Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1909-02-04


teristIc Of the incommunicativs
habits Of his tribe.
when I saw Dick Pagan, The
James Town courier, coming intt
towa this evening with his leather
pouch slung across his shoulder, :
said the elder Of the riders. u
guessed as much rs that there would
be matter for the council. News
from that quarter nowadays is apt
10 bring business for their worshlps
| warrant the brother Of Master
Fendall has been contriving an out.
come 10 Virginia. I heard John
Rye, the miller 81 Clements, say
last Sunday afternoon. that Samuel
Fendall bad forty mounted mer
readyin the forestto do bis bidding
With broadsword and carbine. And
10 would have done II too. II my
Lord had not laid him by the heels
at unawares. He has savage spite
against nv Lord and tine uhancellor
both. +"
But knew you ever the like be.
fore" that bis Lordship should be-
IL such haste to see their worships.
he must needs have us tramnin0
over the country al midnight ?
There must be 4 bot flavor In the
newsl Il Was q post-haste letter. y
"Tush, copperfacel What have you
70 do with the flavor Of the news2
You have little to complain OF John
Award, for . midnight tramp. II
Is but twelve miles from this to
Mattapany, and your errand is done.
You may be snoozlng on q good truss
OF hay Ia Masters Sewell's stable
before midnight II YOU make speed.
Think Of my ride eli the way to Not
ley Hall--and round about the head
of the river too--for doubtif have
any chance to get ! cast over the
ferry to night Tom Taylor, the
boat keeper, Is NOT often sober ct
this hour; and II b was, q crustier
churl-the devil warm bis pillowl--
doesn't live 'swIxt ibis and the old
world, He gets odt Of bis sleep for
no man. =
But II IL darksroad mine, re-
piled the groom. "a plague upon
III | have no stomach for this bust,
and brier work, when MAD can see
the limb off tree no more than o
cobwsb.
"A dark road r. exclaimed the
master Of the Kennels. laughing.
"A dark road. Johnl II Is . long
time since there has been q dark
road for your night rides, with that
nose shining like ~ link o half score
PAGES ahead. TWAS some hat dead
ened last September. / allow, when
you had the marsh ague, and the doc
tor fed you for q week on Cruel but 10
has waxed lately as brigth as ever.
! wish ! could buckle II TO my head
strap until tomorrow morning."
A burst Of laughter, at this sally,
testified the effect Of the ialconer's
wit and brought the groom to his
feet.
IS blood, you grinning ioolsl''
he calculated, "bayen't you heard
Derrick's joke Thousand times be-
fore. that you must toss up y our
scurvy he.haws att, as III was newt
He stole II, as the whole hundred
knows--from the fat Captain. old
Dauntrees, In the fort there; who
would have got II back upon hue and
cry, II IL had been his own; but the
truth Is the Captain filched II from
a play book, as the surveyor told him
In my hearing at Garrett Vessels,
where the Captain must needs have
In for laughing matter"
IT is q joke that burns fresh every
night" replied Derrick; "a thing
to make light Of So up with the
bottom Of the pot. boy, and feed II
with mothers milk; 10 will stand you
instead tonight Well done, John
Award ! commend you for taking
. joke as well as another"
Master Derrick said the other, |
this is not the way TO do bis Lord
ships biddidg; II we must 90, we
should be jogging now. / wish |
bad your ride TO take instead Of my
own-short as you think IL is."
"Ha, say you that You shall
nave ~, an IL please Master Secretary
But upon one condition"
Upon what condition."
THAT you tell ne honestly why
you would choose to ride twenty
niles 70 Motley rather than twelve
o Mastapany."
Good Derrick, ? answered the |
room, 1T il but matter o. horse. |
nansbip You have q broader road, |
md mine is path much beset With |
'rushwood. ! like not the peril OF |
,einR endorsed.