Cooper's Clarksburg register. [volume] (Clarksburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1851-1861, 1856-09-19

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Prince of sAbYsinia.s or he would have
been lessscrednl leus= while thus listening
to the whispers of fancy aud less read I
TO take it for granted that the deficfency
OF the day would be supplied by the MOI.
row Tomorrow came, din due time
MI Bates: tticked off in "a bran, new
itwelvesdollar suit of Jews. clothes. was
OF on hisS% %ay 70 meeting beside, the beeuti.
ful Sally His horse bedecked with "a
new fair lea ather -bridl lie, aud q zne9ssaddle
with brass stirEupss looked ! as gay as his
master. AS they rode up to the door,
Sam m could not ferbear glancing a ttrium-
Eplhant- glance at the3crowd of .Saay's ado
lrers that stood round filed with NORTH
cation and envy at bis succesfufaudacity.
Sally face was roseate with. .bashfulness
and pleasure. -. .,r.-,t -, =. g.
;. !" Stop minute. .nows, Miss, Sally FIJI
Jus, git down and lift yer off, - -.
Sam essayed to, dismount, but in SO
doing feund that both feet were, hopeless,
| " fast 10 the stirrups. His face. swelled
Ifand Redeemed like a, turkey gobbler's.-
In vain he twisted and kicked the crowd
was expectants Sally was waiting. "Gosh
darn the stirrup, II exclaimed Sammy, en-
deavoring to break the feathers with his
desperate kicks. AT this uuwonted .ex-
clamation; SILLY looked up and saw her
beau's predicamept. Tie bysta1ders be-
gan to snigger:. Sally was grieved and
indignant. Bouncing out Of her saddle.
ina tginkling she handed her. entrapped
escort stone, .... -.-,..-- $50. -.
Here. Sammy, chuck your foot out
with this !' =. ..l,'........
Oh, Sally Jones. into what, an error did
your kind heart betray you to. offer this
untimely ciyility in the presence of the
assembled county-admirers and all
Sam took the stone and struck fran
tic blow at the pertinacious stirrup. but
missing his aim, it fell with crushing
force upon soft corn that had come IRON
his wearing tight boots. " Whoa, darn
ye p cried hes losing all control of him
self, and threatening to beat the horse S
brains out with the stone.
".Don't strike the critter, Sammy"
said old Jones: you'll gin him the
jerks: butjust let me ongirth the saddle.
and we'll. git you toose.i in no time -
In short, the saddle was, unbuckled,
and Sam disnouuted with his feet still
fast in the strrups. looking. like crimi
nal in foot hobbies. With some labor he
pulled off his boots, squeezed them out of
the stirrups, and pulled them on again.
The tender Sally stood by, all the while
manifestiDg the kindest concern; and
when he was finally exlricatcd, she took
his arm and walked with him into church.
But this unlucky adventure was too much
for Sam; he Sneaked out of the meeting
during the first prayer, pulled off his
boots, and rode home in his stockings
From that time Sam Bates disappeared
from society. Literally and metaphor
cally speaking, he shut up slfop. and
hung up his fiddle. He did not take to
liquor like fool, but, to his axe, and
cleared l don't know how many acres of
rugged, 1heavys timbesed land. thereby
increasing the value of his tract TO the
amount otseveral hundred dollars. Sal
y indirectly sent him divers civil mes,
sages, intimating that she took no ac-
count Of thatlittle accident at the meet.
ing house. and at length ventured on a
direct present Of 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 stock
ings we're great comfort to his self-im-
posed exile. Sam wore them continual>
ly, 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 IoueIy clearing, he would
draw them out. and por der on them till
I" Oh. Sally Jones, Sally Jonesl if had
only had the spunk to have courted ye
Saturday night instead of waiting until
,Suuday morning, things might have been
different r and then he would pick up
his axe and whack into the next tree with
the energy OF despair. .-...- ..-.-
At length the whole country. was elec. :.
triied by the announcement that Farmer
4Joues Intended TO sell out and GO West.
On the day appointed for the sale there
could,not have been less than hundred
horses tethered in the barnyard. Sam
Bates was there, looking as. uneasy as a
pig in strange corn6eld. Sally might
have been thinnerthan usual, juStenough
to heiyhten rather than diminish, her
charms. 1t was generally known that
she was averse TO o-moving West. In fact,
she took no pains. to- conceal her sehli-
,ments on Lhet subject, and her pretty eyes
were evidently red with recent weeping.
Sh91looked mournfullyround at each fa-
miliar object. The old homestead, with
its chunked. and daubed walls the cher>
.ry trees under which she had played in
childhood; the;fowers she bad planted :
and then to see the dear old furniture
aucIioned otf-the,churn. the apple but
ter pot, the venerable quilting frame. the
occasion of so many social gatherings
But harder than allit was when her own
white COW was put up, her pet.that when
a calf, she had saved from the butcher