The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1891-09-27

his two assistants and the pilot were
promptly on hand, and at nine O'Clock we
were off. After the first two bottles his
grace took the wheel, Bessie observing oh,
he's all right, and will do for a couple Of
hours YETI Now. a couple Of bottles with
his grace means more than it sounds. be-
cause of late years he has been drinking
magnums and can easily get away with
three or four of them at sixty shillinRs a
mag. He was in q great humor that morn
ing, all smiles and mods, and making every
body feel at home, while Bessie played the
fine lady to- perfection. AT every
one of the dozen locks of the
he had aboard, made acquisitions to the
river houses. After we had gotten about
ten miles up the Thames, the summer of
the inc in all our VEINS we concluded not
to go to Windsor, as the champagne was all
gone and we had to make a landing to buy
some more. Indeed, his grace having de-
clared his intention of stopping at every
resort on the way back, it was unanimously
agreed that it was quite time to turn our
faces homeward. Our progress back was
simply a grand hurrah all the way down.
Every lock we got to his grace would amuse
himself by picking up the dead soldiers
and throwing them atthe bystanders on the
lock walls. We hadn't got more thai a
couple of miles homeward bound before the
W. ASts~ SNS AN~
act to us, for which one of them was
knocked into the lock by an empty bottle
for his pains.
kilograms we're sent ahead Of us ordering
all officers of her majesty to stop the
launch, and some of them, as it turned out
afterwards, actually accused US of having
abducted a lady from Raynor's. We had
stopped there a moment and Mr.. and Mrs.
Raynor had come aboard. The former
speedily acquiring that condition of ex-
uberance which actually led him to forget
whether he had a wife or not. There were
a lot of geraniums and potted plants in the
cabin, some of them four or five feet high,
a tropical garden by moving them up. In
their midst we sat and cracked magnums.
Raynor started to go ashore pretty soon,
but madame remained aboard, and laugh
ingly wondered. as the yacht steamed fu-
riously away, "Oh, what will my poor hus-
band say?" As it turned out the poor man
went nearly mad and fred a volley of tele-
This, l believe, was Mrs. Raynor's second
abduction by this same party.
The Raynor menials and the potboys in
attendance at neighboring public houses
organized a posse n pursued US in row
boats but We soon left them behind. Whom
we got to the next look we found to our
dismay that the kilograms caused it to be
shut against us, so the posse had no diff
cultyin catching US there. They were afraid
to come aboard and attempt to rescue so
they followed us on through the lock,
eagerly Selling and emptying the bottles of
wine with which they were vigorously pelted
from our decks.
Now the wine steward and the chef had
been s%tealthily assisting to empty the cham
payne bottles that were so Literally strewn
and our first intimatlon of it was
the discovery of the two engaged in a regu-
lar mill down in the cabin, quarreling over
a half empty magnum. A we'll known
sporting man in the party said, All, here's