St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1895-04-13
AN AMERICAN DUCHESS
And British Burglar, Portrayed
by British Scribe.

My friend, the burglar, when I asked
him to drink, called the buxom young
lady behind the bar Flossie dorling,
and asked her to give him some gin
hot-unsweetened
Don't drown it, he said, when she
was putting the water in-''don't
drown it. Give it chawnce. 1t Gavin t
swim, you know" lie leaned across
the counter and spoke more lovingly to
the magnificent young person. Il sy.
l sy. Where're you a-going to next
Sunday. Alder? Eli? Give us one OF
them violets you've got"
The magnificent lady frowned at
him with such loftiness that expected
him to die on the spot. But he didn't.
think, to have a topical reference.
The lady at the bar painted and said,
breathlessly land with no stops), what
next she wondered horrid fellow little
less noise if you please you're not in q
low music hall now. He responded to
this with some feeling that he wished
to 'eaven he was.
AAC uA uAn W q OouoG VA VCA luOuSoHO
q year for all of US, and sat down near
me. Then he took off his soft cap and
silently busted few crumbs of the
marble table and put it on again.
The best-looking business I was ever
mixed up in (he said slowly was down
at Heron Court. near Guildtord. may
be a bit old-fashioned in my tastes. but
I've always been rather partial to
as though they were some thing sold IN
tins.) And when saw in Lloyd's that
the young duke had gone and married
Miss Deborah Clancy, daughter Of the
well-known rubber merchant of New
Haven, Conn, and when saw that the
wedding presents were both numerous
and costly, and the happy pair had left
ford amid shower OF rice and old slip.
pers, then said to myself. said: go
in and win, my boy, and play the game
of of your own bat. Don't have no
partners says to myself; don't have
no confedera ties. but jest go in and
have a good old try" So dressed my
self up very tastily and 1 went down
to Milford station.
1had Gladstone bag with me, and
in that bag had a few necessary arti-
cles that no enc can do without. l
don't care how clever you are. you
can't do without their help. And had
o little money with me. too. That's
another thing that you want always to
have about you. Many's the little
business I've known spoilt just for the
want of sovereign or two.
I was walking out one afternoon,
and I was going down q lane pretty
close to the grounds of the mansion.
In front of me was a neat girl in blue
serge, with a bonnet-box in her hand.
She was one of the slim-waisted sort,
and she carried herself very upright.
As passed her caught sight Of the
address. 1t was for the duchess. !
lifts my hat like this. Look!
Pardon me, miss" + says, but
might you be one of the maids ut
Heron Court?'
well" she says, 81 might"
''Oh!" l says. pleasant weather
were having, aren't WEI?
She said yes it was very pleasant
weather indeed. She said this she
said in particularly affable way) she
was afraid we should have wet before
night
Been here long?" inquiries.
No, she hadn't been there long, she
said. Only three weeks.
''Come down with the dukes party. /
SUPPOSE
Yes, she said, she came down with
the dukes party.
'Like the placer
She said she didn't mind it. l asked
her a few questions about the people.
She said she could get ON all right with
the duke, and she was ON awful good
terms with the duchess, but she
wouldn't give a dollar a gross for the
servants For one thing, she didn't be-
heve they kept proper lookout ut the
place. Whilst they were wasting their
time in smoking and drinking and
flirting, burglar could get in at al
most any moment.
oA, NSii- uAASSs dAoCT diAs says,
''were none Of us perfect, you know.
We all have our little 'obbies."
Iput on my best smile and made up
my mind to have dash for it. / asked
her whether there was any chance OF
having look in and bit of supper in
the evening. She looked at me very
straight. Then she said a thing that
knocked me silly.
''Say, mister" she says, where do l
come in? How much am going to
make out Of this little game?"
l was so astonished that I quite
blushed. I did really.
WELL" says, IF you are going to
put it that way 1 suppose I'd better
speak ont straight. I'll give you TWEEN.
ty quid now, and III give you anothe,
twenty after it's over"
Make it thirty sovereigns now and
thirty AFTER she said. ''and it's done.
l started to argue bit, and she
turned on her heel.
Here. stiddy on, my dear I says
''Don't lose your temper. You've got ,
od-hearted face You're not goinI
to be hard on a poor chap. are you
nowe Give me kiss and I'll give yo,
twenty-five
She fired up.
..You don't have no kiss. mister" sh
saws. ..and if you want me to help yol
YOU must hand over the coin. You ken
do better. anyway.
tell .you, sshe fairly surprised me
I assure you. to look at her, you
think she was as quiet girl as eve
wore shoes. She kept her eyes-brigh'
black, eyes she had-fixed on my FAC
and seemed almost 70 enjoy the corne
she'd got he IN