The Lake Charles echo. [volume] (Lake Charles, Parish of Calcasieu, La.) 1876-1898, 1877-02-15

out, 1t was my place to ride after her,
an Mr.. Musters' man would ride after
him, an we'd always go the same road"
"But how did you manage about
Lord Byronw
ooh, he were like his mother-afraid !
O the bogLes."
"Bogles and pray what are tbeyo:'
"Oh, the people out O. the kirkyard, |
that couldna rest after duels an that"
"Oh, yes; we'll, go on, please"
AN it were for that hi IordshiD al
ways kept one O. the men waiting hall
the night next to his bedroom till he
read himself to sleep. WILL, one night
it were my turn to wait, an waited
till it were near morning, an at last I
couldna keep awake any longer, an
just out an said, I think, your IozdshiP,
its time for reasonable folk to have done
wi crack reading an go to sleep Eel
low he shouted, like one stark mad
fellow! do you know to whom you are
speaking! 'Ay, your lordship, that do
I, but I'm afeared 0 naught-nelther
lord, duke, earl, nor king--for the mat
ter O. that
doubted I'd lose my place, but Mrs.
Clark begged his lordship's forgiveness
for me, and l wasna dismissed. But I
made up my mind his lord ship shouIdna
sleep more nor one night again at AM
nesly Hall.
Mrs. Clark, I said, you'd rather the
brutes would not spoil your white coun-
terpane? 'Ay, J., she said, but
I dare not offend his lordshsp.'
Well, I didna say aught, but just
: went about it; and this is how did it.
The great bed in his lordships room had
heavy curtains, an they were hung on
brass rings that run on brass bars, an
they made deal O. noise an ratthn'
> when they were drawed. found big
? ball O. packthread, an I run the end
! through all the rings on one side, and
, th'other through all the rings on th'other
, and when carried the two ends
the posts aud along the floor l cut
., clean slice off the bottomRo the bed
room door, 50 the thread would be sure
to pull easy-like; an I put the rug over
e the thread, an then couldn't ha' told
# myself aught was wrong.
After me tellin' his lordship piece O
!, my mind about his crack reading they
; took the next man to me to wait on him
q for that night, an thought it would be
- morning before he ever would havedOne
he was so intolcrable long. But at last
l. l heard the door of his lordship's room
- open, an soon as everything was quiet
: peeped through the crack and made SURF
the master and the brutes were al
- sleepin'. Then pulled the thread. L
\ was an awful shriekin' the rings made
IS over the brass bars, an in second
b crack went pistol,R the dogs barked
~ crack went another pistol, an the dog
g howled, an his lordship call, Help
help! Thieves! Thieves"
ran to my bed fast as my legs would
/ carry me, an in a minute all the door
- in the house few open, and candles wer
~ FARM and women screamin', and all tn
"a men poundin' on his lordship's door an
- calm, Open the door, my lord. Their
~ be five O. us here, and we'll soon max
10 sure O. the rascals?'
80 Some one come an tried to waken me
N but you know I had my breeches on. an
if I'd got out O. bed they'd know l wa
Da at the bottom of the mischief
10 Go long to the great room, an II
he come I said at last, yawnin', an then
in maxim as if I had just hauled on m,
clothes, Joined the man at the door
and after his lordship was convinced W
Il wouldn't burst the door in he opened il
. and such rushin' of men and dogs wer
i never seen atore. LOOkin' up the chin
ii new and under the bed, were reall
in frightened at the danger was in
bein' found out and shakin' all over
m when | said, There be naught herr
* YOUR neutrality-suspicious. thieves or mul
"a derers-and I doubt it lcaS the bogsS tro'
n the kjrk-yard yonder'
er My word no one slept any more l
to the hall that night, and it was the las
time his lerdship ever went to bed