Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1881-01-08
Z BY EDWARD r. cAHILL.


and Charles arm stole insensibly round
well, where nature intended that 1t should.
1t was pleasant to have some support on
that rough road, and Charles heart began
to bump ana thump in sympathy with the
chuck holes they passed over.
oh, Mr.. Gould, please take your arm
away 2" but she could not let go the reins,
for, in fact. the horses might run away,
and that would be even more embarrass-
ing Charlie felt curious kind of choking
sensation, as il he had suddenly lost the
power OF utterance, but he managed to
stammer out:
" Gertie, darling l love you -
At this moment a long-eared hare or
jackass rabbit, as it is called, jumped
across the road, just under the horses
noses. They naturally resented so imper-
tinent an encroachment on their right of
way by such an ill-bred, long-eared thing
as that, and making, as though such a
slovenly, unhandsome quadruped offended
their gentility, snort and shy that near.
ly upset the buggy, they started on hard
run. Gertie completely lost control of
them, and Charlie hastily grabbed the
reins. Throwing his weight on the lines,
he took steady pull with all his force, and
gradually brought the team into subjec-
ton, after a miles hard running and
/ grievous iolting then turning to look at
the lady, he found she had tainted What
an awkward situation for retiring young
man There was no order of BUSINESS pre-
scribed by the parliamentary manuals to
be pursued in such cases, and the books of
social etiquette were disgracefully INSULT.
Gent for the emergency. Charlie had
heard that gently titillating the nose with
a feather was sovereign in such cases, but
unfortunately he was biped without
feathers, or he would gladly have emulated
the pelican. Water was also indicated as
remedy, but water is not plenty on Cali
fornia roads, and he dreaded the wrath to
come for spotted and furnished silk, or
whatever other material you viii, ladies'
Pray dress her to suit yourselves, and
don't mind the cost, or look for bargains
He pulled up the horses, glad enough now
to ease their painting sides, and he thought
he would just hold her pulse until she
came to. 1t had an air of profound medi,
cal knowledge, and could not do any
harm. He was beginning to think
that, by way OF further treatment,
kiss might be as efiicacious as
anything else, and it might do him good,
too, when, with long sigh, she woke up.
She gazed around her with half-dazzled,
half-wandering look, and suddenly she re-
allied the situation.
"Have 1 been fainting: On, Mr..
Gould, I am so much ashamed, but was
so frightened, Please, don't tell anyone.
COT course not. 1 hope you feel all
right, now 2" said Charlie, feeling much
relieved that nothing fatal had resulted.
He thought the machinery of which a
woman is constructed is so complicated
and so little governed by rule, that there
was no telling in what embarrassing posi-
ton he might find himself, if only once it
went wrong. He felt like little boy
with frework that won't go off, afraid to
be too particular in his attentions, lest it
might blaze up in his face, and at the same
time disguised with its unaccountable be-
havior.
Has anything happened? Is anything
broken she asked.
"No, guess not. The springs are all
right, notwithstanding the chucl1holes. and
the harness is new and well cared for "
D." Well, she said, "let us get on, before
the others come up. 1 hate to be known
as the heroine of an adventure.
IAN right. Get up" This to the
horses, may OBSERVE THAT last squirt
put US away ahead of them.
ooh, I don't suppose they are in any
hurry. I can't see them any where, said
she, looking through the glass on the back
of the top.
Yes, they have just turned the corner,
and are coming along nicely"
Don't you think we have got about far
enough she asked. 1--WE shall have a
splendid view of the bay from here.
81 guess it viii do" he answered
that is, If you don't mean to go to the
top. I will look about for the next con-
venient camping place by stream OF
water.
They had been gradually ascending the
ragged sides of Tamalpais from below
the tinkle of the cow-bell foated softly up
to them on the breeze with little other
noise to mar the stiffness of the summer
air, save those mysterious sounda which
Mother Nature voices. Below them lay
the broad sheet of the glistening bay Of
San Francisco, speckled with many a
white-winged argosy, and lending Its out
line to fantastic, picturesque curves. The
pearly smoke of the city hung in mid air
ike a gray curtain, wrapping in its hay
folds the busy haunts OF men.
There What do you think of that
tree?" said Charlie, pointing with his
whip to a patriarchal oak lfestOoned with
hoary moss that hung with venerable
aspect to the ground very Samson OF
the wilderness, unshorn.
Il think that viii do admirably, she
said" that is, If it suits the others but
I see it has been used for the same purpose
before"
Eyes. civilization is represented by a
broken champagne bottle, and l see torn
copy of the Trumpet that has been put to
the base use of wrapping sausage. I'm
perial Cesar put to keep the wind away
from the savory growth of Bologna. After
! all the world is very small"