The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1854-10-25

Iieckon III hev blue 'un Squire
Yes but what kinda dress eoat?'
Certainly, Squire certainly just what
want cole Tor. 10 dress in
'Ah. exacly. well, Just look at those
plates. pointing to the fashion plates in the
window, and see what style you fancy
% darn yeorp plates, doant wont any crock
cry; spect Nancy's got the all killinest lot of
arthen ware yeou ever sot eyes on
Yes | see; well just step this way, l
think | can Accommodate YOU
Nehemiah selected nice blue coat and
vest of green but he was more fasiiduous
in his choice of pants, those crownirg glo
ries of his new suit He seemed to indulge
Il weakness for long pantaloons, and COM
| planned that his last pair troubled him ex
ceedingly, by htching up over the tops of
| his boots, and wrnkling about the knees
| Nehemiah delyed away impetuously at
stack of two or three hundred pairs, and fl
nally his eyes rested upon a pair OF lengthy
ones, real azers, and with wide yellow
stripes running each way. Nehemiah suaked
them out in a twinkling. He lif,ed them
they were long and yelow-they were just
the very thing, and he PROCEEDED at once to
/ try them On. The new clothing store had
nook curtain for that purpose. and Nehe-
miah was speedily closed therein. "
The pants had straps and the straps were
butoned; now Nehemiah had seen straps
| before, but the art of managing them was
u mystery, and like Sir Patrick's dilemma
required pale OF nice consideration On
IL >; hu Il
90 on first; he accordingly drew on his Blu.
chers, mounted a chair, elevated The pants
At proper angle, and endeayored to coax
the legs n them. He had time of it
! Ills boots were none of the smallest, and
his pants, though long, were none of the wi
desl; the chair, too, was rickety, and beth
cred him, but bending his energies forward
to the task, he succeeded in inducing one
leg into the 'pesky things He was strad-
died like The KoIIossus of Rhodes, and iu t
in the act of raising the other foot, when d
whispering and gigging, in the INN edate
vicinity, made him alive TO the appalling
fact that nothing but thin chintz separated
him from twenty or thirty of the prettiest
snd wickedeSt girls that were ever seen in
one shop. Nehemiah was bashful youth.
and would have made circumbendibus Of
a mile, any day rather than meet those girls,
even had he been in full dress; as it was his
mouth was ajar at the bare possibility of ma
king his appearance amongst them in his
}ishabjlle. What If there was a hole in the
curtain! Whatifit should fall! 1t wouldn't
bear thinking Of, and plunging bis foot into
| the vacant leg, with a sort Of frantic loose
ness he brought on the very catastrophe he
was so anxious to avoid. The chair col
| Iapsed with q sudan 'acrouch,' pitching
Nehemiah head over heels Trough the cur.
tain, and he madr bis grand rance among
the s,iching divinties ON all tours like fet,
tered rhinoceros
Perhaps Golfer himself never exhibited
a more striking group Of tabI.ux vivantes
than was now Displayed Nehemiah was Il
model every inch of him ant though no,
exactly revolving on pedestal he was go,
in5 that movement as cffectually on his back,
! kicking, prunging, in short, pers oniIYing in
thirty seconds, all the attitudes ever 'chisel-
led AS for the gals, they screamed Of
course, jumped upon chairs and the cutting
bo ard, threw their hands over their faces,
Deeped through their fingers, and declared
hey knew they shouldn
'Oh Lordyp blurdered the distressed
Young un, don't no Ter 81, gals dcn't hol
Ter so, gals, doo't. didn't 90 tew, Iswen
tew man didn't. it's ali OWN to them Gus.
sed trowsjz, every mite ont. Ask yeur
boss, he'll tell We how twas. Oh Moses in
thr buIIrushcs what'Il Nancy $ay?'
He mana sel to raise himse on his feet,
and made bold splurge toward the door,
but his 'entangIing alliances tripped him up
again, as he fell 'kersap' uponthe hot goose
of the presSman! This was the unkindesI
cut Of all. The goose had been heatedax
pressy for thick cloth seams, and the way
it sizzled in the seat Of The new pants was
ffliciing TO the wearer. Nehemiah riz up
in an instant, and seiz'ng the source of hi,
troubles by the slack, he tore himself free
from all save the straps and some pantalet,
like fragments that hung about his ancles,
as he dashed through the door Of the en-
porium,. at q two forty pace. Nehemiah
seemed to yearn with the poet, for "a lodg@
in some vast Wilderness and BETRAYED u
settled purpose to 'fe from the busy haunts
Of men; for the last seen of him he was ca.
Ipering up the railroad cutting like scared
rabbit, the rays Of the declining sun flicker
ing and dancing upon the broad expanse Of
shirt,tail that huttered gaily in the breeze,
as he headed for the ne Arrest wood. s
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