Belmont chronicle. [volume] (St. Clairsville, Ohio) 1855-1973, 1855-04-05

i Io'eel no other breezes than are blown
} Though its tall woods
but we must succumb; we will 20 like plain
sensible people, won't we!'
iiyou were me, what would you wear!
said Mrs. Sparrowgrass.
j something very plain, my DEAR
'lhen,' said Mrs. Sparrowgrtss, Il have
not hing very plain, suitable Tor a party, ant
tomorrow must 90 to town and do little
shopping
lam afraid said |. (artcr the second day..
nara shopping in town your dress ,s going
10 be too plain. rIy dear. Every hour brings
d iresh boy, with u fresh bundle, aud fresh
Oill, to my office" Mrs. Sparrowgrass said
THAT II thought SO, perhaps she had better
get Something expensive when she went to
buy the 'rmming" | tcld her L thought
her dress would do withou, trimming. She
sald 1t would be ridiculous without .imp OF
galioon, but perhaps would prefer velvet rib.
bon, an account OF the hounces' | told her
SUI had better get the velvet ribbon, and o.
INIT the gimp and galloon. Ms. Sparrow
grass said, "Very well;' and the next day an.
other boy brought anoter bund e, and ano,h
( er OIL, which convinced me that extras form
an important item in rural architecture
hen we had dress maker for several DAYS
and the stitching went on by sunlight and
lamp night, and on the last day Mrs. s. dis
covered that she hud nothing for her held,
ana 'he new bonnet was taken to pieces to
get atthe feathers tor coifure Then when
the night fell, there fell, too soaking rain;
ana mad forgotten the carriage. SO was o.
O''ged to go mile in the mud to order one
from the village livery stable. Then / had
TO walk back. as the man said ait was out;"
but he promised to sendit corus right straight
OIL Then | hid 10 get dressed over again
Then Mrs Spirrowgrass could OF find her
best handkerchief, and | dropped five spsr-
macet blOtches on the new silk dress look
ing for it. Then she found the handkerchief.
linen our girl said that the new dog had run
of with one of my boots. Then had to go
out IN the mud in my slippers after the dog =
Then | got the boot and put it on so as to
make that sure. Then we waited for the
carriage. We were all dressed and ready
but no carriage. We exercised all the pa
ilence we could muster, on account of the
carriage ,and listened at the windows to see
l. we could hear it. Two months have e.
lapsed, and it hasn't come yet. Next day
we heard that the parry had been IN elegant
affair. That everybody was there, SO that
we concluded the carriage had no been able
to cJme for US on account of business.
have bought me an, ther dog. | bought
u IN on az count o. his fine ling ears, and beau |
ttnI silky fAil. He is a pup, and much ca.
rassed by tn! young ones. One day he went
ohlo the butchers and came back with no
more tail than toad. The whole bunch of
young fParrowgrasses began to bawl when
he reached the cottage, on account of his
tail. did not know him when came home
and he could not recognise me-he had lost
his organ ot recognition. He reminded me
oi a dog that looked as if he had been where
they wanted Il tail merely ,and had taken his,
and thrown the dog away. OF course took
my stick, aud went TO see the butcher
Butcher SAID, she supposed was something
VI dog-tancler, and would like to see my
dog look stylish" | said on the contrary,
That had bought him on account Of his
handsome silky tail, ana that would give
len dollars to have it replaced. Then the
idea OF having 1t replaced seemed so udc-
then the butcher uugit the joke, and said
there was no way to do it except with fresh
putty. do love man that can enjoy joke
So took fancy to that butcher. When ]
got home and saw the dog, thought less OF
the butcher, but put piece o! black court
plaster on the dog, and it improved his uppea-
rance ut once. 81 | rgave tn, butcher,and
10 hpH y,th N ind
| love TO lie a bt in these autumna mora
ings, and see the early sunlight on those
grim old palisades. A vast stretch of rock,
gaunt aud gray, is not cheerful view from
the south window Shut your eyes Tor a
few minutes, and now look. That faint red |
cornice, reaching rough-cast aIong the rug
ged tops, ten miles or more, from Closier to
FIliletudlem, is not unpcturesque. And al |
though we have not the odur OF sTrlng lllacs |
and summer roses, breathing through the
windows, yet there is something not less de-
lightlul to the sense in this clear frosty at
mVsphere. Below, the many colored woods |
that bourgeon on The sides seem to retain the
verGurt OF early spring in those cool depths |
OF shadow. AS the sunlight broadens on the |
crags, the illusion disappears, and we beho d
once more tie brilliant vagaries of vegetation
the hectic hints of yesterday. | wish Ken
sett could see that pure blue sky and yonder |
melancholy sloop on the river, working her
pas age down with bricks from Huverstraw,
and sail like an expended rose leaf. 1t is
a pleasant thing to watch the river craft in
these autumnal mornings. Sometimes We
see white-breasted covey coming up in the
distance-from shore to shore spread of di- |
nifty. Here and there are troops OF shining
one with warm illuminated wings, and 9TH |
ers creeping along in shadow with spectral
pinions, like evil spirits. Yonder schooner
is rot an unfair image Of humanityi beating
up against adverse winds with one black and
one white sail, That dogged old craft, just
emerging from obscurity into sunlight, is but
aVpe of some curmudgeon passing from pow
erty to atluence, and there is another, evil
depty Oh the wrong trick, stretching away
rom the light oiprosperity into the gl,om
of asfortune' do not love the country