The Kalida venture. [volume] (Kalida, Ohio) 1841-1865, 1847-01-07
Z srom cedsy's Eaiy's BOOK for jantary, 1871
AUNT MAGUlRE'S EXPERIENCE.


By THE AUTHOR on WIDOW hED0TTs
DoN'r care snap for him, bayi Nov,
Nancy Hsrtinton, / want to know if you
think you're gwine 70 mike me believe
snch story asihAti know better. can
see as4aF intoa millsione as anybody--and
Iknew aud have kuow'd for betier'n six
months how't you aud Jasper Doolitile tuck
lanoiion to one another. 'Tis extrawnary
how gals will talk! lf you dou'i esrea snnp
for him, what makes yoa 60 with him TO let-
iers, and concerts, and sleigh rides, and all
kinds o. dewinss DON'T tell me you don't
care 1 snap for him.. IIe4sareal nice young
man ie,W--s,iddy and industrious and dswin
well YOU pever'll have a better chance IN
yer life-- mabby he hsini said nothin periick-
Ter 10 you yei--but that's no sign he aini a
gwine tew a. soon AZ he gifts his icurridge
lnp. He's rather bashfuI, you know--ii
takes them sort o. fallers loneeriio come to
tie pint ipsuch MATTERS; they want consider
Ispurin up, and | advise you no. let nobody
else hear you say yon dent care nothin.
about Jasper DooltIle--troublo comes o.
then kind o. speeches know by expert
ence--I come purity nigh osin yer uncle
Jeshaway by maxim an unprudent remark o.
that mater. III tell you how 'was, and
mabby you'll take warllin by il. Iremember
egzackly when twas il the month % March,
about tew your. and hall arier Bcdolt was
married; yer uncle and med ben keepin
company all winter; he come = our house
every Sabberday eyeniu reglarly, besides
always seein on me hum from singi-school
and evenin meetins, and SO iorih--'iwas
Town talk thai we was engagcd--Joshaway
Magwire and Melissy Peole--ihai was the
story all round. But all this time, MUD you
-he hadent said word lew me about hay-
in on him, though ] was suspeciin every day
when he would. Yeu see he was a@fiil
bashful. Well, one night, ctwas IN The
month o March, } we was gwIne hum from
R-school-nary one on us dident say
nothin for some ways. At last yer uncle
hand and haw'd tew or three times, and
says he TO me, says he "Melissy!' says !,
shay yi"-bui he dident coniinner for some
'iime--arier spell he hand aud haw'o agin
--and he says TO me, says he "Melissy !''--
says !, swell whaii''-but still he didn'
continner. Autlas see we was git,n
purity nigh hum so says 10 him, says |,
s.Josllaway y-~what was you gwino 10 re-
marKi" 80 then lie says, says he, q was a
gwine % ssJ--" bnt his cafridge failed and
he dident finish Aiore long we come toI
the gate, and there we sslopt, 1--WE used te
stop rwhile al ihe ,psie in gnsral way,)
and says he, "MeIissyw says !, s'JosI'away
Mcguire, what der you ni2""Wby," says
he, 81 was gwina TO AK you--p jest then
yer granf'ther Poole opened The door and
come out, 9 80 yos uncle went Of and went
in. Well--next day Hammer Canoot come
in i our house land she begaA 10 joke me
about yer uncie--now never could bear
Hammer Canoot--sho was regular mischief
maxim old maid-always meddlin with ev-
cry body's biziness in the place--and as
sure as she see Soung couple apparently at
tached 10 one another, she'd insniwaie sym
or other oginsi lem She couldent gil no
sweetheart herself, and il made her awful
cross-grained and mad at them as could git
'eni. ihsdent never had no difikilty with
her --Bat / disposed her--and yer gram'ther
Poole used 10 say to me Gequently, "Melis.
sy---dew be kerful .wha, you say afore Han
ner Canoot-she's a dangerous critter"--
snd " spHs kerful in a ginvral way And
then, you see,t er was another thing about
it-ihere was her brother, Josiar Canoot---
he'd ben tryin TO be pe.lile 10 me tew o,
three year--and | wouldeni keep company
with nim, nor have noilin 10 say tcw him
and Hammer she knowd it, and she felt aw-
fuI sniteful 10 ma on account o. that SpeH-