Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1852-04-28

doore with good lookin' young man, an
SEE to meeself, there's coortin now l''
{" Well 70 interposed the widow, &c ne
yer did like MalYiny Peters, she is SC
stuck up. I'll fix it now. Her mother'l
dreadful afraid of her hayin' beaux, and
SO sure as my names Adeline Stickney
her mether'l hear on it. Where did you
see 'em, Sary Smith ?''
"oh, Miss stickney!i if you won't never
repeat it from me-"
Claw. get along, child ~ broke in
Mrs. Fanshaw, "I'd as lief tell as not.
saw that Peters gal, and young feller,
come out of Sally Fanshaw's and go down
by the meetin-house, jest at dusk, Friday
eyenin'-''
" And L." burst out Prudence Olcott
saw him go out of Miss Fanshaw's last
night, and Malviny Peters came to the
door, and give him white rose tied up
in mess of leaves. / watched him
along the road, and seed him put it up
in that hat of his'n as careful as eff twas
gold p'
Here Mrs. Stickney made a satisfied
sound with her lips, between a cackle and
cluck, when, suddenly little Peter Smith,
who had been clinging to Betsy's apron,
screamed,
There's a man |"
Welcome sound, for it heralded Cousin
Tom, and dispersed the party at the fence
corner, so that we could retreat in safety,
after the mending had been accomplished
Had been 'partaker in the crime to
listen ? Some idea of the kind haunted
me; yet would gladly have escaped if ]
could, and solaced my conscience with the
thought. said nothing to Mally of the
adventure and, the day but one after,
was little surprised to see my father
drive up to the door, and to have mother,
who came with him, take me into the emp.
ty kitchen for private talk.
"What is this l hear ?" said she -
Mrs. Francis told me yesterday that
she heard Malvina was engaged to a
young man who visited her here at all
hours of the day, went to walk with her
every evening, and gave her superb bou-
quets could not rest easy, for she said
she had it on the best authority. Some
body told Prudence Olcott, she told Fred
Francis, and he told his aunt So rode
over to see what it meant"
laughed, and stepping to the parlor
door, called Mally to answer for herself
"I have had no beaux, mother" tit
tered the culprit; 'I'm sure 1 wish IhRd
But Cousin Tom was so absorbed in Nan
cy," (the little mink ! wanted to shake
herD that had to go myself down tc
the burying ground with that stone ma
son you sent over, to show him what was
to be done at grandfather's tomb. He's
quite a decent young man here, sup.
pose, but he's nobody in Pembroke SC
l made him useful in carrying back to you
the prettiest rose on Cousin Sally's bush
That is all the boquet know of, unless g
bunch of clovers little Peter Smith gave
our cow yesterday, when was standing
by, may be dignifed with that title p'
Then, of course, l supplied the missing
links of the chain with my overheard gos
sip, and mothers anxious face frightened
into very funny expression, and cho
russed Mally'I hearty laughter, till the
party in the best room came in to Join the
fun and hear the story.
"Hurrah for Uniontown !" thouted IA
ther, when it was detailed "that beatl
Austria! Sally, you ought to take Hulse,
man in to board he would learn a trick
or two spying here. And, in the mean
time, wen rechristen UniontoWn Austria
Nova"
1 may as we'll state, for the satisfaction
of the public, that am convinced in mJ
own mind Mally contrived and carried
out all this "dire event. on purpose.
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