Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-09-28

bush here and there, and occasionally a herd
of deer walking across it I have been
farming down at the Cape, and SO, you see,
quiet, pretty place like this is very pleas
Il should think It is quiet enough farm
iEg there" the landlord said. ST have
heard from folk who have been out in some
of those parts that you often haven't q
neighbor nearer than four miles away"
"That's true enough, landlord, but the
life is not always quiet for all that It's not
quiet, for instance, when you hear the yell
Of hundred or so savages outside your win
dows, or see party driving half your cattle
away into the bush"
"No, shouldn't t call that quiet; and that
is what you have been doing?"
Eyes, was in the disturbed part when
the Kafirs rose. Most of our neighbors
were killed, and we had hard time of it,
but some mounted police came up Just at
the time. I have had trouble three or four
times before, and it's no use going on for
years rearing cattle if they are to be all
swept away by the natives, and you are run
ming the risk of getting your throat cut in
the bargain; 50, after this last affair, / locked
up my farmhouse, drove off what cattle I
had got left, and sold them for what could
get for them, and here am"
eyes. here you are" repeated the land
lord; "and what next?"
''The ship touched at Plymouth, and I
thought might as well get out there as
anywhere else. Well, there is too much
noise and hustle at Plymouth. I haven't
been used to it, and SO now am Just look
ing for little place to suit me. I have
been up to Tavistock, and then some one
said that Carnesford was pretty village.
said would look at Carnesiord, and so
you see here am"
"What sort of place are you looking
for?" the landlord asked, looking at his
visitor closely, and mentally appraising his
worth.
'Oh, quite little place, should say
could get girl to help from the village, and
could live for another eighty. That's about
what I could afford"
"Oh, yes, I shonld say you could do that
said the landlord, thoughtfully, shut I
don't know that there is any such place to
let anywhere about here. There is nice
cottage at the other end of the village just |
empty. It's got good garden, and is rather
away from the rest of the houses; but the |
rent is only half-a-crown o week. That |
wouldn't do for you"
"Well, wanted something better than |
that; but still might have look at 1t. Of |
course if took it I should want to stay, and |
I might as well spend little money in doing |
it up to my fancy as pay the extra rent. By |
the way, my name is Armstrong. Perhaps |
you wouldn't mind putting on your hat and |
showing me this place you speak of. We |
have been used to roughing it, and don't
want anything fne."
The cottage was certainly large and |
roomy, and stood in pretty garden. But |
its appearance was not prepossessing, for it
Uttered from most of the other little houses
IN the village, inasmuch as it was not. like
hem, half hidden by roses and creepers
climbing over it.
eyes, it's rough, decidedly rough" " Mr..
Armstrong said; ''still there is a pretty view
lown the valley. Now, I should save
learly a14 in rent by taking this instead of
lp veranda round it, touch up the win
lows somehow, and put pretty paper on the
walls, should say that at the end of two
ears il would stand me in Just the same.
That and plenty of roses and things would
make it pretty little place. Who is the
andlord?"
'The landlord is Mr.. Carne, ND at the
Hold. That's the big house on the hill.
sut he is away at present Mr.. Kirkland,
lawyer at Plymouth, is his agent, and
ees to the letting of his houses and that
ort of thing. His clerk comes over once a
lonth to collect the rents. expect YOU
ould have to 90 to him even If Mr.. Carne
as at home. Squire was never much down
, the village in the best of times, and we I
ave hardly seen his face since his sisters
eath."
"Yes, they were telling rs about that
fair at Plymouth" the colonist said,
uietly, cit was bad business. Well. I
ave you got some pretty sociable sort of ,
llows. in the village? like . chat a.
ell as any man, and I should want some
,e to talk to.