The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1898-08-27
Sel&Gt Stnrp.
LORD TOTTENHAM.
From the Pail Mall Gazette.

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as his own son; but if you preferred to go
on being your fathers son | expect the
old gentleman would make it up to you in
some other way In books the least thing
does it. You put up the railway carriage
window, or you pick up his purse when
he drops it, or you say hymn when he
suddenly asks you to, and then your for
tune is made.
The others did not seem to care much
about the rescue. They said there WASH t
any deadly peril, and we should have to
make one before we could rescue the old
gentleman from it; but Oswald didn't see
that it mattered However, he thought
he would try some Of the easier ways first
by himself So he waited about the sta
ton and pulled up railway carriage win
dows for old gentlemen who looked likely;
but nothing happened, and at last the por-
tiers said he was a nuisance. So that was
no 90. No one had ever asked him to say
hymn, though he had learnt nice short
one, beginning: New every morning;
and when an old gentleman did drop a
two shilling piece just by Ellis the hair
dresser 5, and Oswald picked it up and was
Just thinking what he should say when he
returned it the old gentleman caught him
by the collar and called him young thief.
1t would have been very unpleasant for
Oswald if he hadn' happened to be very
brave boy and known the policeman on
that beat very we'll indeed. So the police
man backed him up, and the old gentle
man said he was sorry and offered Oswald
sixpence. Oswald refused it with polite
disdain, and nothing more happened at all.
When Oswald had tried by himself and
it had not come off he said to the Others
1--WE re wasting our time not trying to
rescue the old gentleman in deadly peril.
Let's do something.
1t was dinner time, and Pincher was
going round getting the bits off the plates.
There were plenty, because it was cold
mutton day And Alice said:
dts only fair to try Oswald way; he
has tried all the things the others have
thought of. Why couldn't we rescue
IIOfu lOJtenlldu
Lord Tottenham is the old gentleman
who walks over the heath every day at 3
o clock, and when he gets half way if there
is no one about he changes his collar and
throws the dirty one into the furze bushes.
Dickie said 'Lord Tottenham all
right; but where's the deadly peril
And we couldn' think of any. There
are no highwaymen on Blackheath now,
| am sorry to say; though Oswald said
half of us could be highwaymen and the
other half the rescue party. Dora said it
would be wrong to be a highwayman, and
so we had to give that up,
Then Alice said ''What about Pinch
erY'
And we all saw at once that it could be
done. Pincher is our fox terrier. He is
very well bred, and he does know one or
two things, though we never could teach
him to beg But if you tell him to hold
on he will do it, even if you only say !:
Seize him p in a whisper
SO we arranged it all. Dora said she
wouldn play; she said she thought it was
wrong, and she knew it was silly-so we
left her out-and she went and sat in the
dining room, so as to be able to say she
didn have anything to do with it if we
got into trouble.
Alice and H. o. were to hide in the
furze bushes where Lord Tottenham
changes his collar, and they were to say
Seize him. to Pincher, and then when
Pinchcr had seized Lord Tottenham we
were to go and rescue him from his deadly
peril And he would say Chow can
Ireward you, my noble young preservers?'
and it would be all right:
So we went up to the heath. We were
afraid of being late Oswald told the
others what representation was, so they
got to the furze bushes little after =
o clock and it was rather cold. Alice and
H. 0. and Pincher hid; but Pincher did
net like it any more than they did, and as
we three walked up and down we heard
him whining And Alice kept saying =
II am so cold Isn't he coming yet !?
And H. o. wanted to come out and jump
about to warm himself But we told him
he must learn to be Spartan boy, and
that he ought to be very thankful that he
hadn't got beastly fox eating his inside
all the time H. O. is our little brother,
and we are not going to let it be our fault
if he grows up milksop. Because it was
not really cold. So they stayed where
they were. And at last, when even we
other three were beginning to feel rather
chilly we saw Lord Tottenham's big black
cloak coming along, tapping in the wind
like great bird So we said to Alice
Hist he approaches. You IL know
when to set Pincher on by hearing Lord
Tottenham talking to himself; he always
does while he is taking off his collar
Then we had walked away whistling, to
show we were not thinking of anything.
Our lips were rather cold, but we managed
to do it.
Lord Tottenham came striding along,
talking as usual. People call him the
mad protectionist | don't know what
it means, but | don't think people ought
to call lord such names.
As he passed us he said "Ruin of
the country, sir Fatal error, fatal error,
and then we looked back and saw he was
getting quite near where Pincher was and
Alice and H. O. We walked on, so that he
shouldn't think we were looking, and in a
minute we heard Pincher bark, and then
nothing for bit, and then we looked
around, and sure enough good old Pincher
had got Lord Tottenham by the trouser
leg, and was holding on, so we started to
run.
Lord Tottenham had got his collar off
it was sticking out sideways under his ears,
and he was shouting Help help muir
der p exactly as ifsome one had explained
to him before hand what he was to do.
Pincher was growing and snarling and
holding on. When we got up to him [
said
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