The Ohio star. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1830-1854, 1852-12-08
CHAPTER II.
MENr NOT TO BE MlsrAKEN.

'Humph! know she is,' said Bill
| And there's Gertrude, too. She never thinks
| of knowing me in the streets on Sundays. But
guess always speak to her as polite as a dancing
MASTER, said Ike. i like to cut the comb of such
people.'
Amt you afraid to do so?' asked Tom.
Afraid, indeed! And what should be afraid
of! She can't help herself Suppose she tells
the old man! She'll only get flea in her ear for
her pains he's not gong to do anything
Jim said he heard Millie say, that all three Of
the fine young ladies had a high-top- tea party
with the old man and woman about the nose of
The lapstone when they had company. Old Har-
damer was as stiff youplease, and said he'd set
'em oil to binding shoes before week, if they
didn't take care.'
I wonder if that's fact Are you sure Millie
| told you SO. Jim?
'All know about it, Ike, is, that MiIlie said so,
and 'spose she knows, said the little fellow in
half apparent reluctance to make any communiea-
tion on the subject
'Ah, Very well!' responded Ike. They shall
have lapstone enough after this Won't lay it
on with vengeance, when the young doctors, and
lawyers and counter-hoppers are aboutr
They're what they call accomplished, ains
they!" said Bill Grimes. sWhat do they mean
by that wonder?
You're green, Bill, ifyou don't know what ac-
I compIished means
Il reckon l do know, Ike, what in means. But
I can't for my life understand what it means when
applied TO old Lngnumvitas three Oldest daugh-
ters! fit means SO play on the piano, why the
wife of black Jake, the barber is accomplished, for
Jake says she can play the forty piano to KILL
And she can beat either of our young ladies', if I'm
any judge of music, for heard her once and YOU
know we hear them until we are sick and tired
If it means TO dress up in all kinds of film fam
meres Jake's wife is just accomplished, for she
sports as much fnery as they do. Or, may be it
is to sit all day in the paror and do nothing; if SO,
Mrs. Nortons Spanish poodle is just as much en-
titled to be called accomplished as they are.
must find some new nearing to the word before
can understand its application
Nonsense, Bill you're soft in the upper sto=
ry. To be accomplished means to dance, and
talk poetry and all that sort of thing. A perfectly
ACCOMPLISHED lady talk nonsense, and to save
your life you can't tell it from good sense; it will
come out SO gracefully. She will tell you that
you are fool or puppy in terms that leave you
at loss TO know whether she intends to compii-
ment or insult you. A queer animal, I can tell
you, is an accomplished lady,
'Of course then,' said Bill, sour upstairs
misses are not accomplished ladies' sz
No. nor never will be in full. They can ape
few of the graees, but can never be accomplished
inside and out. A shoemaker's daughter, Bill,
always seems TO hear the sound of the lapstone,
+ and it makes her both look and feel AWKWARD
She will do well enough, if she is content to be
herself; but the moment she tries to step above
the path in which she walks easily and naturally,
she will get on uneaven ground and wabble from
side 70 side like a duek,-every body will laugh at
her..
v That's a Jaw of nature, Ike
d 'Of course it is, Bill. Shoemakers' daughters
], are as good any body else's daughters, until
n they grow ashamed of being shoemakers' daugli-
ters, and then they ought to be dispised and are
g despsed.'
y On that same night it so happened that the girls
it had company, and it was in the summer time,
all the doors in the house were left open for the
y free circulation of air. The boys of course did
}, not work at night, and the girls fondly imagined
:, themselves freed from the dreadful annoyance of
the hammer and lapstone. But they were not to
|. be so highly favored:
AoAo NAS W S"'"S tO-hiSdt, AhO SdtAs ouo
e of the boys TO this young rngeader of mischief.
Pm going to stay at home, believe.'
,d Stay at home! Why what's in the wind, Ikel
It's new kick for you to stay home at night
n. sWhy, didn't you see that the girls were all
h. furbelowed up at supper time. They're going to-
set up for company ny-doctors, lawyers, merchants
&c.
- WELL what of thatl'
3 Nothing, only want pair of Shoes and must
beat up the so:es to-n night
's, You're not in earnest, Ike?
30 Indeed and am though, 1 want these young
all gentlemen to hear the sound of the lapstone.'
re The old II walk into you, if you try that
90 trick
as THE Iron Chest Society meets tonight, you
ne know, and he never stays away
True enough, but the old woman Il take il
in up
or We'll, suppose she does; the mischief will al
be done before she waddle into the back shop.
ad But wouldn't if was you, Ike
Wouldn't you, indeed but would though
ire AS long the girls hate the sound of the ham
me- mer SO badly, Ed let 'em alone.
re- why, what's come you, Tom? Your.
,re growing mighty feeling all at once! But yo,
rts needn't preach to me! know what I'm about
,gs Won't make the old stone ring merry tuns
lc- though!
ch As Ike had supposed, about eight o'clock,
young Mr. Willis who had Just opened DR.,
os- goods store, came in to Miss Genevra; anS
We shortly after student of medicine, wild rake
ub a fellow, who had an idea that old Hardamer ha
few of the gooseberries, as he called them
ave dropped in to renew an acquaintance recenti
made at party with Miss Geneveve. His nam
:. was Anderson. A Mr.. Wilkins also called, bu
as he was young shoemaker just in business
who did not think himself above shoemaker
daughters, he met with very cold reception.
Il.