Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1878-12-21
THE DEATH OF THE OLD SQUIRE.
Gne Of Charlotte Cushman's Fayoritc
ReRdimgs.

Readings
Twas Wild mad kind of night. as black the bo:
The wind was bowling away, like Bedlamte in u
Tearing the ash boughs of and moving the pop
In the meadows beyond the old fourmiIl where
You turn OF 10 the town.
And the rain-well, It did -dashing against the
window glass,
And delugrg on the roof as if the devil were come
The cutters were running in foods outside the
stable door,
And the srouts sp,ashed from the tiles. as they
would never give Ger.
Lord how the winders rsttied you'd almost hs'
thought that thieves
We're wrenching a, the shutters: while ceaseless
Flew to the doors in gusts and could hear the
Falling so loud knew a. once it was UP to a tall
We were budding in the harness room by little
And Tom, the coachman. he was there. apracticins
But it sounded dismal anthem did. for Squire was
And the Doctor said, DO what he would. sauire's
breaking UP at last"
The death-watch, sure enough, licked loud Just
over tn old mares bead
Though he had never once been heard up there
And the only sound beside Toms tune. was the
stirring in the stalls.
the old walls.
We couldn't hear Deaths foot pass by. but we knew
that he was near:
And the chill rain, and the wind and cold made us
welistened to the clock upstairs. twas breathing
soft and low,
For the nurse said AT the turn of night the old
Squires soul would go.''
Master had been wildish man, and led roughish
Didn't be shoot the Bowton squire, who dared write
to his wife?
He beat the RAIDS at Hindon town. heard i'll twenty
nine
When every pail in market place was brimmed with
red port wine.
And as for hunting, bless your soul why for forty
He'd kept the Marley hounds man. as his father did
And now to die, and in his bed-the season just be
1t made him fret the doctor said las it might do
any one"
And when the young sharp lawyer came TO see him
Squire made me blow my horn outside as We were
And we turned the hounds out in the cou~t-that
For he swore, and sent off to seek fox in TIIhrr
hill wood
But then the fever it rose high, and lie would go see
Where mistress led ten years ago when Lammas-
mind the year, because our mare at Salisbury
Moreover the town hall was burnt at steeple Dinton
town.
1t might be two. or half past two. the wind seemed
Tom, he was off, but awake sat watch and ward to
keep;
The moon was up, quite giorious-like, the rain no
When ali at once out clashed and Changed the rusty
turret bell.
That hadn't been heard for twenty years, not since
the Luddite days;
Tom he eaped up. and leared up for all the house
Had sure not scared us half much. and out we
1, Tom and Joe the whipperin, and t. little stable
He's killed hinself" that's the idea that came into
felt as sure as though saw Squire Ba.rowiy was
When all at once door few back, and he met us
His scarlet coat was on his back and he looked like
the Old race.
The nurse was clinging to his knees, and crying
The maids were sobbins on the stairs for he looked
Saddle me Lightning Boss. my men," that's what
g The moon is up, we're sure to find at Stop or Ell
terly.
Get out the dogs; I'm well tonight and youny
-, again and sound,
III nave a run once more before they put me under
They brought my father home feet first, and it
That his son joe who rode straight, died quietly
in his bed
Brandy he cried "a tumbler full, you women
Then cls pped the old black velvet cap upon his
m long gray hair;
Thrust on his boots. snatched down his whip
- though he was old and weak,
There was devil IL his eye, that would not let me
speak.
We loosed the dogs to humor I'm, and sounded on
The moon was up above the woods Just east of Ha,
bucE!ed Liehtning's throat-lash fast; the Squire
M
He let the strrups down himself so quick. yet care
Then up he got and spurred the mare, and, ere L
well could mount,
He drove The yard gate open man. and called to old
Dick BlounI,
Our huntsman, dead five years ago-for the fever
And was spreading like food of fame, fast I'D into
his brain.
Then of he few before the dogs yelling to call us
While we stood there. all pale and dumb, scarce
knowing he was gone
We mounted. and below the hill saw the fox
And down the covert ride we heard the old Squire's
And IN the s; moon-lit meadow mist we saw him ny
the vale; wy N0"A
saw him breast fence after fence-nothing could
And in the moonlight after him streamed out the
brave old pack
Twas like dream. Tom cried to me, as We rode
Hoping to turn him at the brook that could not we'll
be past,
For ii was swollen with the rain but ali, twas not
to be;
Nothing could stop old lightning Bess but the
broad breast of the sea.
The hounds S swep. on, and well in front the mare
She broke across the fallow land that runs by the
We pulled up on Chalk Linton hill, and as we stood
us there.
Two fields. beyond we saw the Squire fall stone
dead from the mare.
Then she swept and in full cry the hounds went
out of sight
cloud came over the broad moon and something
dimmed our sight,
As Tom and bore master home both speekino nm
der breath; ~
And that's the way saw tn Old Squire ride boldly
to his death
A PREACHERS ELoPEMENT-Hoso He Ran or
H5th HIS Sweetheart. ard What Scared Him.-A
telegram to the st. Louis Globe Democrat from
CINCINNATI, ONO. Dec. Il, says: John Oliver q
young preacher OF Bedford, KY, eloped with
MISS Emma Abbott, a school mistress OF that
place, yesterday, and thereby hangs tale more
thrilling than those found in romances Miss
ADDott comes OF first class family Her father
objected to preacher divers suit and the two
lovers arranged 10 elope. He engaged horses
ana rode to the SchoOl-houSe where she was
teaching. She dismissed school till Monday
mounted horse and rode off with him They
hadn't gone far till they discovered the old man
and TWO big brothers were pursuing They