CHAPTER XII - HOW IT ENDED
Mr Salteena by the aid of the earl
and the kindness of the Prince of Wales managed to
get the job his soul craved and any day might be seen
in Hyde park or Pickadilly galloping madly after the
Royal Carrage in a smart suit of green velvit with
knickerbockers compleat. At first he was rarther
terrified as he was not used to riding and he found
his horse bumped him a good deal and he had to cling
on desperatly to its flowing main. At other times
the horse would stop dead and Mr Salteena would use
his spurs and bad languige with no avail. But
he soon got more used to his fresh and sultry steed
and His Royal Highness seemed satisfide.
The Earl continued his merry life
at the Compartments till finally he fell
in love with one of the noble ladies who haunted them.
She was not so pretty as Ethel as she had rarther a
bulgy figure and brown eyes but she had lovely raven
tresses a pointed nose and a rose like complexion
of a dainty hue. She had very nice feet and plenty
of money. Her name was called Lady Helena Herring
and her age was 25 and she mated well with the earl.
Mr Salteena grew very lonely after
the earl was marrid and he could not bear a single
life any more so failing Ethel he marrid one of the
maids in waiting at Buckingham palace by name Bessie
Topp a plesant girl of 18 with a round red face and
rarther stary eyes.
So now that all our friends are marrid
I will add a few words about their familys. Ethel
and Bernard returned from their Honymoon with a son
and hair a nice fat baby called Ignatius Bernard.
They soon had six more children four boys
and three girls and some of them were twins which
was very exciting.
The Earl only got two rarther sickly
girls called Helen and Marie because the last one
looked slightly french.
Mr Salteena had a large family of
10 five of each but he grew very morose as the years
rolled by and his little cottage was very noisy and
his wife was a bit annoying at times especially when
he took to dreaming of Ethel and wishing he could
have marrid her. Still he was a pius man
in his way and found relief in prayer.
Bernard Clark was the happiest of
our friends as he loved Ethel to the bitter end and
so did she him and they had a nice house too.
The Earl soon got tired of his sickly
daughters and his wife had a savage temper so he thourght
he would divorce her and try again but he gave up
the idear after several attempts and
decided to offer it up as a Mortification.