San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1890-04-09
THE SPLENDID SPUR.
Being Memoirs Of the Adventures Of Mr..
John Marvel, a Serrunt Of His late
Majesty King Charles /, in the
years 1923: ,Oritten by himself
EDITED IN MODERN ENGLISH BY


lined with booths and shows and nigh blocked
with the crowd, for the reve began early and
was now i'll full swing And the crew of
gipsies, whitiers mOuntebankS, fortune tell
ers, cut purses and quacks mixed up with
honest country faces, beat even the rabble |
had seen at Vantage.
Now my own first business was with a
tailor; for the clothes | wore when | rode
into Temple, four months back, had been so
sadly messed with blood, and afterwards cut,
to free them from my wound, that now all
the tunic wore was of sack cloth, cOutrived
and stitched together by Joan. So | made
at once for a decent shop, where luckily |
found a suit to fit me, one taken the tailor
said off a very promising young gentleman
that had the misfortune to be killed on Brad
dock Down Arrayed in this, felt myself
again, and offered to take Joan to see the fat
woman.
We saw her, and the Ethiop, and the rh-
noceros (which put me in mind of poor An
thony KillGlAw), and the pig faced baby,
and the cudgel play, and presently halted be
fore Cheap Jack that was crying his wares
in prodigious loud voice near the town wall.
Twas mcager sharp visaged fellow with
a gray chin beard like a billygoat'S; and iaS
fortune would have it,, spying our approach,
he picked out Il mirror from his stock. and.
holding it aloft, addressed us straight:
What have we here" cries he, but pair
o lovers coming! and what i my hand but IA
lovers hour glass: Sure the stars Of heavn
must have a hand in this coHjuucture-and
only thirteen pence, my pretty fellow, for a
glass that Will tell the weather your sweet
hearts face. and nelp make it fine"
There were many country fellows with
their maids in the crowd, that turned their
heads at this address; and as usual the women
began.
'TiS Joan o the TORI
'Joan's picked up wi a sweetheart-tee-
Lee!-an' us rcckoned herd forsworn man
kindw
"WhO is he?"
Some furriner, sure, that likes garlick."
He's bought her no ribbons yet
How should he, poor lad, that can find no
garments upon her to fasten 'em too"
And SO on, with a deal of spiteful laughter.
Some of these sayings were half truths, no
doubt; but the truthfulest word may be in
felix. So, noting a dark flush on Joan's
cheek, | thought TO end the scene by taking
the Cheap Jacks mirror on the spot to stop
his tongue, and then drawing her away.
But in this | was a moment too late, for
just rs reached mp my hand with tho thr-
teen pence, ami the griuung fellow ON the
platform bent forward with his mirror, |
heard Il COHrarr jest, Il rush III the crowd and
two heads 20 crack! together like eggs.
Twas two Of Joan, tOrmentors She had taken
by the hair AM served 50; and, dropping
them the next instant, had caught the Cheap
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hands on hips, and waited for them to
come on.
Not a word had she sDokpn fir, n first to
last but stood no." with hot checks ard bosom
heaving Then, finding none to take up her
CHALLENGE. she stroll, ont throuo.h the folk
and after her, with the mirror in my hand;
while the Cheap Jack picked himself ont Of
the tub whining, and the astroloyer wiped
his long white heard and Soilrd rnba
Outside the throng was a carriage, STONED
for minute bv this tuunult, and a servant
at the horses heads. Bv the look Of i; twas
the coach of some person of quality. and