The Middlebury galaxy. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1848-1850, 1848-08-01
MISCELLANY.
From the Lady's Book.
AUNT MAGWIRE'S EXPERT
ENCE.
BY THE AUTHOR OF WIDOW BEDoTr.

as that? l know better. can see as far into
the milestone as anybody-and l know and
have know'd for bettern SIX months how't YOU
and Jasper Doolittle tuck a notion to one an
other. lis extrawnary how gals will talk =
If you don't care snap for him, what makes
you 90 with him, to lecters and concerts, and
sleighrides, and all kinds O. doings? Don't
tell me you don't care snap for him. He's
a real nice young man tew-stiddy and indus
trious and dewin well-you never'll have a
better chance in yer life-mabby he liant said
nothin partickler to you yet-but that's no
sign he amt gwine tew as soon rs he gifts his
curridge up He's ruther bashful you know
it takes them sort o fellers longer to come to
the pint in such mattcrs-they want consider
able spurrin up, and 1 advise you not to let
nobody else hear you say you don't care moth
in about Jasper Doolittlc-trouble comes O
them kind o speeches. know by experience
i come putty nigh losin yer uncle ,Joshaway
by maxim an unprudcnt remark o that natur.
I'll tell YOU how twas, and mabby you'll take
warnin by it. l remember exzackly when
'twas-'twas in the month O March, about few
year and half artcr sister Bcdott was mar
ricd. \ or uncle and ned bon kCcpn compa-
ny all winter; lie conc t CTR house every
Sabberday evcnin rcglarly, besides always
seem on me hum from singin school and eve
min meetins, and so forth-'twas town talk
| that we was engaged-Joshaway NJ agwire and
AlelisSy Pool-that was the story all round
But all this time, mind you, he hadent said
word few me about havin on him, though Twas
! suSpcctin every day when he would. You see
he was awful 5ashiul. Well, one night, Ctwas
in the month O. March,) we was gwine hum
from singin school-nary one on us dident say
nothin for some ways. At last yer uncle
hand and hawd few or three times, and then
SAYS he to me, SAYS he ,"Meissy" Says "hay?"
but he dident continner for some time-ar-
ter a spell he hand and haw'd agin-and he
SAYS to me, says he, AIelssy :" SAYS l, Well
what but still he dident continner. AT
last | see we was gettIn purity nigh hum-so
| says to him, says ], " Joshaway-That was
you gwinc 20 remark" So then lie says,says he,
- was gwine 10 say" but his courage failed
and he dident finish. Aiore long VIC come TO
the gate, and there We stopt, 1--WE used to stop
awhil lie at the gate in gineral way,) and says
he, " Mclissy :" says |, Joshaway Magwire,
what dew you want" Why" says he, " ]
was gwine to Ak YOU jest then yer gran
finer Poole opened the door and come out, and
50 yer uncle went off and | went in. Well
next day Hammer Canoot came in T our house
and she begun TO joke me about yer uncle
she was 4 rcglar mischief maxim old maid
always meddlin with every body's bizness in
the placc-a and as sure rs she sees a young
couple apparently attached to one another,she
insinwaics su'thin or other against EN-. She
couldent git no sweetheart herself, and it made
her awful cross-grained and mad at them as
.ouid Git en-. / hddent never had no difficult
" with hcr-and yer gram'ther Poole used TO
say to me frequently, 4" Mclissy-dew be kerr
tiI what YOU say aforc Hammer Canoot-she' s
a dangerous critter''-and was kcrful in a
= gineral way. And then, You see, there was
, her brother, Josiah Canoot-he'd been tryin
TO be perlte to me few or three years-and ]
, wouldent keep company with him, nor have
nothin to say tew hinl-and Hammer she knowd
it, and she felt awful spitcful to me on account
o that. Speaking O Siah Canoot-the last
2 time | was up to Wiggetown, yer Aunt Be
dot telled me he was quite partickler TO her
He haint never been married. suppose no.
body wouldent have him-he was so lazy and
so ccnsarncd diSagreeable, and so awful hum
". Why his hair was rs red as blazcs-a and
! he hadent no nose ut ail-and what Their was
j ont turned right up straight. When yer
Aunt Bedott tcll'd me about his stepping up
to her, says, says ], 81 hope you won't incur
ridge him, Silly-for he's poor shiftless crit
= 'hcs ben in the milentary and got to be Cap
l., pen Canoot." al don't care for that" says :
j :. twouldent make no difference to me if he
was Gineral-he's ST Canoot and always will
0 be"
Well, fel: awful worried, about it, and
when come hum teed yer uncle ont and
saws he, " o don't you be afraid o Silly mar
r rvinr him. I'll be bound he haint no idce o
marrying her. She alters thinks the men ha:
n serus intentions if they look at her"-that's what
= yer uncle said-and don't say but what ii:
. so-sister Bedotts Gurus critter-tho' she:
d nice woman in the main. Well, was 90
: ing to tell what Hammer said; she begun tC
Joke me, and says she-0 was spinnin on {
5 great wheel, YOU know, when she begun t
:, Joke me)-and saws she, 90 MeliSsy, they tel
:, me Gurus stories about you whiz-whlz-
whiz went the wheel, and purtended did'n
hear her. AFTER spell she spoke up louder
and says she, Mclissy, they tell strange sto
1t ries about you and Joshaway;" whiz-whiz-
5. whiz went the wheel, and made as i'll didn'
s. hear word she said-so bymeby she turns II
St yer gram'ther, (shc was sitting there,) an'
:, says She" How is it, Miss Poole ?whens tina
, are wedjin a cummin on 2" What weddin?
IL says mother, says she. "Why, Mclissy an'
d. Joshaway Magwirc, bcshure," says Hammer
says Sne- NcNer-nOI as KNOW on, say
mother, SAYS She don't know nothin abou
no such buziness" Well-she see she would
b ent git no satisfaction out O. mother, so sh
~ hollers TO me agin, and says she, 'seems to m
.. yer ruther hard o. hearin to-day, Melissy."-
= Whiz-z-z-z went the wheel louder n ever,an
~ ~ didn't take nonotce O. what she said. Pu'
=! ty soon she bawled out agin, and SAID she,-
-, " l guess what makes you so def, you mus
= a ketcht cold in yer head last night-'tw;
see yer uncle and me went hum by the turf
pike lnstid o gwine cross lots-but how tn
20 critter found it out, dear knows. Well didn
no pay no 'tention, but tell you 1 was a gitti
MT awful mad AFTER a spell, she gifts up an
10 comes and dumps herself right down aside
,ot me, and says she, "say Melissy, dew tell whe
'ns Won and Joshaway's a gwine TO step of,-he
bi a very nice young man, tho guess he won
~ never set the river afire." When she sal
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