The daily Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1878-1???, 1882-12-31

| neart tnr0DDed with sensation or Joy
so acute as TO be wel-nigh pain, and he
was ever after wont TO declare that
never until that moment had he even
dimly realized the depth Of bliss COM
prsed in those simple words, AT
homer
Long ere the cart came to stand
still before the gates, the hall-door was
flung open wide.
'Oh! it's only the carriers cart, y
cried fresh young voice in dsappoint-
ed tones, as a tall 1.-the figure turned
away.
but, Edie, Edie it is |. Dick, ncried
Carlisle, stumbling to his feet, labelled
This side upwards! Vauable--wth
care' So don't hustle off in that fash
ion. old girl, before you've given fell
low kiss"
Dick, Dick is it possible? Mamma,
girls, Dick is here! Oh, you dear old
boy, we've been so terribly anxious all
the afternoon; we expected you hours
ago. and when you failed to appear, we
could but pray you had not started
lest you should be lost in the snowl
But reinforcements had arrived from
within doors ere this .peroration was
concluded. Dick ran far chance,
seemingly, of enduring death by stran-
gulation or sulfocation after all, for no
sooner was his neck released from one
pair of soft feminine arms, than he
found himself embraced by another,
and Rugged with alarming ferocity.
"Hulloa. hulloa.' quOth the CHEEKY
rector. as he emerged from his study
beyond, hearing joyous voices raised in
1r,Sr In hn n
smother the lad, Nellie, Edie, Katie?
seeing that he has had narrow escape,
| take it, of perishing in snoW-drift,
for Heavens sake spare him to enjoy
his Christmas plumb pudding once more,
at any rate. Dick, my boy. how are
you? Come in, and let us close the
door"
But-Dick explained that the Burn
ham carries had yet another precious
human parcel within their cart de-
handing even more careful delivery.
"Details anon, dear girls | reserve
the history Of my Christmas EYES adj
venture. The first thing to be done
now is to see to my late companion in
adversely, certain luckleSs cabby, who
| has Jared even more diSastrously than
|. Let us minister to his comfort, and
| then--oh for the dear old ilreside
and merry Christmas to you all, say
L."
Neither were Tom and Bill, the stur.
dy carriers, forgotten, the reader my be
sure. They went off rubbing theil
hands in high glee assuring one anoth'
er confidentially, under their breaths
that they could but intreat high HEAVIER
to send them "mony moor jist SuCl
Chrissermas Ewes, tn likes O which, i
tn way o. a job, had never been heert
tell on afore,"
The latter part of which sentiment
those within the snug vicarage wall!
very heartily re-echoed when Dick be-
gan to unfold his narrative as he
phrased it, with duly important air
seated in luxurious armchair, Will
his legs stretched out towards hlazin.
fire; one of 1.-THE girls" perched like at
tendant nymphs on either side, hii
mother hastily brewing mulled claret al
the table, the vicar seated opposite,
wearing, if possible, on his rubicund
features even a more genial expression
than his won't
Cabby had been previously housed in
the back kitchen, where Martha, with
Sarah James assistance, had made him
up luxurious imprOmptu bed, and, as
he had already shown signs of complete
recovery under combined influences OF
warmth, ease and copious refreshment,
ii is but fair to conclude that ere long
! he too WAS treating the kitchen c0mpa'
ny to different--and probably highly
r colored--version of the same facts
| wherewith Dick was meanwhile regal
| ing the alIectionate circle gathered,
open-mouthed, around him in the coy
| parlor beyond.
But at first only general outline of
the nights adventure was practicable,
for Dick was too exhausted, over eXcit-
ed, and generally spent. to talk much,
or indeed do more than reply to third
of the breathless questions poured
forth by the girls with remorseless en-
ergy; but after supper, when he began
to feel like lion refreshed. he recon-
menced his story, and gave it with CO.
| p0us annotations, the vicar declared,
smiling albeit a suspicious moisture
glistened meanwhile in the old mans
eye. for he could not fail to recognize
the terrible jeopardy in which the life
so nestimably precious to them all had
been placed throughout long hours,
scarce more than stones throw from
their own door,