The Dillon tribune. [volume] (Dillon, Mont.) 1881-1941, 1885-09-19
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address behind me, % for three blessed !
weeks might roam an undsputed lord Of |
myself. Three weeks were not very many
to take out Of tho dfty-two, but they wero
all could venture to give myself; for even
ct that time my practice, II not so lucrative
% could wish, was large and increasing
one. Having done twelve-mouth's hard
work, felt that no one in the kingdom
could take his holiday with q conscience
clearer than mine, 30 lay back in Pc
culiarly contented frame Of mind, and dis
counted the coming pleasures of my brief
respite from labor.
There are many ways of passing a holiday
many places at which it may be spent,
joy 1t, there is but one royal rule to be fol-
lowed. That is, SIMPLY to please yourself
60 where you like and mount the innocent
holiday hobby which is dearest to your
heart, let its name be botany, geology, en-
tomology, conchology, venery, piscation, or
what not Then you shall be happy, and
return well braced up for the battle Of life.
knew city clerk with literary tastes who
invariably spent his annual fortnight among
the mustiest tones OF the British museum,
and averred that his health was more benc-
fitted by 80 doing than II he had passed the
time inhaling the freshest sea breezes
dare say he was right in his assertion.
Sketching has always been my favorite holi-
day pursuit. Poor as my drawings may be,
nevertheless, Us turn them over in my port
folio, they bring, to me at least, vivid re-
membranes Of many sweet and picturesque
IONS 1t is not for me to say anything of
their actual merits, but they are dear to mo
for their associations.
This particular year went to North Wales
and made Bettws Coed my headquarters.
STAYED at the Royal Oak, that well-known
little inn, dear to many I'm artists heart, and
teeming with "reminiscences Of famous men
who have sojourned there times without
number. 1t was here l made the acquaint-
ance Of the man with whose life the curious
events am going to narrate are connected.
On the first day after my arrival at
Bettws my appreciation Of my liberty was
50 thorough, my appetite for the enjoyment
of the beauties Of nature SO keen and insa-
table, that went SO far and saw so much,
that when returned to the Royal Oak night
had fallen and the hour of dinner had long
passed by. was, when my own meal was
placed ON the table, the only occupant Of the
col1ee-room. just then a young man entered
and ordered something to eat. The waiter
knowing, NO doubt, something Of the frank
camaraderie which exists. or should exist,
between the followers Of Melpomene, laid his
cover at my table. The newcomer seated
himself, gave mo pleasant s,nile aud nod
and in five minutes we were in full swing Of
conversation.
The moment my eyes fell upon the young
maa had noticed how sngularly handsome
he was. Charles Carriston--for this found
afterward to be his name-was about =
years Of age. He was tall, but slightl,
built, his whole bearing and figure beins
remarkably elegant and graceful. He looket
even more than gentlemanly-he looked dis
tinguished. His face was pale, its feature.
well cut, straight and regular. His fore
head spoke Of high intellectual qualities, an.
there was somewhat of that development
over the eyebrows which phrenologists. I be
ieve, consider as evidence of the possession
of Imagination. The general expression o