan
he sat down to his frugal meal. But the
viands did not disappear before him with
the accustomed rapidity. Again and again
his eyes would wonder around the table,
and again, and again, would the tears
gather in his round orbs. At length the
devoted partner of his bosom rushed to
his side and twining her soft arms about
his neck, implored him to tell her the cause
of his terrible emotion.
eyes," he would tell her, but not here,
not in the presence of their precious family,
but alone in an adjoining room would he
pour out the story of his apprehensions.
To the next room they adjourned, but my
curiosity overcame my sense of honor and
must own it; crept to the key-hole
and applied my ear to the aperture. He
first implored her to be calm, calmness in
the midst of danger he declared to be the
only safeguard of the threatened victim.
That great danger threatened them in COM
mon with the rest of the town, he would
not attempt to deny. Four men had been
seen upon the streets just as the shades of
eve advanced. There was to be sure, moth
ing peculiar looking about these men, but
their names, places of residence and desti-
nation were unknown; this is an unpar-
donable sin in Fizzlevile. No man, woman
or child is allowed to remain an hour with
in the corporation limits, without his or
her entire history both present and passed,
being known to every villager. But these
men had walked straight through the prin-
cipal street of F., had cast suspicious
glances into the corner grocery, into the
spacious meat store with its patent sausage
grinder, and its inviting sides of the
scrofulous swine, and carcass entire of an
aged bovine whose race was nearly run ere
its career was brought to a sudden close by
the murderous bullet, into the Granger
store, that emporium of all things pertain
ing to the we'll being of a civilized house
hold, from patent baby jumper down to
an iron dish cloth or wooden nutmeg
crater. So perambulated these strange
looking bipeds, as have said, right down
the one street of F., then diverging to
the westward were lost to view behind a
neighboring warehouse.
F. was aroused, the whole town was
shortly in commotion. What could these
men be but wandering band of mauraders
intent on theivery, arson and murder.
But had not F. men within her borders
aye, men able and willing to protect her
interests against these lawless wretches.
Had they not city police? They had?
The force consisted of one man and he was
small. On him they looked as leader, in
this dread crisis, but he was nowhere to be
seen. They sought his dwelling, it was
darkened, barred and bolted, but many
voices assured the terrified inmates that
only friends desired admttance. Admit
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