The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1892-10-16
/. AN EXPERIMENT.


IN its entirety we English did not know
how to pronounce. Tho nearest approach
we could get To it was Efilefechan but
theTe were many more consonnnts in it
and fewer vowcls. 1t was in what is now
called gallant little Wales" but tho
principality was not just then very
popular because of the Rebeccaites, and
this was especially the case with the
military, who were quartered in out of the
way spots, never intended for gay young
fellows to dwell in, in order TO restrain
these gentlemen of the road" from their
high handed proceedings.
why they were called after Rcbecca more
than any other lady | never knew. but
when engaged in their mission which WAS
to destroy turnpike gates they were nj
ways attircd in womcn's clothes Scnlr;es
were stationed ut these gates, of which
there were half dozen in the ncirhbor-
hood, ana every night it WIS the duty of
one of us subaltcrns to visit them. Tlcrn
were three of us, Brown, Jones and Roi.in.
son (mysclfl, who with the captain. Miles
and Maxwell, the surgeon, mad. nm n,,r
little mess
IL was the worst country quarters wc
had ever been in. With one execution
there were no gentry to entertain MS no
Rayety of any kind going on, and we were
thrown almost entirely on our own re-
sources, which, | must confess, were not
strong enough for the strain.
The country indeed was picturesque
enough when we could get out into it, but
the weather was habituully wet and the
rides ana walks over the mountains were
spoiled for us by "spatcs" and boys. More
over we were no' popular with the nntivcs
VINO wanted thoT roads free from toll and
syihpathilcd with the tchcccaitcs, and
whenever we spc,.r 10 them shook their
heads To imply quite falsely, which made
1t more disaglceab,c) that they could not
speak the English ioHguc.
Inc only country gentleman who was
our or-CUtN;tllaticr pryce-w;.s
unhapply II bachelor so that we were ;,b
solutely without female society of our own
class, and though lie was hospitality itself
he lived some miles away, and Tie incrcns.
ihH downponr generally prevented our e..-
JoylhS IL. Bat what did we do. il may be-
asked Wei. we nlbibed IL good deal OF
brahay ami SODA, and smoked more than
was good for lis, and played II great many
rubbers of such whist as would not be
thought highly Of at the Portland club.
we were, however, after /. fashion, scicn-
,iilc. Our captain WAS AN enthusiast about
mesimcrsm, and WIS never tired of lectur-
Ing on it and making the cxpsrilmcntum in
cWpore viii upon us subaitcrnS At that
of comm (.,.Iir, s,,,n,5.,i ''n So. e,;
stop, when the amateur rc,,rots tLn ro.sn..
sion of his ,,,,,;.. n,,,.o,S , $500. po,'.'
lively n new thinr TLc n,or,. ,I,..i,,,'',
stages OF what was almost considered Il
black art were unknown. Iiypnotism.
which, rs its name implies, Is to mcsmcr-
ism what sciatica is to lumbago, was not
dreamed Of and Miles made quite II scns,,-
ton among us.
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in command OF the pnrty which ,n,bc W.
rs clny to the uottrr hpt ,vn nil thron
event OFF, under his hands with once .nJ
were pronounced by him Tn Ia ,vh.t tho
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