The Canton mail. [volume] (Canton, Miss.) 18??-1882, 1875-01-02

up q quart o Clyde, and ehebne Ia.
and rolled bit and pu'd the ss ant
then she sat up quiet as Land and
stood sentinel over her leddy4p, ant
my claes q drippin'. BY this tae, ant
wheen folk cara ABBOTT to see. docs
ma the lad that was wi her stelforrut
and complain to me. 'Ye'd lii to d.
to interfere, says he she wasf me
she was ma wi you.' sWhat, kys /
dye beeroodse the lass her lif9 NO
l. says he but v had no need med
die; what's your business ? 81 gie6
him his answer. Says !, I'D have
taen her character, and turnedfr OF
the maircy Of the world, and nds a
your vexation that We could ma 1d Of
her in the Clyde. But she shall tlive
you, ye blackeuard, says I ease
GUIDE So then he challepgede t6
fight. But as made ready to p OF
my coat, fine lad steps ford and
lays his hand ON my arm. 'Ye'h 10 I'll
for him, says he; AN we've do&yoni
work, says he, and this is min4 Sc
at it they went and t'other Sd ur
and fought for about Ave minute But
oh he mapped it. Ny lad Just hed
him. Gied him twa black cen, 81
the hinder end laid him sprawl and
smothered i bluid."
But the woman
"She was ma q woman, Che but
o lassie, about nineteen"
Little fool and thought sd va
ruined for ife-when all her III vas
before her."
aye may say that, SIR |; why haf
II. 81 A. ,
tradesman? often saw her afte he
was married; but she wadna spd to
me. She couldna look me stray l
the face. She'd say .Gude NOR 3,
though-when she couldna get ty
Ungratefnl little brute I"
"Na, ma; it was ma ingratitude
it>wae Just shame. Aweel, she nd ps
run fra me moo; for I Gamma see ;,
nor ony Of those I haze saved"
This made me gulp bit, and, WI
had done, I said, "She measured 4
by her small self. She would have !
sure to blab, in such q case, so
thought you would"
"Aweel, then," said he, "she
mistaken; for / maun tell ye that -
mischief-maker let on somethinG
other about il to her man, and he
uneasy, and came and asked me If z
true had taken his wife out o.
water. sAy, said I, and twarree ms
What had she to do i the water ?
he. That's her business says 'n
was to tax her oot.' HequestionedG
had she been drinking. Like eneu(
says ], but I couldna say He I'D
toned me, and questioned me: bu
put the collar on, ye ken. I behooV
to clear the wife q / could. didna
neither; but I was afflicted wi sooi
obleevion o. sma' parteeculars, hsj
hawi / didnA think muckle o. :
earle. He had rare guide wife II
q said 20, and whaur was the sense|
him diving into her past life, to stir Z
muds"
HOW LAMBERT MISSED CHANCE.
Passing over an easy job or two, .,
few melancholy cases, in which he b
dived and CROPPED the river, and restor
dead bodies to their friends, ha
come now to q passage, which but 1
its truth 1 should hesitate to relate I
actly as he told it to me but, if I We
to yield to squeamishness and slur il,
chapter of human nature, revealed
me, would by me be meanly carried
my grave and hidden from the schools
of other ages and nations.
Thus, then, it was-James Lamb<
was bathing in the Clyde one evening
the hour when it was allowed at th
epoch
Suddenly, Mrs. Cooper, that kept 4
Society's house, cried to him over
window: Rim, Jamie Lambert, the
il laddie in the water"
Up ran James Lambert, but the b
had sunk byztander directed him
the place; but il is not % easy to ma
the exact spot where . body has disn
peared in the water; and James La
bert dived twice and came up witho
the child. He Owed third time, a
groped along the bottom. He was do,
90 long that the cry got up that he "
drowned, too. Others secuted the id<
james Lambert drowni They b
known him to cross the Clyde, und
the water, from bank to bank. Sol
time having elapsed since the 81
alarm, people had poured across I
green and down the banks, and the
was quite Q crowd there murmuring q
gazing, when mp came James Lambe
painting, with the child in his arms.
There was q roar OF oxidation at {
sight, but James Lambert did not he
il, and did not see the crowd. (Ta
note Of that fact.) His whole soul v
in the lovely boy, that lay white o
inanimate in his arms. He ran into
house uttering cries of concern.
But, when 1 got him in the hoo
ho aVxora a 0u0 IN r1o-lk1 Hov,
blue bead it was. Ehi I was happy
eied the Donny BARN q kiss and hs1
him to the wife, and orders her to |
fire wi him. Then I'm going DOT, WI
q of q sooden I finds I hae ma sts
on me, and twa hundred folk about
doors. Wad ye believe it, wi the gr
excitement, I never knew I was nal
till I saw the folk, and bethought 4
I rims back again, and at the stair-f,
there's q bundle o. linen. = was ma Ia
mapping mysel', I can tell ye, and 90
ceoms, as bold as brass, in the vii
apron and q muckle sheet. The sif
OF me made the lasses scarit and SKI
for / was like q crop just poppit DOT
the grave. 1 went for my clothes an6
they were away. My bluid gat up
that, and I chackit them sair. 'Hec
says /, sye maum be a cauld-hairted
o. thieves says /, 'to TAX my v,
claes. when was doing . mons pail
Bymby, I sees q young Teddy in q 9
gown, wagging on me, and she points
hedge near by. So I went, and tn
was my claes. She had put them asi
for me, We ken, and keepit her ee
them. Wasna that thouchtful O. b
noo?"
"It Was, indeed"
SIR, I got my things on
hfohe, an tied up the wife's bund
ana cam forua and by this time
folk was dispairsed like. But the ga
young Teddy was walking to the 4
with her cen doom, rehecking like.
wagged on me, and I came to her.
she askit mo who I was, and tell't ]
1 was q cotton-spinnee, and they CT
me James Labert. So then she loo
at me full, and says she, James,
you marred9' 'Oh, yes, ma'am, s
I, this three years. So she lokit
me all over, in vara curious way {
she says, saftly, 'Jsmes-it is
-great-pity-yere-married-for y
a vara-gallant- man. SO We see, q
could hae had young leddy-ior
ee tell't me mair nor her words
had ma had the wife. But then I'd
hae had the wife. So it comes a. to
same thing"
/ started at him with surprise, for
me it did not seem quite the same th
to marry high sympathy, swift int