The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1911-02-14

And don't get drunk too carry III
evening" said another. Tor
RLake has beautiful claret. Anu
s,1re YOU don't make Q TO the reo.
headed girls" advised one. ne ~
four of them. each more sln1uis =
than the other You pay 49,
too said Sir Harry, and don nllhu
losing a few pounds. Mrs. Blake, long
life to her. has a playful way OF 'uih-
ing up the king
Charles found Mr.. Blake's house
flied with guests. and among them was
Sir George Eastwood n MS
motherless daughter, Lucy. a glIl d
tri1e tina Charles. 1itle
was also a Captain H5emmersleE, VINO
seemed to be rather attentive TO Lucy
and who at once excited in the heart
of Charles a desire to murder MIN OF
disgrace him. Sir George was a gen
erai in the army, Hammersley was
one of it's ornaments and there We're
many other military men among TIE
guests. The four r~ed-headed daugh-
tiers of Blake and all the other women
in the house appeared to think a MAJ
not in the army a negligible duahtlIA,
which angered the modest charles SUN
more.
The mind Of the young man was
so full of himself, Lucy and his
dislike Of Hammer1sley hat ne
] naturally forgot to convey to MT.
! Blake Immediately the object o.
his visit and contented himself with
putting up a job upon the captain.
| There was to be a fox hunt the next
day, and Charles arranged with one OF
the huntsmen to take the captain Owe
a course which would, in all probable
ity, break his neck. Said the hunts
man: I'll tax him down by Wood
ford. over the Devils MOuth-ltS
! eighteen foot wide this minute with
the late rains-into the tour calloWs,
then over the stone walls down to
Dangan; then take a short cast up the
hill and blow him a bit and give him
the park wall at the tope. You must
come in fresh then n give him the
whole home run over Slelbhmich:
your horse, the Badger, knows it all,
and takes the road always on the fly
But for a strange horse it is mighty
distressing. Well, If the captain lives
through this give him the sunken
fence and the stone wall at Mr.. Blake's
lover field. for the hounds will run
into the fox about there. and though
we never ride that leap since Mr.. Ma
Ion broke his neck at it last October,
yet, upon his OCCASION
"To be sure" replied the high-mind-
ed Charles-and gave the hunts1nan a
guinea. Neither Charles nor his biog-
rapher, Mr.. Lever, appears to have en-
tertained the slightest doubt but that
this plan to break the captains neck
by adventure in which Charles's dam
ger would be reduced to a minemuu
and Hammersley's raised to the maxi
mum was other than a most honorable
and chiyalrous proceeding-and doubt
less both would have called out, the
1 mon uhH RI ,nl 80 +:-
thing-thouSh very nearly so-and the
gentle Charles himself got a fa1l
which laid him up for a few DAYS OF
course the magnificent riding of the
young man endeared him to all the
company stopping at the house and
Lucy Eastwood was so nice to hin,
that he found himself desperately i'm
love with her. -
AS soon as the modest youth was
able to take his meals at the table he
proceeded to get Very drunk at dinner
ana thre" a glass Of wine into the
race OF a man who made some nm
complimentary illusions to his uncle
Godfrey. He sobered enough to ov-
pl'lh the ooJect Of his visit and learn
eo 10 his chagrin, that Sir Gaorgo
Eastwood was down there f. canYa So
the county against the Lord of O.uaI
ley castle and that Mr.. Blake was on-
5aSeo on the side Of Sir George
ohdfieS flew to the castle Fl
nbs case 70 tonsidine. who delighted at
the opportunity to arrange p dna1 a.
'le 0 with the mar into whose faca
ne had thrown the wine. a Mr. Rod
Nm ohaIles hit Rodkin just above the
mp ana bodkln's bullet made a hole j.,
GN OF the valiant boy. Uncle
Godfrey and his cronies varo oonn1
tured at this display of sniri+ IVA ~
"hen the elections came on ira vba1o
occurrence, OF course. redounded 70
the credit of the O'MalIeys ~
aroFe the adherents of Sir Georee
itIm me polls in some places and in
olnefs 1t was evident that CODE
mad a decided majority Si, Co 49,
withdrew from the contas+
ana Godfrey OAIalley was once more
a member Of Parliament
| IN the riots which attended the a,ao