The Hickman courier., 1877-01-26

the thread. an then couldn't ha' told
myself aught was wrong.
After me tellin' his lordship a piece .,
my mind about his crack reading they
took the next man to me to wait on him
for that night, an | thought it would he
morning before he ever would have done
he was so intolerable long. But at last
| heard the door of his lordship's room
open, an soon as everything was quiet
peeped through the crack and made spre
the master and the brutes were all
sleepin'. Then 1 pulled the thread. II
was an awful shriekin' the rings made
over the brass bars, an in second
crack went pistol, IAN the dogs barked
crack went another pistol, an the doc.
howled, an his lordship call, Helm
help! Thievesl Thievesp
ran to my bed fast as my legs wouIf
carry me, an in minute all the door,
in the house flew open, and candles weri
farm and women screamin', and all tn,
men poundin' on his lordship's door an
callin', Open the door, my lord. Their,
be five O. us here, and we'll soon max,
sure o the rascals?''
Some one come an tried 70 waken mo
but you know I had my breeches on. an
if I'd got out o bed they'd know wa,
at the bottom of the mischief.
Go long to the great room, an III
come l said at last, yawnin', an then
maxim as if had just hauled on m,
clothes, Joined the man at the door,
and after his lordship was coarfae~.p--l
wouldn't burst the door in. >-se opened it,
and such rushin of zen and dogs were
never seen afore. ,16okin' up the Chin
ney and under. ne bed, were really
frightened 81 the danger was in O.
bein' feunSout and shakin' all over,
when I/said, There be naught here,
your rIordship-neither thieves or muir
dezers-and doubt 1t ,cas ~ 5Qels from
6ie kirk-yard yonder3
My word no one slept any more in
the hall that night, and it was the last
time his lerdship ever went to bed at
Amnesty Park"
"But you are sorry now, J--s, for
the trick ycu played, since Miss Cha
worth might have married him if she
had known Lord Byron better, and had
not been deceived by Mr. Musters?"
CAY, that 1 be, aud it often gied agin
my conscience when waited till all the
folk would be asleep in the hall, and
then I'd bring Miss Chaworth down TO
meet Musters at the dining hall, and
leave'em bit to chat an that; and
when I'd knock, sometimes he wouldn't
go, and I'd have to tell him he must,
for the folk would soon be stirring in
the nall.
"And oh the picnics we had in the
grovesl I'd send out the hampers by
the men to the blacksmith's an they
never knowed what was in them. And
Musters' man would get them, and lay
the cloth on the sod, an such long merry
talks they'd have while we strolled
away bit; an then they'd 90 off
together while we'd lunch a bit. The
very last time we were feastin' in the
groves Musters' man said, SO manv
bottles are strewn around, an these be
nice ones, J.: one for you an one for
me; an we put 'em in our great coats:
an there they are; you can have 'em
both if you want them Alb, little did
the poor young thing know what vas
comin' The day she. was of age fhe
married MI. Musters, an month atser
that she paid hundred thousle III
pounds to the money-leaders, that were
only waitin' all the time for his promise
to pay them when he married the heir
ess. And on, she was the most unhap-
Ply woman alive, when he openly treated
her bad-like an all he wished of her
was money! money Never viii I for
get the day his lordshIP's funeral was
coming to the inn at Nottingham. Ny
poor mistress came into the town and up
to the very door, before she knowed
whose funeral it was. She was 0
stricken with trouble and illness that
the folk thought even then she were
some'at daft. An two years more was a.
she could manage. She died from the
mad house