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tails as their old master wagged his tongue
urging them to pursue.

| lhe young Stranger atter waggIng ms chsn
a little awry, and INDUCING in a ght laugh
that made him look suspiciousy waggish,
walked TO the cottage door-snd, then, with.
gu, CEREMONY the parlor. Here, find.
ing himself alone, he commenced a survay
of the apartment. Before he had much lei.
sure, however, either 10 observe or admire
the taste and elegance combined in every
thing around him, he was entranced by q
gush of rich, wild melody, succeeded by the
sound of light footsteps, and Instantly fitted
a creature OF beauty and comeliness into his
presence. Oh thai ar rosy cbceks{ dam.
sci, the very pefsonIacation Of blitheness.
She was startled though when her soft blue
eyes encountered the stranger; and was
hastily Withdrawing. in doing which, she
CHANGED 10 cast another glance-her counte.
nance changed from fright to gladness-she
uttered the name, Henry Lcslie'-and then
ran-not out of door, but smack into the
young strangers arms. What an extraordi-
nary act-infat.u-a.ion. She let him-let
him-kss her, too, and listened to his i'm.
passionate language-why what did The girl
mean7 Their conversation will, perhaps
suffice to explain.
'Clarisse said the stranger, Clarisse my
beautiful idol, have come to claim you for
my own
20 Henry, fear that our hopes will new
er change to realities. I love you, very,
very much; but my father disl,kes you mere.
y because you are Yankee lawyer. He
is obstinate and will not consent, and the
rosy flush fled the lady's cheek.
DO not fear. ClaEisss said Henry Leslie.
Il can and will remove his prejudice. l
know how 10 work on farm; and as he
does not know me will hire 10 him under
an assumed name, and by the merit Of hon.
est worth and virtue, win place in his af-
fectons.'
Their hopes excited, and consequently
their anxieties luled by the reasonabeness
Of this plan, the two seated themselves OH
the sofa and enjoyed those bright, angel
pumed delights with which a reciprocal
Of love inspires young hearts. When
Gorden returned, however, he found the
young stranger alone. Clarisse having
deemed it prudent to retire at the sound Of
her fathers footsteps.
tarried he wished to give him 'pealng,
for he had searched the field over and found
no horse.
Now don't blame ME, old man. said
the Yankee, for surer than my name is Dick
Qu,rk seen boss, . dead ope, in tha,'re
,v'y whua. u~s--Weh~s- IT.
Oh! but old Gordon waxed wro,h at thus
learning that he had been sent to drive a
mere skeleton from his field (; yet the Yam.
kee contrIved TO calm his ruflled feelings,
and hire himselfto the Sucker to dew things
closing the bargain with the impartial agree
ment that they might 'hocus .pocus,' one
another as much as they pleased; whereup-
on Gordon lickled his inner self with the con-
Gel. that he would make our hero suffer for
all the wrongs he had endured from Yankee
trickery, even from the time OF his buying a
clock from Connec ticut Pedler, which he
said kept time backward, down 10 the period
when the New York pc,,itogger wished to
marry Clsrisse.
Respecting Henry Leslie; he had been in
early manhood an enterprising young farmer
endowed with broad and beautiful domain
But being moreover gifted with an excellent
smack of intellectual powers, he had been
induced to forsake the natural avocation foI
one, perhaps better bcliuipg his ambition
taste and ability, law. In The village where
he studied and practiced, he became &C.
quanted with Clarisse Gorden, who had &C.
companied an aunt from the west, with the
design Of completing her education al one d
those mertorious institutions for female in.
siruclion with which the eastern state!
abound. They loved. The aunt wrote te
her brother, old Gorden, soliciting his con-
sent for Clarisse TO marry, explaining affairs
&c. Gorden answered, stating that h,
should ever negative his daughters wish I,
marry Yankee, who it appeared was TOT
lazy to work and hence had resorted 10 pct
lifogging. He also instructed Clarisse I,
come home Immediately, under the protec
ton Of an elderly lady and gentleman
friends of his, then about TO return from tn,
east. CIarisse was obedient-wepl-obey
ed her father.
Love, we all know, is like wine, mocke
and sometimes proslrates It's victimes b!
= mysterious intoxication, Something Of ihi
kind befell Leslie. His noble upheavings O
desire, his earnest of ambition, were 10 stand
; The excitement of business of practical liz
became charmless. And within the lapse O
a twelve month, we find him as first presen
,. ted 10 the reader, disguised nd under an as
sumed name, language and demeanor. en-
! tering upon plan to win his 'Iady love- b.
! the sweat of his brow. Herein was center
ed the ordeal testing the purity ofhis aiiec
ton and proving it as pure and clear an
untainted as the waters ofa mountain spring
He was willing to labor for her like the pa
triarch on record 10 toll, 10 endure tn
wri,hing and rack Of bone and sinew. Grad
ually did he win his way into the old man
esteem. On good deeds he laid the has
= and building up Of a good character. B.
: his steady application and his practical ski
. and ability to labor, he substantiated a repu
ta,ion for industry and from experienc
=, combined with book knowledge, superiorit
: IN the pursuits of agriculture. In the latter
: Gordon was particularly aadshied to him
he acknowledged his worth the planta,io
too expressed it legibly. Nevertheless d
not know what have been the result had not
circumstance occurred propi,ious to the low
o er. II was this:
j. Gorden was very unjustly prosecuted b
neIghbor. Arriving at the court at tn
G time summoned, III was a Justices trial) h
Il found every body there whom he wished
e see bu, his own lawyer. The Justice Above
" him to delay the suit TO The farIhes. limi
Is that the law admits of-s,ill no lawyer. H
10 would not be beat for q hundred dollars