El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1919-08-01

! buckles and cooked his hat with pins.
He wore a thunder and lightning
but alas. at the fair he was imposed
upon By proving sharper. who.
after Moses had well bargained away
I the colt, managed 10 get the purchase
I money from him in return for q gross
I OF green spectacles in shagreen casesi
and SO. as usual unforeseen disaster
frustrated our attempts to be fine.
Ny daughters planned a pleasure
expedition 10 town, and this Mr..
Bursnel SO strongly disapproved OF
that 3 quarrel ensued between him
and my wife, and the gentleman LETT
Sophia's pleading looks stay him.
The town trip being still in pros
pecr, my wife dscreed that l 90 10
The fair myself, and sell our one re-
naming horse But when one would
be purchaser examined the animal
and declared him blind OF one eye,
another observed he mad a SPAWN,
third perceived he had windgail. q
fourth said ne had the potts. and 50
on, ! began 70 have a most hearty
contempt for the pood beast myself,
Tor l reflected that the number OF
witnesses was a strong presumption
they were right, and st Gregory him
self IS Of the same opinion However,
l at last sold my horse, but had the
misfortune 10 receive il payment q
being. indeed, the wicked work Of
the very man who had sold Noses the
spectacles-
Mr.. Burehel being absent from our
fireside, only Sophia missed him. for
the rest OF US were greatly pleased
by the visits Of cur landlord. VINO now
came often 1t must be owned that
my wife laid a thousand schemes TO
entrap him as a husband for Olivia,
and used every art TO magnify the
however, being small, my wife sought
to rouse Mr.. Thornhills jealousy By
limiting Of Oliva's marriage with
Farmer Williams, a most worthy
though humble neighbor- This fail
ing 10 egg on the backward Thornkill
the wedding day was set for Olivia
and Farmer Williams But four days
Before the day I learned TO my dis
traction that my Olivia lad gone off
secretly in post chaise with a gen.
tleman who, as | was told by an on
locker. kissed her and said he would
die for her. Well did I know the vii
lain who had thus ROBBED me of my
sweet innocent child: IL was one other /
than the wicked Thornhill Ny wife I
fell TO loud berating OF him and /
0livia as well, but declared my 4
house and heart should ever be open
70 the returning repentant sinner. Il
set out to find her-but my first ef- /
forts persuaded me that it was Nj 4
Burehel. and not Squire Thornhill. !
Eno had seduced my darling. This, I
though was not the truth. Twas but
part Of the villains plan After long
search found my darling girl, in a
hiding place, whittier she had fled
rom the dreadful Thornhill who. IN
Ter pretence Of marriage. had ruined
ler- It seems they were married by
black scoundrel. who had before
married the Squire to six or eight
,ther wiYesi
I took my poor darling home, only
o be met with the astounding news
hat my little home was utterly de-
Itroyed by fire. With what cheerful
less we might we made shift to live
Il one Of our farm outbuildings and
TO enjoy our former Sc
entity.
But this was not to be. The despic-
Die Thornhil, about 10 marry Miss
the same to whom my
on George was once betrothed-made
that we marry my Olivia to
mother, yet let her still be a friend
( his own. Ny righteous denuncia-
ion OF this resulted in the Squire's
hreats Of retibution. and this came. Z
n the form Of a demand for my an
ual rent, the which ] was all unable
o pay I was thereupon thrown into
debtors prison, but even here en-
Favored to preserve my calm, and
tier my usual meditations, and hav-
az praised my Heavenly Corrector. J
lept with the utmost transquillity.
Man frequently calls in the consola-
Ions OF philosophy, which. I have {
ound. are amusing. but often falia- !
lous- In the prison, though I at I
smpted much needed reform move
tent and though I lectured and ad-
ised with all my powers. ] suffered
lany and various sorrows and dis
ppointments- ! was informed of the
cath OF my daughter. Ollvia-an IN
rue report, thank Heaveni I was
I'D OF the forcible abduction Of
ophia, BY desperate villains.
from this danger, however, dear
ophia was rescued by Mr.. Burchel,
, whom I willingly gave ny treasure
u a Wife And. we then learned that
ur friend Mr.. Burchen was in reality
ie great Sir William Thornhiii. and
y daughter would be a fine lady
auEhter Olivia was the lawful wife
Z Squire Thornhili. his previous mar
ages all having been so performed
' the wicked clergyman that they
ere not legal
WhereuDon. my son George having
Miss Wilmot, his one time
we. accepted anew his offers. and
lose two were happy together. As
capsheaf to my harvest of good for
Inc. the rascal who did mo out Of
y fortune so lons ago was arrested.
nd forced to give up his effects. Ny /
rongs being set right. 1. of course,
as freed OF the prison. and it now
.mained only that my gratitude in
cod fortune should exceed nv former
Omission in dversity.-Convright
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