Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1847-07-29

whole, right clever boy himself Come,
friend Baldwin, we're sitting up too late for
Travellers So saying, Ned moved to the
shed-room and followed him.
The ladies were left in silent amazement;
and Ned suspecting, doubtless, that they
were listening to laugh from our chamber,
as we entered it, continued the subject with
undated gravity, thus: y ou knew these
two men, didn't you?'
where did they live ? inquired l, not
little disposed to humor him.
why, they lived down there on Cedar
Creek, close by Jacob Denman's-Oh i'll
tell you who their daughter Nancy married.
She married John Clark-you knew him
very well.'
oh yes,' said |, q knew John Clarke very
well. His wife acas a most excellent wo-
man,
well, the boys were just as clever, for
boys, as she was for girl, except Bill; and
never heard anything very bad of him :;
unless it was his laughing in church, that
put me more out of conceit of him than
any thing 7 ever knew of him. Now,
Baldwin, when 60 to bed, | 60 to bed to
sleep and not to talk !; and therefore, from
the time my head touches the pillow, there
must be no more talking. Besides we must
take an early start tomorrow and Pm tired
So saying, he hoped into his bed-and |
obeyed his injunctions.
Before followed his example, could
not resist the temptation of casting an eye
through the cracks of the partition to see
the effect Of Ned's 1conderful story among
the kind ladies. Mrs. Barney Git is time to
give their names) was sitting in alhought-
full posture-her left hand supporting her
chin, and her knee supporting her left ell
bow. Her countenance was that of one
who suffers from slight soothache. Mrs.
Shad leaned forward resting her fore arm
on her knees and looking into the fire as if
She saw groups Of children playing in it,
Mrs. Reed, the landlady, who was the fat
test of the three, was thinking and laughing
at short intervals, From my bed, it re-
quired but a sligtt4 change of position to see
any one of the group at pleasure.
was no sooner composed on my pillow
than the old ladies drew their chairs close
together, and began the following colloquy
in low undertone, which rose as it pro-
crossed:
Mrs Barney. 2isl'nt that man say them
was two men that got married to one an
other?
Mrs. Shad. 1t seemed to me so.
Mrs Reed. Why, to be sure he did.
knew he said so-for he said what their
names was.
Mrs. B. Well, in the name o. senses what
did the man mean by saying they raised a
fine parcel o. children.
Mrs r. Why bless your heart and soul,
honey that's what Pve been thinkin' "a
bout. 1t seems mighty curious to me,
somehow or other. can't study it out, no
how.
Mrs. S. The man must be Joking, GER
tainly,
Mrs. r. No, he wasn't jokin-for ]
looked at him and he was just as much in
yearnest as any body ever seed-besides,
no christian man would tell such story in
that solemn way. And didn't you hear
that other man say he knew their da'ter
Nancy
Mrs. S. But la'messy! Miss Reed, it can'l
be so. 1t doesn't stand to reason, don'l
yon know it don't?
Mrs. B. Well, | wouldn't think so but
its hardfor me, some how, to dispute chris
tian mans word.
Mrs r. l've been thinking the thing all
over in my mind, and | reckon-but dom
say it is so, for don't know nothing at all
about it-but | reckon that one o. them
was woman dressed in mems clothes fol
Pve hearn o women doin' them things, anc
following their true love to the wars, ane
bein' watin' boy to 'em, and all SIGH.
Mrs. S. Well, may be it's some how ir
that way-but la me! 'twould O. been O.
bliged to been found out; don't you know
it would? Only think how many children
she had. Now, it stands to reason at some
time or other it must have been found out
Mrs. r. Well, Pm an old woman any.
how, and reckon the good man won'
mind what an old woman says to hlm-so
bless the Lord, if live to see morning, Pil
ask the man about it..
] Knew tHdt Neu was sui PdosOu W IL"
man living, in extricating himself from diff
culties; but how he was to escape from this,
with even toerable credit TO himself could
not devise.
The next morning, when we arose from
our beds, we found the good ladies sitting
around the fire just as we left them, for they
rose long before us.
We were hardly seated, before Mrs. Reed
began to verify her promise. 'Mr.-,'
said she to Ned, didn't you say last night,
that them was two men that got married to
one another? .
Yes, madam said Ned.
'And didn'tyo on say that they raised fine
parcel of children p
Yes, madam, except Billy, said, you