Loudon free press. (Loudon, Tenn.) 1852-1855, 1852-10-27

A Yankee Trick-It was a pretty evening in
May, that Yankee pedlar might be seen with
his wagon going along the Road to Petersburg.
1t was about eight and half O'Clock he stopped
at small tavern near Petersburg. IL the morn
ing VIXEN he came down to breakfast, the land
lord said he would not let him go until he played
a trick on some one. The pedlar went quietly
to his pack, and took therefrom a box of rings
and said:
"Du yeou want tn buy any of my gold rings
set with diamonds?"
"How much doyou want for box?" said the
landlord.
'gTen dollars" says the Yankee, (thele were
four in the box.)
"Well," said the landlord, '1'1 take them,"
and laid down ten dollars The pedlar put the
money in his wallet, went to his pack, got bun
die which he unrolled, which proved to be a
quilt. When the landlords wife saw it, she
said
"Oh, James, buy that, it will exactly match
the one | bought last year"
"WeIl, what do you want for it?" said James
to the pedlar
Twenty dollars" said the Yankee.
"Well, III take it, said the landlord, and laid
down yellow sinner.
"Now for the trick" says the Yankee, '1'll tell
you what it is-it is to make barrel of whis-
key into five different kinds of liquors. Now,
you have got a new barrel of whiskey in your
cellar, have you not?'
EYES," said the landlord
"Well, come ahead" and away they went
down the trap door into the cellar. The Yam
kee asked for an auger, with which, when he
got it, he bored hole in the head, and told the
landlord to put his thumb in the hole till he bored
~, al Ill H.
the other was soon bored. The Yankee said,
put your other thumb on the other hole while |
go and get two plugs" Away the Yankee went
out, and the landlord never saw him again. The
landlord called and called again for the pedler.
but he did not come; till at last the landlords
wife heard his cries, and went down. He told
her all. She went and got two plugs to put in
the holes; they went to see where the pedler was
They went to the stable; the wagon, horse and
pedler were gone. The landlord and wife went
into the house. In few days they found that
it was their own quilt that the Yankee pedler
had sold them, and that the rings were brass, and
the diamonds were bits of glass-Er.
Commonplace Woman-We know not who
is the author of the following paragraph, and
have forgotten where we found it; but it con-
tains truth which is well to be remembered
now and then:
Heaven knows how many simple letters from
simple-minded women have been kissed, cher
lshed or wept over by men of far loftier intellect
Therefore it was no marval that the childish
eplstle OF Hope AuStead was read and re-read
with lingering eyes and throbbing heart. So it
will always be to the end Of time. 1t is a les
son worth learning by those young creatures
who seek to allure by their accomplishments, or
dazzle by their genius, that, though he may adj
mire, no man ever loves woman for these things.
He loves her for what is essentially distinct FROM
though not positively incompatible with them
her wOman's nature and her woman's heart.
That is why we SO often see a man of high gent
US or intellectual power, pass by the De Staels
and the COrinnes, to take into his bosom some
way-side flower, that has nothing on earth to
make her worthy of him, except that she is,
what so few of your female celebrities area
true woman"
The allusion to Mad De Stael reminds us of
the admiration and aversion, with which she
was regarded by Byron. ''She writes oetavos,"
he used to say, "and talks folios" HShe was
the most intellectual woman of them all, and
cher company was delightful for halt an hour"
A LtdicrouS Mistake.-A Cincinnati grocer
house, finding out that cranberries commanded
six dollars per bushel, and under the impression
that the article could be bought to advantage at
st. Marys, wrote out to a customer, acquainting
him with the fact, and requesting him to send
lone hundred bushels per Simmons the wag-
oner usually sent The correspondent, a plain,
uneducated man, had considerable difficulty in
deciphering the fashionable scrawl common with
merchants clerks of late years, and the most
important word, "cranberries," he failed to
make out, but he plainly and clearly read, one
hundred bushels of persimmons. As the article
was growing all around him, all the boys in the
neighborhOOd were set out to gathering it, and
the WAGNER made his appearance in due time
in Cincinnati, with eighty bushels all that the
wagon bed would hold, and a line from the coun-
try merchant that the remainder would follow
the next trip An explanation soon ensued,
but the customer insisted that the Cincinnati
house should have written by Simmons, and not
per Simmons.-LOuiSrdIe Times.
Very COol.-The Boston Bee is responsible for
the following story-as rich an instance of YER
dancy as we have lately met with;
A gentleman from the country stopping at
one of our hotels, entered into conversation with
one Of the boarders, asking questions about the
Fair at Quincy Hall, &c. After some few min
utes' conversation, the boarder drew out his CT
gar-case and asked the countryman-
'EWill you take cigar, sir?"
''Wa-al, don't mind if de,c," was the reply.
The cigar was passed to him, and also one
which the boarder was smoking, for the purpose
of giving him light. He carefully placed the
cigar first handed him in his pocket, then took
his knife and cut off the end of the lighted one,
which had been in the mouth of his generous
friend, and commenced smoking the remainder,
at ar'nt often fellow from the country runs
afoul of so clever fellow in the city as you are
Not long since, two ladies were on a down
ward trip, on board Missouri steamer. One of
them had a baby about three months old She
said her husband had been gone to California
about two years and half.
allow old is that baby?" said the other.
"About three months old"
II thought you said your husband had been
gone to California two years and halfFo
ooh! yes, he has; but he scrH to mex.