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Q. Did you not look at any of them? A. No. It did not occur to me to examine their names. Q. You probably noticed that there were several of them. Among the pile was one by Alexander Wynter Blyth entitled, "Poisons, Their Effects and Detection." Did you notice that? A. No. I did not notice any of them.
"It's not much of a story," he said at length, "but it stirred me up a bit at the time I don't mind telling it you if you think it sufficiently interesting." We filled up our glasses, and lay back in our chairs to listen to the following tale: * "When I was at Trinity I kept rooms just above a fellow called Jimmy Wynter.
But the Proctor of that year, Jelf, happened to be the most-hated official of the century; and the furious groans of undergraduate displeasure at his presence, continuing unabated for three-quarters of an hour, compelled Wynter, the Vice-Chancellor, to break up the Assembly, without recitation of the prizes, but not without conferring the degrees in dumb show: unconscious Mr.
Finally having devoted the parliamentary grants and all available funds to the equipment of her fleet when it was evident that a French expedition was on the point of sailing for the Forth, she allowed Admiral Wynter to put to sea; with orders to act if opportunity offered, but to declare when he did so that he had transgressed his instructions on his own responsibility.
Lieutenant Wynter brought these back, as an escort to the guns. On arrival at the village, the brigadier at once sent them to the assistance of the Guides. He counted on his own two companies of Sikhs. But when Worlledge had moved off and had already vanished in the night, it was found that these two companies had disappeared.
He had been young Curzon's coach at one time, and finding the lad a kindred spirit, had opened out to him his own large store of knowledge, and steeped him in that great sea of which no man yet has drank enough for all begin, and leave it, athirst. Poor Wynter!
"What is there in Everett's cupboard besides the beer?" demands the professor angrily. "For Heaven's sake! attend to me, and don't sit there grinning like a first-class chimpanzee!" This is extremely rude, but Hardinge takes no notice of it. "I tell you she was kind kinder than one would expect," says the professor, rapping his knuckles on the table. "Oh! I see. She? Miss Wynter?" "No Mrs.
And on the top of this disaster, the long delayed foreign expedition landed at Dingle Wynter having withdrawn and Smerwick was re-occupied by a force mainly consisting of eight hundred Italian and Spanish adventurers. The rebellion seemed to be reviving everywhere. Ormonde, again marching into Kerry with four thousand men, accomplished nothing.
At the end of May, the English fleet was collected at Plymouth, a squadron with Seymour and the veteran Wynter being left on guard at the East end of the Channel. The admirals were again anxious to seek out the Spaniards and give account of them in their own seas, but supplies were short, and Howard was again definitely ordered to remain on the coast.
Every now and then a groan escapes him, mingled with mournful remarks, and extracts from the sheet in his hand "Poor old Wynter! Gone at last!" staring at the shaking signature at the end of the letter that speaks so plainly of the coming icy clutch that should prevent the poor hand from forming ever again even such sadly erratic characters as these.
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