Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1878-02-16

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with ali 'ay fathers children vss her re-
p~s'ed ndnesses, displayed TO Us in the
shape IF various useful and ornamental
gifts. cs,efully chosen TO suit our several
aecs AMI character: bot, above all, her
wonderful condescension in giving up her
own Pur> uits on many winters night,
that she might recount to Us, A. We sat
grouped around the nursery fire, some of
the incilents of her varied and eventful
lite. Sh: had been q great traveller in her
day, having been to Rome, and even Wis.
tied the Holy Land; and what is more,
che had written book of travels! . cir.
eumstance which caused Us to regard her
with strange curiosity almost amounting
to awe; : feeling on our part, which, but
for her Uniform kindness, might have de-
tracted ON that universal love we one
and all ''ore towards her. One of my
aunt's a. ventures made a strong impress
ficn upo" my youthful mind, and is even
now. att lapse of half century, still
fresh in my recollection. Thinking it
might serve to divert those who have a
fancy for the humorous, have gathered
mp the threads of the story from the
storehon eofmy memory, and now present
II in narrative form, under the foregoing
title.
My uncle, Mr.. Oliver Brown, was in
the iron trade; and in connection with
his business, which was very large one,
was in the habit of paying periodical
visits to The manufacturing town of Boil
TIM, near to which his principal iron
works we're situated. He usually paid
these visits alone, but on the occasion of
which am about to speak he was &C.
compani. d by my aunt, who deemed it
her duty 10 be with her husband. as it
was wintcrtime and he had only Just re-
covered from a severe illness. It was
late in TIL, evening of bleak November
day that rhe coach which conveyed Mr..
and Mrs. Oliver Brown from their COM
Portable country seat, distant some fifty
miles from Bolton, entered the noisy, ill.,
paved streets of that busting town, and
proceeded to what at that period was the
principal inn of the place. Both trav-
e,ers were tired by their journey, and
after hasty dinner were glad to retire to
rect.
"Did you say number twenty seven,
second floori" inquired Mrs. Oliver, ad-
dressing the lady at the bar, as she took
a chamber candlestick from her hand and
proceeded to mount the stairs.
''Twent y-seven, second f1oori" respond
Ell the landlady, with an affirmative nod
and a gracious smile.
"Twenty -seven, second floor" repeated
my uncle, as he followed in the wake of
his more active and enterprising help
mate, who, threading her way up the
spiral staircase and along q labyrinth of
corridors and passages, had already ar
rived at tie dormitory in question Mr..
and Mrs. Oliver were soon in bed; and
there we will leave them, whilst we look
in At number twenty nine on the same
6OOr, and make the acquaintance of Mr..
and Mrs. Norwood Scrubs, the occu-
pants Of that apartment. They, like their
neighbor at number twent1lseven, were
in comic table circumstances, and like
the latter, not much given to travelling for
pleasure, sake on cold, raw day in No
vember; ut IN affair Of business which
denanaeu their presence Il Bolton had
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