The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1878-11-29

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men in the evenin' to get pints about
Europe-and that-and getting little
money raised on my ife-insurance, /
showed her through. And here We is.
Clipper and first-class-all through
that is, Loo is !"
But $3.50! And Rome, and Naples,
and return? You can't do it'll"
He looked at me cunningly mo-
ment. "Kan't do it! I've done it?"
"Done it?"
"Wall, about the same, reckon !;
I've figgered it out. Figgers don't lie.
1 amt no Cooks tourist; / can see
Cook and give him pints. 1 tell you
I've fingered it out to a cent, and I've
money to spare. OF course, 1 don't
reckon to travel with Loo. She'll go
first-class. But I'll be near her, if it's
in the steerage of 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 l
had in the engine-room, when they
chucked me out of it?"
/ could not help looking at him with
astonishment; there was evidently only
a pleasant memory in his mind. Yet 1
recalled that 1 had felt indignant for
him and his daughter.
"Well, that - fool of Dutchman,
that chief-engineer, gives me a job the
other day. And eff / hadn't just forced
my way down there, and talked sassy to
him, and criticized his macheen, he'd
hev never knowed a eccentric from a
wagon-wheel. Do you see the pint?"
thought l began to see it. But l
could not help asking what his daugh-
ter thought of his travelling in this in
ferior way.
He laughed. "When I was gettin'
up some pints from them books of travel
/ read her a proverb or saying outer
one O. them, that 'only princes and
fools and Americans travelled first class.
You see L told her it didn't say
women for they materially would ride
first-class-and American gals, being
Princesses, 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 by
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.
odd l tell ye," he said, cautiously
looking around, yet with smile of sti-
oil Ia, II IL
we what that gal-my darter-sed to
me? No, I didn't tell ye-nor no one
else afore. Come here!"
He made me draw down closely into
the shadow and secrecy of the round
house.
"That night that I told my gal she
could go abroad, L seq to her, quite
chipper-Gke and free, I say, Looey,'
seq L, yell be goin' for to marry some
o. them Counts, or Dukes, or poten-
tates, reckon, and yell leave the old
man. And she SEE, seq she, lookin' me
squar in the eye-did We ever notiss
that gals eyer"
She has fine eyes," I replied, eau
tiously.
"They is ez clean ez fresh milk-pan
and ez bright. Nothin' sticks to 'em.
Eh?"
"You are right"
well, she looks mp at me this way"
here he achieved vile imitation of his
daughters modest glance, not at all like
her, "and, looking at me, she seq quiet
ly, That's what I'm goin' for, and to
improve my mind He! he! he! It's
a fack! To marry noblenan and i'm
prove her mind Ha! ha! hal"
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 confding them
to strangers ear, again upset all my
theories. I.may say here that it is one
of the evidences of original character,
that it is apt to battle all prognosis from
a mere observers standpoint. But l
recalled it some months after.
We parted in England. 1t is not nee
essary, in this brief chronicle, to repeat
the various stories of "Uncle Joshua"
as the younger and more frivolous of
our passengers called him, nor that two
thirds of the stories repeated were ut
terly at variance with my estimate of
the man, although, l may add, was
also doubtful of the accuracy of my
own estimate. But one quality was al
ways dominant-his restless, logged
pertinacity and calm imperturbability
He asked Miss Montmorris if she
minded singin' little in the second
cabin to hven it up, and added, as an in
ducement, that they didn't know good
music from bad," said Jack Walter to
me. "And, when he mended the broken
lock of my trunk, he abtholutely pro-
pothed to me to athk Couthin Grath if
thee didn't want 'koorier to travel
with her to do mechanics provided
thee would take charge of that dread
fully 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 adieu
on the steamer.
L am afraid he was 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
regarding the fare of his daughter, the
cabman retaining distinct impression