Eastern times. [volume] (Bath, Me.) 1846-1857, 1851-03-20

peoples different. We can't be hail fellow
well met with Tom, Dick, and Harry-but
Tor my part think myself as good as any
body'
No one contradicted this question, and just
then gentleman came up and said 10 the
young lady Miss Atwood, allow me 10
present you with a sprIg OF the last wild
roses OF the season. / found n few still lin.
seg seer,ng on a bush in the shady lane just
0d their blossoms in my bonnet wave
said Miss Atwood Inserting them amid on-
Of the ribband bows.
Atwood-Atwood,' ,aid aun, Ou;n,hx II
know the name very well Is No, u.
father Charles Atwood who used 10 Lsso.
large wholesale store in Front-street ?,
/ have the happiness of being that uep.
tleman's daughter replied the young lady.
And you live up Chesnut.street now
don't you among the fashionabss-,
My fathers house is up Chesnu,-s,reet.,
Your mother was a Rose, wasn't She
Her maiden name tcds Rose
thought So, proceeded Mrs. Quimby;
remember your iather very we'll. lie
was The son of Tommy Atwood, who kept
an ironmonger's shop down Second.slreet,
by the New Market. Your grandfai her was
very obliging man, rather fat. | have often
been IN his store, when we lived down that
way. | remember once of buying a waffle.
iron Of him, and when tried il and found il
did not make pretty pattern on the waffles,
took it back 10 hin to change il but hav.
ing 10 other pattern, he returned me the
money as soon as | asked him. And anoth-
er time, he had the kitchen tongs mended
for me without charging a cent, when put
him in mind that had bought them there;
which was certainly very genteel Of him.
And no wonder he made a fortune as all
people do who are obliging TO their cuslo-
mers, and properly thankful to them. Your
grandfather had brother, Jenny Atwood,
who kept china-shop up Third-street.
lie was your great uncle, and he married
Sally Dickson, whose father, old Adam
Dickson, was in the shoe making line, and
died rich. | have heard Mr.. Quimby tell all
about them. He knew all the family quite
well, and he Gnce had a sort of notion of
Sally Dickson himself before he got nc
quainted with me. Old Adam Dickson
was very good man, but he and his wife
were rather TOO fond of family names. He
called one of his daughters Sarah after his
wife for he said there could't be too
many Sally Dickson But they found after.
wards they could not get along without
tacking Ann TO one OF the Sarahs, and Jane
10 the other. Then they had little girl
whom they called Debby, after some aunt
Deborah. But little Debby died, and next
they had boy; yet rather Than the name
should be lost, they chriseDed him Debbns.
| wish / could remember whether Debbins
was called after the little Debby or the big
one. Sometimes | think it was one and
sometimes other. dare say, Miss Atwood,
you can tell, as you belong 10 the family.
nm glad can Sc; this question al rest,'
replied Miss Atwood, smiling heroically 1
have heard the circumstances mentioned
when my father has spoken of his great-un-
Gle Jenny the chInaman, and OF the shee-
makers family into which uncle Jenny
married. and in which were the two Sallys,
Debbins was called equally after his sister
and his amt
Then turning TO the very handsome and
diIingue- looking young man who had
brought her the flowers, and who had seemed
much amused at the foregoing dialogue, Miss
Atwood took his hand, and said TO Aunt
Quimby-' let me present to you grandson
of that very Debbins, Mr.. Edward SPINNING
ton, my sort Of cousin; and son of Mr..
Symmington, the lawyer, who chanced 10
marry Debbins' daughter.'
Young Symmngton laughed, and after tell.
ing Miss Atwood that she did every thing with
a good grace, he proposed that they should
join some Of their friends, who we're amusing
themselves further up in the woods. Miss
Atwood took his arm, and bowmg to Mrs.
Quimby, they departed.
That's very pleasant young lady, said
she;' | am glad Eve got acquainted with her;
l-l Il 4 L.
ironmonger-her nose is the very image Of
old Benny's.'
Fearing that their turn might come next,
all the young people now dispersed from
Aunt Quimby's vicinity; who, accosing a
housewifey lady that had volunteered TO su-
| perintend the arrangements of the table,
proposed going with her 10 see the baskets
unpacked.
IConcluded in our next