Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1845-09-04

from the time oil MS Dnylng CLOCK oI
Connecticut PedIar, which he SAID kept
time backward, down to the very period
when the New York pe''ilogger wished to
marry Clarisse,
Respecting Henry Leslie; he had been
in early manhood, an enlerprlsIng young
farmer, endowed with broad and beantl-
full domain. But being moreover gifted
with an excellent smak of intellectual pow
ers, he had been induced to iorsake the
natural avocatIon for one perhaps better
BETTING his ambition, taste and ability
law. In the village where he studied
and prac,iced, he first became acquainted
with CIarisse Gordcn, who had accompa-
MED an aun, from the west, with the de-
sign of completing her education at one
of those mertorious institutions for le-
male instruction with which the eastern
states abound. They loved, The aunt
wrote to her brother, old Gorden, solicit
ing his consent for CIarsse TO marry, OK.
planning affairs, sc. Gorden answered,
stating that he should ever negative his
daughters wish to marry any Yankee
who it appeared was too lazy to work
and hence had resore2 TO petItogglng.-
He also instructed CIarisse to come home
Immediately, under the protection of an
elderly lady and gentleman, friends of his,
then about to return from the east Clar.
isse was Acknowledgements obeycd her
father.
Love, we all know,is like wine, mock
er, and sometimes proslrates It's victim by
mysterious intoxication. Something to
this effect beiel Leslie. Ills noble up.
heavings Of desire, his unrest Of ambition,
were stayed. The excitement Of business
of practical life became charmlesS. And
within the lapse CT month, We behold
him as first presented to the readcs, dis
guiscd under an assumed uamc, language
and demeanor entering upon apIan to win
his lady love- by the sweat of his brow
Herein was centercd the ordeal, testing
the purity of his affection and proving il
as pure and clear and untalnted as waters
Of mountain spring. lie was willing tc
labor 70. her like the patriarch on record
to TOLL to en- lure the wiring and rack Of
bone and snew. Gradually did he win
his way into the old mans esteem. On
good deeds he laid the base and built Il
good character BY his steady application
and his practical skill and ability to labor
he snbstantlated reputation for industry;
aud from experience combined with book
knowledge. superiority in the pursuits Of
agriculture In the latter Gordon was par,
ticuarly indebted to him He acknowledge
his worth the plantation, TOO, expressed it
IegibIy. Nevertheless do not know
what would have been the result, had not
a circumstance occurred prophious to the
lever, 1t was thus
Gordon was very unInstly prosecuted by
4 neIghbor. Arriving at court at the time
summoned, (it was a Justice court, he
found every body there whom he wished
to see, but his own lawyer The Justice
allowed him TO delay the suit to the larlhcsl
limits that the law admits of-slil no law
yer. His case wore no ight-many clouds.
lie would not be beat for hundred dol
lars; yet he knew he could no, conduct the
suit successfully himself To man like
him, independent orobstnacy, such sit
ualon without the alternative was mortiiy-
ing in the extreme. As the Justice was
declaring that the case must proceed forth
with, Dick Quirk atlas Leslie, whispered
to GorGcn,
May be sccin' as how yonr Iwycr haint
kum,you'll let me try your sidc--Iye done
SIGH things afore'
Gordon opened his eyes wide and stared
a, him.
4 don't think you need lang of, for I'll
pay costs an damages and give you years
work if l.don't beat
Gordon complied, partly from despair
partly because he never knew Dick to fail
in anything he undertook.
Five minutes elapsed, and Leslie was
in his element. He had rich sport that
afternoon. The cornering up of some half
dozen suspicious witnesses; the putting
to flight of half as many new hedgcd law
yers; the establishment which the audi
encc cvInced at throwing of bis assumed
style of speaking, as he emerged into
chase clear and rapid stream of clo-
qnence; the plain exposition Of facts aud
OF the law woven into one glorious ire
sIstabIo argument, finally resulting in a
verdict favorable to his cIient-were both
amusing and profitable to Leslie.
Gordcn, during the whole affair had
sat with his month so wide open that you
might have tossed potato, sufficiently
large for breakfast, down his throat with
out,knowing it, and when they were rid
ing home said,
Dick, if You are a Yankee, don't care,
you arc an all jofred good Teller.
so | am, said Dick angling; indeed
whether you take Inc in the field of labor,
the court room, or in any other business
you please do you know a man superior
to me hereabouts?'
No; DON'T
And what do you think ofmy povertyr
asked Leslie.
i think you'll exchange it for some
lhIng better as you did your blamed
Taunton tone to-day answered Gordon
Dld you consider poverty disgrace;'
continued Leslie.