South Branch intelligencer. [volume] (Romney, Va. [W. Va.]) 1830-1896, 1835-05-30

rum in great establishment, "what's all
this7 what secret are you talking a.
bout 7"
"The woman" said Mrs. Dolderum,
bursting into tears.
"The woman
What woman 7"
"Wby, the -b.black woman, you
vile, vile, worthless thing, you. You
pretend to make strange Of it.-l've
found out your tricks. | got at your
secret when you was asleep. put the
'east under the bed, and you blabbed it
all out, you did,"
What all out ?"
"About your leaving me to run after
black Maria, as you call her."
"Black Maria Ha, ha, ha !! Black
Ma-ha, ha, ha F! Well that's a good
one, wife, I'll be hanged if it amt"
It's quite laughing subject, aint il,
you brute you 7"
.sDid I talk in my sleep, wife,"
"Did your yes, to be sure you did.
You told all about ii, how you'd have
her, let it cost what it would. And
you called her beauty"
cha, ha, ha Shall l tell you what
| was dreaming aboutf"
81 know as well as you can tell me. "
"Perhaps not. The secret is safe
yet. But you shall have it. l was
dreaming of neighbor Haycock's BLACK
MARE"
"Black mare Is that all 7"
"That's all.''
"But you called her beauty, and
said her name was Maria.''
"All that's true, whether / said so or
not. She's beauty of a mare, and
her owner calls her Black Maria"
"But why did you mention my name,
10 connection with mare 7" said Mrs
Dolderum.
"Because HaycocL' asks a thousand
dollars for the cretur, and l drempI
you'd scold like thunder, If / laid Out
so much money upon one horse"
$50 l should, MIR. Doldeyum, il
| you'd done such a thing before this
blow up. But Pm so dreadful glad
| faint no worse-my heart is so reliev'
ed Of its terrible misgrievings-tha,
you may buy twenty mares for whaI
| care"
Hereupon Mrs. Dolderum wiped tbs
blood from her husbands face, threw
away the cup Of yeast, and gave hel
jealousy to the windshield York
Transcript.
A SNAKE SToRY.-The New York
Gazette vouches for the following as q
true statement.
"a few days since, but a few miles
distance in New Jersey, a large hawk.
seemingly in great hunger, was discov.
cred towering over the barn yard Of a
cottage, eagerly watching his oppor'
tuniiy TO pounce upon the poultry be.
low. After repeating his visits for q
few days, he was fred at, but being
missed, did not afterwards make his
appearance the course Of a few
days the gentleman who made the shot,
was walking over the neighboring
grounds when he discovered a dead
hawk, apparently but short time de-
prived Of life. Upon examination, the
cause of the hawks death was discov.
ed to have been the swallowing of a
living rattIesnake, which had eaten out
of the stomach of the bird, and nearly
through the skin, near the craw. The
snake was about eleven inches long. -
The hawk was no doubt the same that
eagerly watched the poultry, but fear
ing to return, and becoming famished
for want of food, was obliged to ca. his
snskeship. The stomach of the hawk
contained no food; it was stuffed, and
now graces the private collection of a
naturalist"
Frogs.-Until the year 1896 frogs
were unknown in Ireland. AT that
period frogs spawn was taken from
England by one Of the Fellows of Trim.
ity College, Dublin, and distributed ia
the bitches of the University pleasure
grounds, from which lime these jun
pers spread themselves from field to
field throughout the whole island. Ad-
ders have yet no existence in Ireland.
Lancet.
An Ancient Building.-From an
article in the Philadelphia Gazette, we
learn, that "Penn's Cottage"-.he first
house built in Philadelphia after the
arrival of William PENIS colony-is
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