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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Times, 1885-4-2, Page 2BIG FISH. MY 'the 11 r ssdr, "'1 SllAll tion c=e sac2szlea ` CATARkII- A NEW TREATMENT. t at se 2 h 20 h f aina2nd t n thee p "Press 0 Illi that ren is on the otha hand, and rs' p h Y my waking hours? The revulsion of I feeling was too much for me. 1 fell on continued I annotnsay, but I pros- entiy came to myself and found a small , crowd a•.r Ie n d Mrs. Jones hold- ing a largeHwerful smellin bottle to my nose. ' a 'T ass,�r e h on .xtn ceiv t go home. And wagent home accordingly, in sol- emn silence, as we came. On my arrival 1 found two letters sent up from the office, also a copy. the Fishing _ Gazette. The first letter was . . from my friend Brown, and ran as fol- lows: DE4tit JoN .s; That pike of yours has. created a re>.ugar Controversy in th• Gazette. 1 sends copy for your perusal. Tile most contradictory opinions prevail as to the way IToe caught him. Strafe maintain on throw n Thames tole, some in Nottinghaw. You are reported to have used no less than seven different kinds of iti::ht, including two that nobody ever heard of, Sorne say ;our catch was made at Tenbur -, some at Tuthury, some at Newbury and some at Sunbury. You are reported to have used a gorge -bait, a live bait and a spinning bait:and one idio declares that you spin with a live belt. The funny thing is that all these statements are said to be evade on your own personal au- thority. Do. for goodness sake, dro the editor sa line sad set them right. Yours ever, IIL'stenRTr: liaowla. I groaned and opened the other letter. It was as follows; Pwaia'L'rou'LWTtc North ;Vales,—Sir Ithln. Of all sea•nu irels the Ivan who, at a safe distance, deliberately appropriates an- other man's ohoihet14As s thy, meane-tet. I find that 'ou have taken advau:a,e ot the ]accident lin possessingthe MOW name as thyself (a name of whk'li I shall here: forth. be ("stunned, since you shake it) to take the credit of any recent fishing success, as men- tioned in the aazetfe. I write by this post to the same paper to expose your contempt- ible coaurt, and trust I may have an early sisPortanity of pa• nl°r . your nose. IMannaDPK$,11. JOa'ars Here, thou, was the solution of the mystery. There was another Marren - duke If. Jones, solicitor, and howasthe real Simon Pure, the hero of the big fish. But to live at such an unearthly place as I'w m -thing -finny no wonder 1 could not find him in the "Law List. I took ug the book once more end look- ed out the disgustingg little place. There he was, sure enough. So simple, and yetmsterrible, mysto le, was the explanation of ry. I have confessed all to Mrs. J`on and she has graciously agreed as I did not really catch any fish after all to look over it this once. I have written an. abject apol to my infuriated namesake, who taken no notice whatever of it; and now. by Mrs. Jones' advice, I draw up this plain, unvarnish- ed statement, to place the matter fairly before the public, and to rehabilitate, as far as possible, my damaged reputa- tion, One word I would say in conclu- sion. I noticed that a popular writer in a current novel has made his hero wrongfully take the credit of another man's book. I do not mean to suggest that this is as bad as taking the credit of another man's fish --in fact, from re- cent observation, t should say that it would be regarded, at least in sporting circles, as a very mild offence in com- parison. Brit lam quite enre that that popular writer, if he is a kind-hearted man (as I have n0 doubt he 15) ''ill be positively appalled, as he goes on, at the amount of misery he will bring on his unfortunate hero. I do implore Trim to pause while there is yet time and let. the offender make a clean breast of it at once, before he begins to feel the mental agony I myself have experi- enced. the floor in a de ad faint t How long I was it? '.Pile papers said Tenbury, and so Brown told me the same thing, but Philpotts assured Inc that he had it from your own lips that you caught it at Sunbury, and Tomkins was just as certain that it was at Newbury. "Oh, Philpotts is mistaken; I never. told hien anything of the sort, and, as for Tomkins, he's—he's lost his math- er in-law lately; and forgets thine—be doesn't know what he's talking about.* At this point my wife struck in, Mrs, Jones is a very charming woman, but the least bit inclined (her only fault) to be jealous, and she has an exaggerated, not to say morbid, idea of the perfect cantdenee, or, rather, eontldenttalness Which should exist between husband and wife. I don't pereelve that site tells me much, but elle expects meto tell her everything. For the last moment or two sine had been looking from me to Culpepper, and from Culpepper to me, in a manner whicin denoted, on the matrimonial barometer, 'stormy." "11r. Jones'. )larma.rlukel this is something I ant not to kuow,Isuppose. What is it all :thinly() ?air. Culpepper put on his blandest smile. 'Oil, you know all about it, my dear madam. 1 utas only referring to your lilntil,anil's great catch—thebig fish that he hooked :tt Tenbury," "Ir. Jannesl Te-nbinrgg! and a big fish. Mr, Jones hasn't hooked a big fish. or any other fish," Culpepper felt that he had somehow pat Il'+ ton: ill it. It was obvious to him that for some reason or other Mrs. J. had been lit pi iu ignorance of the big fish, and he did his best to retrieve his error. "Didn't lie, really? Then I must have been mistaken, Some other Jones,per- ha ts. lt'S not an inrc an11UhIl1 name.- ".No, ale." " o, ,l1r, Culpepper! It is Very good of you to try to semen him. It is a point of honor. among you men, I believe, to shield etieii other; but I am not so easi- ly put off,1 can tell you. hair. Philpotts bail the particulars from Mr. Jones' own lips, yen said—consequently it is clear that 4 i. Jolles has eaught a ash (though I shouldn't have believed it of him), ants! that the fish had been con- cealed frclu me." Poor Culpepper looked extremely un- comfortable. 3.s for myself—well, Mr. 1(fnglake has recorded that the late Emperor Napoleon used to turn a pale green when rat the presence of the Nlle- Iliy I never believed the story till that evening, but 1 din now, "But, .R111a.", I &("lel."it isreally noth- ing to mate a fav about. I assure you I t1x111t`t--1n". I mean' did --cutch but it was Olt.t ata accident, and shan't, (wt•ur again." "No. Mr. Jones, there is a mystery here nit elf I ante determined tofathom. You have a aught a fish --a large flail it seems. i% 1.. re is that fish? Why did von not send it to your once. happy borner Mrs. Joni8 °],faced at. me as if she thought the fiat was at that moment concealed about lav person. I believe I wa,5 alaout to ,ar-•war (forgetful of its dimensions) that it wasn't worth bring- ing home, or that I had eaten it all my- self, self, when Culpepper came unexpected- ly to the rescue. "I can relieve your mind on that score. !Sirs. Jones. Ir. Jolles sella it to his collection► at the Fisheries Exhibition " ("Goodness (';r tciults." I thought, "what a liar the maul is. though he means it in kindness, nen ilnubt! j 1 Was there my self vesterday." This \% is tile "IIs with the cusum• stance" tis+th a vengeance, And yet there the nn to 511t, a5 cool and Collected as if he were repeating the multiplication table. How I envied his cam com- posure'. But the fiend tv, at on to say: "flake him take von to see it, Mrs. Tones, if he hasn't already done so," Le eantinued; "it is really worth seeing. You'll find it in the second or third case on the left, just as you enter the gallery." "He shall take me to the Fisheries . , d , i. iat tw :1 y -roll[ hours older." rt'p}ied qhs. Jana s. "I will get to the bottom of this somehow. I wish you g;nod evening, gentlemen," and she sailed out of this room. ""What on earth possessed yon to sug- gest that;" I remarked ruefully to Cul- pepper, as the door closed. `'Very sorry if I've done any mis- chief," he said; "I really thought it was the best thing I could say. I am ex- tremely sorry I ever introduced the sub-. ject; but of course I couldn'tguessthat your wife didn't approve of your an- gling n gling excursions and that you had made a secret of this little matter. She is afraid your hobby mi ght interfere with business, I suppose.' "Yes. that's it," I said, only too glad to iumn at this straw in the wav ner- p1a••nfinn and Cnluerper shortly anter toe" • • l .,nen \Vj, h torr(• 1 anti pated the Inevitante explanation witn s. Jones; but it was postponed, for I found she had taken up her quarters in the spare room for the night. My hair is not gray, with ,ears or other- wise "nor grew it white in a single night, as mea have grown through sud- den fears." But I am quite surprised that it didn't. The next morning Mrs. Jones came down to breakfast with her bonnet on. "Where are you gong, my dear?" I ventured mildly to mqulre. "I am going with you, Mr. Jones to the Fisheries Exhibition." I felt that I was going to still further shame and exposure, but there was no help for it. What 'Mrs. Jones would say or do when she found that there was no fish of mine at the exhibition I shuddered to think. We reached South Kensington in sol- emn silence. Like a condemned crim- inal`ust screwing up his courage for the final attentions of 'the late Mr. Mar- wood, I followed Mrs. Jones to the "Museum" Department. We entered the gallery; I glanced, involuntarily, to the spot where, according to Culpep- per's account, my great catch ought to have been. Great Heavens! what did I behold! A handsome show -case, sur- mounted by the name of Marmadnke II. Jones in large gold letters, and con- ta ning stuffed fish of various sizes and descriptions, the center object being a monster pike. I felt that reason was tottering on her throne. Had I really naught all the fish and didn't know itl fieri I a somnambulist with a double -'xi stem, catching fish (and sending hem to the Fisheries Exhibition) in •:iy sleep and forgetting all about it in erg, an excited w Asper; as ketehed all them k. it, da her Mrs. lrat I was reviving;. ,h r "We , 11 defer explanatious1 M. Jones. T4 a had better BY THE BALTIC. Who eliooseth me must give and Haz- ard all he hath,—lfe: chant of Voile?. "Lieschen, child. 1 must say adieu. I know nut when I shall see thee again." "Adieu, then, Gustay. A pleasant journey to you! If you didn't come back for fifty years you would find me still here, milking the cows and attend- ing to the household. Life here is much the same year by year." "And thou wouldst not fret, Lieschen, if 1 did not come for fifty years?" knew spoke as though he scarcely knew whether to jest or be in earnest, and stood watching her with a wistful, doubtful smile. She was making but- termilk cheeses at the dresser by the scullery window, and he was leaning in over the window -sill with apipe smold- ering mold ering in one hand, while the other kept breaking off little twigs and leaves of the roses that clambered, all round the window, and made a pretty frame to his sunburned face and broad shoulders. Lieschen laughed at his question, as she shaped the little white cheeses all -speckle d over with caraway -seeds, and did not look up. "You would be about a hundred years old then, Gustav, I think," was the only remark she made. "No, come, Lieschen, that is cruel of ne. saw Her scanaing rner wn1-- ana the sea foam on thea day when he weds you. I am only thirty-eight—more than frightened. "We want the nurse." another. But there is never, never twice your age, it is true,but not nearly Then he turned to the old woman, found a man. He gives his love to a gt rt0 her lips when she saw t e deathlike ei'l apsthe moat elctraordinary success the Givemeaek ss now, andsay Imre pallorofpthe face lying backonG to ' •,; be"�' achieved in modern medicine hal 113 X 3 sen attained by the Vixen treatment aur ea eft that rxh. out of a 'gate. eat the Lieschen 1111218 her ;lead, and her bigshe must a very quiet if she would not •'..t nix m. lithe. fully ninety per cent. have brown eyes tilled with tears, t t w,a u it �s me," supporting shoulder; but she i 2. dril p w treated during azir attention o he fact that she had ; n cure, of this stubborn malady, •rxia is noes startling tvhe ' remembered b "What, crying!" be remonstrated, come in unbidden. ' t n. t Live ow cent of patients. presenting taking her chin anhi eat rough hand h:.l,,, and he n ing 'face rotnl at town"y. T oder htai` then Gustav, helping with his een- ' gentlyunfastened and laid wliy, s " •.:;els! , � ou s o� se eyes. gaged hand, � . theyoung man's coat,disclosing a O e rtltt o YA t y g mye M'� pp Ir 's1�1 about?' ppeexn�. Art net p k" lint r" it a white shirt all soaked with blood.. Xes quite she Bald with es', *IVY DAM took the linen from her ns. • lt•e> to the reetilar practitioner are be- vrrthont noticing her at all,_ and littect. u, .nree i, �tdlit a ouioiues and othll vtat'.cdanies Haver recordacure at ait- ., • , �� itl' the claim a e loci now generally a.elioved •• e ins. F' a o=.•naiSo wee that disease is due r • ,r'•.i:<t.ofwringi,srasitesinthe ti -Mie, ix i nee adapted hie cure to their' : ti la ii't --tt it accomplished, he claim" fast; is praot •e at•;+ cured, and t2•e per. Lieschen, p ". "Cut it—cut it!" said Gustav imps= you would let me alone, Gustav,,ulI am tiently; "there's no time to lose" yyeurs now—what more do you wants Whata pity! and the linen so fair Yon say have no heart; can't give and fine,"lamented the nurse, in an u2: yaawhat I haven't got," dertone, "The lad is noble, no doubt, "Why, that's true. Give me kisses "No doubt," echoed Gustav; "but, insenou h for fifty ears, in case I tead, then," said he, magnanimously noble or not he must die if we can't —"enough y do stanch this not, at once. If only I not see thee again,"had both hands freel" ho muttered, ex - "Stupid old Gustav!" cried the girl, asperated at the tremulous slowness of laughing and struggling. "There, that the old WOMB. "ibis won't do and will do! Put me dowu, Gustay." not a soul in tieliouse to. help! Here, "Ach! See now, these lovers, these 1 Lieschen, you—must be useful, Come. lovers!" cried an old shrill voice in the and hold up his head'—so, so—upon doorway. "Tears and smiles and kisses, your shoulder. Lucky I've seen so kisses and smiles and tears! So runs much of this in the war, and know what the world away, and the old,folk are to be at," he remarked to himself. And forgotten." Lieschen knelt and took the heavy %ieschen eounts me one of the old fainting bead upon her bosom, and folk, nurse," remarked Gustav, pausing closed her a es to shut out the eight of to speak, but holding his prisoner help- less -the while in his great strong arms. "Tut, tat, child; :Not .many maidens of 16 can boast such a fine, brave lover as thine. with his broad farm and his grand new house and steading, and everything heart can desire, Not but what thou canst bring flim linen enough to stock the house, were it twice the size at is; but he had no need to week out a simple child like thea to be his bride." "So I tell himmuse. rse. I didn't want hint- O Gustav!" ller speech was smothered in his great red beard. "Good -by, dearest.' he said at last, putting her down, "",fake care of her. for me, nurse. I don't think it will be fifty years before I come again," he ad - dell, urnipg to Lieschen as he went out, "though to me,at leasst,itwill seeni. twice as long." Perhapsthe wistful lookinhis eyes, or thess that cret Ithis voice as he said these last w orris, touched the girl; perhaps she loved him after all; anyhow, before he bad crossed the threshold she ran after him and slipped bier hand into bis. "I'.11 go as far as the gate with you. Gustay." she said; and they walked away down the yard together. "Looaren'tthey growingg� fast Aks, nd the chickens, too! And look at those la�y geese; they do nothing but feed an " leave him to your caro, nurse, card than stoop. I)tt you know. I brought themof Herr Method.You will explain it all up, every one of theme —what little we know—when he returns "Ay, ihou'rt a bravo housewife, I�j,ie- to -night Good -by, heart's darling! schen; said if thou lovest thy fath er Thou 1"t be a first-rate nurse ere I come now, and servest him so well. I d uh agatn, and he kissed his betrothed on not thou'bt levo via when the time eaither cheek, and went away, comes. Adieu, herrifehdicer! Ile Food It was drawing toward evening. A and happy, and don't forget me elar" familiar clatter of wooden .shoes on the "No, you dear, good Gustav! Adieu! outside told Lieschen It was time to go Come soon again!" And so they parted. ("milking. Site stole out. tied on her "Nurse." said Lieschen, re-entering great sun -bonnet took up her stool and the scullery, "how do people come to pail and followed the women away to 'nave Hearts?" the meadows, as she did morning and "Du !fella hi»lmclt ;What does the evening all the summer through. child mean? Hearts? Why. they aro The shadows were growing very long both so!" exclaimed the old woman, and the colors fading in the western taking off ler spectacles, the better to sky when they came back; and Lieschen see her young questioner. "What art still had her young ducks and fowls to thou chattering about!" shut up for the night. As she crossed "Gustav says I have no heart. nurse," and recrossed the vara --now with a can she replied; sitting on the old woman'S of water, now mint the pail and stool knee stroking her white hair, "ancl I ready for the morning—she st'ng in a think lie is right. How do we get a shrill, sweet voice some of those lovely heart?" laintive volkslieder—tboso "songs of "Herr Gustav should rejoice that thou love and longing'," of endless wander - bast none," said the old nurse. looking ing, seeking, and yearning, that have thoughtfully into the bright young face sprung from the heart of the German with her dim eyes; "rt comes by suffer- ; people. trig—suffering and sorrow and trial,and ' Before going into the house, all her weeping, and loving—loving brings it work done, she wandered through, the all. They say a heart is like the steel i garden, under the heavy -laden syringa 'n iron; 'tis there, but you can not have and bowery wildernesses of roses, down it till it has gone through the terrible , on to the sea -shore, and stood there, fires and been beaten on the anvil. The dreamily looking over the smooth wa- food God save thee from finding thine; p ter into the fading sky, and listening to or truly I think it would he thy death, the plash of the little waves failing on my little flower." ! the sand. She thought of what Gustav "Gustav is very good to me,"murmur- had said about the mermaid, and ed Lieschen, slowly turning he ring on ' thought it would be sweet to float away her finger. I think I do love him; he on the quiet tide under the glimmer - is so tall and broad and strong—he could ing sky, and see the little stars light up kill me with one hand, nurse, I de one after another in the golden green think." up there, and watch the flights of birds -beside! SOMA nonsense the child i winging over, and sing beside the boats does talk!" exclaimed the nurse. "But i of fishermen at their nightly toil and see" she said, nointine to the window. ', dip down at sunrise—down, down "is not that thy Gustav come back among the seaweed forests, where again? Run, child, and see what brings strange wild creaturesswim in and out, him." • and the sea -flowers bloom, and the mer Lieschen ran out into the yard, but , maids sit combing their long, golden stopped suddenly short, petrified with A hair under the tideless Baltic sea. fear at the sight that met her eyes. She was a strange, romantic child, "Bring him in—so—gently," Gustav this Lieschen, full of dreams and long - was saying; and two farm servants fol- ing fancies; and this seemed better to lowed him, bearing between them the her than to be a creature of flesh and apparently lifeless body of a young man blood. with a human heart and human —the head fallen back, the eyes closed, 1 none ana tnessea WItn Lae love or man. < blood that atmost overcame her, Now and then, when one of those' gasping moans broke from him, she opened them quickly, and gazedian tear- ful distress at the white face so near her own, and yet seeming, too. so far sway—half-way into those coli realms of death that are so very far of tritium who are strong and young. "Yes, he is noble," aha thought 10 'herself, trying to keep still and patient under the weight that began to make her limbs ache and tremble. "Iiia hau . is like the sunshine. and all waving -a- like that picture ot an angel in my bible," she thought, noting hien: curl { ously; and. his forehead is so white that ite veins show through. No doubt a bele an officer, --this she merely infer- red from "the knightly growth that fringed his upper lip,"—"and howbeau- tiful he is! Gustav is handsome. but , not like ltltn," and she could almost have laughed at the idea of a compari- son between great, broad Gustav with his sun -browned face, fine, rough-hewn. features, and big red beard, and tete delicate refinement and almost woman* 17 /alines ot the ocner race. At length Gustav released her,and bid the ad, as be called him—be ook- ed about five -and -twenty --gently down en the pillows, "Ile map do now, he said after watching him a little while. `l1 mutat the lips parted the hands hanging limp- I And they live three hundred years, 1 down, the clothes stained dere and she murmured half aloud, as the light there with blood. died off the sea, "unless they strive'to "Run away, child, run away! 'Tis no win an immortal soul by the love of a sight for thee." Gustav called out. when living man; if they fail they vanish into fifty. And it is something to have a who had come out, and explained rap fine farm and a good new house, and idly; Lieschen, instead of running the only carriage in Iiugen, even if your away, listening eagerly to every word: husband is old enough to know white "There has been a duel—unless it was from black." darker work. We found him in the "Yes, I know," said Lieschen, indif- wood up yonder 'bleeding to death. ferently; "but there is plenty of time Where can we la him down? The yet" nearer the better—here, on this sofa?" Gustav Baler bit his lip and frowned "Oh, anywhere yes!" cried Lieschen, uneasily as he looked at her. brimming over with pity. "Thou dost not care, Lieschen 'tis And so they laid him down on the plain to see," he said, bitterly. "I think sofa in the little sitting -room, and then thou hast no heart at all, for all thine Gustav, not unkindly, but quite irre- eyes are so sweet and thy ways so gen- sistibly, put Lieschen outside the door. tle. Thou'rt some mermaiden from the She stood there with her hands press - sea here, and one day wilt vanish like ed together, every nerve strained to in - the foam. Is it not so?" terpet the sounds that came from with - "I didn't make myself," retorted the in, half muffled by the loud beating of . girl petulantly,"and I never asked her own heart. you tcome afall in love with me. "Ach, Gott! If only he be not"dead!" - If you're not satisfied" -she drew the she murmured, as the stillness seemed gold betrothal ring from her finger— to grow intolerable. - Then there came here's your ring. Give it to somebody a low, gasping moan of pain, and she that has a heart for you." heard Gustav say: ! He left the window abruptly, and she "He is coming to; water now, and glanced up, flushed and frightened, not linen." knowing what he meant to do. The Then the old nurse came out hurried - next minute he came in at the door from ly. Her eye fell upon the girls white the yard, and went up to the table • face, and she sent her to fetch a bundle t where she stood with he ring in her open hand. "Come, come. we musn't quarrel," he said: peaceably,replacing the ring, and drawing her on ins knee as he sat or of old linen from the press in the gar- ret as quick as might be, while she her- self went for water. When. Lieschen came flying back the nurse had returned to the side of the wounded man, and she stole in after her with the linen. She could hardly creature of his own sphere, and the foam ever gathers on the sea. IPI were a mermaid, though,"—a shy proud smile gleamed across her face,—"I would not fail. Lieschen was sitting in the sick -room one hot summer afternoon, her patient asleep on the couch, and the warm, fra- grant air floating in with the murmur- ing of bees at the open window. Her work lay in her lap, but her hands were idle, and her eyes gazing dreamily out at the sky, while very, very low and softly she sang:"War ich ein Vogelein." "Brava! brava!" murmured a voice from the couch behind her. "A sweet voice and a sweet song!" - Lieschen colored at his praise and went and knelt by his side. • "I thought you were asleep. You are stronger—you feel better, life is coming backl' she said, in a voice quite tremu- lous with joy. "Ach, Gott! you have been so ill; do you not know it?" He smiled faintly. "How long have 1 been here?" be ask- eti"Nearly three weeks," she answered. "See how thin!" and she lifted up the hand that lay on the coverlet and show- ed him how wasted it had grown lie looked at it with a tang= sol, of curiosity, and then let it fall heavilyb his side, and turned his head on the pillow to look at her. • n. 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