The star of the north. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1849-1866, 1855-01-11
BLOOMSBURY. COLUMBIA COUNTY, PA.sTHURsDAY, JAN

away impetuously amidst stock of two or
| three hundred pairs and finally his eyes rest
ed upon a pair of lengthy ones, real blazers,
and with large yellow stripes running each
way. Nehemiah snaked them out in a
twinkling. He liked them they were long,
yellow--they were just the thing, and he
proceeded at once 10 put them on. The new
clothing had nook curlaned off for this
purpose, and Nehemiah was speedily closed
therein.
The pants had straps, and the straps we're
buttened. NOW Nehemiah had seen straps
before but the art of managing them was a
mystery, and like St. Palrck's dilemma, re.
qured mighty dale of nice consideration
On dehberaion, he decided that the boots
must go first he accordingly drew on bis
Bluchers, a chair, elevated the pants at
proper angle, and endsavored 10 coax the
logs into -thonr. f1e fruti % -.....- sf i.. ffi1
boots were none of the smallest, and the
pants were none of the widest; Inc chair
too, was rickety, and bothered him but
bending his energies to the task, he succeed
ed ii inducing one leg into the 'pesky
thing He was sraddled like The COLOSSUS
of Rhodes, and just in the act of raising the
other foot, when whispering and gigglng.
in his immediate vicinity, made him alive
10 the appalling fact that nothing but thin
curtain of chintz separated him from twenty
or thirty of the prettest and wickedest girls
that were ever Gagged in one shop Nehe-
miah was bashful youth, and would have
made crcumbendibus of mile aHy day,
rather than meet those girls, even if he had
been in full dress as it was, his mouth was
ajar at the bare possibility of making his ap.
pearance among them in his present dis
hable. What if there was hole in the
curtain Wha, il it should fall II wouldn't
bear thinking of and plunging his foot into
the vacant leg, with sort of frantic loose
ness, he brought on the very calasl. ophe he
was anxious 10 avoid The chair collapsed
with sudden 'scrouch, pitching Nehemiah
he ad over heels through the curtain, and he
made his grand entrance among the stitch
ing diviniles on all fours, like feuered
rhinocerus.
Perhaps Collier himself never exhibited
more striking tabeaux vivantes than was
now displayed. Nehemiah was a model
every inch of him, aud though not exactly
revolving on pedestal he was sSlng
through that movement quite as effeciualy
on his back-kicklng, plunging, in short
personifyng in thirty seconds all the atti-
tudes ever 'chlsseled As for the gals, they
screamed of course, jumped upon the chairs
and The cutting board, threw their hands over
their faces, peeping through their fingers,
screamed again, and declared they would
die, they knew they should
'0h Lordp blubbered the distressed young
'un don't hollsr, gals didn't go tew, |
swan didn't; it's all owiu' 10 these cursed
trowsers-every mite ont; ask yer boss,
he'lltell ye how 1t twas. oh, Lordy, WON'T
nobody kiver me up with old clothes, or turn
the wood box over me 2 'oh, Moses iu the
bulrushes, whatll Nancy say'
He managed TO raise himself on his feet,
and made bold splurge towards the door,
but his 'entangling alliances tripped him up
again, and tell 'kerslap upon the hot goose
of the pressman This was The unkindest
cut of all. The goose had been heated ex-
pressly for thick cloth seams, and the way
it sizzled ia the seat of the new pants was
affiicling The wearer. Nehemiah rose up in
an instant, and seizing the source of all his
troubles by the slack, he tore himself free
from all save the straps and some pantalent.
like fragments hung about his ancles, as he
dashed through the door OF the emporium at
two forty pace. Nehemiah seemed to
yearu with the poet for lodge in some vast
Wilderness and betrayed a settled purpose
to 'Ae from the busy haunts of men, for
the las, seen Of him he was caperlng up the
railroad--culling like scared rabbit-tha
rays of the declining sun Pickering and
dancing upon broad expanse of shirt.tall
that futtered gaily in the breeze. as he
headed for the nearest woods. - Yankee Blade