Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-12-27

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 AT THE PALACE.
 stoop if the queen at the present had any use for her drawing room and if not would she mind if I did little drawing there.
 I sent my new engraved card with esquire at the end of the name, together with the message and sovereign. My card had attached to it note of intro duction from one of our embassy to London, n man whom l since learned has made good livelihood by claiming that he is an assistant ambassador or something of that kind. He told me all about London, and l believe now that he is q full born Englishman of the Artful Dodger variety.
 He told me that one evening. when studying the character of the cabman of London and spending a couple of hours with them at one of their ''shel- ters, which her most gracious majesty has provided for the cold and hungry cabman in all the principal streets, he stepped ont 10 take his own cab when pleading voice begged him in Gods name to give ride up the street to the end of Piccadilly.
 IIt lNll INNi lNl SUI III lllt At3lNNltulll of tho nasty night a rosy faced girl of 10 or 20. The night was chilling. and the picturesque mud of tho great city seemed to rise up cut of the earth and come down ont of the sky till the roads were like coppcras Cnlored glue.
 He opened the door and asked the fearful child to step in and look sharp" for ho was in a hurry. Look sharp is English for getting a move on one" They rode on for a mile, and be paused to let her out, but she craved drop of wGssail from a two quart beaker and seemed 10 show an affection for him that would indicate the love at first sight which Piccadilly makes speciality of.
 I'm sorry, me girl" he said, but your affection is not returned. While respect you, must tell you frankly l love another.
 May l only ask your name and ad- dress?" she said, with quivering chin and eyes all wet with tears, which hung on hor long lashes like morning dew on tho whiskers of tho waving corn. Then, with playful pat on his shoulder, she slipped from his breast pocket n letter on the outside of which his London ad- dress was written.
 With a girlish laugh she held it near the cab lamp to read it, but he was ir- ritated and rudely snatched it from her, tore it in two and threw it away. Her great blue eyes grew larger, and the color seemed to leave her face. Her bosom rose and fcil with tho checked pants which marked her heavy breath ing.
 "Oh, woe. woe!" sho walled in her sweet voice. that should have taken you for gentleman when you aro
 - fly up tho crick. Oh, why did leave me lugzurious one to Do hinsulted by a hlumin harse: Give me bob, CT Ill Il mash your at!
 He looked at her asllance and told the cabby to pause and let tho lady alisht. This bogus ambassador was always gentle and refined man, even though fraud. would rather be defrauded by him than cnteIta for an evening by some others l know.
 With that she blackened his eyo with her left, and with her right sho laid open his jaw with a seal ring she wore. Then she mashed his chimney pot hat over bis entire head and face, so that it E1CNGN Ali HIS NbAAslA LNAE anu AAlNAA tAA shriek that made every heart stand still within q mile.
 He was perfect gentleman, but he groped for her bonnet, tore it in two and threw it in the mud. He was naturally kindly man. but you could not prom enade up and down on his stomach with spiked shoes unless you could give him a plausible reason for so doing.
 Then tho poor girl walled again, so that in five minutes the cab was sur rounded, or at least the sidewalk next it was black with people, many of them women, who yelled Kill 'im!'' Burn i'm at the stake!'' '' E 'as torn hoff Ger at and cawst it hon the i'wayl" No body sympathized with the poor Samar- itan who gave her the ride.
 Ho saw the jail looming up bcfore him and gave up all hope. To kill time he paid his cahman and just then caught tho wink of another cabbic near him. This cIbbio motluncd the poor devil to slide out on the street side of cab and into cab ., which was easily done, as the No. wRs driven hub to hub with No. |.
 Then cabbie cut his horse in two with tho whip. and the bOohooing. mur- derous crowd found itself consisting largely of people named Mudd.
 The above incident occurred to a good friend of mine during his younger days. He was born in England and is the son of an admiral, but l agreed to put the story on another man, and cannot think of anybody who really deserves the prominence moro than this bogus em- bassador, whose true character shall Do forced to explain to her most gra- cious majesty or do my drawing sothe- where else.
 In my mail from America today find the following letter which has been following me about through the British possessions. 1t breathes such a gentle, kindly spirit in the midst of trouble and sorrow that I giveit place and reply here for which know that the reader with the alabaster brow the chlseled nose, the penciled nostril. the rich mass of shimmering hair and the bewitching eye will forgive me. Plain people with