Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1841-01-23
Vol. E--SO. NIX.
From the Irish Penny Journal.
A short CHAPTER of Bustles.

feauer, YOU may well ask that question. But some
of your sex at least know the meaning Of the word
and the of the aisle it desgna,es, sufficiently
well, though, thank heaven! there arc many thou
sands of my couuiry women who are as yet igno-
rant Of both, and indeed TO whom such knowledge
would be quite useless. Would that were in e.
qually innocent ignorance! Not, reader. h't am
Of the feminine gender, and u'e The article in quc'-
ton III, my know'elce of its mysterious uses, and
the various material of which it is composed, has
been the ruin of me. | will have inscribed on my
tomb, Here lies man who was killed by bus,ie!'
But before | detail the circumstances Of my un-
happy fate, it will perhaps be proper to give de-
scrip'ion of the article i s,lf which has been the
cause of my undong. Well, then, a hustle is
| made the discovery few years since, md up
to that time | had always horne the character of
srcc, date, and promising young mnn-one Ike
ly TO GET on in the world by my exeItions, and
therefore to he Helped by my friends. | was
! even, fitter myself flvotite with the fair sex
too; and justly sn, for was their most ardent adj
mirer; and there was one most lovely creature a
mong them whom had fondly hoped to make my
| own. But, alas! how vain and visionary are our
| hopes Of human happiness; such hopes with me
| have nyd icrc,er AS | said before, | am ruined
mrn, oil in Consequence Of ladies' hustle!
! In an uulucky hour was in bi.room, seated
at little distance from my fir onc--my eyes
watching her every air aud lo'k, my cars catching
| every sound Of lcr sweet voice-whcn heard her
complain t, f male fiend il tones Of the soflest
whls. ering music, that she was oppressed with the
heat of the p,cc. "Aly d,ar," her friend replied,
ii must lie The rF CT you busic. What DO you
stuff it with !" II H,ir-sorse-har," ives the reply.
"lIair m rcy Us - says her friend, at is no
wonder you ale opprcsscd-tha's a hot-and-hot
material truly. Why you should do as do-you
do not me fainiIng; and the reason is, that
stuff my busis with hay new hay!"
heard no more, for the ladies, suppcsing from
my eyes that | listener, changed the topic Of
convcrsation, though indeed it was not Necessary,
for al the time had not the sghtes, notion of what
they meant. Time, however, passed on most ia
vorab'y to my wi hes-another mouth, and should
have called my Catherine my own. She was on a
visit to my sister, and | had every opportunity to
make mysclf agreeable. We sang toge her, We
talked together unl we danced together. All this
would have been very well, hut unfortunately We
u.s0 walked together Il was on the last time we
ever did 50 that the circumstance ocCur,d which
have now to relate, and which gave the fl, ,ath.
blow to my hopes Of hai piness. We were crossing
Car i.e-bilge, her dear arm lii ked in mine, VII II
We chaEccl To meet male friend; aud wishing
to have little chat with Ler without incommo5ine
the passengers, we got II the edac of The flag-way
near which at the Tine there W. $ slaudiug an ol,
white horse, totally blind. He que'-l okiul
animal, and lone Of could have supposed iroH
: his physiognomy tkat be had any savage propensi
" in lis nature. But imngme my astoui-hmeu
and horror when suddenly heard my chamer Civ
2 a scream that pierced me to the very heart an,
! when perceived that III at, ious old blind bu c
t having slowly aud sly y swayed his head round
: caught thc--how shall sescnbe it!-caught m
;. Catherine-reaIly can't say how-but he caugt
j her; and before could exu.cate her from his jaw
i he made reef in her garments such as lady neve
c suffered. Silk gown, pe,iicoat, busllc-evelythinG
!, in fact, gave way, and left an openns-a chasm-
y an exposure, that may perhaps be imagined, bl
d cannot he desc h,d
n As lapidy as | could, Of course, got my fair on
,s into jarvy, aud huui home, the truth gradual
:, opening in ny mind to the cause of the disasl'
u it was, that the blind horse, hungry brute. ha
: teen attracted by the smell of my GATHERINGS bu
is tie, made of hay-ncw hay
Catherine was never the same TO me aiterwar,
e she toak the most invncible dislike to walk vii
. with me. But matters were not yet come TO Il
-, worst, and had ilduged in hopes that she wou
~ yet lie mine. had however taken deep ayersiC
=, TO busiles, aud even determined to wJge' war upC
them TO he lest OF my ability. In this spirit, fr
days utter, determined 10 wreak my vengeance {
my st,r's hustle, foE found by this time that 81
too was emulpus OF being Houentot beauty. 4
co dinghy, having to accompany her and my u
tended wife to a ball, / stole into my sisters roo
in the course of the e'ening before she went into
I'D to dr. S. and pounclng upon her hated buse, whl'
NJ lay on her toirt table | il iliced cut on 1t vi
So my nkuil,, anI retired. But what a mistake q
> makei Alas, IL was not my ss'eG's busle, but II
&C. GATHERINGS! However, We went to TIE ball. al
cd for a time all went smoothly or. took out q
Catherine as a partner in the dance; but imagl
he my horror when lp,rceivcd her gradually heoomir
,ll thinner and thinucr-loosnI her enJ0nPom-
H. she danced; an worse than that th every moS
.es ment which she described in the igu.e-the
dies chain, the ohassce-was accurately marked