Burlington hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1845-185?, 1845-08-07
No. 1 1

C0ytSdip. Sally. the house.maid,
pairing apples in tie corner. Enter
Obadiah, who sat himself in the corner
opposite 10 Sally. without saving
word for tifieen Minutes, bu, finally
breaks silence with,
There's considerable imperceptibe
altering Of the weather since last week
Saily.-'Tainl SO judcious and in
d1oiable cold as twas; the thermoni.
can las lowered up 10 four hundred
higher Than zenith
Both parties assumed grave and
knowing look and long pause. Fin
ally Obadiah gives his pate another
narrowing scratch and again broke
silence
well. Sally, we chaps are going
to raise sleigh-ride, its such in
imical good shedding tomorrow
Saly.-.You are' Our folks are
snsPeeting Company all day to NOR
row.
Obadiah. 'spose they'll have
nsatate times ont. should be indef.
nitely happy if you would disgrace me
with your company, should take it as
derogaiory honor; besides, we are
re-calculatin to treat the gals copious
well on reasons and blacksirap.'
SalIy.-'I should be supernatural
glad 10 disgrace you, bul our folks
suspect company; cant 60.
Obadiah sits scratching his head
awhile, at length starts up as though
new idea had come upon him.
We'll, now III 90 home and thrash
them are beans what have been laying
down there in the barn such darned
while Exit Obadiah)
Links. - Honest industry has
brought that man to the scaffold," OBJ
served wag, as he saw carpenter
upon the stage.
Speaking Of wags-what is more
wagglsh than a dogs tail when he is
pleased
Speaking Of tais-we like those
tales best thatend well-IIogg's Tales,
for instance.
Speaking Of Hogg--we saw sow
l. ing in the gutter The other day, and
IN the opposite one well dressed
man, the first had ring in his nose,
the latter had ring on his finger.-
The man was drunk, the hog was so.
Der, A hog is known by the compa-
ny he keeps. thought we. so thought
the porker and Off he went.
Speaking of going off, puts US in
mind ct gun we once owned. 1t
went off one night, and we hav'nt seen
il since.
f I Nay BE 50 Boit.-A gentle
man on his way from Boston TO Yer
mont, stopped al a tavern where he
met an inqnlsilse country fellow, who
said 70 him
Where have you come from if
may be so bold!
Not bold at ALL come from Bos
tom
Where are you going, il may be
so bold!
I'm going 10 see the widow NJ
Are you married man, if | NAV
be so boldg
i am a widower'
Are You going to marry the widow
NJ, II | may be SO bold'
That's two COMPOUNDED 6old!'
No, Catharine, said Patrick to his
wife, you never catch lie coming ou,
OF my mouth
You may well say that replied
Nate, they 1v out of your mouth SO
fast that nobody can catch them.
4 Promising Boy.-'Fa,her.' said.
lad of our town, father. do fisher.
men catch drinking wives in the river,'
'Poh Why do you ask such
question:
Why, this paper says that fisher
man lately caught lots Of ale-,cives, and
papers don't lie
Susan, pni that boy TO bed. imme-
diately. There's no nnowng what he
may do!
Gone 10 Parts unkRoUa. The
Aenla Torchlight records the disap-
PN"A 1h'N VI a 1Citdii
fnco, who was the regularly nominal.
ed candidate foI the Post Office in that
place. The reason assigned for his
exit is, that the Grand Jury indicted
him for Forgery!
Dreadful Inptety. On the trial of
Andrew Anderson, the wretch who
fired the Ch1rloue street church. Ken
sington, in the Criminal Court.
il was shown that he kindled the fire
with the pulpit bible. Such case of
sacrleee is perhaps not on record
Phil. Ga1.
Curious Circumstance. gentle
man residing in the upper part of New
York. says the Mirror. feeli uncom.
iorlably warm in bed, took pillow.