Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1894-02-22

MS Iam1ly place and his ShootingS, he
tells me; but thorough gentleman,
every inch of him By the way, Moxon.
don't call him Mister McCleverty again.
'Of course, he said nothing, but could
see that he didn't like it. He is The
McCleverty. you know"
Saxby has habit of kindly setting
me right upon minor points of ETH
quette which 1 confess that 1 don't
relish. However. I took the rebuke
good-humoredly, feeling that had,
perhaps. deserved it, and promised to
address his friend as ''McCleverty" for
the future. We were staying the night
at Saxby's house, after having shot his
coverts during the day-such being the
recognized custom in our rather re-
mote country, where distances are con-
siderable and the roads none too good.
Our Scottish fellow guest, who had
shot better than any of US, and with
whom l had had some little converse
ton in the course of the afternoon, had
pleased me by his courteous manners,
which, if trifie condescending, were
nevertheless friendly and unaffected.
He was, l presumed. one of Saxby's
London acquaintances. SaXby, upon
the strength of having married the
daughter of an Irish earl, is rather apt
to give himself the airs of man of
fashion and goes up to London a few
weeks every season-a luxury which
some of us can't afford in these hard
times, and which. dare say, makes the
wives of some of us slightly Jealous of
Lady Emily.
When l went up to bed / found my
own wife toasting her toes before the
fire. and the first thing she said to me
was: John. have asked The McClev-
erty to come to us on the 10th, and he
thinks he will be able to manage it. 1t
will be such triumph if we can secure
him! Mind you don't forget to renew
the invitation tomorrow morning."
Il shall be very glad to welcome him,
my dear Jane" 1 replied, although
don't see quite why should be expect
ed to triumph if 1 obtain that privi-
1ege."
''You know very well that we have
all those people coming to dinner on
the 10th, and that we are man short"
she returned, impatiently. ''Oh, don't
say that you can get one of the young
officers over from York; that wouldn't
be at all the same thing. The Saxbys,
y
1y pretends that she is afraid of the
long drive-such rubbish!-and she is
trying to persuade The McCleverty to
stay on here. Now do you under
stand?"
1 partly understood, and 1 under
stood still better, when Jane went on
to mention that the aristocratic Scot
had been talking to her about her fam
lily, which he had spoken of as one of
the most ancient in England, and had
even heard of the family emeralds and
diamonds which had passed into her
possession. AS matter of fact, James
family, though Of respectable antiqui-
ty, is no whit superior to that into
which she has married, while as for
the jewels which she is pleased to de-
scribe as heirlooms they are nothing of
the sort, or they could not have been
left to her by her grandmother. How
ever, it is foolish. besides being a great
waste of time, to argue against a wom-
ans fixed ideas. and / had no personal
objection to entertaining the gentleman
who seemed to have been cute enough
to discover my wife's weak points.
The upshot of it was that our ap-
preciative friend joined us before
luncheon on the 10th, bringing his val
ct and a good deal of smart lug
gage with him. gathered from this
and from some incidental remarks of his
that he was only comparatively impov-
erished. He seemed to be upon intimate