White Cloud Kansas chief. [volume] (White Cloud, Kan.) 1857-1872, 1857-12-17

as she stitched, and even had the audacity :,
squeeze her hand under the quilt. Truth Il
mighty and must be told @-+
Although Sally did resent the impersinence b,
stick with her needle, she was not half so in
dignant as she ought to have been. dare MOI
say she was pleased, but perhaps I should not b,
far from the truth if1 did. 1t is undeniable tina
the more gentle and modest woman is, til,
more she admires courage and boldness in tn,
other sex.
Sally blushed every time her eyes met those
of her new beau, and that was as often as she
looked up.
As for Sam, the longer he gazed, the deeper
he sunk in the mire of love, and by the end Of
the evening, his heart and his confidence were
both completely overwhelmed.
As ne undertook to see Sally home, he felt a
numbness in his joints that was entirely new to
him, and when be tried to make known his sen.
timents as he had previously determined, he
found his heart was so sweled up that it closed
his throat and he couldn't utter word.
"What darned, cussed sneak vas.'-
groaned Sam, as he turned that night on his
sleepless pillow. whats come over me, that
l can't speak my mind to pretty girl without a
chokin'? o, Lord! but she is too pretty for this
earth. Well, I'm goin' to church with her to-
morrow; and if don't fix matters afore 90
back, then drat me.''
1t is probable Sam Bates had never hearkened
to the story of" Rasselas, PRICE of Abyssinia,'
or he would have been less credulous while thus
listening to the whispers of fancy, and less rea-
dy to take i: for granted that the deficiency Of
the day would be supplied by the morrow.
Tomorrow came, and in due time, Mr.. Bates,
tricked off in bran new twenty dollar suit Of
Jews clothes, was on his way to meeting beside
the beautiful Sally. His horse, bedecked with
fair new leather bride, and new saddle with
brass stirrups, look as gay as his master.
As they rode up to the Westinghouse door,
Sam could not forbear casting triumphant
glance at the crowd of SaIly's adorers that stood
round filed with mortif cation and envy at his
successful audacity.
Sally's face was roseate with pleasure and
bashfulness.
"Stop minute, now, Miss Sally; I'll fist git
down and lift We off,"
Sam essayed 20 dismount, but in so doing found
that both feet were hopelessly fast in the stir
rups His face swelled and Redeemed like tur-
key gobbler's. In vain he twisted and kicked;
the crowd was expectant; Sally was waiting.
"Gosh dang the steerup!" exclaimed Sam,
endea1orins to break the straps with his desper-
ate kicks.
At this unwOnted exclamation Sally looked
up and saw her beau's predicament.
The bystanders began to smoker. Sally was
grieved and indignant. Bouncing out of her sad
die, in twinkling, she handed her entraPped
escort a stone.
"Here, Sammy, chunk your foot out with
thisr'
oh, Sally Jonas! into what an error did your
kind heart betry you to offer this untimcly civil
ity in the presence of the assembled county
admirers, rivals and all -..
| Sam took the stone and struck frantic blow
at the pertinacious stirrup, but missing his aim
it fell with crushing force upon a soft corn that
had come from his wearing tight boots.
"Whoa, darn YEP cried he, losing all control
of himself, and threatening to Deat his horses
brains out with stone.
"Don't strike the eritter, Sammy" said old
Jones; you'll gin him the poll-evil. But jisi
let me ongirth the saddle, and we'll git ulOose
in no time"
In short, the saddle was unbuckled, and Sam
,;,h he caat stilI fast in the etirrT1rS
looking like criminal in fOot-hobbles. With
some labor he pulled off his boots, squeezed
them out of the stirrup, and pulled them Oh
again. The tender Sally stood by, all the while
manifesting the kindest concern; and when he
was extricated, she took his arm and walked with
him into church.
| But this unlucky adventure was too much fol-
Sam; he sneaked out of the meeting during the
first prayer, pulled of his boots and rode homs
in his stockings.
From this time Sam Bates disappeared from
society. Literally and metaphorically he shu
up shop and hung up his fiddle. He did not taxi
to hq-or like a fool, but took to his axe, anC
cleared don't know how many acres of rugged
heavy timbered land, thereby increasing the va
lue of his tract to the amount Of several hun
dred dollars. -aa
Sally indirectly sent him divers civil mesa
ges, intimating that she took no account of thu
little accident at the meeting house, and atlengtl
ventured on direct present of pair Of gra.
yarn stockings, knit with her own hands. q.
But while every effort to win him back to tn
world was unsuccessful, the yarn stockings wer'
a great comfort to him in his selfimposed exile
Sam we're them continually, not on his feet
as come matter-of-fact booty might suppose, bu
in his bosom; and often, during the intervals
his work in the lonely clearing, would he the
draw them out and ponder on them until bil
tear gathered in his eye.
"oh. Sally Jones, Sally Jones, had onl,
had the spusk to have courted We Saturday night
instead Of waiting TIL Sunday morning, thing
/, might have been different"
And then he would pick up bis axe, and Whacl
it into he next tree with the energy Of despair
| At length the whole country was electri6e'
T BY the announcement IL farmer Jones ha'
concluded to seIr out and 60 West" On tn
} day appointed for the sale, there could not hAv
t been less than hundred horses tethered in N
| barn-yard. Sam Bates was there, looking as IN
: easy as pig in strange ccrn-held. cS e
| Sally might have been little thinner tha
: usual; just enough TO heighten rather than d
{ minish her charms. It was generally known tina