New-York tribune., 1899-07-23

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me Well I gets my ticket and pays for u,
and tells him as he may keep the coppers whicn
you'd have thought he'd have bit my nose OLE
/ Tben 7 wants to 20 back same way as came.
and has to shove through another pack OF old
women as calls me worse nor the fust iot. Then
I gets into a train fust class, same as you toio
me and then some one blows a whistle III to
mako vour ears split Just as pokes my mead
ont window to see who's a-whistilng, she goes
off with a Jerk as well anigh knocked my nat
off and then well anigh sick. Wen, werent
| Going IN have that no not at no price, so fust
time as she stops out / gets, and thch fouho
as I'd come the wrong road, ana were Iurthf
off nor when I started. Then chap wants 10
know who'd put me into the train. and lets on
as Tom CampOn amt quite baby IN arms as
! wanted putting And then they says as they
wants a shilling over that JOB, and can 80
back in an hour Not me, says /; I'd Hever by
| long way walk than go in your Jolthg tralha
Then they wants my ticket, and warts my
| money back but we couldn't do a deal nohoW.
| I saws as | knows n chap at home, meaning YOU
as often goes in your trains, and It'll come IN
handy for him. and they all laughs at me. Bu!
here's the ticket; | brought him BACK rIght
enough; 'tweren't likely as I were going TO part
with IT, as paid mOre'n seven bob Tor un. Ana
then | goes and hires a chap to drive me nome.
| and gave him suvrin for going or IL
And from that day forward old Tom enter
| taIned the most lively aversion for everything
connected with railway travelling; and having
| somewhere at the bottom Of his heart liking
! for my unworthy self, and having, moreover, his
stable full of those skewbald horses, he more
! than once volunteered TO drive me unconsclon.
able distances, partly, as ] verify beheVe out OF
anxiety for my personal safety and partly rom
! a charitable wish to diminish the receipts Of the
railway company
Nor again, as | had occasion TO know to my
cost, had he much confidence in either the eiii-
cacy the honesty OF our telegraphlc arrange
ments-electricity, having mo warranty IN
Scripture" being also referred to the category OF
! dangerous decets." Early one morning | re-
ceived an urgent message from him TO the effect
| that ne wanted to see me at once on an urgent
and most important business.
Il never seed the gaffer more put about in my
| life" explained the messenger, en- old farm
hand. He said if it so be as 'Ow you couldn't
come | were to get one Of the reverends; but as
ow and if you was about he'd take il kind II
you was to come at Onst as he reckOned he'd
| lever have YOU nor whole billing Of parsons"
| appreciated the compliment, and was ready
| to GO In his latter years Tom had fallen into
the habit Of sending for me in this rather per
emptory manner pretty frequently and as he
! showed me a great deal Of civility in many small
ways was only too willing to help him In his
petty difficulties. But | was so well accus-
toned to being confronted by molehill when
the urgency Of a message rather pointed TO the
| existence Of a mountain that did not feel any
special anxiety the present occasion. More
over, happened to know that the old man was
suffering under the infcton Of the yearly visit
OF his widowed sister, a thorn in the flesh per-
mtted to buffet him for exactly thirty-one days
out of the three hundred and sixty-fiVe How
Tom stood the ladys presence for so long a
time always mystery 10 myself, and 70 q
good many others besides.
| tongue out if she mine" John Bats
comment on this elderly edition Of Mrs. Joe Gar
gerry.
well. Mr. Campion, and what's the matter
now?' | inquired after shaking hands with Mrs
! Stern.
Matter" was the reply: well. there's a whole
mullock Of matter, and all along Of your railway
| folk Master George. This is how il were: AZ
! the back end OF last summer l was along o
neighbor Stiles. and it were hot, and he gives me
a glass OF right down good cider and then he
/ lotc ranr hnl
! chaps OF our age any OF your beers or wines
and as how he'll give me a cask II has mind to
take it, seeing as he has cousin in Devonshire
| who makes it. Well. II had gone right clean out
| Of my mind till meets him at market a week or
more back and then he tells me as how he've or
dered it. and then this morning gets this Just
you what you makes OF it, Master George.
and he handed me a letter.
! 1t turned out to be from a station master some
way down the line, and ran as follows:
"Sir: ! have TO inform you that q cask OF
cider addressed to you is now lying in office
pending instructions II was consigned TO u
! from the South Western Railway, but We found
that the cask was leaking 80 badly that II was
impossible to forward it," etc.
We'll hardly know what to advise. Mr Cam
pion" and handed him back the letter
II tells him ii amt no manner of use his
fussng and worriting himself" struck in Mrs
Stern: Its little cross as is sent him. and IT
will all come right in the end.
It's cask of cider as have been sent me. and
some else is a-drinking OF IL half way, and
there'll be precious little OF IL left when il gets
| this end if it ever do get" growled Tom.
You don't know any one suppose, in shoss
parts Mr.. Campion. who would go and see him
about it. Let's see, what's the place ne writes
fron-Rourton?
"Bourton? Why. that's where my husbands
brother keeps his hotelp' exclaimed Mrs Stern
He had a carriage accident many years ago
Mr. George and he has kept hotel ever since"
That's right enough" chimed in Tom. "ESiA
Stern was pitched out OF hts cart when he were
drunk and ne keeps the inn there COS one OF
his legs is shorter than tother. so he can get