The Virginian. [volume] (Lynchburg [Va.]) 1822-1829, 1827-03-16

Jenny said country woman 10 her
bnxom daughter, during one of the warm
mornings OF lasl summer, Jenny ye'll
AVA 10 de town and bring hane a bot
tic o harm wi yc yeast. Il was the
preaching days with Jenny, and having
trystcd to meet her Joc,' she nodded
an assent 40 her mothers commands with
beam m her eye thai bespoke rs much
love as obedience. Having according
" lost no Time IN displaying her charms
10 the best advantage, she plunged a
qunfl bottle III among the sundries which
mover fail 10 occupy the capacious reccp-
tac!e dcnominatcd by country damsels,
SIDE pocket, and so smnrtly tript her
away 10 town, that she was h4lf " on
her return before the sun had reached
his meridian. y Whether it was thai
jenny had been seized with more than
Ordinary feeling oil devotion, or that the
willy god, bolug ina folicksonc humor,
had resolved on playing oil one his
pranks upon her, Nc shall not pretend
Ia say, but certain 1t Is that Jenny, on
, her way homowards, was ust passing
the kirk as she got a glimpse Of Der Joe
stepping into il. Regardless of he well
corkcd bottle Of barn, Jenny instructive
| ~ pursued the same course, and set her.
self down beside blowSy wife from
Dollar, who had travelled dozen miles
! ,hat morning to hear lhr word in It's pu-
rlty, if moi To retail il still more dclecia-
| bly,, on her return, To the droWsy gus-
sips Of hen parish. jenny had scarcely
time 10 luoh about her, oil the vacant
seal behind her was occupied by m e.
! on lily ponacrous per5onagc, IN the shape
81 horse coupct's wllc from the wcst.
II d Jenny been thinking more of her
mother, and less of her sweetheart, il is
lilla ~ II would have occurred to her,
that so SIN 1T a walk, and SO walm day,
were sufficient to have reused 10 a state
OF rebellion more quiescent matter than
thit winch dangled by her side and thl.
way wooded bringing IT'S heal to fhepro-
NOkina temperature introduced by her
own person on one side and that Of the
morse couper's wife on the ether. Be
these things AS they maV, the heat lhll
hal commenced 10 seal Jcnny's eyes in
peaceful sllunbcrs, acted 50 powerfully
an ihe turbulent properties Of the BARN,
ihll an explosion was inevitable. Soon
after Jenny had taken her seat The bot
tie pop It's neck oul, rs ii resolved on
tantaiizing a lhifsy cobcr, who sat d.
rectly IN front suffering 20, a LILLE from
the libations Of ihc previous evening.
The only eye he had was dir, cited to
the bottle rs II anxious to be better ac-
quaiuted wi is conlcnts-when sud-
denly with terrific report, ont flew the
cork followed by a far portion Of the
angry ilqaid--t 9TH pursuing their course
so directly toward, the unsnspecting OPP
tic, thai they family closed the poor son
OF crlspn's only inlet to dayli't. The
cork as smartly robonnded, and striking
: the noso of knight Of the shuttle rous-
cd him whilst gaping obviously at the
pulpit. The kirk was all in buzz
and every mothers son, aye and diagh-
ter too, with outsirctched neck to as
ceTidln lhe cause. ne lllssry, c&-
claimed the bowsy wife Of Dollar,
she's poisoned my clacs,' Preserve
us if she has ma stickit the minister
whispered the horse coupcr's wife.
Jenny, coon as she discovered the cause
Of all this conius.on made her thumb
take place Of the corh--but uniortun1te-
ly proving either 100 large or too small
for stopper, the enraged BARN occa-
sionally made its escape, producing a
species of music that kept contentious
time with the doletul diliy of poor en-
my, as she hurriedly moved off, exclaim-
! ing preserve me, was ever woman in
sic a predicament. Stirling Jomnol
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