The Cadiz Democratic sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1854-1864, 1857-07-16

sot your eyes on; got some out here now-go
some in shooger box, out in dads wagon; bro
Iit down for Cernal Waldron, but yeou can ha,
it; I'll bring it right straight in, be darnd eff
don't.
On the strength Of the butter, dicker wa.
speedily contracted for which, Nehemiah was t.
be put in immediate possession of coat, ves
and pants, of a good material and fit.
"Now then" said Mark, "what kind of coa
will youh5
81 reckon I'll have blew oue"
eyes, but what kinda dress coat?'
Certainly, squire, certainly-jhst want coal
for to dress in"
"Ah, exactly; just look at those plates.''
pointing to the fashion plates, in the window
"and see what style you fancy"
"0h, darn your plates don't want any crock
cry; 'spect Nancy has got the aIkininest lot o
arthenware yeou ever sot your eyes on"
yes see; just step this way then, and
think can accommodate you"
Nehemiah soon selected a nice blue coat and
a vest df green but was more fastidious in his
new suit He appeared to indulge weakness
for long pantaloons, and complained that his
last pair had moulded him exceedingly, or as he
expressed it, "blamedly," by htching up ovei
hls boots, and wrnkling about his knees.
Nehemiah delved away impetuously amid a
stock of two Or three hundred pair until his
eyes struck upon a pair of lengthy ones, real
Blazers with wide yellow stripes running each
way. Nehemiah snaked them out in twink
ling. He liked them-they were long, yellow
just the thing and he proceed at once to put then
on. The new clothing store had corner cur.
tanned off for the purpose, and Nehemiah was
speedily closeted therein.
The pants had straps and the straps were but.
toned. Now, Nehemiah had seen straps before
but the art of managing them was a mystery
On consideration, he decided that the boots
must go on first He then mounted a chair, and
elevated his pants at aproper angle, and endeav-
ored to coax his legs into them.
He hada time Of it. His boots were none o
the smallest and the pants were none of the
widest; the chair too, was rikety, and bothered
him; but bending his energy to the task, he sue
Iceeded in inducing one leg into the ''pesky
things" He was straddled like the Colossus OF
Rhodes, and just IN the act Of raising the other
foot, when whispering and giggling in his
immediate vicinity made him alive to the ap-
palling fact, that nothing but chintz curtain
separated him from twenty or thirty of the pret-
tiest and wickedest girls that were ever Gagged in
one shop.
Nehemiah was bashful YOUTH and would
have made circumbendibus of mile any day,
rather than meet those girls, even ifhe had been
in full dress as it was, his mouth was much
ajar at the bare possibility of making his ap-
pearance among them in his present dishabille
What if there was hole in the curtain? What
if he should fall?
Itwouldnt bear thinking Of and plunging
the foot into the vacant leg with sort Of fran
tic looseness, he brought on the very catastrophe
he was so ANXIOUS to avoid The chair collap-
sed with sudden scrouch, pitching Nehemiah
heels over head through the curtain, and he
made grand entrance among the stitching di-
whites, on all fou"s like lettered rhinocerous
Perhaps Collier never exhibited Il more stri-
king taJteaW Vivaut than was now displayed
Nehemiah was "nodel," every inch of him.
and though not exactly revolving ona PEDESTAL
he was going through that movement on his
back--kicking, plungng, in short, personifying
in thirty seconds all the attitudes ever chiseed!
AS for the girls they screamed, of course, Jump
ed upon chairs and cutting boards, threw their
hands over their faces peeped through their
fingers-perfactly natural l!-screamed again and
declared they should die-they knew they
should.
"Oh Lord!" blabbered the distressed Young
man; don't, gals, don't! l didn't mean tew
swar to man | didn't-it's all OWN to the
cussed trowsers-every mite ont; ask your boss
he will tell you how it was. o, Lord! won't
nobody kiver me up with old clothes, or turn
the wood-box over me? o, Moses in the bull
rushes, what will Nancy say?'
| he managed to raise himself on his feet, and
made bold plunge toward the door but
the entansled alliance tripped him up again. and
fell kerslop upon the goose of the pressman.-
This was the unkindest cut of all. The goose
had been heated expressly for thick seams, and
the way it hissed in the seat of the new pants
was affecting to the wearer Nehemiah riz in
an instant, and sezing the source of all his trou-
bles by the slack, he tore himself from all save
the straps, and some fragments that hung about
his ancles, and dashed through the "Emporium'
at a 2 40 rate, and made tracks for hum.