The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1878-11-02

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and return? You can't do it,
! He looked at me cunningly a mo-
ment. Kant do it? I've done it.''
Done it?"
"Wall, about the same l reckon,
I've figured it out. Figures don't lie.
amt no Cooks tourist l kin see
Cook and give him pints. l tell YOU
! I've figured it out to a cent, and Eve
money to spare. OF course l don't
reckon to travel with Loo. She'll 90
first-class. But I'll be near her if it's
in the Storage of a ship, or in the bag
gage car of a railroad. l don't need
much in the way of grub or clothes,
and now and then kin pick up Job.
Perhaps you disremember that row |
had down in the engine-room when
they chucked me out of it?''
1 could not help looking at him with
establishment; there was evidently only
a pleasant memory in his mind Yet
l recalled that | felt indignant for him
and his daughter.
"Well, that old fool of Dutchman,
that chief engineer, gave me a job the
other day. And eff hadn't just forced
my way down there and talked sassy
at him, and criticised his macheen he'd
! hev never knowed | knNwed a eccentric
from wagon wheel, Do you see the
pintP"
l thought began to see it. But
could not help asking what his daugh-
ter thought of travelling in this inferior
way.
He laughed. "When | was gettin'
up some pints from them books of tray
ell, | read her proverb or saying out
O. one of them, that only Princes and
fools and Americans travelled first-class
You see | told her it didn't say 'wom-
en-, for they naturally would ride first
clasS-and American gals being Prin-
cesses, didn't count, don't you see?"
If | did not quite follow his logic,
nor see my way clearly into his daugh-
ter's acquiescence through this speech,
some light may be thrown upon it from
| his next utterance. / had risen with
some vague words of congratulation
on his success, and was about to leave
him, when he called me back.
"Did L tell ye," he said, cautiously
looking around, yet with smile of
stifed enjoyment on his face, " did l
tell We what that gal-my darter-sed
to me? No, didn't tell ye-nor no
one else afore. Come herer'
He made me draw down closely into
the shadow and secrecy of the round
house.
THAT night that told my gal she
should 90 abroad, seq to her quite
chipper-hke and free, 1 say, Looey,'
SEE |, yen be goin' for to marry some
O them counts, or dukes, or potentates,
| reckon, and yen leave the old man.
And she seq, seq she, looking me square
in the eye-did you ever notiss that
gals eye?n
"She has fine eyes," 1 replied, eau
tiouslv.
"They is ez clean as a. fresh milk
pan, and ez bright. Nothing sticks to
'em. Eh?"
"You are right"
"Well, she looks up at ME this way
here he achieved a vile imitation of
his daughters modest glance, not at all
like her" and looking at me, she says
quietly: That's what I'm going for,
and to improve my mind He! he! he!
It's fack. To marry nobleman and
improve her mind! Ha! ha! hap
The evident enjoyment that he took
in this. and the quiet ignoring of any
thing of moral quality in his daugh-
ter's sentiments, or in his thus confid-
ing them to a strangers ear, again up
set all my theories. | may say here
that it is one of the evidences of origi-
nal character, that it is apt to battle all
prognosis from a mere Observers
standpoint. But 1 recalled it some
months after.
We parted in England. 1t is not
necessary in this brief chronicle to re-
peat the various stories OF "Uncle
Joshua" as the younger and more friv-
| olous of our passengers called him,
nor that two-thirds of the stories re-
peated were utterly at variance. with
my estimate of. the character of the
man, although | may add that | was
also doubtful of the accuracy of my
estimate. But one quality was always
dominant-his resistlcss, logged per
tinacity and calm imperturbability!
HE asked Miss Montmorris if she
minded singin' little in the second
cabin to liven it up, and added, as an
inducement, that they didn't know good
music from bad" said Jack Walker to
me. "And when he mended the
broken lock of my trunk, he abtholute-
ly propothed to me to athk couthin
Grathe if thee didn't want 'koorier'
to travel with her to do mechanics
provided thee would take charge of
that dreadfully deaf -and-dumb daughter
of his. Wothn't it funny? Really,
beth one of your characters" said the
youngest Miss Montmorris to me as we
made our adieus on the steamer.
! am afraid he is not although he was
good enough afterward to:establish one
or two of my theories regarding him.
| was enabled to assist him once in an
alteration he had with cabman re-
garding the fare of his daughter, the
cabman retaining distinct impression
that the father had also ridden in some
obscure way in or upon the same cab
as he undoubtedly had. l heard that
| he had forced his way into certain
great house in England, and that he
was ANONYMOUSLY rejected, but l also
heard that ample apologies had been
made to a certain quiet, modest
daughter of his who was without on the
lawn, and that also a certain Person
age, whom | approach even in this
'ague way, with capital letter, had
graciously taken fancy to the poor