The Ottawa free trader. [volume] (Ottawa, Ill.) 1843-1916, 1852-02-21


to say, unlike the generality Of my fair country.
women, wisely, aud reminded her lover that she
had seen him intoxicated at the last fair Of Ralh-
eoolin
Dear Ellen he exclaimed, 'its ocly drop,
the least taste in life thst ovsfcsmcias 1t over
took me unknownst, quite against 3ny will
Who poured it down yer ,hroati 1auyf
tho poured it down my thros& is it, why
myself, To be sure but are you gc3ng TO put NE
TO three month. psnance fDr thAtf
Larry, will you listen to. me- syti remember
that the man ! marry must be conHsried before
We stand before the priest laye no faith
whatever in conversions stier---
Oh, EilenN interrupted her Loved
lts no use Oh Elleuing me, xe answered
quick have made my resolution aud Ill
stick to IT,
she's az obstinate az ten vom~tr sad her
broteor There's no use i1 attempting
tradict her she always has had iar own way.
It's very cruel of you, Ellen, not to lstsn to
raison. tell you n Tablespoonful will often up.
set me.
If you know that, Larry, why do you take
the tabespoonfulf
Larry could not reply to this question. lie
could only plead that the drop got the better Of
hIIn, and the temptation and the oyeicomingness
Of the thirg and it was very hard to be At him
80 about tIihe.
can never think thing a trife she obserV-
ed. that makes you So unlike yourself; should
wish to respect you always Dsrro aud in my
heart believe 10 woman ever cVnd respect
drunsnrd. don't want to make you angry God
forbid YOU should ever be one. AMI know you
ave not one yet; but sin grows mighty strong up
on Us without our knowledge. And no matter
what Indulgence lead, to bad we've right to
thluk anything that does lead 10 u, sinful in the
prospect ifnut at the present
You'd have made a tine priest, Ellen said the
young man, determined II he could not reason,
to laugh her out Of her resolve.
don't think,' she replied. arcliv, il | was a
priest that either ofyou would have liked to conc
10 me 10 confession
Eut, Ellen, dear Ellen, sure its not in positive
downright earnest you are, YOU cant think Of
putting ne Of Oh account of that uniucsy drop.
the lea-t taste in life took at the far You could
not iud it in your heart. Sps,. frr ne Mthsel
speak for me- But | see is joking you are.
Nhy, LeHtll he on u in no time, aud then We
mast wait till Ea.ter-iI. ssy talhMs"
Larry interrupted Ellen, DO not yau talk
yourself INTO ps.riou it siII d. no good; none
in the world. / am sure YOU love me sUi con
fc.- before my brother it will be the deii.h Of my
heart to return that love, aud make myself wor
thy ofyou, if you will only break yourself " that
one habit hich you quaf, to your own uudons
by flu.Y ing. because 1t i- the lelst ta-a in hic
maA"S YOU what you ought not to bc, that you
still take it,
III take an oath against The whisky. if that
will please ye. till CLrstm..'
And when Chrl-tmas comes, get twice a. ,ip-y
as ever. with Joy TO tlius yer oath is out-no
IN swear anything YOU pli.e.'
i don't want You to swear at All; there is no
use in n mans taking an oath ne is ANXIOUS Ia
have a chance Of breaking. | want your reason
| to be convinced 10
/ NV darling Ellen AL the rai.on ever had IN
my life is convinced
rroye it by abstaining from taking even n
drop, even t;e least drop in life, ii h,t drop can
make you ashamed to loul your poor Ellen IN the
face
I'll give itup altogether
Il hope you will one of these days. from n con.
yicon that il is really bad in every way but not
nom cowarIicc, not because you darn'i lrust yer
s,lG
Elem Tn sure we've some English blood in
yer veins, we're such rlis0utr. lr-h women
don't often throw boy or because ola d,op; il
they did, IL not many marriage dues his Reye-
renee would have winter or summer
Listen To the, Larry, and believe, that though
sPakc lhis way, regard YOU trnly and II did
MT, Id not take the trouble to tell yol my mind
Like Mike Bridy's wife, who Whenever she
tlri-hcd him. cried over the blows And SAID they
were all for III, good ol served her brother slyly
Nonsense listen t. me- ! say, and Ill tell
you why | am So resJluts. It's many u long day
snce, going to shool used to meet VI chael
minds Aer. too, I'm sgIc-an old bent woman
they used To call her the Witch of Ba'a.htor
stacy was, as have said Nh old i1tirrly. with
cred and 0lUic headri, bent nearly douOl. with
age, and She used To- be ever and always mudd'ing
about the s,rsmc- and dit,hes, gathering herb
and plants tie girls said to work charms with
and AZ first they used 10 watch, rather far oi.
aud II they thought they had good chance ofeS.
Gaping her tongue and th. stones she fuug a, them
they'd call her an III name ar two AMI sometimes,
old rs she was, she'd dm,kc sspr,n, sicwlNs like
a crab and howl and hu"t md .crame, AMI then
they'd he utt like hork pigeons from a hawk,
and she'd ,o on disturbing lhe green cnated VA.
tcrs with k-r crooked stick and muttpiny words
which none, Il they heard could understand. Sta.
cy had been w.ilrrri woman and knew dale
more than any of us when mot tormcntcd hv the
children, she was mighty well spoken, and the
gentry Thought dale about her more than she
did about thcm fNr she'd sv there ~ssnt one
IN the couutrN NJ 10 tie her shoe and tell them So,
too, II they'd call her any thing but i1dv stacy,
which the 'ar gentry of tho place ali humur-i
her in; but the upstairs WHO think every ci,
word to su iui-ria is pulling down their own dig
nifty, would turn up their nose. @ they passed
her and mo,h. she didn't bless them for II.
One day Nike had gone hon, before me and
coming down the back buhecn, Who should zee
moving along 1t but lady Stacy :and on she came
mutteriug and mumb,ing TO herself until she got
near me- snd ~ she did, | heard Master Nixou's
lth- dog m,n-) hound in hll cry, and seen him
at her heels, and he over the hedge encouraging
the h.s,e TO tear her in pieces The dog soon
wac up with hcr. and then she kept him ulT ~
well ~ she could with her crotch. cur'iug the -n.
tire time, and | was very frightened, but dar.
tad to her side, aud. with waffle pulled out Of
the hedge did nv best to keep him on her
Master Nixon cursed at me with all his heart
but va.nt 10 be- turned oiT that way. Stacy,
herself laid about with her staff but the ugly
brute ~ouli have finished her, only for me. |
don't suppose Nixon meant that, hu, the dog was
savage, aud some men, like him. delight in cruel
", Well, bate the dog ofT and then h,l TO
help the poor fsin,ing woman, Tor she ~as both
hin, and hurt didn't much lkr bringing her
here, for the people said she WASH, lurkv howe.
yer, she wanted help, aud gave IT, When GOT
her on the hoor,i | thought drop of whi.kry
would revive her, and accordingly, I offered her
"a gl,S | shall ncAer forget the venom with
which she dashed it to the ground.
"no YOU want to poison nc, shs shouted. AZ
thor saving my ltcl When she came to herself
a little, shc made me sit down hy her side aud
fixing her large grey eve upnn my fico. .Er N'p'
rocking her body backwards and forward. Willie
sl. ~ 1 Lot /