The Emporia news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1859-1881, 1876-01-07

for saw it come out of his peck
ct.
AS soon as we were redeemed,
we took an engagement at Astiey's,
and, during this engagement, ca
daverous Tom, finding We could
master her, used to attend less
and less to her and more and
more to brandy.
A certain baker, who brought
her loaves every morning for
breakfast, used to let him feed her
himself. He admired her and
took this way of making her
fond of him. One day had left
these two friends and their Ioayes
together for a minute, when I
heard fearful cry. / knew the
sound too well by this time, snd,
as ran back, I had the sense tol
hsliOo at her; this saved the
mans life. At the sound of my
voice she dropped him from a
height of about twelve feet, and |
he rolled away like a ball of worst
ed. I dashed in up with q pitch
fork, and into her like lightning,
and, while the blood was squirt
ing out of her from a hundred
little prong-hoIes, the poor baker
limped away.
Any gentleman or lady who
wishes to know how 3 man feels
when seized by an elephant, pre-
paratory to being squelched, can
consult this person; he is re-
spectacle tradesman; his name is |
Jones; he lives near Astley's The
alter, or used to, and for obvious
reasons can tell you this one an
ecdote out of many such better
than 1 can; that is ifsshe has not
forgotten it, and I dare say he
has n't-ask him.
After Astley's, Drury Lane en-
gagged US to play second to the
Lions of Mysore; rather down
come; but we went. In this the
ater we behaved wonderfully.
Notwithstanding the number of
people continually buzzing about
us, we kept our temper, and did
not smash a single one of these
human gnats, so trying to our lit
tie female irritabilIty and feeble
nerves. The only thing we did
wrong was, we broke through a
granite mountain and fell down
on to the plains, and hurt our
knee, and broke our superiority
one.
The Lions of Mysore went a
starring to Liverpool, and we &C
companied them. While We were
there the cholera broke out in En-
gland, and NJ. Huguet summoned
us hastily to France. We brush
ed our hats, put on our gloves,
and walked at one stretch from
Liverpool to Dover. There we
embarked for Boulogne: Dick,
cabaverous Tom, wolf-skinlamb
Pippin, and myself. was now
in Huguet's service at fifty francs
a week as coadjutor and successor
of cadaverous Tom, whose demise
was hourly expected even by us
who were hardened by use to his
appearance, which was that of
the ghost of delirium tremens.
We arrived off Bologne Pier; but
there We were boarded by men in
uniforms and mustacnes, and
questions put about the cholera,
which disease the civil authorities
of Boulogne were determined to
keep on the other side of the
Channel. The captains answer
proving satisfactory, we were al
| 70 ink kha
In landing anywhere Dick and
her attendants had always to wait
till the other passengers had got
clear, and we did so on this coca
sion. At length our time came;
but we had no sooner crossed the
gangway and touched French
ground than a movement took
place on the quay, and a lot of
. bayonets bristled in our faces, and
"Halte lap was the word. We
begged an explanation; in answer,
, an officer glared with eyes like
saucers, and pointed with his
finger at Elliot. The truth fash,
ed on US. The Frenchmen were
afraid of cholera coming over
! from England, and here was a
man who looked plague, cholera,
, or death itself in person. We re-
monstrated through an interpre-
ter, but Toms face was not to be
) refuted by words. Some were foI
, sending US back home to so dis,
. eased a country as this article
: must have come out of; but mild
er measures prevailed. They SET
, apart tor our use little corner OF
the quay, and there they roped us
{ in and sentinelled US. And so for
! four days, in the polished king.
, dom of France, we dWelt in . hut
ruder far than any on the banks
T of the Ohio. Drink foreVeri AT
last as Tom Coffin got neither q
, worse nor better color, they lis.
r tened to reason, and let us loose
, upon the nation at large, and
? away we tramped for Paris.
: Times were changed with as in
: one respect: we no longer march
ed to certain victory; our long i'll
! success in America had lessene6
our arrogance, and We crept along
, toward Paris. But, luckily for as,
i we had now . presiding head, and
a good one. The soul of business
p is putting, and no man pulled bet
. ter than our chief, II. Huguet
! halfway between Boulogne and
I Paris we were met by a cavalier
! carrying our instructions how w
: were to enter Paris; and, arrive Al
: St. Denis, instead of going
straight on, we skirted the town
and made our formal entry by the
r. Bots de Boulogne and the Arch o
!, Triumph. Huguet had come Il
. terms with Franconi, and, TO Civ
= Dicks engagement more impor
4 lance, FranconTs whole trOoE
4 were ordered out to meet as AMI
escort US in. They paraded N
= and down the Champs EIyseel
: first, to excite attention and inqui
= ry, and when the public were fair