Daily evening star. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1852-1854, 1853-01-04
RIDE AND TIE, OR, sPOILING A
yVEDDiNG PARTY.
By CHARLEY CLEWLINE.

John Iacallister was a scotchman by
trade, and caulker by birth-or v,ce usr:q-
the best natured fellow in the world, and
one of the most psrsevering horss in all the
west-out west.
| did John q good turn once, accidentally,
and he never forgot it or me either, fer
gratitude was just as much a part of Johns
nature, as his trade or accent was, and he
always declares hs vas born with both of
them perfect.
/ had been in Cincinnati two months, du-
ring which time john had hung to me like
barnacle, always insisting upon buying
my cigars, theatre tickets, all barber and
bar-room shaves, and almost quarreled with
ne once because I.refused to allow him to
settle wlthmy wash woman-although will
own UP that tbs poor woman needed the
money, and ought to have been paid.
At last, thought l had given John the
slip, for had got job about two hundred
miles up the river, on the Virginia side, and
keeping it d most profound secret, got all
ready for start, and when went on board
the steamer upward bound, I'll be hanged
if the first man met wasn't John hlacalas-
ter.
"Why, where the devil ara you bound,
John" asked. as soon as [ could from as
constituent
90, Pm just going up long with you,
Mr.. Clewline. I heard, about an hour ago,
that you was going to build boat up there
in Virginia, and so | said,-Tll GO up there
and caulk her Can have the job, SIR"
, resigned myself to my fate and said
ayes, you ean have her"
thought he would't bother me SO much
up in the woods, but he did,
AS specimen of what John could do in
the boring line, I will just mention that he
owned splendid horse, which he always
insisted upon my riding when | went any
where.
Well, one Sunday evening, he lent me his
messenger colt to ride four miles accounting
and ten minutes after had got all comfort
able, slowed away alongside Of Isabel, in
popped the confounded Scotchman, having
ran all the way On foot to ask me which side
he should begin caulking on Monday morn
ing.
After told him, he wouldn't &c off till l
went, and as there was mighty little use
making love with him there, talking about
horses and oakum, went off early, cursing
the internal bore at every step, all the way
home.
John would hang to me, in spite Of all I
could do to make him mad, or quarrel with
me, or something else, to get rid Of him.
Once told him that aquafortis made the
most beautiful boot polish in the world !,
and when he had put up both pair of his
calfskin go-to-msetings oil into crisp,
and came to me with the remainder of his
patent polish, and @ face as long as hand
saw, / called him and the druggist who
sold him the hlacking, eternal fools, both
for selling and using nitric acid for aqua,
forts
Another time, when he had very bad
leg, and l set him crazy by my prescription
of potash poultsce, he cursed the old woman
for making it too strong, and held me blame.
less in spite of every body.
John was about to get married to smart,
pretty, sensible girl, on the Ohio side, about
twenty miles down the river by land, and
when the time came, he insisted upon nv
going down with him to the wedding
| hung back, and made excuses enough
to sink fat boat, but twas all no use, and
finally, on the morning Of the day on which