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inc she handed her entrapped escort stone

kind heart betray you TO oHer tnls un'ilheiy
civity in the presence of the assembled country
admirers and all
Sam took the stone and struck frantic blow
at the pertinacious stirrup, but missing his aim,
it fell with crushing force upon soft corn that
had come from his wearing tight boots
"Whoa!" cried be, ,loosing all control of himself,
and threatening to beat his horses brains out
with the stone. :,
sDon't strike the critter Sammy" said old
Jones, ''youll gin him the jerks; but just let me
ongirth the saddle, and we'll git you loose in no
time"
In short the saddle was unbuckled, and Sam
dismounted with his feet still fast in the stirrups,
looking like criminal in foot hobbies. With
some labor he pulled off his boots, squeezed
them out of the stirrups, and pulled them on a.
gain. The tender Sally stood by, all the while
manifesting the kndest concern; and when he
was finally extricated, she took his arm and
walked with him into the church.
But this unlucky adventure was too much for
Sam he sneaked out of meeting during the first
PRAYER, pulled off his boots and rode home in
his stockings. From that time Sam Bates dis
appeared from society. Literally and metaphor
oally he shut up shop, and hung up his fiddle.
He did not take to liquor like fool, but to his
axe and cleared don't know how many acres OF
rugged, heavy timbered land, thereby increasing
the value of his tract to the amount OF seven
hundred dollars
Sally indirectly sent him divers civil messages,
intimatng that she took no account OF that little
accident at the meeting house, and at length
ventured on direct present of O pair OF gray
yarn stockings, knit with her own hands. But
while every effort to win him back to the world
was unsuccessful, the yarn stockings were great
comfort to him in his self imposed exile. Sam
wore them continually, not on his feet, as some
matter of fact body might suppose, but in his
bosom, and often, during the intervals of his
work in the lonely clearing, he would draw
them out and ponder on them until big tear
gathered in his eye. ooh, Sally Jones, Sally
Jones if 1 had only had spunk enough to have
courted you Saturday night, instead of waiting
till Sunday morning, things might have been
different!" and then he would pick up his axe,
and whack it into the next tree with the energy
of despair.
At length the whole country was electrified
by the announcement that Farmer Jones had
concluded to sell out and go West. On the day
appointed for the sale there could not have been
less than hundred horses tethe.ed in the barn
yard Sam Bates was there, looking as uneasy
as pig in a strange corn-field Sally might have
been thinner than usual just enough to heighten,
rather thai. diminish her charms. 1t was general
ly known that she was averse to moving West. In
fact, she took no pains to conceal her sentiments
on the subject, and her pretty eyes were evident
ly red with recent weeping. She looked mourn
fully around at each familiar object. The old
homestead, with its chunked and daubed walls ;
the cherry trees under which she had played in
childhood; the flowers which she had planted ;
and then to see the dear old furniture auctioned
off:-the churn, the apple-butter pot, the vener-
able quilting frame, the occasion of so many So
cial gatherings. But harder than all it was
when her white COW was put up, her pet that
when calf she had saved from the butcher-it
was too much, and the tears trickled down Sal
ly's blooming cheeks.
"Ten dollars, ten dollars for the cow !" cried
the auctioneer.
Fifty dollars |" shouted Sam Bates.
ssWhy Sammy" whispered prudent neigh
Dor, "she amt worth twenty dollars at the out
side"
Now when Sally heard this piece of gallantry,
she must needs thank the purchaser for the
compliment and commended Sukey to his espe-
cial kindness Then she extended her plump
hand, which Sam seized with such devouring
grip that the little maiden could scarcely sup
press a scream. She did suppress it, however,
thatshe might hear whether he had anything fur
ther to say; but she was disappointed. He turned
away dumb, swallowing, as it were great hunks
of grief After everything was sold off, and
dinner was over, the company disposed itself a.
bout the yard in groups, reclining on the grass
and seated on benches and dismantled furniture.
The conversation naturally turned on the events
of the day and the prospect of the Jones family,
and it was unanimously voted pity that so fine
a girl as Sally should be permitted to leave the
country, so evidently against her will.
''Hain't none of you sneaking whelps the spirit
to stop her 2" asked white headed miller, ad-
dressing group of young bachelors lying near.
The louts turned over, whispered to each other,
but no one showed any disposition to try the ex-
pertinent.
The sun was declining in the west. Some OF
those who lived at q distance were already gone
to harness up their horses. Tomorrow the belle
of Cacapon valley would be on her way to Mis-
souri,. Just then Sally rushed from the house,
with face of excitement, step all deternina-
ton. Arrived in the yard, she mounted the re-
versed apple-butter kettle:
ST don't want to go West-I don't-I don't
want to leave Old Virginia and won't leave,
if there's young man among ye that has spunS
enough to ask me to stay
But where is Southern Chivalry9 Withered
beneath the sneers of cold blooded malignity 3
cboked by the maxims of dollar jingling pru-
dence?-distanced on the circular race-course oi
progress9- bankrupt through the tricks OF poll
ticiens9 Deluded querist, no! Like strong
and generous lion, it sleeps so sou1dly that even
oces NAV erimmace and chatter insults in its
face. and pull hairs from its tail with impunlty
hnt oive if n hard poke, and you will hear Q
roar that will make the coward tremble, anc
the brave prudent.
Hearken to the sequel of Sally Jones:
Scarcely had she finished her patriotic ad
dress whensthere was general rush. The les
actiye.were trampled over. like puffed goat skins
at bachanalian festival; "Miss Sally, axes
you; 'sMss Sally spoke first" ~ bespeak hel
for nv son Bill" squeaked an octogenarian
struggling forward to seize her arm. 10 hide
her confusion, Sally covered her face with her q
prom, when she felt strong arm thrown arount
her and heard stentorian voice shout "She Ii
mine, at last"
Sam Bates cleared swathe as if he had beer
in grain field, bore his unresisting prize into
the house, and slamed the door upon the cheer
ing crowd. =,
The wedding came off that night, and on the
following morning Sam rode home driving hi
white cow before and carrying his wife behint
him. ."-Harper's Magazine.
A Royal MATTRAss.-The ex-King Louis O
Bavaria, who recently attained his seventiett
wear, was, few days ago, waited on at his cha
teau at Ludwigshahe, in the Palatinate, by
deputation from Strasburg, in which place he
was born, who peid their respects to him on the
occasion. The King received them mos
kindly, promised to visit their city, and related
to them curious circumstance. At the time o.
his birth, in August, 1886, his father, who wa: