The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1881-01-07
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FRANK AND FEARLESS
ai ID. VI. S.


:Oh! Mr.. Frank, what anu | to do with
those folks in the public room?
Thus Widow Jones, in tears, to a
dashing looking young fellow, who was
drinking glass of ale in her own com
partment or bar parlor at the King 5
Head Hotel and posting house, Watley.
whats the matter, my excellent host
ess? Who are those people and what
are they doing7'
Thus Frank Curtis, the aforesaid dash
ing young gentleman-a sub-Lieutenant
in the navy--H. M. S. Smasher-ashore
on leave.
We'll, sir, it's lot of-gentlemen
they call themselves; ] call them black
guards-who come at Fair time from
Birmingham, and they get drinking too
much, and then throwing the things
about as they are now. Listen, sir, at
the noisy brutes.
How many are there of them?'
'Oh, ten or eleven
We'll, then, you go to the public
room again, and say there is gentle
man in white waistcoat down stairs,
drinking glass of beer, who desires you
to present his compliments to the gen
tlemen in your public room, and to ac-
quaint them that, unless they conduct
themselves in an orderly manner by the
time he has finished his glass of ale he
shall be under the necessity of turning
them all out of the house
Worthy Mrs. Jones was unwilling::to
expose her handsome, free-handed young
guest to rough usage, but what could
she do? Her own son at market, the no
tel was lonely, and. In fact, the noise
of another breakage coming opportune
ly to the rescue, the good ladys fears fol
her property outweighing her fears fol
her FRIENDSHIP fastened up stairs and de
livered the message entrusted to her il
as imposing manner as she could.
AS might be expected, half score o,
half inebriated gentlemen from Bir
mingham,' irritated at the hostess for re
fusing to serve them with more liquor
laughed to scorn amessage which seemed
to them like idle vaporing.
Tell the gentleman with the white
wastcoat, who is drinking a glass of ale
that when he has quite finished his glass
of ale, if he will step up here he shal
have his head knocked against the
wall
Having received the enemy's reply
Mr. Frank cody finished the glass o.
ale, and then, with much deliberation
proceeded to the public room, which hay
ing quietly entered, he closed the door
behind him. But before doing so, he
had very carefully divested himself of 9
very fashionably cut blue surtout coat.
When the apparit!on of Il fair-haired
blue eyed, open-faced, broad-chested
stalwayt young gentleman of three and
twenty or thereabouts, clad in a snowy
vest and spotless linen, first made its ap
pearance, and when it noiselessly glidec
up the apartment, somehow it appeared
that it wasn't at all the sort of thing tn,
gentlemen from Birmingham had beer
used to or in any way expected,
| Good evening, gentlemen, begar
Frank, lam informed by the landlady
that some gentleman present sent a mes
sage to the gentleman in Il white waist
coat, who was drinking glass of beer
that it he would come up here AS soon a
he had finished his glass of beer h.
should have his his head knocked agains
| the wall. | am the gentleman in tn
white waistcoat, as you see. Win th
gentleman who was, kind enough to ia
yor me with the polite message be b