Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1879-01-29
''Can't help your"
"Oh lOr-no. Sit still and be hap


"Ohl lor-no. Sit still and be hap
py." s.. 4a
But the cabs all one side"
cit won't 60 over"
"Where's my box?'
"Thats pretty. straight-its froze up
there perpendikley." And SO it had,
too! e
With all her fright, she laughed quite
sudden at this, and [ was glad to see her
in better spirits. .sh. 2asa
"Do you know, think you've done
your best to find Mrs. Botherton's."
g Pom my soul, have!" 4a4s
e. '"Then won't cry any more. I'll try
and bear up-but oh! dear, what a
dreadful place London is" ','s re-
''This bit of it isn't lively, certainly.
Do you mind putting that wilnder up?'
"Why?" ..9 -.-..
"Cos you'll catch your death of cold;
and Pm going to run to the corner
of the street to see if I can find any
body" ar 4-.o. rs. ba1. .... s..
"You won't be very long, Mr. Cab
MANI" esd aa1ai.staag e.... ..
"Why?" rs
Because don't feel safe in this dark
street without you"
! Cor bless you, almost the first Bob
by you meet will tell you you're safer
without me, by long chalk" ~.
"The first what?
ooh! never mind. What gal you
a:e to ask questions. I'll be back IN
five mlnnits. You won't find anybody
about tonight, I'm sure"
81 hope not. But don't be long
away" "a. q. ...as E
1t was odd for this country lass to be
anxious about me, or for anybody to be
anxious about me, for the matter Of that.
| hadn't had soul to care for me, be-
lieve in me, say good word for me for
fifteen years or more-l don't say 1t
wasn't my falkland the idea of any
one wanting to see me again after had
even turned my back upon 'em-more
pertikler q fare-was most astonishing.
went away, thinking Of this; stopped
at the corner of the next street to think
of it again. I came back, without find
ing anything but half-built houses, scat
fold poles, snow and frost, but / thought
of it all the way to the cab and Mary
Daykin. That was her name, l found
out soon afterward, and very pretty
name it is. l-. - - ~
l found Mary Daykin and the cab on
one side, and the horse anyhow, just as
[ had left the three of them. She had
been looking out for me, too.
! "Oh! What time you've been
away" she said.
| "Of all the Internal roads and streets
of all the"
please don't sweat" said Mary,
only take me to Mrs. Botherton's
Lauristina House, Circum-" -.
Il shall swear orful, if you mention
that beastly Terris again. Can't you
sleep?'. ....-r5 --...s -. .....
ooh dear no." i7a" 49,. ..... -.....,.t
/ "Then come out of the cab, and I'll
| see if l can move it." ..a. 1a. E
Mary did so. a- .aaog ..5r
| "Shall l take the horse out of the
shafts ?" she asked "a. a.
"You!"
az understand horses. My poor
father was coachman at York before
he died." ~.
"Was he though? Almost in my
line eh?"
He drove the bus for the Biffin
| HOTEL Tor ten years. ...
81 drove bus once"
| drove into gentleman's carriage,
and peeled the veneer and varnish off
to the tune of six pounds four, and was
sacked at moments notice, too. but I
did not tell her that. All that was in
my happy days, afore 1 took to rum.
"How strange" she said, "Ah! my
| poor father was very much respected"
wasn't. But did not tell her that
either
[ made dash at the cab, and a
wrench at the front wheels. [ gave a
sudden plunge with my whole body at
| the vehicle, and, crash, crash, the fore
wheels came of the axle-tree, and the
whole thing was smashed up and done
for. Itkept it's upright position, though
| it looked more like Bath chair than
a four-wheeler, and the girls box stuck
on the roof hard and fast, which was
the only thing about the frost that
night that there was anything to be
grateful for. e.a 81 .ft
ooh! my-oh! the poor horse!" said
Mary Daykin. @-. n.#"g
Not that there was anything the mat
ter with the poor horse, except weak
hess and cold in the stummick; he
wasn't hastonished; he was dead and
| deaf to all emotion; he didn't even look
round to see what had happened; he
might have been wondering what had
become Of his nose bag, which I had
| forgotten was under the seat till that
moment. - o.. w.. a....a.... ....
| "Whats to be done now?" said
Mary. s.l. a5 e ...
! 'tThere was the rub down." as the
man says at the theayter. The position
was getting mixed. What was to be-
come of me and especially of Mary
Daykin, I couldn't quite make out. =
"Can't you think of anything to do ?"
suggested Mary Daykin piteously.
"Well if you'll allow me to get out of
hearing, and have darned good swear,
think I might pull my faculties to-
gether.'
"Oh, don't talk like that" said Mary;
"what good will that do ?"
:'I've found it answer afc1e now"