The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1875-11-26
BY CHARLES READE.
IcoNrINuED.l

years OF age, and, having a little
score of my own with the attack
ing party, 1 opened quite silent
and business-like with a one, two,
aud knocked him into a corner
fiat perpendicular. He was dunn
founded for q moment, but the
next he came out like a bull at
me. / stepped on one side, and
met him with o blow on the tenn
pie, and knocked him fiat horizon
tai; and when he offered to rise /
shook my fist at him, and threat
ened him he should come to grief
If he dared TO move.
At this time he went on quite o
different lay. He lay still, and
1eigned dissolution with consider
able skill, to Brighten us; and 1
can't say 1 felt easy at all; but
my master, who took cheerful
views of everything in his cups,
got the enepy's tambler of brandy
and water, and with hiccoughs
and absurd smiles, and q teaspoon,
deposited the contents gradually
on the various parts of his body.
81 z revive NAP said he.
This was low life to come to
pass in a respectable tradesman's
back parlor. But, when grog
comes in at the door, good man
ners walk to the window, ready to
take leave if requested. Where
there is drink there is always deg
relation Of some sort or degree
put that in your tumblers and sip
it,
After this no more battles.
The lowly apprentices humble Of
forts (pugilistic) restored peace
to his masters family.
Six months of calm industry
now rolled over, and then got
into trouble by my Own fault.
Looking back upon the various
fancies, and opinions, and crotch
cts that have passed through my
head at one time or another, ]
find that, between the years OF
seventeen and twenty four, a
strange notion beset me; it was
this: that women are all angels.
For this chimera 1 now began
to suffer, and continued to at iu-
tervals till the error was rooted
out,-with their assistance.
There were two women in my
masters house,-his sister, aged
twenty-four, and his cook aged
thirty-seVen. With both these
fell ardently in love; and SO,
with my sentiments, / should
have with six, had the house held
half a dozen. Unluckiiy, my af-
fections were not accompanied
with the discretion so ticklish a
situation called for. The ladies
found one another out. and / fell
victim to the virtuous indigna-
tion that fired three bosoms.
The cook, in virtuous indigna-
ton that an apprentice should WOO
his masters sister, told my mas
ter.
The young lady, in virtuous in
aignation that boy should
make fool of ''that old woman
told my master, who, unluckly fol
me, was now the quoAdam Dawes
junior; Dawes senior having re-
tired from the active business
and turned sleeping and drinking
partner.
My master, whose v. i. was the
strongest of the three, since it was
HIM that 1 had lathered, took me
to Bow Street, made his complaint
and forced me. to cancel my linden.
lures; the cook, with tears packed
up my Sunday suit; the young
lady opened her bedr pom door
three inches, and shut it with q
don't-come-anigh-me slam; and
drifted out to London with eight
cen pence and my tools.
On looking back on this Incl
dent of my life, 1 have a regret
"a poignant one; it is, that some
good Christian did not give
me devilish good hiding
into the bargain then and there
I did not feel quite strong
enough in the spirits to go where
/ was sure to be blown up, so
skirted King Street and entered
the Seven Dials, and went to Mr.
Paley and confessed my sins.
How differently the same thing
is seen by different eyes! All the
morhing I had been called 6
young villain, first by one, theI
cy another, till at last 1 began tC
see it. Mr.. Paley viewed me in
the light of a martyr, and l re
member / fell into his views on
the spot.
Paley was a man that had hi:
little theory about women, and il
differed from my Juvenile one.
He held that women are at bot
tom the seducers, men the sedu
ced. "The men court the women
l grant you, but so it is the fish
that runs after the bait" said he
"The women draw back? yes, ant
so does the angler draw back thu
bait when the fish are shy, dom
hep and then the silly gudgeoni
misunderstood the move, anC
make q rush at it, and get hooked
uho yOuS
Holding such vile sentiments
he shifted all the blame off m,
shoulders. He. turned to anC
abused the whole gang, as he call
ed the family in Litchfield Stree
l had just left, instead of reading
me the lesson for the day, which
he ought, and / should have lis
tened to from him,-perhaps.
"Now, then, don't hang you
head like that" shouted the spun.
ky little fellow, "snivelling anC
whimpering at your time of life
We are going to have jolly goot
supper, you and /, that is wha'
sce are going to do; and you shall
sleep here. My daughter is a.
school; you shall have her room
l am in good work,-thirty shiI
lings week that is plenty fol
three. Lucy, you and me-" (him
self last). Your father Is nj
worth bone button, and your
mother is mt worth the shand tC
it; Pm your father, and your
mother into the bargain, for want
OF better. You live with me
and snap YOUR fingers Mt Dawes