Liberty advocate. [volume] (Liberty, Miss.) 1835-1866, 1846-02-14

her seventeenth year, with bright back
eye, and dark natural ri1glets. The
whiskered gentleman, as the bright Hebe
seated himself at the table, to wait up
on his gastronomic operations, stared al
her for some time with the most provo.l-
ing assurance. The girl bushed up
the dark shadow Of her ringlets.
"You are handsome girl" said the
gentleman at length.
The fair waiter blushed yet deeper
and tried TO smile away her confusion.
Luckily for her, the substantial fair Of the
table at that moment caught the eye OF
her admirer, and completely occupied all
his faculties Tor the next half hour. The
supper finished the stranger arose. strut
ted 10 the glass-pinched up his dckey
and twisted his moust aches into still fer
Ger erection.
"Ha! my pretty MISS" said he, as ne
flung his arm around the neck OF the lair
waiter, who in the performance OF her
household duties had chance to meet him;
"you are too handsome for a country
girl" And he bent his wniskers to her
face, as he attempted to kiss her.
The moustaches would unquestlonably
have suffered had not the fair ones hands
been filled with the emptied dishes OF the
supper table. As it was she bounced out
of the room in high dudgeon; and our some
what disconnected hero was left 10 his
own reflections during the rest OF the
evening.
The girl, as was undoubtedly her duty.
Immediately related the circumstances oil
the offence she had received at the hands
of the whiskered traveller, TO the keep
err of her fathers bar-room, who had for
some time been her acknowledged lover.
She should not have cared so much
about it she said. if the fellow had looked
and acted like christian; but TO have such
a good for nothing looking heather poklng
his head in her face, was what she
wouldn't bear nor ouch to-she wouldn't,
she knew she wouldn't. The twain forth
with resolved upon vengeance, and that
very night was fixed for its execution.
|! was midnight--all was still in the
inn, save that here and there the sono-
rous noise of somc uneasy sleeper, "made
the night hideous" somni(erous melody
The stranger in mouslaches had fallen
into quiet sleep, with his pillow so ad-
iusted as to prevent any collision with
the hairy appendages Of his countenance.
He was reused into consciousness by the
entrance of the stout bar-keeper and his
pretty waiter Of the preceding evening.
He rub bed his eyes and raised himself
half upright. The bar-keeper placed a
basin Of warm water, shaving box and
razors, and huge pair Of sheep shears
upon the stand at the bedside.
"What do you want?" demanded the
whiskered gentleman in tone vaclllatlng
between resolution and terror.
"To shave you," was the laconic reply.
In vain the dandy demonstrated, swore
and wript by turn-the barkeeper was IN
exorable. Brandishing his naked razor
he commanded him to be quiet, under the
penalty of a slipped weasand. Exhaus'
ted by agitation and terror, our untortuh.
ate hero sunk down on his pillow, and suf-
fered the brush to pass over his counte-
nance without restraint. The girl with a
grin of the most exquisite satisfaction, held
the light, while her lover applied his dull
and Jagged razor to the hairy honory OF
the stranger; Whisker and moustache fell
one after another--all beautiful as they
we're, and deeply treasured as they hac
been. The wretched dandy, like the
wounded Robesperre, lay with his eyes
closed, and silent, save when adult groan
or smothered curse told when the tonso'
rial instrument acted in the double capacl
" Of clearing knife and slump digger.
"Now for his hair, Jane,' said the bar
Der and the formidable sheep shears wen
clipping amid the cured, and pertumed
. locks Of our hero. In few moments he
was left whlskerless and hairless-an ex'
ceIlent candidate for wig. "Good night
to you Mister!'' said the barber, as he
gathered up his apparatus and lett the
room, "lhe next time you attempt to kiss
country girl you will have smooth
face for it.
The next morning, at breakfast, lnqul-
ries were made relative 10 the gentleman
in whiskers-and the landlord on enter
ling his room ia tho morning, found It com
pletely vacated. The hero had dis. r
pered, leaving nothing but his hair
hind. The other stated that just at d.
light wild looking, bald-headed bel
came rushing into the stable and de-
manded his horse. It was no sooner iur
nished than he threw himself into the
} saddle and plunged into the highway with
, the speed Of life and death. The facts
of the case soon appeared, and the mel
anchoIy mishap Of the dandy with the
/. mous,aches, became standing subject o.
merriment 10 the tenants and loungers O
: the inn.