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


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MARRYING UNDER 5plEEICULTIEs.
a VIRGINIA STORY. = ,-,. r. =
Nathan Jones. small farmer in our.
vicinity. had, q daughter, ..as pretty and,
buxom a lass as ever thumped butter
milk ina churn, and whether you saw
her carrying eggs to market'on, a hy:bit>
ten mare, or helping. to stir applebutter at
boiling frOtic, or making a long reach
atsaquilting, or sitting demurely in the
long meeting house. on Sunday-in short
wherever you saw her, he-always looked,
as pretty, if not prsttier, than she ever
did before. -. sl-. 3 .-a.--
notwithstanding her attractions, it will
scarcely be credited that Sally had reach.
edSthe mature age of eighteen with out an
SvoWed suitor. Admirers. nay, lovers,
she had by the score !; and many a sigh
ing bachelor would willingly have given
his riding horse, or even his share in
Dads farm, for her. There was, indeed, ),
no lack ofsWill the difficulty was in mus
tering up courage to make the proposal,
Mankind seemed. forro once, to be Impress
ed with proper sense of its unworthi--
ness. Now far be it from any one to in,
fer from this that Sally was prudish <or
unapproachable. On the contrary, she
was as good. humored, as comely. and
disposed to be GLOWING as sheywas loveab!e.
Poor Sally it is a great misfortune for a
girl to be too, handsome !: almost as great
as to be too ugly. There she was. sociA-
BILE and warm hearted as a pigeon, amia>
bic as q turtle dove, looking soft encour>
sgement as plainly us maiden modesty
permitted, to her bashfur company OF ad-
mirers who dawdle about her, twiddling
their thumbs, biting the bark,of their ri
ding switches, and playing number Of
other sheePish tricks, but saying never a.
word to the purpose. .'... ..-
'' Either he fears his fate too much, ri
Or his desert is small, -... ~ s.-
Who dares not putit to the touch, .-e,
And win or lose it all'' ST. .--.
Sally was entering on her nineteenth
year when she was one day heard to OBJ
serve that men were the meanest. slow
est, cowardliest. or'nariest creatures: in
short, good for nothing but to lay under
an apple tree with their mouths open and
wait until the apples dropped into them.
This observation was circulated from
mouth to mouth, and, like the riddle Of
the Sphynx. ives deeply pondered by
Sally's lovers. II any of them had wit
enough to solve its meaning. certainly no
one had pluck enough to prove the ans
Wer. T g., '
Not of this poor-spirited crowd was
Sam Bates. a stalwart youth, who stood,
in winter, six feet two inches in his stock
ings, lin summer he didn't wear any. y
Sam Wss-nOt handsome in the ordinary
sense Of the term. He was freckled, had
a big mouth, and -carroty hair. His feet
but no matter, he>usually bought nun.
ber fourteen and half boots, because
they fitted him, better than sevens or
elghts. Sam was a wagon maker by
profession, owned a, ,f1ourishing shop and
several hundred acres of unimproved
land, which secured to him the repula-
ton Of independence. For The rest, he,
was a registering blade. a good rider. IA
crack shot with a rifle. and an accom-
plished fiddler. b I'D 10 tho confines Of
impudence. he WAS favOrite of the fair :,
vi a-hcArT aS big rs his foot. aud a fist
like Sledge hammer. he was the &C
knowle,i.s sc cIck Of the walk, and preux
chevalier of the pine hill country.
Mr.. Bates met Sally Jones for the first
time at quilting. and in six!y seconds
after sight he had determined 10 court
her. He sat beside her as she stitched.
and even had the sudaeity, to squeeze her
hand under, the quilt. Truth IS mighty
and must be told. Although Sally did
not resent the impertinence, by stick
with her needle, she was not half SO ;iu-
diSnant as she ought to have ben. !
dare not say that she was pleased, but
perhaps,t should n0ts5be far from the
truth If did II is undeniabIe-t that. the
more gentle and modest a woman is, the
more Lhs other sex loves them. Sally
blushed every time her eyes met those&of
her new beau, aud that wasSas- often as
she looked up for Sam, the longer,
he gazed the deeper he fell IN the, nire
of love, and by the end of the evening,
his heart and hls-confdence we're entirely
oVer8helmef AS he eundertook, to see
Sally home. t,he,T felta numbuess in his.
joints that was entirely new to him. and
when he tried to make known his seuti7:
ments. as he: had previously determined,
he found his heart wss so swelleds sup that
itctosed his throat aud he couldn't utter
word
~ What a darned.- sussed sneak wash
groanedf Sam, as he turned that night on
his sleepless pillow. =. What's come, over
me, thatil can't speak my mind to. a
pretty gal ~ishout'a chokin'? o Lord! but
she is too pretty to live on this airth.-
Well, I'm a:going to church with her to-
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