New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-13
A STORY OF A COSY.

daresay YOU cosv b5t this is how it was My sister
Fila is woman Of an ingenious turn OF mlhu, anu
clever; and when we sa,d 70 me- af tea one even
once in the county, BLU 0"i" " -O Nv WV
ing:
ANTONY. We must have cosy
Nonsense said; what silly eApenSo'
what expense Y said she.
10 buy stuff for COSY ,,...
.I don;t want any stuff she said and after tea
she brought out her large scissors ara neWspspv.
md soon sewod together o capital cosy tnat an
severed it's purpose perfectly all the time we WERE
away. Every evening as we sat at Yea oriSo
mspts on this cosy for it was the outside sheet OF
IIe Times that Eliza had happened on, as our
Wcii used to lead out these different notices
ona Mt first Eliza stood them pretty well and we
used to talk what we would 40 y rnnaT
made MS n present of ono of the 'ellglDle proper
iss' advertised Tor SALE though these, of course
were on the back of the cosy Pnt II l. ha C tnS
Co"mn as they call it, with its odd appeals to
different letters Of the alphabet to come back ana
be forgiven by their aes 4Nse Strange entertain
ments always going on in London ana these anu
the agony used to read OUT again anu Sih
monotonously till Eliza really got lrritatea MhlGn
ia not a cInmOn thing with her under ordinary CIR
oumstances Then there were adyertlSements on
people changing their names lone JOhn betel WHO
had changed his namo to Hare. remember. espocl-
aiiy used to aInuse us) and then there were adIer
tisements for next of kin, and lost property anu
d" Veil seI AZ think said my sister is ingenious
woman and always told her SO ana u. hSe 20 70
ad6
firing of young John Whiting T. whom she was
misunderstanding him, as used to say ana once ice
1vhon We were in DevonShire at little Inn, anu we
,yeIe asked if we should like hook and line
whiting we both laughed so that was oOlgeu W
explain to the astOnshed seryant,gI tnae my S'o OF
and had n funny Joke connected with the name OF
Wbiting saw Young John Whiting. because ne is
young TO me- being only twenty-eight, wDile I'M
we'll I'm good deal more than that' as any one ni"'
TO begin with, before telling you about the cosy,
I must tell you something about ourselves MY
fynnh ~
lawyer down in HeItfOrdshre, and there we ali
lived till l came to London to follow my PROFESSION
there. We were only three ehlGGe lore coes WaS
who went out at sixteen to Canada ana Eliza Is 81
course the youngest faf obg u Wbng has often
told ma John was one of the first acquaintance
William made out in Canada, John having , Deen
was only eleven when William left, believe he
thought more of leaving her than OF my Iatner OF
mother OF me. Well he used TO tax aooat US al
10 vonpp John for John was coming to settle mere
inst as William had out there, and he would olteh
say to John: If only my sister turns OUT JuSt s9S
Sweetest women ON earth John says he couldn't
helm getting rather interested in hearing about her.
NV brother used to talk SO much OF her. - LIN
Well years went by, and the time cams lor 1oIn
IN leave of course he brought letter from " Ill
lam and he acknowledges that he was half in love
sidn't need TO think twice when he did see her;
he was quite knocked down Mt once BEFORE ne Ieit
the first time he asked Il ne mgnt cal! a9dn D nHe
feIIny and Thought very likely he wanted friends
here so didn't discourage him; ana so-weli, ne
asked me in a very straightforward way very soon III
Eliza was engaged or likely TO he. and said no
and he asked then If. time went on ne GOT on ~
his business 10 might n9 rS %sSv 70 happy couple they
WERE though when they were likely W po MAJ
no one could tell. as they hadn't a hundiea year
That brings me back to my father When he
died. having only outlived my mother SIX months,
Eliza came up to live with me; and then IL was
that fonnd that my father had put the bulk OF us
money in one OF those swlndiing companies tnaV
was then down at zero ana soon dsnand p on NV
EARNINGS which were. and are, small enough
Heaven knows But we managed 70 Iup alOns
and Eliza never complained; she Is o halu, Work
ing girl and good sister, and clever, as thinK
told you ,oco, falling
Won whom we had the cosy. Not more happy than
usual. but just part OF time when we lived very
t0gtasT to look rather black John
heioe engaged to Eliza, of course what anecteo nm
aaoofed us. Well, the principal partner IN , inc
THINGS began to change. This old partner was the
enc who had been IN Canada anu nta k N bSm
t, family IL h ana y sT the younger men didn't
know so much about him, and thonsht only Oh ln9
fact that the elder maus interest had a
mere c,crk. And So after falling out with him
abont one or two trivial matters, they began TO ma
that IL would he greatly to the advantage OF the
firm II one of their superuous clerks as they sad
were TO 60 out to their house in Canada.
he first John
il meant and lac was dreadfuy put out about II =;
but being conscientious, stralghtiorWaru Ieliow
he wasn't going to deceive us, and so ne came ~
once and told us abOnt 1t, ADDING, unwhnhgy
cnoyci, that IL ne had thought the post was likely
to prove O permanently good one, he snonIu nay
nm as his wife But from tho partners seeming
set against him, he thought II quite posslDle uat
they might get rid of him altogether ana tns AZ
rather than run tho risk of taking Eliza out 70
poverty he would GO alone II he could neat t OF
nothing else here and hope for Eliza TO come out 10
him II and when he was settled. ,,...
must say thought this very good and Thought
full of him. aud very different from what many
selfish yonng man would V sbont it. Tor indepe
IDENTIFY of every thing else Johns visits were great
pleasure and solace to us; and II he went away
everything seemed so very uncertain.
Eliza boIe II very well. At first when John told
us she said InSAed, poverty or not she'd go any
%sJS wlsh OF me OOknS at eT and then
pose she thought what it would he LOT me 10 lose
her aud then. Just that once she broke gown aito
cethcr; but il was soon over, ana Sne salu noInne
Well the next time John came the first thing we
did was to ask him If he had heard anything ABOUT
CANADA He told us then that he had heard n0tn-
ing: but he soon did and as 1T seemed quite nope
less 10 think of his finding any better opening mere
We ali thought he ought TO go and so 1t was set
tied There was an interval OF six months from the
time II was all decided till he had to leave Eng
land and really il all seemed miserable and we
hardly over managed tOtalk of anything else, that
almost wished it we've not so long. -,
Very soon after fhiS-I mean after IL was all ar,
raneod--it was a Sunday evening and John had
como in us usual 20 sit with us, and after we had
finished tea ana drawn near tic hre' Johh sud-
denly said:
think before leaving ought to tell youEinoee3 ne
added speaking TO both OF us, = tn'hK ought 10
have told you long ago. , 80. -. r
Here be stopped and I said, Nothing serious. l
hope! 49,, ;
Il hops it's no fresh misfortune, John, sad.
no. said no. ITS no fresh misfortune It's re-
snecting nv family. You never asked me anything
about them. except about my father, and never