The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1878-10-02
A TR EMIT TREED.

The July Scri6aer contains the concluding
installment of Mr. f. r. Stockton's droll
/" Rudder Grange " sketches, which are to be
published in book form in the fall One of
the incidents of this last sketch is quoted be-
low. The proprietor of Rudder Grange, re-
turning from a drive with Euphemia, his wife
finds tramp in one of his trees and tree
agent in another near by, with his savage dog,
Lord Edward, plying between. The follow
ing scene ensues:
"Ths one" said Pomona, Sis freeman
-
g | should think so, said /, as caught
sight of person in gray trowsers standing a.
mcng the branches of a cherry. tree not very
far from the kitchen door. The tree was not
a large one, and the branches were not strong
enough to allow him to sit down on them, al
though they supported him well enough as he
stood close to the trunk just out of the reach
of Lord Edward.
" This is a very unpleasant position, sir. {"
said he, when | reached the tree az simply
came into your yard, on a matter of business
and finding that raging beast attacking per-
son in tree, had barely time to get up in
to this tree myself, before he dashed at me !;
luckily / was out of his reach but very
much fearf have lost some of my property"
"No, he hasn't" said Pomona at was
big book he dropped. l picked it up and
took it into the house. It's full of pictures
of peaches and pears and flowers. I've been
iookin, NJ n Tbat,o hour II I,na,. ,,I,,+ ho
was. And there was no call for his gttin' up
a tree. Lord Edward never would have gone
after him If he hadn't run as if he had guilt
on his soul"
suppose them" said I, addressing the
individual in the cherry tree, "that you came
here to sell me some trees.''
&C Yes SIR" said he quickly, "trees, shrubs,
vines--everything suitable for gentleman's
country villa. I can sell you something quite
remarkable, sir, in the way of cherry trees
French ones, just imported bear fruit three
times the size of anything that could be pro-
dnced on tree like this. And pears--fruit
of the finest flavor and enormous size
eyes" said Pomona. az seen them in
the book. But they must grow on a ground
vine No tree could hold such pears as
them.
Here Euphemia reproved Pomona's for
wardness, and invited the tree agent to get
down out of the tree.
Thank you," said he, "but not while
that dog is loose. If you will kindly chain
him up will get my book, and show you
specimens of the finest fruit in the world, all
imported from the first nurseries of Europe
the Red-gold Amber Muscat grape--the
-" aaaet erl .e
"Oh, please let him down ~ said Enphem-
ia, her eyes beginning to sparkle.
told Pomona to run and get me the dog
chain, and stood under the tree, listening to
the tree-agent talking to Euphemia, and pay
ing no attention to the impassionate entreat-
les of the tramp in the tree above me. When
the chain was brought hooked one end of it
to Lord Edwards collar, and then took a
bring the tree agents book from the house,
called to that individual to get down from his
tree. He promptly obeyed, and taking the
book from Pomona, began to show the pic
lures to Euphemia.
You had better hurry, sir,'' Icalled out,
I" can't hold this dog very long" And in
deed the dog had made run toward the a.
gent, which jerked me very forcibly in his di-
rection. But movement by the tramp
brought the dog back TO his more desired vic
tim.
eff you will just tie up that dog sir, f" said
the agent, "and come this way, / would like
to show you the Meltinagua pear,-dissolves
| in the mouth like snow, air trees will bear
next year."
=" Oh, como look at the Royal Sparkling