The comet. [volume] (Jackson, Miss.) 1877-1882, 1879-02-15
LORD ULLANs' DAUGHTER.
The Fact in the Case Set Forth !"
Humble Prose.

Oil City Derrick
A Chieftain TO the Highland bound,
cries. ''Boatman, do not tarry, and I'll
Give Won A dollar and half to row us
across the lake.
"Now, who DO ye would cross Loch~
| Gyle this dark a1d stormy night?" asked
the ferryman, with much curiosity.
"What is that to you, you bald-headed
snipe of the valley p replied the Ohieftain,
growing pale about the gills, IF l pay
you a good round sum for your services it
appears to me your interest in the matter
should end there Do you require the
pedigree of every man, woman or child you
take across in your Internal scow? If it
wasn't that I'm in hurry I'd smack your
laws for your impudence, but as it is, dis
| playing a handful of coin, 'as it is, Tn
the Chief of Ulva's Isle, and this--Lord
Ullans daughter. His horsemen hard be-
hind us ridG, and should they overtake us
here IN the glen it would go hard with us. "
Out spoke the hardy Highland wight,
while he unlocked his skitf and told them
to get in: ''Ill CO. my Chief, I'm ready;
but considering the t. rrible storm, | hope
Won will make it two pllals although, as a
matter of fact. do not venture forth for a
l
winsome lady. have been there TO some
extent myself, aud can appreciate the situ>
alton, so. by my word, the bonny bird in
danger shall not tarry. Sit little more IN
the middle to trim the boat, please, and
here we go.'
By this the storm grew loud pace, the
water wrath shrieking, and other things
looked most mighty dark. But still, as
wilder grew the storm, and as the night
grew drearier, adown the glen rodeat least
a dozen men, with old Ullan at the head
on a cream colored mule. ''Oh haste thee,
haste! the lady cries; ''though tempest
round us gather, I'll meet the raging storm.
but not my angry pa" So on they rowed
amid the roar of waters fast prevailing,
and when Lord Ullan reached the shore his
wrath was dreadful to behold. And no
wonder. For sore dismayed, through storm
and shade, he discovered his daughter out
in a boat with smile on her lip, and salt
spray in her eye, and both arms around her
lover. For a while it seemed that he would
take it out of his hired men and the cream
colored mule, as he declared he would have
the former beheaded as soon as he got
home, and the latter he was hammering
over the ears with a club. Presently he
took an another tack: come back! come
back" he cried, in grief, ''across the
stormy water, and I'll forgive your highland
boy, my daughter, oh, my daughter! and
also settle the bill with the ferryman."
But the young lady could not be caught
so easily, Neither could the young man
who told the ferryman to press on, and
then turning around in the boat, still keep
ing one arm about his sweetheart to pre-
vent her falling out, called to the old gen
tleman: "Much obliged for your kind in
vitation, my dear sir, but we will not come
back at present. You can expect us, how
ever, in the course of week Or ten Gays.
Till then adieu!" Lord Ullan called again.
Twas vain; the loud waves dashed the
shore; return, they wouldn't think of it.
In fifteen minutes they were on the other
side, the ferryman was wondering what he
would do with a twenty dollar gold piece,
and the young couple were inquiring the
way to the nearest justice of the peace