Sunbury American and Shamokin journal. [volume] (Sunbury, Northumberland Co., Pa.) 1840-1848, 1842-10-29
From The Rochester Advertiser.
Advantages OF Dandyism.

Advantages Of Dandyism.
Some time in June last. very respectable
and thriving farmer, having an unexpected call
to the city, did not stop "to clean up''-in o.
ther words, to change his field dress for Sun
day fixing" but hurried off Iust as he was, not
experimenting that he was likely to disturb the
more refined olfactorics of any body by the ne
glect, much less subject himselfto the ridicule
of any of civil bpeds. 1t so happened that his
daughter, beautiful creature, Of more GOOD
sense than pride, was staying here at a friends,
at the time, but did not expect to see her ia
ther on that day, nor did he intend calling on
her. The farmer after performing the most i'm
portant business that called him to the city,
went into store, where he was Immediately
selected 10y one ofihe clerks as the subject of
sundry small potatoe quizzings, but of which
the victim appeared most marvellously TN con.
scious.
As good or i'll luck would have il, at the time
this interesting sport was being enjoyed by this
vender of fancy articles, the daughter of the
qulzzed was in the store, with large group of
her sex, and soon became concious not only Of
the presence of her father, but also of the very
laughabe experiment being essayed upon him.
In a moment her face was in a glow, while her
eyes flashed with unwon,on briIliancy, but
these were Immediately succeeded by marble
| like paeness-her mouth became most rgidlv
compressed-a glance half ptiful and halfscorn-
fu, was directed towards the clerk, aud Lucn-
da T---was hersclfagain. The father pas
! sed out without having discovered his daughter,
nor did she scemdesirous of making him aware
| of her presence-the reason for which was best
known to herself
The evening following the incidents already
narrated, there was a gay and select party as
sembed at the dwelling house of one of our
cilizcns among whom was the beautiful lucin-
da T--and the magnanImous experiment
would not have taken even casual observer
long To have discovered that Miss Lucinda's
beauty of feature and no less beautiful figure,
had made most dangerous assault upon the
conclusion ofthe party, he seemed and decided
ly was "a gone case, and the chances were
nlncty-ninc 10 one, that, but tor permission sub
sequenty granted TO call at her fathers in the
county, we should have been called on to chro-
nlcle another "Sam Patch" catastrophe.
We will just skip over the occurrences of
two long weeks, and quietly scat ourselves
where We please, provided the place selected
gives fair view of the witty clerk and his
charmer Well, there they were seated, each
at the window of the splendid dwelling Of the
sors and yardsticks is looking the unu,terable
at the fair Lucinda, while a sarcastic smile is
playing around her lovely lips, making him
dream he is monarch of all he Surveys 1t was
n moment of deep intcrest-but suddenly the
silence is broken by Lucinda, who pointing
with her taper fingers towards the road, eXclal-
med, "see, Mr.. L., what queer looking man
there is making toward the house" delight
ful," rcjolned the lover 'the identical old fellow
who afforded me no little amusement in the CT
~ the other day. Never saw such laugha-
BILE old codger in my life As am christian,
he is coming right into your parlor.' Sure c.
nough, he did come right in-and no sooner
had he entered her room, than the young lady
rose proudly, and turning to the poppinjay with
over constrained pollteness said permit me, Mr..
L., to make you acquainted with MY FATHER,
who was so fortunate as to conduce great
ly to your amusement in the city few
weeks ago. Had the waters of the Ontario
come booming up the Falls, thus appallingly
reversing the order of nature, the lover could
not have been more completely stupified than
ne was by this announcement
His neither jaw fell down below his crava,--
his eyes became fixed and distcndcd, and so
wild and so haggard was his look, tha. even he
would not have known himself had a mirror
been held up to natura.-This could not last
The triumph of the saucy beauty had come,
and the lGver was but too plainly sensible OF ii
therefore mastering all his courage, he rose and
without nod, dsrted from the house-leape,
into his borrowed buggy, aud in a moment raj
sed such dust as to shut him from view
Scarcely did he breathe for the first mile of hi.
flight but abopt midway of the second he 5,
far mastered his feelings as to INutter in
! woebcgyne tone-"btb by thunder"