Ypsilanti sentinel. [volume] (Ypsilanti, Washtenaw Co., Mich.) 1843-1900, 1846-12-02

way, and scarcely day passed that he had moi
new flame, or did not imagine himself smitten
with some smiling damsel, more lovely than
the last. Ned, too, vas tolerably good look
i ing fellow himself, it must be confessed, that
| is, when be did not disfgure his countenance
with most bearish mustache; and SO he was
considerably in demand with his pretty cousins
whenever there was party on the tapis.-
Fanny, and Kate, and Garry, and even Emma,
occasionally claimed his services as an escort,
and could you have peeped into his escritoir, you
would have found numberless little notes run
ming somewhat thus-"Mrs. B. gives char
ming party tonight, Cousin Ned, and we are
| to bring onr beaux; of course you are one of
them," etc., etc.; or, "Your beau1ess cousin,
Garry, dear Ned, will be exceedingly obliged,
if you will escort her this evening to Mrs. DIS
| soiree." And upon these occasions Ned could
not say nay for his life, and the girls knew he
would not when they asked him, What grand
thing it is to be favorite.
But one September, as ill-luck would have it
Ned was siezed with sporting mania; so,
with fowling piece, game box, and pointer, off
he started for pedestrian expedition into Jer-
sey. Now the merits or dement's of the case,
whether young gentlemen thus accoutred should
60 about the country, popping at all the inno-
cent little birds they see, is subject which at
present we need not pause to discuss, and shall
merely tell you, that after three days ramble
Ned Neland, pretty well tired, and considera-
bly, s'travel-soiled," made the best of his way
to the Inn of a certain village, where he called
for hot supper and bed, and enquired for d
gentlemen of his own name, who lived some
where in the vicinity.
Squire Neland, so styled by his neighbors,
was an uncle of whom Edward knew compare
lively but little: the Squire having inherited
and passed his life at the old homestead, while
his brothers had left the parental roof early in
life, and formed new homes for themselves, and
stronger attachments, in New York. The
Squire was in all respects, a man well to do i'm
the world, farmer on large scale, Justice of
the peace, violent politician, and a regular
good fellow. His opinion was worth some
thing in Jersey, for at least twenty miles round,
and was quoted as settling all questions of i'm
portance, either in law or equity. Every body
knew the Squire, as he knew every body, and
when Ned made his inquiries in the public room
of the inn that night, there were half dozen
voices to assure him the Squire was at home,
and to conduct him by the nearest road, to the
long, low, Anticipated dwelling, beneath whose
roof tree the elder branches of the Neland fam
lily had gumboled in their infancy and childhood.
took himself to the sold place where he was
heartily welcomed by all, and overwhelmed with
questions respecting each and every member of
the Neland race. His uncle shook him warmig
by the hand, and his aunt wished he had come |
to them at once, and not spent the night at |
Jacob Warmers, for more miserable place to |
lodge at was not to be found anywhere. Here |
too, Ned, discovered bevy of cousins, of both |
sexes, whom he scarcely knew existed until
now and among them hardy youth of sixteen
expert in all manner of wood-craft, who was
only too happy to be his companion. How they |
strolled together all day and came home to frol- |
c at night, it boots not now to tell you, because
it was the pivot upon which the wheel Of Neds
fortune turned: that one day while he and Tom
Neland, were climbing high wall, some of the
stones gave way-Ned fell, and with him huge |
fragment of rock, and that he was taken up
with his leg broken, and carried back to the
farm, there to remain for months instead of
lays.
The whole house and indeed the whole neigh
,orhood, was astir at the disaster. A doctor
vas sent for and found at last-old ladies came
With lotions and plastics-Aunt Neville, pale
With fright, drenched him with vinegar-whle {
lis cousin Mary held sal volatile to his nose, land
'athed his temples with eau de cologne. The {
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to the bedside o6her son-and there
ay our hero, with the prospect ola long con- t
inement endeavoring to be patient, although r
lad left home upon the most unfortunate expe- '
ition. a
But if his mother, with all the tenderness of 6
er nature watched over him, soothing his an $
uish, and anticipating his wants. Ned was 4
OF without other nurses, nor was any thing
,ft undone by any member of the family, (which s
hight tend to pass the time of his imprison- a
rent pleasantly away. Tom slept in the room v
nth him, for Tom had taken a violent fancy to /,
is city cousin, and insisted that if he could do
othing during the day, he must be useful at ii
lght. His uncle brought him the newspapers t.
I'D all the political items he could gather, for
e and Ned were on the same side in politics. v
nd the squire deemed everyman an honest fell n;
w who agreed with him on this point. Then f.
8 aunt made the incest, the very incest things W
the world for him to eat, and his cousin Mary b,
t with him for an hour or so to read aloud, lis
cause his mother had requested land it made
ed forget his pain and captivity. Now ought te
~ man of common sense to have been discon- III
nted in such situation, even with broken
NIB! ST
This cousin Mary, for it becomes us now to al
eak OF her, was one of your nice girls, not CO
riking, not brilliant, not even pretty-no, she il
lsn't pretty a bit, and of course Ned was in af
danger of falling in love with any woman, to
hose beauty did not at first attract him; SO he re
INT very quietly about her daily duties, COM m
3 to his room now and then to inquire about W
n, and Ned resumed his book when she was 10
ne, and thought of something else. What ia
IS plain country girl to an admirer of Broad al
" beauties But shut up man with only L
spider for his companion, and he will become yc
crested in it; and it SO happened one day, by T
me unaccountable accident, that Ned made tn
remarkable discovery, which was, that his lu
nsin Mary possesses pecuniarly sweet voice ne
It "most exalted thing in woman;" and soon ii
erward, he came to the conclusion that she eli
d certainly pair of soft blue eyes, full of tn
til and goodness. Whether it was SO far tn
moved from all other young ladies-that Kate l.
Fan, and Garry, and hundred more of his pr
inities were ont of the Way or how 1t chan nv