Litchfield enquirer., 1829-06-25

me die rst.because ishould be much easi. CT in my grave. if thought you s'Oedby 1t crying"
 :" Ellen, that is aIl fol-de-rol. 1 don't calculate to die this fifty years and I don't calculate yOW will.''
 "Ho I live fifty years-I would sOon-
 " Hush !-Ellen Fleming. you may live as long as you please; but so long as you do live, intend to love you with all my soul--I do-how white your hand is-- how you blush! oh, Ellen''-
 "What, Charles 7'' M s-~@ .
 "Why, there's the minister, and there's the church; and here are we."
 "Well, what of that 2" -.@.#
 "I want you to go with me to the min- ister's, while get him to go to church.- It's week day, and I'd rather be married on week day."
 "Who are you going to be married to ?"
 "To you"
 "Very we'll" J. o. B. r. F. Be Short. Sane people have round about way of getting at things, which is as wastcful of time as it is trying to the pa- tience. wish the printers would notice it in the paper, and advise every body, on all manner of fsubjects, to be short. shall be SO. '~~ts-e 5se
 What can>be more vexatious, when you are just going about your ordinary business, and perhaps in hurry too, than for some idle fellow to take you by the button to say !" "only word" and detain you half an hour in durance vile, listening to a story without beginning, middle, point, or end, in which every little particular is intermingled with interminable Aggression, silly comment, and tiresome inanity. Take such one by tho ears, and tell him be short, under the pen- alty of losing them..
 My neighbor, Lewis Longyarn, has cost me more than two cows are worth, within six months, by this very species of i'll man.. ners, and yet he thinks himself one of the cleverest chaps in the land ,and laughs thro' all his stories, as if there was a spice of wit in them. He accosted me to-day, us I was going to dinner-and this is an important business with me, for I am an old man, and my working days are nearly over. :" Good morning uncle Oliver, I've word to say to you" We'll De short, I'm called to dinner" {" o yes, I'll be short ;'' but e. gad, before the fellow had explained how the pig had got into the cellar and over turned his milk pans, the pudding was as cold as a stone, and worthy Dorothy al- most uttered a complaint. 1 ssalg .Istt' s4s
 Short speeches, ,short stories, short court ships--a wise man will always 6e short, in these things. never knew ashort sermon that was not liked fOt 1t "a short story that had. not m0rsi pith in it----a short co0ftship that, was not more fortunate than long one. I showed a lad, who had been run- ming after his sweetheart two years, old cousin Jereimah's long purse, which meas ures half a yard, and had but q single six pence at the bottom--he borrowed it to take down to Charlotte, and they both took the hint from it, and got married at once. F4i S@ KY . But the fashion ofthe times is contagious tell all the story-tellers, and speech rna- kers, tell all manner of good people how pleasant a thing tits to be short. D
 OLIVER OAxwoop.
 "lS BEING"
 Mrs. M. Phillis, is the pot boiling?
 PhilEs. Wy, Missus, what shockin grammar you talk you should say, is de pot being boiled. .'. '1& ''''s h'
 Mrs. M. Why, Phillis, where did you learn this new sort of grammar Ba
 Phillis. O, loddy! Missus, wy Mr.. Cato Cuffy he. talk it, and Sambo Cesar he talk it too-and all de lgemmen talk it. Strange Missus, you shouldn't understan it fore yet. ts~ Mrs. M. learnt different sort tOfgram- mar in my unilnrrsan dn sla and lnAAnnls, [