Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1845-10-09

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Stretched in boundless beauty lies.'
is situated charming little cottage, nest
led ia shade, and the seclusion beneath
the foliage Of overshadowing boughs.--
On the piazza in front Of this dwelling, d
venerable sucker, (nameG Gordon,) wa.
seated, one Summer afternoon, building
dreams Of thrift as he surveyed his plan
tatou, enameied with heavy crops ripen,
ing into plenty. Now, as our sweetest
dreams are ileetest and quickest TO close
it is not strange tina, has, although pleas
ant, were soon terminated by some one
shouting -
"HalIo, old dad"
"t1allo yourself and diskirer how il
feels" be retorted, and turning simulta-
neously with his reply, his eye I'll upon
a young man, stranger 10 him, leaning
on the yard.le
"Xcuse me" said the stranger; "may
be you mought be so clever as TO tell a
chap who owns tbat're wheat field up a.
side the timber, won't you 7"
avail, will own it,.
"Dew say !" said the stranger. "Bul
amt il mighty cute that you allow four
legged animals and SIGH critters to be in
M"
"Bu, DON'T" said Gordon.
81 seen boss in it though as | kun
along" remarked the stranger, dryly.
"a boss IN M wheat 2" exclaimed the
Sucker. "Zangs and Lightning !--Here
Butcher! Santa Anne. here, h ere.
His call had the effect to bring forth
two dogs, one hound, with legs half as
long as an Eastern Schoolmaster's. the
other bull, the peculiar quirk Of whose
under jaw might lead you 10 msirust that
he was ever fond of what the knowing
ones call the ''grab game. Attended
with these, he trotted off in shot haste, y
The dogs wagging their tails as their old
master wagged his tongue urging them to
pursue.
The young stranger after wagging his
chin little awry, aud INDUCING in light
laugh that made him look suspiciously
waggish, walked TO the cottage door
and, then, without ceremony Into the
paror. Here, fiudlng himself alone, he
commenced survey of the apartment. -
Before he had much leisure, however
either to observe or admire the taste and
elegance combined in every thing around
him,h was entransed by gushes Of arich
wild melody, succeeded by the sound Of
igh; footsteps, and instantly fitted crea
ture Of beauty and COMBINES into bis
presence. Oh! that far rosy.cheesed
damsel, the very pcrsoniication Of bIithe.
ness. She was startled though, when her
soft blue eyes encountered the stranger
and was hastily Withdrawing, in doing
which, she CHANGED to cast another glance
her coJntenance changed from fright
TO gladness--she uttered the name, ellen.
ry Lesle"--and then ran-not out of the
door, but smack into the young strangers
arms. Wha; an extraordinary actin
lat. u-a ton. She let hm-iet him-kiss
her, TOO aud listened 10 his impassionate
language-w what did the girl mean
Their conversation will, perhaps suffice
10 explain.
"Clarisse," said the stranger, "Clarisse,
my beautiful idol, | have come. to claim
you for my own"
80 Henry, fear that our hopes will
never change to realities. | love you,
very, very much; but my father disikes
you merely because you are Yankee
lawyer. He is obstinate and will not
CONSENT" and the rosy flush fled the la
dy's cheek.
''Do not fear, Ciarisse," said Henry
Leslie. 81 can and will remove bis pre-
JUDGE. know how to work on farm !;
and as he does not know me ! will hire
to him under an assumed name, and by
the merit OF honest worth and virtue win
place in his affections.
Their hopes excited, and consequently
their anxlelies iulled by the reasonable
ness of this plan, the two seated them
selves on the sofa and enjoyed those
bright, angel, plumed delights with which
reciprocal OF love inspires young hearts.
When Gordon returned, however, he
'oNhN NV ulvhps O'ntio-
SO having deemed it prudent to retire at
the sound Of her fathers footsteps. Cor
don was glad that the stranger had tarri-
ed; he wished to give him "pealing,"
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 Quirk seen boss, dead one, in
tbat're very wheat as kun along"
Oh but old Gordon waxed wro,h at
thus learning that he had been sent to
drive mere skeleton from his field; yet
the yankee contrived to calm his ruffled
feelings, and hire himself to the Sucker
to "dew things" closing the bargain with
the impartial agreement that they might
"hocus pocus" one another as mach as
they pleased; whereupon Gordon tickled
his inner self with the conceit that he
would make our hero suffer for al! the
wrongs he had endured from Yankee
irlckery. even from The time of his buy
ing clock from Connecticut pedar,
which he said kept time backward, down
10 the period when the New York petit
logger wished to marry Clarisse.
Respecting Henry Leslie he had been
IN early manhood an enierprising young
farmer endowed with broad and beauti-