Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-07-13

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insid@Bell and Crown a. Eic!bo-n-
and w we're g hours. nearly. going Il
bath, We left London a. 5 we r.
aFesned ourselves at ever. stage CT Ias
way ana waa. t. sIppe w- had 4,
SsacinE. and what & snug cotr-e-break
last t.ne first Of twol It an early hour
some 80 miles on. II those days there
vas something like travelling. you we-e
d part OF the world. Tot OCT % il as
on those ~scouad-eily iron rails; ,he
people did not look like pygri=s as
the: do nov from the train windows.
no! the cows to be about the size %
mice: nor did YOU look down the Chin
ns.s o. Ensllsi.'nsn. as Tot do nova
days. but into their front drawing
Dom windows where the girls were
sitting. who blushed and affected 20
turn away as you flung then. 3 kiss.
and wondered who ,hat charming
sUaase young man could be. AL this
IS gone Grass grows on the Great
road. comfortable old inns are desc
lass. all the snug tar fires cut All the
glt liquor bottles mouldy. and c.eepess
and moss growing over ,he bar. You
no longer trave! now. Q submit, your
BODY TO be transported from one spot
10 another. giving Up our identity.
your natural existence. during the time
IN Which she translation takes place:
you nave TO longer a sympathy with
o-0 S..c pcOR1c G.I.O..S n .tO.l
YOU travel-ths very few people VINO
wait upon you are mere machines. for
TO the ~newfangisd por.e.s and police
men you are ordered no. TO give nioney.
An. old friends Of the road. where ara
YOU? What z pleesan. kindly rela-
sionsnip 1t vas which subsisted be-
tween the q and you. VIVA. q
deal Of active good will and lasting
friendship did .he gtfr of a shilling
here r there ~engender, Whv f you
gave q waiter half q crown. you might
KICK him down stairs. rot that he was
servle o. cowa-dlyznly f~orbearng
and good hu!nored. and. knowing your
your freaks. Think OF the delightful
descriptions OF inns which Harry
Fielding has lett us. and even TOBY
snio.ett- the humorous and cantanker-
Gus Scot. Well. the Cyclopean iron
masters have storrned and taken tina,
heaven from us-shat joyous high-oad
heaven. with all its fair inns and kind
Observation-Disclosures are no 0 at
the Kings Arms. 3agsho,. any more:
the hon at Harne has dropped his old
TAN forever: and as for the Kings
Arms at ~Seyenoaks. / declare that only
three weeks since / heard one of the
daughters OF the house playing a sonata
o Inaioerg,s which she concluded
with a neat Italian song from Norma.
Where are the coachmen and ali their
coats TIE oarniaids and their red. srnil-
ms cheeks? the pcsthoYn first and sec
ond out). the comfortable old ling
ing yellow post chaises and the post
= Let US hope that some other
"oFld mas been found for them-some
ADD CLOUD. and TO US unknown. post |
futurum.-O fie. Here the huge en-
CINE gives a last scream. and going
slowly through an evenue of brick
kl'ns and flaming furnaces. and huge
engines that ave digested their red
20. loads OF charcoal. we stop at a
pIl'liane arcade. and the policemen
shout out Bristol.
Chepstow and the Neishborhood.
The rain had poured heavily during
the nrst day OF our arrival at Chepstow.
and it was vain to attempt to see any
the beauties Of the place: only the
writer OF this. having indiscreet1y
scrambled up a hill on the opposite
oank OF the Wye. had the pleasure of
sitting perdu under a thick-sst hedge
LOT fuil an hour n a half while the
rain poured down. As thai great au-
tnor under the hedge he had the |
misfortune to behold an artist. who had
Deen perched Upon a rock OF the cliff
making a drawing OF the town. run
away dripping. nature having covered
MS drawtng over with a transparent
wash OF her own preparing; and pres
entity afterward the celebrated literary
man. rising from his shelter as there
was nothing else for it, had the good
TUCK % md Though. to be sure. the
earliero that there was refuge hard by
IN q little alehouse that goes by the
pretty name Of The Bonny Thatch.
Al The Benny Thatch was a police
man drying his wet shins at a snug fire.
q pretty little coquette OF a land
,adys daughter. a pretty maid, and a
iandiady who had been pretty once
nay. IL for the matter Of that at this
present writing: there they were. all
seated IN a window Smelling peas. To
them presently came two ladies wet
through in patterns. who without cere-
mony began to arrange their garments
IN q little shed just outside the door.
refusing. however, any offers Of aid
which some kind ways from within
made them. An old dog lay asleep by
the nre. on which a pot with a piece
OF bacon was boiling: near the dog. on !
q carved sort OF bench that goes along
one sac OF the room. an old landlord
Just SIX feet two Inches and three-ouar-
ters In height between the beams, and
about nine feet SlEare-6ark. neat .pret-
~. and comfortable. should have
passed h day there with pleasure. for
presently came. In various characters.
gentleman whose cart stood In the
and who arrived with q load Of
Goals; 2 laborer-I am sorry to say
upsy, though at that early hour in the
0Ay; an old tramper with an oiled akin
nat on which vas written One OF Nell
.on's veteranA.~ 3 old tramper, hay.
nao % % Nth brimstone and char
coai m his cary life when the two sent
forth shots among the French, WAS now
compelled to deal with the forme. ar.
l1caeo IN . much moro humble though |