KING WILLIAM AND HIS ARMIES.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume 5, Issue 1275, 11 January 1883, Page 3

KING WILLIAM AND HIS ARMIES.

!. .(concluded.)' .-' : -'' - .■ ? '" : i Mr pillage postmaster.' was a person jwetry (reading it, I mean), and he was heard to say l SeVeraliimes afterwards. that it reraMghpsejthbugnt) fc^, than any fight he had over, witnessed,' of the famous ra£se)seS BioMle and Mara o|i, U^.plain.of',Twy<i.ußi\ii' the schoolmaster, who was a;Homeric scholar, rather intimated, to of theadvanced pupils'tliat Mr Bowdendid not Beom | |p v him.;quite ) clfiir mind whichi.was Mars'injjl which Diomede. For a fctfigfo; "and that: with an fllieHeiiced-.'ahtdgonist;'- MiBill conducted himself wijh.'surprisiugv dexterity in t^^g^^^f, blows, and;wwlien : eva'^B,, v^as L aiibt successful, with becomi)ig,jfoi'titnde;. 11 wns 'i h °Mer )r a tiresoh»Whnss>i He showeilthat, and in one of i;his ; ?.best, 'when, lie''W' withdito'hin'^e|(frim : the Jfcturn, he had tlib' corn-cob thftV.iia'p ; p(aje.d; to be lying in.his rear.' This ,turning' beneath lost his balance,;and the him. W fell to the grtiibd'.upon'iia left side.-: ; '" 'TlieroV.inpwiJ' .said Miles, Bijhkly; 'hadn't it b'eeii for that;confounded corn-cob—' nt '''; ;, i ; ;' ''.'' . ; Unable to finish what he would have' said, he raised'his hands oh high, and' clasped them in intense grief. Whispering to Allen a, jew words, he took his handkerchief aiid'"covered his. eyes for several moiriohts,V '"'".. 'Bill,'saidlilen,"Miles says.hold. on as can; If yoli git too badly used upJie'll. help you to take careofKbm ! 'and.Eenie.' Then S& Bill Williams was worth seeing, though .prostrate on the field.' These words fell upon his ear with a force irresistible..' But for Mr Bowden's incertitudo,'as':.to.'the impersonation of those combatants of tbo heroic age, he might have compared theso words of Miles to those'of Pallas—

boundless in hisire-r-!- : .;i'' Pallas • commands and, Pallas lends the force.'.. ''....

As it Bill said 'Kom' and' 'Reme' and-then'gave a groan that sounded less a 'groan than a roar! And then, in spite 1 of the superincumbent weight, ho suddenly reached his arm around the colonel's mck, and drew his head to the -ground. It was; said of Miles Bunlty-by people of veracity, and' thoso who had known him longest and most intimately, that this was the only occasion during ..Me whereon he-was' known to have shouted. Then,, with, the mildness, yet the solemnity, of an experienced good man, whose, admonitions thereto haveKgohe unheeded,' he remarked to the'colonel, as thc/latter'iT body was slWly'Biit'inevitably folloV-,, ing his head beneath Mr Bill, like the stag in the anaconda's mouth— '

1 You see howitis, Mose;l told'.yoiv; if you dictn't' mini],.-' you'd ketch'th<s> molloncholy youraelf some day."'"' ! '; f'' The colonel," apparently Concluding that the sajd,<as.; distinctly as he cpuH l; ~ j',", .■ J', ',:>.. > i •;. ■ ■■..->. ' Stop it, Bill j, I give it up.' . ' Let him up; Bill,' said. Allenj \ you, got his word.' ' , : '..' "No.sirPiidf till'he's apologised. He's jest " acknowledged: ;himsplf whipped; he hain't'apologised.'. 'l'm for liavin' ' hurted' your feelin's, and your wife's,' said the colonel. ■.'<■•'•■>. ,- • .'j

' So fur so good/ enawered, Mr Bill/ and leisurejs(retehed himself at ease on his foe, as jt,hV, : wpuld repose after his fatiguo ; -'so,i-_-..fur so good but what abont'ißomerlus Williams; ,and Kemelous Wjllia'ms j'■ ; , i . V'; He the full names of Ws boys except on impressive occassibris.: 'Comeßill'said Allen taking him by the arar, ,v ' ! eriough's enough.' Mr Bill rose with the reluctant air of a man roused from a. luxurious couch whereon Jiet'had been indulging, though noMothe. full, in sweet sleep and sweeter dreams. ■'> '•' " v

The colonel'arose, and, unpitied'by all, slunk limpingtaway.' : Miles Bunkly, the tears in ids eyes, laid his hands-ttf -Bill's shoulders, and said—" I knoVfed; it were obliged to be in you, Plian/cf it,could.bo fotch out; and my, respects of a certain person was that, that bowed she'd fetch it out in time. It's, done fotch out,; and from this time forrards you: and yourn may go .'long your gaily way down the hill l o''!ife, arid alf'l got to Bay to you and thenijJVilliam, is go:ifc! And now go wasll your face and hands, and go 'long,home4o happiness' iind bliss. Idon'tsay you\nev ( cr,deserved 'em before, but I do, siiy .you.- deserves, them now.'

'My!' sa,id:Mr.:;Bill, when*, he 1 hid ' washed and was feeling the kifots and bruises on his face and trying to open his eye-'my (but ain't it tiresome j I'd ruthur mauy'aife.all day.'ithout my dinner, or break two. of old. Molly's, colts, mules at'that, than to hav9.tQ.go through sich as that again. Thanky Miles, come and gee &JI ellow.,:; ■ ■■■"■'■ ';■■ He bade jufadien; and went-home) where southing in the bosom of. his family Kim that is'woiih relating. Kenews having preeeded'him, ; his wife, a pious 1^' woman'; was a .liftle, troubled in her mind'at Mftr'Vaving given to her husbandfeeling that was flot:entirely consistent with duty ■ yet when they told her the whole story, sl& wise; .laid Mfo [ k er work, went to her chest, gototit\h«ir, very best fo«JEMseii' #W) olj her children's Sunday clothos, including many a ribM-KtHat; had survived its ancient wi>toj&*my<i& herself arid 1 them to his return? The whicker of old molly at the foot of the lane, and the'answer of in the lot announced, jtheijoyolisi momeW Dismounting at his gate, Mr BiHtquM fain, have indulged styw'®WMd •goodly Bight jJwfc ; on - e!of them '•tfaVJeritirely arid He became a¥ar?b'f the" rußhing Into" his aims of a f his wife, to and the wtiehiie rather thougtyiwere familiar: mM ears. For U* their father «et up a . '. You - Rom teJeffie A lafii3«d,thfl : indignant woman,-laughing thewhjfy

'if you don'j #pl'Mvcryi'ng :aiuk I wakjng out like you don't know your father; I'll skin ypirboth' alive!' Comb 4 back.]jere, and as much as,whimper, .'l'll'pull off them ribbins, strip you to '/our shirts, and,putryou'ito.bed. without a mouthful for your supper I' They came back, did thoso boys. '"• ' Look at him,, sirs ;,don]t;tell me you' : don't know him; who is'it f " 'Pappy,' said Bom, <Ht;a : i.venture, followed by Borne. , jv! Aiid aih'ti-iie -llie 1 grandest' mari J tliat'sa-livjngj!. : _ _,.,.,. -,.,-. 'Eth'm/said'Eom! ,: , ! .''. _' Etri'm/ said Reßife; '' "' ''Noiv :! git Wnmd v thar, .tod le's all ifrarcliin,' ' Aridwe : did niarch in,' said Mr Bill, )fsrwiisi—' ; me, ;and,Car'line, and Bom, [and Eomo; and as we was a'marchihg'ajon; I if I didn't-j-like King William at ,the head' of his armies." : !; , ; ;■, ~ ,Mp ( cs Bunkly had become too fond of.his I'mollonchdly' to let it depart entirely, but its severest pains subside iniiim/now that the rival who had been preferred-W'him had justified the -preference; s!) "'*■■ "" ."' ' "' ' '.fMy. Respects of William Williams,' he ;wiiild- often-'say,- 'is that, that it Wcpnci^eme aiid 'dp my'.mollpiicholy. good that he's thb.husband and the protectory as it were, of—well, ef I should nttmo'-the name, it, would- be Car ! line Thigp'en that were.' j.JFor some, weeks immediately following the day of the fight he had been observed,'"'from 'time to time, in the intervals of other business, engaged with/a work-seeming to require much painstaking, the/result of which will immediatelyappear. -..:/• "'Onemorning Mr Bill, standing in his door, called to his wife—- , '-f Come here, Car'ljne, quick! Who and what can them be yonder a-comin' upto4hegate?.Somebody, 'pearslike' a-leadin'ofapar.o' dogs hitched to a little waggin' ■■',■

Mrs Williams, looking intently;'at the comers cried— :

■ 'lt's brother Allen, leading of a par of calves yolked to a little cart.' She-Vas right. ' Good gracious ;brother—'

But'Alien'paid, not the slightest attention to his sister, not even saying good morning. ■ :' Here, Bom; here, Berne '(his business being'with them), 'here's present for you from Miles Bunkly; and he is particklar charged ine to tell you, and which ef you weren't old enough yit i to ; have !sense enough, 'twouldn't be long before you would be to understan' sich langwidg'es, that his respects, of your father was that, that he sent you the ifollerin' keart and steers, and .which he made the keart with his ownhands, the paintin' and all, and likewise broke the steers, and which they're jest six months old to-day, ■and which yon m'oun't believe it' but ■th'ey^arVtwm,calves,; them ...steers is, of his old cpw Speckle-face, and which ho say is'tho best' and walliblest cow Jmever posSessioned, and which them ,I»ij the very.%ds he.'said.',.....

wThen, turningtto. his'.-sister and 'his-' br6ther-in-law, he said—

, •'•Mawhin'.sister Car'line, mawniii', Bill.' ■!-.,... . .

Mr'Bill'roared with laughter-; Mrs Bill sW tears in silence, both in their abounding gratitude. .'" f And twins at'that!' said Mr Bill, '.jes' like Bom "and Reme!' V

•' 'An idea struck him as with tho Biidderiiiesß of inspiration. : ' vaguely; 'does you know the~names o' them steers f : ,'No. Bill, Miles didn't-' ;., - 'Makes no odds if he did, I names them steers; arid you'Sc'e they're exactly alike; excepting that that one in the lei(d'gofc-the roundest—a lettle the rouridest-j-blaze in the forrard.' ( . Go'ing slowly to tho latter and laying his hand upon his head he said—- " This hevo steer here is name Mierbis." "■;

Then walking slowly down around the cart and up to the other, he laid his baud upon his head, saying—,'lThishere steer hereisnameßunkerlus." : ~

Then he took his boys, lifted them into the cart, contemplated all with. a satisfaction thatWd no bottom to it, then waved his hand in preparation for an Waiigu'e' that' few other. things could have prevented than that which immediately transpired. Miles Bunkly himself appeared at the. gate, and walked in,, his, ,fac&' wreathed in melancholy smiles, j; '.'"-■.•!■• • • "Why,! Miles, 'you blessed ever'fellow!" exclaimed Mr Bill. ~. They were', people ,too; honest and plain to feel'any embarrassment. The generous donor at once • took the cart lines into his hands, and ;led : the. procession several times aboutthe' yard and the lot, .as innocent, and in many respecte;as.rcuch a_ child "s, those .on whom fife had .bestowed n iis, gift; ; The. ardour of Mr BjlLc.o,lld. ! not'be subdued as he looked uponvtli'6 scene; like thosdin wife's eyes came into his own, and he said, softly, to her and to Allen—"! never'spected to live tosee sich a skeue and.sich a ewent. Thar they: goep,| Bome'rlus Williams, and Remerlua Williams, and Miles. Bunkley hisself, and the keart aridill; anil I'll channe'iige,il don't say, this, county, but this whole State o' Georgia, '.to .prejuce* J and prejuceirowent' as 'lovely as-the present skene and the present lewent'.on this lovely mawriln'likb, '-,lt ia.looklike, Allen—it do look'like the .families is united and jined laJfo. Bill's up with 1 jnßtenough'flpace left to allowjof breath;* TOJWSS iiot another word, ),S[ r \M\",, . Miles,.whenj' the visit' ■ b'eing'over, j they-'-were on their, way .bpme/P.to think of William'/a-cbiipiinj. along with ifcen^'lpvelx!. fyi&^l'W&fa™? expects to git entirely joWlnf rac-lloh'&pljyj ; I,jteJljrpu, never i as nigh, of to of ric9pled toit." ,• .■ ■...•.■ : ,. v :|