Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1881-08-18

standing the pathetie con-
tanned in the letter. migf inssnen-
eed to take him alone. 4 cue elsa.
A little oger . week bsfor III Aime
Of their departure. be Jeff Is village.
ostensibly 70 % 10 Chica1 nd bus
tied into the bar-room of Sc sinn
just as the landlord was ting 10
for the busy night that pf As d BID
sale at the Scales. Morley bad heeS
taken care Of with the Is Al
adept by the inn-keepers iiH. and
/ DaTfon had. fanny lziEn is.s.tz several
I tsslss liz sa j h s.as Z.
ness. Just as his wicked heart desired
and she several excursions he had
made with him added their effect
On the evening in question, the poor
fellow was in a room on one end of
the hall leading from the eating room,
back ofthe bar, to the kitchen. Hewas
sitting on one side of the fireplace,
his head resting on his hands and
youth of distinctive, rustic appear
ance, on the other, reading or trying
to read, intent at any rate on single
leaf of printed matter, which he held
so as to get the light from the logs
that were blazing on the hearth. John
Grimes was the son of Pennsylvania
sheep drover and had come to market
with his fathers drove for the first
time and was by chance at the ''inn,
his fathers stopping place being over
full before his arrival, as was also the
other of the two accommodations"
and by direction Of the "Gretchin" Of
the last mentioned, he applied for lodg-
ings for himself and two "helps" where
We find him. Being johns FIRST adven-
ture from home, he was the subject Of
a budget of advice from his Mutter
that would have panied less bulky
head than arose above his shirt-collar,
which had the appearance Of being
one of the old lady's home-spun table
covers, doubled once to ft over the
broad turnover of his blue kersey
intention of coat; also the. evidence
of praiseworthy home-economy, which
she practiced to ''turn," while the
Water took good care of the farm, and
as was laudable in patriotic citizen
of the key stone State, kept an eye to
political economy by religiously in
dulging the royal prerogafive of fran
chise in casting his vote for General
jackson once in every four years at
least, if not oftener, since the year
1898. 1t was while laboring with a
big tooth comb" to bring Johns car
rotty pile to its Sunday -go-to-meet-
ing becomingness, the careful Mutter
delivered her budget, the repeated in
terruptions of Johns sudden, "ouch
jimminy + giving to the performance
the force of the explosive movement
in musical composition. After i'm
pressing upon him the Importance of
a good bargain, she warned him
against the roaring lion, supposed
to roar the loudest as a great CITY
came into view, and laid down partic-
ular instructions to escape being de-
voured, concluding as she stuffed the
capacious pockets of his kersey with
doughnuts and ginger-snaps and pinned
the flaps over to insure against loss.
There, now, Sohn. you pc ready for
der journey: Keep your Sunday
school behavior on; / put your last
catechism lessin in der left-west pock-
ct; look it over, Sohn, betwixt piziness;
1t viii keep your feet from aippin'
and your hand from mischief: mind
your own piziness, Sohn, and cum to
hum right side up" and with a kiss
from Mutter and reminder from
Water to keep a sure grip on the
check Judick was instructed to send
in payment for the drove, John stri-
ded on with lively whistle, feeling
equal TO the task set him. Though
heir to little farm well tiled, -
doubtless the sociableness ofthe singing
school had developed the aptitude in
herent IN the species for speculating
upon the prospect of a little wife
well willed, he was as innocent a
specimen of the genus homo as ever
set out on a journey Of business, and
admiringly green, as to the inno-
vation with which the "bov of the
period finds it necessary to the dig
nifty Of his "Piccadilly" to transform
the tender names Of father and moth
er into the more independent and high
sounding epithets, ''old woman" and
'old man. Johns treckled features
did not present any analogy to the
perfections of Apollo. unless it be the
absence Of beard, but he could CON-
pare q favorable record as sheep
tender, and if pressed, might disclose
latent qualities Of the spirit that ami
hilated the ugly Cyclops and marred
the beauty Of Midas. But a. he sat
there, laboring over his catechisrn bys
the blaze Of the FIRE, his rough sturdi-
ness Of eighteen winters would never
have been mistaken for hero in dis
guise. he was no beauty, except in
has mothers eyes, but what Is better.
had heart as fresh and untainted a.
the crystal springs that glshed out
from MS native hills. The still crouch
ing figure In the chair attracted his
attention. as he was hastled into the
room by Bridget, and from time . time
his eyes wandered from the page be-
fore him, and rested inquirincly On II.
The injunction Of the sunday school
behavior shaped itself into an inn
pulse to ask. 4 be was sick, his last
Bible lesson recurring to him, but the
command to mind his own business op-
Grated as check, and when Dayton
DuStied ln few moments later and