The Marshall republican., 1909-03-26

pounds she gave me, charging me to
be careful with it; but Sir Peter
secretly lent me a considerable sum,
to be repaid at my majority.
Sir Peter was actively at war with
all the women-folk in the household,
from his lady down, except little Daph.
ne. He assumed to conduct every
thing in a large town house in Berkely
Square exactly as II he were on the
Ajax, "a. He desired to have the
lazy London servants called promptly
at two bells, five o'clock in the morn
ing, and to put them to holystoning.
s~quilgeeing, and swabbing off the
decks, as he called II. OF course the
servants rebelled, and Sir Peter de-
nounced them as m%utineers, and would
have dearly liked to put them all in
double irons. He divided the scullions
and chambermaids into watches, and
when they laughed in his face, threat.
ened them with the articles Of war.
He wished everything In the house
slowed away in the last compass pos
sible, and when Lady Hawkshaw had
her routs, Sir Peter, watch in hand,
superintendent the removal of the fur.
niture from the reception rooms, which
he called clearing for action, and dis
charged n servant who was not
smart at his duty. He had a room,
which he called his study, fitted up
with all the odds and ends he had
collected during 40 years in the navy,
and here he held what might be called
drum-head court-martials, and dis
rated the domestic stan, fined them,
swore at them. and bitterly regretted
that the land law did not admit of any
proper discipline whatever.
1t may be imagined what a seem oi
discord this created, although Sill
Peter was Of so kind and generous
nature that the servants took more
from him than from most masters
and, indeed, rather diverted them
selves with his fines and punishments
T and, when dismissed, declined to leave
his service, much to his wrath an6
chagrin. The acme was reached wher
he attempted to put the cook in tho
brig, as he called q dank cellar which
be determined to utilize for mutineers
as on board ship. The cook. q huge
creature three times as big as 81
Peter, boarded him in his W particu
Tar den, and, brandishing a rolling-pil
that was quite as dangerous as a cut
lass, announced that she would n,
longer submit to be governed by tn
articles of war, as administered by 81
Peter. She was sustained by a We
ciferous chorus of housemaids ant
kitchen girls who focked behind hei
the men rather choosing to remain 4
the background and grinning. Sad I
say, Admiral Sir Peter Hawkshav
G. b., was conquered by the virag
with the rolling-pin, and was forced I
surrender to the mutineers, which h
did with a very bad grace. At tina
1uncture Lady Hawkshaw hove
sight, and, bearing down upon tn
company from below stairs, dispense
them all with one wave Of her hant
Sir Peter complained bitterly. an
Lady Hawkshaw promised to brin
them to summary punishment. BIZ
she warned Sir Peter that his method
we're becoming as intolerabie to her q
20 the rest Of the family. and s.
Peter, after a round or two for IN
honor OF his flag. hauled down his CO
ors. This became especially nece
sary, as his retirement was at han
consequent more upon an obstina'
rheumatism that fixed itself upon hi
than his age. There was doul