Martinsburg gazette and public advertiser. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1826-1833, 1830-10-14

ihers was a sofening in the good LADY,,
brow, and as she gathered up her dishes. She
seemed to collect her good humor. She a
vowed that the cheese mightnot have been so
sscd as her last years, and offered that he
nlsht Try any that wascut in the cheese room,
ana admitted that two days before, she told
her husband to tap a new barrel, but he
could not find the spike gimbl.t
The pedlar declared he dinna care as to
me material o. hls dinner, fer whilk lac wur
thankful and to the Teddy who had provided.
But said he, Il wad like to ba rlimn AZ yer.
guide mon. He wad like to hearfrom an auld
frisa Did nc nae gang upon the seas in itLer
daysn
The dame rubbed her spectaclos with the
corner ell her apron, and said, yes, hard
tunes ne had too, and when | married him |
stopped his sea faringlife: poor man he had 10
h'e on salt beef and no turnips and cabbages,
nor nothing else for months, and then instead
OF drinking cold water right out of the spring,
he was obliged to take it out of a cask where
1t had been three months and then on dark
nights had to climb up rope ladders to haul
IN bis sheet, and that too when he was almost
troze-and then to keep a log book, when
there was no wood to make a fire in the ship
and then to see to the cook, when there
was nothing to eat in the vessel. And then,
TO cap all, he went TO Scotland where they
stick up posts for the people to rub their backs
against, was himself obliged to use sulphur,
andcame home smelling terribly OF birthstone.
during this speech the pedlar Looked seri-
Gus and humorous, and once or twice rather
WINGED under some undetinable feeling
:Weel leddy,' said he, sthe people o. Scotland
are not the waur folk after a.. They like
their kirk and kindred, and never fash them.
selves about ither folk natter
In reply she asked of what she termed the
eatlandish man, whether he belonged TO scot
land. Upon an Affirmative answer, she then
told HIM that her Jonathan had received a
great favor, in them are foreign parts'-and
If he come frem 'thereabouts,' he was vel
come to stay a month. While this converse
ton was IN traasitu, he was ransacking his
wallet, and finally produced a silver thimble,
which he offered to the woman, observing
that the zane she had on, WAS o. brass and
wad bring sores she declined and said she
had worn her own twenty years asd did not
like to change it. She then went to what is
called the sink room door, and blew a tin
horn to summon her father and progeny nome
from their labors.
la a short period the summon was obeyed
by a sturdy weather beaten old man, a strap
ping son of about 90, six feet high, a blaze
/ CyNd FS1tI Vi dpOut lts tdlC dUd SIklt, anu
a young girl of a little more than %fiftees, bare
footed and beautiful, except that the sun had
cheeks too warmly. The old man when he
came in cast a look Of inquiry upon his wife,
and then ON the stranger. His wife said that
81 pedlar (pointlng him out) had como from
Scotland, near where Donald M'Saunders Ii
we'd, and she thought he might like to ask
after the man who had given him such a lot
oil money when lac had not got but six cents
in his pocket The old man shook hands with
the stranger-sent his six foot son 10 tap a
barrel of his best cider and began in the
true style Of New England, to a
conversation by observing ii was rather warm
bad travelling, sc.
In the mean while the eyes Of the pedlar
had twii.kled over the inquirer, or rather ia
PRODUCER Of speech, and every body else, and
in broad Scotch. replied, 1t is nae like the
braes o. Bannockburn.'
The old gentleman looking closer at the
pedlar, replied-'No sir, and il seems that
yeu are acquainted with those braes?--hayc
you any acquaintance in their nsigbborhood?
Pedtar. | ken ma muckle about them.
1tcist. Do you know Donald M.Saunders?
Il. A leetle-aae gude-nac guide.
4. Why. you will not say any thing against
him-hs was a rIch and hospitable man
would do a favor to a stranger?
p. Thes we know MAR about him than |
ken and we need IA have speered at me.
4. who are you?
Z. A pedlar that ha' mad a guide bargain
wi your guide woman for curds-chcsse and
the saul meat, and the vim cider, ssshe will
attest.
Il. What is yeur name?
L. OF nae consequence to you-tak' yeur
money for my chees or | gang about my bu-
siness.
4. No, sir-no sir-you have slandered a
friend of mine and you shall answer for it,
the friend OF my young days shall not be ira.
| duced now. | have sons to protect him-If
they cannot, | can
p. Vera weel. Let me gang my ways.
T. No ECU stir not until yeu tell more.
u. Umph-I am the maitland viii thank
your lang legged chield for the cider-whilk
is better than the last, begging your pardon
Mrs. Twist and 'Auld lang sine to you, bet
yankee wine.
Z, Are you Donald M'Saunders?-but you
look like him--you a pedlar? and in this
country too? why? this farm IS yours and all
| have. You carrying a pack. sons, dassh-
ter, wife-all Of you! Here is be who owns
all that we possess-his money has fed US
with our labor for years. Do any thing and
every thing which he says ysu must do, un.
less against conscience, and | knew he will
not tell you To do any thing against thai -
Here he shook the pcdlar By the hand with
no counting room grip. The pedlar preser
yine his gravity said. that he dinna like the