The spirit of democracy. [volume] (Woodsfield, Ohio) 1844-1994, 1856-11-05


1 pipe, they knocked together, as if the!
were going 10 reduce each other TO pow
der; for, depending from a couple of hooks
in the very closet in which he stood, wa:
Il large hrown-stemmed, silyer-howled pipe
which pipe he himself had seen in The
mouth of old Lobhs, regularly every after
noon and evening, for the last five years
The two girls went down stairs for the
pipe, and up stairs for the pipe, and every
where but where they knew the pipe was
and old Lobbs stormed away meanwhile
in the most wonderful manner. AT las
he thought of the closet, and walked ~
to it. 1t was of no use little man like
Nathaniel Pipkin pulling the door in
wards, when a great strong fellow like old
Lobbs was pulling it outwards Old
Lobbs just gave it one ting, and open il
dew, disclosing Nathaniel Pipkin standing
holt upright inside, and shaking with ap-
prehension from head to foot. Bless us
what an appalling look old Lohbs gave
him, as he dragged him out by the collar,
and held him at arms length.
"Why. what the devil do you want here?
said old Lohbs, in a fearful voice.
Narhanel Plpkn could make no reply.
so old Lob,s shook him backwards and
forwards, for two or three minutes, by way
of arranging his ideas For him.
What do you want here? roared Lobbs.
Il suppose you have come after my daugh-
| ter, pow.'
Old Lohhs merely said this as a sneer:
for he did not believe that mortal presump-
,oi could have carried Nath aniel Pipkin
so far What was his indignation, when
that poor man replied
Yes, did, Mr. Lobbs-I did come
after your dau ghter. l love her, Mr..
| Lolbs
why, You snivelling, wry-faced little
Villain grasped old Lobbs, raralysed al
the ATTRACTIONS confession; what do you
mean by that? Say this to my face?--
Damme, I'll throttle ysu.
1t is by no means improbable that old
| Lobbs would have carried this threat into
execution, in the excess of his rage, ii his
arnI had not been stayed 10y very unex-
pected apparition, to wit, the male cousin,
| who, stepping out of his coSet and walk
i, g u, TO old Lobbs, said
| Il cannot allow this harmless person,
Sir, who has been asked here, in some
grish frolic, to take upon himself, i'll Il
very noble manner, the fault (f fault itis)
which am guilty of, and ready to avow
/ love your daughter Sir; and came here
for the purpose of meeting her
Old LoLhs opened his eyes very wide
at this, but not wider than Nalhaniel Pip
Kin. .. s..... ..,.,., .ar. E.
"You did?' said Lobbs, at last finding
breath to speak. a.,-.s ---..,a.,.. =
Il did. ....... .. .
"And l forbade you this house, long
ago. -..a.f.5rs ..s ...... t.5..
"You did, or should not have been
here, clandestinely hight d
/ am sorry to record it of old Lobbs
but think he would have struck the cousin
il his pretty daughter, with her bright eyes
swimming i'll tears, had not clung to his
arm. 81
Don't stop him, Maria said the young
mau: if he has the will to strike me, let
him. / would not hurt a hair of his grey
head, for the riches of the world -,
! The old man east down his eyes at this
reproof, and they met those of his daugh-
ter. / have hinted once or twice before,
that they were very black eyes, and, thongl
they were fearful now, their influence was
by no means Iessen,d. Old Lnl.bs turn
ed his head away, as if to avoid being per
suadsd by them, when. as, fortune wur,lt
have it, he encountered the face of ,h,
wicked little cousin, who, half afraid fo
her brother, and half laughing at Nathan
iel Pipkin, presented as bewitching an ex
preston of eountenunce, with touch o
lslyness III it too, as any man, old or young
need look upon She drew her arm coax
ingly through ,he old mans, and whis
pered something in his ear; and do wha
he wonldl old Lobbs couldn't help break
ing out into smile, while tear stol
down his check, at the same time.
1 Five minutes after this, the girls wer
y brought down from the bedroom with
, great deal of gigging and modesty; ant
) while the young people were making them
, selves perfectly happy, old Lobbs got dow
: his pipe, and smoked it: and it was a re
5 markable circumstance abont that parlic
S ular pipe Of tobacco, that it was the mos
/ soothing and delightful one he ever smok
i Led --5 l.slzs.e-e ez.
i, Nathaniel Pipkin thought it best I
eikee, his own, counsel, and by 50 doing gra
dually rose into high favor with old Lobb
t who taught him to smoke in time; and the
? used to sit cut in the, garden Oh the fiji
d evenings for many years afterwards, smol
i ing and drinking in great state. He 500
e recovered the effects of his attachment
$ for We find his name in the parish registe
d. as witness to the marriage of Mar
a tLobbs to her consin; and it also appear
:, iy reference to other documents, TINT &
+ the night of the wedding, he was incarc
y rated in the village cage, for having,
). u stage of extreme intoXication, commi
II ted sundry excesses in the streets, in ali
which he was aided and abetted by Il
>. io,,,, ,n,,roptine with tho thin IerS ~