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CHAPTER L I Reachiag the point where the wood
• Mesa GLIMPSE OE THE CARAVAN'. ' I began, and entering the shadow of the
e'ell ftted
aut a gray mist drifting from the Irish trees, he soon foun a spotwe
for his purpose. To the left the road
1hr The afternoon was still very warn '
widened out late a grassy patch of cone. persevere. Well, wo shall see. e
! Climatal, and sailing eastward over the book does not progress it will be entire-
' low-lying island of Anglesea, was be- :uonn,teaddo.tnroed evi;thanoteArrettwootebdusohnest 0!1 lyof my own fault; for 1 havei.any traannt
g dusty arm, to touch a large white gate, intlaille clailudPit Tall:tials•e, alwalanysathea4.11ona:
ginning to scatter a thin, penetrating
elrizzle en the driver of the Caravan. winch. opened on a gloomy, grass -grown eveni;ge, when I must either write,
To right and - left of the highway avenue winding right through the heart read, or de nothing
, " 'o I am beginning'th' evening,
- 'stretched a bleak and bare prospect of of the wood. The Caravan, coining . is
marshland and ntoorland, closed to the slowly rea, was soon placed in a snug exactly a fortnight atter my return
west by a sky of ever -deepening red. position, not far fromthe gate, thehorse from Chester. I Purchased the Caravan and moorland on every stdo, occaelimal-
nese, and relieved here and. there by was taken out and suffered to graze, ' there from a unirose individual, with ly rising into heathery knells .or kill -
black clumps of stunted woodland. while Tim, searching about, found some one eye, who haa. it built with a elver to mks, or strewed with huge pieces of
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CHAPTER IL thing. When all is said and done, it es his opiniona poor Sart of plaee, There•
PROM A '370tiNG1 GENTLEMAN'S flattering to be an qbeeet of such public are several'Whitewashed cottagen awl a.
JOURNAL, interest; and I (lo believe that, wieen 1 laege, roofless house, for all the: world.
"Before setting forth on this IneMor- return to civilization, and find no one like a church. Devil the cow orieg dil1.
able pilgrimage to nowhere, I promised caring in the least what I do, I shall he see at all, barrin' a few hens,. Atly•
a certain lend of mine, in literary Bo. Miss the worldly tribute which is now boats? 1 as. Yes, one with theehottone
hernia, to keep notes of my adventures, my daily due. knockecl out, belonging to William(
with a view of future publication, illus- "1 begin this record in the Island of Jones,
trateclby my own brilliant sketches. I Anglesea, where we have waived. after "Tun has got this name so pet that
3ny curiosity begina to be aroused. 'Who:
the dune is William jones?" Sure, thine
says Tim, he's the man that hives down,
LaA,VaS
fear the promise was a I•ash one—aretly.
because I au constitutionally lazy and
adverse to literary exertion, and, sec
-
madly, became X have, as yet, met with
no adventures worth writing about Not So far m I have yet explored. it, I and
that X have .altogether lost my first en- it flat and desolate ettatigli; but I bave
thusiasin for the Idea. There would be . hem), educated in Irish landscapes, and
novelty in the title, at any rate, 'Cruises don't .object to flatness when combined
with desolation I like these dreary
in a Caravan,' by Charles Brinkley with
aluetrietiens iley the author; pboto- meadows, these bleak stretches of mei-
inthie frontiepiece, the Caravan Nvith aneholy moorland, these wild lakes :ma
ni as large as fife, smirking self -eon- lagoons.
" At the present moment I ant en -
taken,
in delight st having his picture
taken, My friend B-- has promised. camped, in t spot Where, in all probabil-
ity, tad me a publisher, if I will only I shall remain for days. I came up-
on it quite by accelent • abont middity
yesterday, when on my way to the mar-
ket towo, of Pencross ; or, rather, when '
I imagined that I was going thither,
'whiiel had, in. reality, after hesitating
at three cross-roads, taken the road
which led in exactly the opposite dire°.
don, Tho way was. desolate and dreary
beyond meastua—stretehes of morass
our fOraughta wanderings in the more
raouutathous. district! of. the mairilaad.
Anglesea„ 1 am informed,* is cbiefly fa
mous for its pigs and its wild (lucks.
• stone like the moors of Cornwall, Pre -
Here aud there peeped a solitary farm- dry sticks and began to light a fire. the exhibition of a 1 Ian ofa .
house, with outlying fields of swampy Diving into the Caravan, the young man gonia; but said. wild man having taken
greenness, where lean and spectral emerged with a camp stool, on which he it into his head to mann to ,County
• 1 were1 ea bri I a n • and sat down, liehted, a meerschaum pipe, Cork, where lie was born, and the mo -
ever and anon came a glimpse of some and b.egan. to smoke. . They could hear rose individual having 110 definite idea
lonely lake or tarn, fringed all round the ram faintly pattermg in the boughs of a novelty totelte his place, the Cam- waves of the ocea,n, at some moment of
with. C. ick sedges and. dotted.with water above them, 'hut the spot they had van came mto 'market. Having seemed wild agitation, suddenly frozen to still -
lilies The road was as desolate as the chosen wee quite sheltered, and dry. his traveling palace, duly furnished nese, and retaining intact these tempes-
t prospect, with not a living soul upon it, • The are seen blazed am. Entering the witle window -blinds. a piece' of °Keane the hillocks I am. describing, -They rose
tuous forms, it would give some idea of
far as the eye could. see. To all this, Caravan in Ins turn Tim brought outa
a chair bedstead, a table, a stove, cook -
however, the driver of the Caravan paid tin kettle full of water and.placed it on on every side of the road, completely
little attention, owing to the simple fact the fire, preparatory to making tea. He
artistic paraphernalia, I sent over to shutting out the view, and their pale
ing utensils, not to speak of my own
that he was asleep, was thus engaged when the sound of a livid yellowness, scarcely relieved with
his assistance, when he arrived, I pur- a glimpse of greenness, was wearisome
vancea aanong them the road. we were
and lonely in the mama°, As we ad-
Mulrany, County Mayo, for my old ser -
He was roused by a sudden jolting horse's hoofs was heard along the 'ugh -
vent, Tim-na-Chalnig, or Tim o' the
ha
'IX swaying of the clumsy vehicle, way, and presently the Beam of a horati
Ferry—otherwise Tim Linney; and with.
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combined with a sound. of splashing man appeared approaching at a rapt
pursuing grew worse and worse, till it
. water. and, opening Lis eyes sleepily, he trot. As et came near to the group on,
i perceived that the gamy marehaa tinned •the. wayside the horse shied violently, became so choked and. covered with
chaeed a strong mare at Chester Fair.
t aside from the conker of' the road, and, springing from one side of. the road , to All these preliminaaies being settled, we
started one fine morning soon after atty..; drift and sand as to be scarcely recog-
' having placidly entered a stagnant pond the other, so that. its rider, a eatei
' break, duly bound for explorations nizable, aad I need hardly say that et
on. tlee road -side was floundering and nuddle-aged man, in. anwas hard work for ono hoese.to pull the
struggling in the mad thereof, witbethe .cloak, was almost thrown from the along the tneeadannzed highways and Caravan along; more than once, in axe
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Carava.0 pecking behind here At the saddle. Uttering a' acme oath, he re- byways of North Wales. i the wheels fairly stuck, and Tim and 1 is primitive, but I could. devour any- et •
same moment a head was thrust round. • covered himself, and, reigaing in the had. to pull with might and main to get thing — twee. William Jones's fossil "She shook her beaa emphatically.
'I am pleased to say that Tim, Deem
he had recovered tho first shock of see- bread. I asked. if any human bei . has " ' But of course he's a eelation?'
the back part of th.e vehicle, and an frightened animal, looked . angrily them free: ' , nt;
a peripatetic dwelling house, took i " We haa proceefied in this manner visited the camp. 'Sorra one,' Tim "Another shako of the head.. '
you scou
mire', where the devil mischa,nce, lie forced his horse, with no to the idea wonderfully. 'Sure it's just I
like the old cabin at home,' he averred, realise the fact that we *ere out of our has got to feel himself apublie character siderably pmnled. ' 'Where were you.
for some miles, and I was beginning to says, locildng rether disappointed. He " 'Bt you belong to hinae I said, con -
angry voice exclaimed: i around; then. seeing the cause of his . frig
are you driving to? Wake up, or I'll 'small difficulty, to approach the figares
break every bone in. your &An.' • by the fire. 'burin' the wheels and the windies and reekouiag, when, suddenly emerging and misses the homitge of the vtilaar. born?'
eing e
sently the 013011 moorland ended, and we
entered a region of sandy hillocks, spars-
ly ornamented here and there with long,
harsh grass. If one could imagine the
bqyant, by tho sea.' I demand, wane- Merit or BLACKWES • Als.1Th.
what irritably, if the place contains only. taltatilela MOUTH, WITH Grer0 ROW*,
one inhabitant. Divot another did Tina oa aim wHIMT OrenEETJX,
see, he explains—barrin' William Jones,. aers,. ana worineinta •wootaxe, teeneeange,
"9.80 a,m.—Start paintingin the open, and rough oboes, the latteatneany sizes
air, under the shade of a large white, too large. The gown wasetoo shorteetne
cottou umln.ella, Paint one 1 pun the wearer, who had, evidently outgrawit •
"1 p.m.—Take a long walk among the it•reached only just below the knee,
sand hills, avoiaing the settlement be- and,, when the young person movedeono
yowl the lake, Don't want to meet any caught a glimpse of something very •
of the aboriginals, more particularly muck resembling dilapedated gerter•
William Jones, Walking here is like "The young pereorese smile • weal 50
running up and down Atlantic billowst bright and good humored timt..L.foand
assumuig sac' billows tabe solid; aew.I elleeeelegwrisawreoryin Datlete friendlaynod,
mu lost in the trough of the sand, now I ' I saidegallantlYe•
re-emerge on the crest, of the solid wave:. hope you're quite well!:
Amusing, but fatiguing. Soddenly a "She nodded In replee, and,. stooping
hare starts from under my feet midge:es down, plucked a long, blade of grass„
leisurely away. I remember an. old •whicla she placed in hen mouth and be.
amusement of mine in the west of Ire- gan to nibble—bashful, I thought
land, and I track puss by her footprinta 'May I ask where. you come from?'
_now clearly and beautifully minted in I said. 'I mean, whereb do you lite?'
the soft sand of the hollows, now more "Willett sp9aldng;,811e atretched out
tfhaienitildyrnesarkTeclheonsueliebllaiazieelsercioesLdie,s4 her arm and pointed across the Lake in
the direction of thee sea. I coital not
refraction of the heat from the sand ia help noticing then, mien artist:that the
overpowering,ai.kiina4ptittilesatahirig. eaa itraficeilliinogf, sleeve of her gown was loose each torn,
and that her arm was round awl well
imannerable sand crystals. A horrible formed fella her hand, though rough
croak from overhead startles me, and, and sunburnt, quitegenteelly small.
looking up I see an enormous raven, " ' If it is not itatinsitive, may. X ask
wheeling dong in circles one. searching Your name?'
the ground, for mice or other prey. " Mate,' was thetreply.
Looking at lay watele I find that " ' Is that stel? What ie your other
have been toiling en this sandy wilder- =eller
ness for quite two hours. Time to get " ' I've got no other name. Fin Matt,
baekerid (line. Climb the nearest hill- I am.'
oek and look round to discover where ' Incleedi Do emir parents live here?'
am. • Can sec nothing but the sandy "'Got no parents,* was the reply.
billows on every side, mad am entirely o'uYlooloun• er,e)..lastalio)opso,stolrn. You belong
at a loss which way to go. At last, after to's'
half an flour's blind wandering, stumble " 'Yes,' she aneworea, nibbling rapid -
by accident on the road by the lakeside ly. belong ta William. „lama.'
and see the Cm avan in the distance. '" 011, to hum.' I said, feeling as fa -
4 p. in.—Dinner. Boiled potatoes, with theamme as if I had known.
boiled .eggs, friedbacon. Tim's cooking it all my life, But he's not, your fathe
11 the chimley and tlie baste to pull itagain till 0 pan. "'1 wasett born at all,' arawered Matt.
along; and I think the resemblance ".e. beautiful sunset. The sand hills I came ashore.'
Thus addvessed, Tim wake himself "Who are you? he demanded, in rom between two sand hills, !)". e,
with an effort, and looking round with harsh, peremptory toues. " What are wide stretch of greeu meadow Tana, and arow rosy in the the lake deepens " This was what the immortal Die
' le
an inshmating emile, replied: • you doing here?" would have been com aete in his eves if
r bey011(.1 it glorified piece of water. e •
three to 'rein crimson o pulp e, moon comes Swiveller would have called a staggere
• " tl 1 le there had only been two or . pigsTb.e ma was shinine Mightly the water •Mit like a silver sickle o'ver the sandy ere I lookeel at ;the girl again, impede
• W'tb. •
• " Begorrae blaster Charles, I thought The young man, p1110.. ,
it was an earthquake entirely. Come Kiev at him with a smile, lint made no • 'Wit merely behind the back door. —' I sparkled like a aniaor, calm as glass,
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out of that now. Is it wanting to relay. . . for mysele I took to the nomad. 112e a,;
• , , , and without a breath. As we appeared
Sheet Aisy •a, aisa!"
&mod yweelf you axe? G -r -pal
, know this place is private•i" And he
"What are you? Vagrants? Do you naturally M if I had never in hee largo , , . .
been in a ciailized habitation. To • be
1 waterside 'where Ittihad been etanding—
a helm lose from tho spot on the
%lie latter portion of the above sen -pointed with -t '
ale his riding whip o e print- able to go where one pleases, to dawdle- " san as a stone. without asound,
as one pleases, to step. and deep whem I • Above his dim blue shtulo.--
WAS at last persuaded to wade out of the. • the stem of a large fir tree. one pleases, wee' certainly a new sensaa and sailed leisurely away. Around the
fence was addressed to the mare, which ed."Notice!" fixed close to the gate upon
woe mud and return to the dusty track, "1 begyour pareen," said the young tion, My friends, observing my slug- lake, wbieh was abouta, mile inteircuun
aere she stood quivering and panting. man, with the utmost sangienia; "we gish ways. had often compared mete ference, the road ran winding tille it
Sooner was. the return. to terra firma are, I imagine, on the Queena highway, .that interesting creative, the snail: none reached the further - side, where more
ataplishea than a light agile figure and there, - with your permission, we the resemblance was complete, for X was Ileand. • hills began; but between these
aescoudea the stops at the back of the purpose to remain for- the night.' a snail, indeed, with my house comfort- ' send hills 1 caught a sparkling glimpse
Camerae', and ran round to the front. .Struck ba the nepevior rammer of the' e.leit' fixed linen my shoulders, crawling a more water, and (gelded: to my con -
An. excital colloquy. angry on the one - speaker, the hew -comer looked et him tranquilly alOng. I dusion.by the Tea sail of a fishing smack.
side, and apologetic on the other, ensu- in some earpriee, but with 310 abatement , "Of course, the caravan kW its incon- ' just glimmertnee in the horizon lino) I
eal, and did ma, ttease, even when the of Lis banality manna. lie thea veniences. Inside, to quote the elegant , knew that further, water was—the sea.
alieven with a facer of his whip, put the glanced at Tiwho was busy with the simile of our progenitma, there is scarce- . " The spot had all the attraction of
Caravan again in motion, while the oth- kettle, fromTiim to the gray mare and ly room enough to swing a cat in, and • complete desolation, combined with the
er strode alongside on foot.. from the gray mina to the home an 'when my bed is made. and Tim's ham-. charm which always, to my mind, per -
It was just such a Caravan as may be wheels; The sco-aa on iris dark fate! mock is swung just'inside the door, the tains to lakes and. lagoons. Eager as a
. seen arty summer dav forming part . of deepened and. he turned itis fierce, eye 1
thice forms the tiniest of sleeping chara- : boy or a loosened . retriever I ran across
bers Then. our cooking arrangements the meadow and• found the grass loi e
. . le
the swart face of a gypsy woman look- "Let me warn you that these grounds are primittee, and, as Tim has no idea , and green, and sewn with =mime e
the carap on an Eughsh common, with again on the young man. .
ing oue at the door, and half' a dozen are private. I suffer no wandering whatever in the eulinary. art, beyond crowseoot flowers ; underneath the green spect—that from dawn to sunset I have
rageced ,imps and elves rolling, on the vagabonds to pass that gate." being able to boil potatoes in their skins, was sand again, but here it glimmered not set eyes oe. a human being, except
grass beneath; as may be oltserved, "May 1 ask your mane?" said the and make very deabtful stirabout,' like gold asust, As I reached. the sedges my servant. ..
smothered in wickerwork of all &scrip- young man, in the same cool tone and there is a certain want of variety in our on the lake side a teal rose, in full eura- '' Stop, though! I in wrong. Just
tions, or glittering. pots and pans, 11101*. withehe same quiet email% repasts. To break the monotony of this Drier plumage, wheeled swiftly round as I was returning from my piscatorial
ing from door to door in some sleepy "Whet is my mune to you?" livi en I endeavor whenever we come to the lake, then returning splashed down excursion to tho lake, I saw, passing
countrytown, guided by a gloomy gen- "Well, not much, only I should like i.‘ them with a decent hotel in it to take boldly ant swam w a stone's throw
ithiaalong the road in the airectioa of the
tieman in a velveteen coat and haresIdn to know the title of so very a,miable a a square meal away erom home. of the shore; whoa, peering throughthe sea, a certain solitary horseman, who
cap, and attended by a brawny hussy, person." " Besides, the inconveniences which I rushes, 1 caught a glimpse of his mate, accosted me not oven -illy -on the road -
also mothered in wickerwork or pots The other condescended to no reply, havo mentioned, but which were, per- paddling areaous along with eight side the night bean last, Ile scowled
haps, hardly worth chronicling, the little Miffs of dawn behind her. Then, at me in passing, and. of course, eecog-
smied, formiag. part of the procession of ellen. fellow e, he cried. eddreesten Caravan has social drawbacks, more east outside the sedges, I saw the golden sized me by the aid of the Caravan. His
and pans; as, furthermore, may be de- but walked his horse towards the gate,
a travelling circus, and. drawn by a pie- Tim. "Open this gate for me!" particularly entharraseing to e modest shield of water broken by the circles of name is Monk, of Monashuret, and he
bald horse wItich, whenever a good "Don't stir." said lee master: "Let man like myself. It is confusing, for rising trout. It was ,too much, I has- seems to be pretty weh monarch _of all
ith" ifound, will complete its day's our amiable friend open the gate for example, on entering a town, or good- taloa back to the Caravan and informed
of going Mr. Monk, of Monksbeyst, and myself
he survey. I have an impression that
• ------e 1 nuances in the ring A himself," fazed village, to bo surrounded by the Tim that I had no intention.
. . I, t' vho cheer us any further—that dav, at least. are destined to be better, or worse, ac -
sea. .Athought seizes me as the she- ing her cit, o . y top .
dents increase. Now is the time to en- out taking-, her eyes from. mo, she dna
tiro tae pink trout from their depths in on one leg; bashfuley• and. adgeted. with.
tho lake. I get out any fishiug red and the other foot. fele() was certainly not
line,.and, stretching two or three flies bed -looking, though evidently a very -
which seein suitable, ptepaee for action. rough dianimal. Even the extraoedin-
My rod is only a small„ eingle-hanclecl axe, matte:ear became her well.
one, audit! difficult. to cast beyond the . '• - I 'allow wleat y Olt was doing theme
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sedges, but the fish are risine. thickly rtIV Meet suddeuly, pointing tome even
mined 11,0t i'0 bet • eaten, I Wade in to the • • " The discovery rot being a brilliant
out in the teatil pools, and, deter- gaeon, vtas paintiuge
knees. Half a dozen trout, each about One, 7-1.Dok no trouNe to Confirm it; but
the Hatt of 'a small herring, reward lily Matt thereupon weeked over to the can.;
enterprise. , V hen I have . captured 1716 taid, stooping a own, examined: it
them, the moon is high up above the with uudisgetieede curiosity. Preseatly
.sand bine, and. it is quite dark. ' Seee glanced. agclu at inc.
e ' I know What this is,' she 'mita,
"Ouch i.tY the chronicle of the past
4ay.. Dy ike light of my lamp inside the Psl°tti•.11. 1 inegend itthsat7sP..tetrl'aeAs.1141.9.thursthtet,
Carevaa a have written. it' doevn. It has
.been all eery tranquil , and uneveatful, here'—f or a mei:lea she seemed. in
Ire.t. net,. delitr,htful, and a day to be doubt, but achlea hastily—'pigs.' . •
a-aaked with a white stone, in One re- " Naweas the eubjeee. represented. a '
flock of fume)) huadling together • eblee
to a pond. on, a, rainy common, this .sug•-
g.estion wits not over complimentary to
my artistic shill. Il7as on the point of
correctiog my astute critic, when she.
added after a moment's further Meilen- -
tion: • ' . ,
" ' No, they're sheep. Look ye now,
knowl They're vhcep.' . .
" ' Pray (fent touch the paint,' i•segt -
gasted, approaching her in some alarm.
a
Cara,van o -f thegood old English kind; With an angry exclamation. the rider 11 - 3 P ,
with stilial windows, ornamented by leaped from nis sadale. and, still holding vociferansly, under the impression that "So hero wo have been spice easter- quainted,"
white muslin curtains, with a chimney his horse's reins, threw the gate wide we constitute a ' show,' and, afterwards, dayand, up to this, have not set eyes
atop for the smoke to come through open. Then, still leading his horse, he on ascertaining their mistake, pursue us upon a single soul. Such peace and
from the fire inside; with a door be- strode ever towards the young man, with opprobrious jeers; and it is dis- quitness is a foretaste of Paradise. As CHAPTER ell.
hind, ornamented with a knocker, and who, looking. nip, sitar that he was near- treseillg to remark that our mode of life, this is the most satisfactory day I have ' MATT 'MAKES am FIRST APPEARANEE.
only lacking a door -plate to make it ly six feet high and very powerfully instead of inviting conaclence, causes us e -et spent in my pilgrimage, although it„ "Eureka! 'I leave had an adventure
quite complete; in short, a House on built. to be regarded with suspicion by the • bears, at the mane time, a family like -
Wheels. My name is Monk, of Monkslatitst," he Vicar of the parish and the local police- ness to the other days of the past fort- at last; and yet after all, what am I
talking about! • It is no adventure at all,
The driver, though rough enough, and said, e I've a eine. mind to teach you men. Wo are exposed moreover, .to night, I purpose setting down, verbatim but onl &common- ale ' incident.
, i , ce This
red with eun and wind, had nothing in to remember it"." ebullitions of bucolic humot, which seriatim, and ebtonoloeicatv, the man- — Y
0 - is how it ha-mened.:
common with the ordinary drivers of "Don't be afraid was the reply, have taken the form of beree-play on
such vehicles, and, in point of fact, he " Monk, of Monksaurst? I shall be cer- more than ono &elision. Tim has had.
• • • • le Monk. f several fights with theWeish peasantry,
was neither a, gypsy nor a trave mg am no . •
" '.1"acleeae I said, with an assumption
eaainker, nor a circus performer. Though elonkshiu•st! TA, is 'the water oil- alld has generally come off 'victorious;
of friendly interest.
,'etas Bummer time, 1&e wore a large ing?" though, oa one occasion, he would have hammock. Observe the morning sun
J. should have premised, by the way,
frieNe coat, descenaina almost to his 'For a in.oment Mr. Monk, as he called.
e been overpowered by rannbets if I had looldng in with a fresh, cherry counten- .
• Turn ove • againthat Tim had. gone off on. another emir -
heels. aud oil his head. a wideawake hat himself, seemed ready to draw his rid- not gone to his assistaxice. Generally mice at the window. i
ith a yawn, and go to sleep for an cion into the Jones territory, on the
Jones's father, though, along o' William,
" • Yes, I -want,. him to paint me,
" I glanced over my shoulder, and but he wouldn't. He painted William
—unclerucatb. which his lazy, beardless ing-whip across the yoting man's face, speaking, nothing will remove from the ea quest for more eggs and milk. '
and seinewhat sheepish face shone with but, conquering himself, he surveyed ,rural population an idea that the Cara- ether five MilinteS.
indolent good humor. His companion, him frotri head to foot with savage ate. van forms an exhibition of seine sort, " 7.15 anr,—Wake again, and discover, saw, peering round the corner of my J'ones.'
Master ()harks, as he was called, bore ger. Nothing daunted, the young man When 1 daily alight and stroll thromeh by looking at my watch, that, instead. white sunshade, a pair of large, eager I "This with au air of unmistakable
disgust and recrimination. I looked at
tilllese resemblance to the Bohemians returned his stare with somethiug veay a villege sketch. book in hand, I have of five minntes, I have slept an hour and eyea—fixed not upoli ine, but ileame the
occurred to me till that moment that she
of Bitgli'll lanes arid woodlands, He. like supreme contempt, At last, mut, invariably at my heels a long attendant a quarter. Sin•ing tip at °nee end di? canvas 1 was painting. '
etuniten hoe , would make a capital picture—just the
i the girl more observantly. It had never.
was a slight, handsome, fair-haired tering beneath his breath, • Mr. Monk train of all ages, ebviously und.er the on shirt and. trousers; then pass ou ,
* • "Not in the least staprised, I thought
sort of 'study' which would fetch a fair
young fellow, of two or three and 'turned. away, and, leading his horse in. impression that I am looking for a snit- bare-footed, into the open air. No sir to myself, ' At last I The
eo price in the market. I adopted her
twenty, in the tweed attire of en ordita to the avenue, clonel the gate and re- able ' pitch,' and am going- to 'perfonrie of Tim, but a fire is lighted close to t le exercised its spell upon the dialect, and
manner, which was con-
ary tourist, and every movement he mounted; but even then he did not int. "To avoid these and stuffier incon- Caravan, which shadows it from the the usual auclieace is beginning
made, &eery word he spoke, implied the mediately depart, but temained foe some ' veniences we generally halt in sane ao. rays of tho morning -sun. Stroll down h. • ' S 1 • t tranquillyon with . tree -and -easy
"gentleman born." minutes seated. in the stelae, scowling chided spot—some roadside nook or out -
Presently, at a signal from his mas- over at the encampment. lying common. But there is a fatal at -
ter (for suck be was), Tira drew rein ' Thus occupied, his face and fame set traction in the Caravan; it eoems to
agidn. By this time the Sun was set- in the gloomy eramework of the trees, draw Spectators, as it were, out of the
ting fiery red, far away to the west, gala he looked. even more foraidding than be- very bowls of the earth. No matter
the thin drizzle was becoming more per- .fore, His face, though naturally hand. how desolate the place we have &Mean,
Blatant. . some, was dark and. tempestuous with We have scarcely made ourselves corn-
" How far dia. you say it was to Pen- passions, his eyes deep-set and fierce, Sortable when an audience athors,gand
croes?" .his cleaseslavven jaw square and deter- stragglers ckop in. amazad. and epee: -
"Ten miles, sor " 'mined., For the rest, hi a black hair, mouthed. 1 found it irksome at first to
"The mare is tired out, I think. We which was thickly mixed with iron. paint in the open air, with a, gapling
shall have to camp by the roadside." gray, fell almost to his shedders, and crowd at my back maltieg audible com-
" ATI right, Master Charles. Therea his upper lip was covered, with an iron- vaults on ray work as it proyessed; but
a handy shelter beyant there where you gray mustache.
ti -in 13.C13: 1Occupied myself from
down to sunset.
"II axe—Wake, and see that Tim has
iready else peared and. folded up his
'T4 IMNvez and coulee off.' et
"She drew back eautiottely, and i11011 -
as a prelianinarer to further coaversation
sat down on the ;:;rass, giving )31e fur-
ther occasion to remar3c her length and
fia,3)eline8J of Inub. 'Mere was a flee-
and-easinees, not to say Waves; aeout
her manner tempered though it was
with gusts of bashfulness, which begat).
to ivies me.
" Can you paint faces?' she aehecI du -
Wendy,
"1 replica that I could even tispire to
that accomplishment, by wheel:. I lin-
derstooa her to mean portrait -painting.
if need were. She gave a quiet nod of
satisfaction.
I was seated.this morning before my
easel, out in the open air, painting bust- -
" • There was a painter chap who
ly, when I thought I heard a, Movement came to Aberglyn last summer, and .
• painted William „Tones.'
•
•
g , and. sat down on the grass op -
my work, and paid no atom attention 1 *Pm%
posits to her.
' Presently, however, fatigued with
my work, I indulged. in a great yawn, I " 'I toll you what it is, Matt,' 1 said,
,rn paint you though the
and rose to stretch. myself. I then per- ' 6'12111114Y,
r other painter chap won't,'
caved that my audience was more select
than numerous, consisting of only one 1
individual—a young person in a Welsh depght.
" ' You wine' she cried, blushing with
' Certainly ; and a very nice poi,
chimney -pot hat. Closer obsepation
on. a trait X think you'll melte. Be good
showed me that seta hat was set
I enough to take oft your hat, that I may
head of closely -cropped, curly black
a • have a better look at you,'
hair, beneath which there shone
b bo halt face freckled with sun 1 "She obeyed mo at once, and tlieew
1 -soon got toted to it, ana,having die-
sel the trees," Tim added, pointieg up At last, as if satisfied with his sem- covered certain good subjects' hero mut
road with lain whip. The young man tin , Mr. Monk tuned. his horse romul there among my' visitory, X take the
I of the reh sell rode tialleity leave as a matter of comae.
the shadow of the waocl. vett when busy Meld() I sext never as-
. tanishell to see strange noses flattened
kabinet the windows—strange faces
in that direction, and maw, alamt la a flame
a er of a mile away, thee the high- vapidly away
L7 enteree. a eark clutep of woodland.
nodded MA entJaani waled eaualle
sa.eorkl., ep, 11 eh iiwa. T130
to the lake and, throwing off what g-ar-
ments X wear, prepare for a bath. Cain
not getout for a swim on account of tho
reeds. Tho bath over, retinni and finish
my toilet in. the Caravan.
"8 A.M.—Tim has reappeared. Eo
has been right clown to the seashore, a
walk of about two miles and a half. ITe
informs inc to any disgust that there is
some Sort of a human settlemout there,
mid a lifeboat station. He has brought
back in his baglet, m epechnets of the
local products, a dozen new -laid eggs,
some milk and a loef of bread. 'Me
last, I observe, i, hi a foil state. X
ask who sold it him. He answers,
liam aeries.
"8,80 aan.—We breakfast splendidly.
Even the fossil led yields suatenance,
after it is eat • nn mut dissolved in hot
tau.. ktetween trztdios zriol informs 14e
r.:
and wind a pair of bright black eyes the olumsy *al dawn en the gi
covema with short black curia
of the whitest of teeth. But the fiiee.
side her, Then saw that her head
and it utng mouth, with two rows
d a bold, 'white • wear
the stm. She glanced at me sti
Unable. and showing, her Wlei
though boyish, dia not belong to a boy',
The young personevas dressed. in an old
eottott gown, Ind a colored Woollen
ahead on, goad thrown, coo the shoul-
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