The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1857-12-24
ID oment each gave frightend start back

drawing cutlass with quaking haDi.
'Ah -a.a- Look oat burst from the pale
lips of him Of Blytown. at the same time
managing to get pistol from his sash
'W-w-w -w.ha-hat you want! stammered
Jerry Hopkins, retreating, a. step, and
holding the pondcrous cutlasses up be-
fore him.
4 I-a-a-want TO talk to ye,
Then put up your pistol 4
Il will if yell put up your sword 4
The weapons were put up, and both
men breathed more freely.
Now, what ye got to sayl' -arr,1e
I want to know what for ye plague
my girl 2 #a.io ;
who do you call your girl
Lizzie Pingleton.' II r.fea atsu q
She's my girl .5 aofga goo
Your girl !? She is mine She's my
pro missed wife, persisted he of Bimtown,
With swapping eyes.
Did you see a girl with me last night!
asked Jared. ..
Yes. seen my girl with ye. And
l seed you kiss her ~
and | seed you kiss her yesterday af-
ternoon. You was standin' on my piazza.
'Sartin was; and don't that prove
that she's my girl I
No. 1t proves that you was tryin'
to get away my girl.
- Your girl Dye s'pose Lizzie Pingle-
ton d have anything to do with you =
She knows better'n that.
Jared could mt stand this. He drew a
pistol and took step forward. Jerry
Hopkins whipped out cutlass, and Jar
ed took step back.
You daresn't 60 right down to the
widder's now, cried he of BIN town, star
ting forward under the force of the
thought
Yes. | dare it, returned Jared, leaping
back under the fear that the others sud-
den advance meant mischief
Then come on. By the piper's cone,
we'll have this hash settled | know she
kissed you last night, for seed her; but
that was only to wool ye. Lizzie Pingle-
ton knows too much. Come onl
And away they went Both were con.
fdent, and both were very wroth. With
steps as long as two such little men could
take their strods ON, Jared's pistols drag
ging wearily upon him, while the steel
scabbards of Jerry's two cutlasses clan
ged together With ring that sounded
far and wide.
At length they reached the widows
cot. They approached, and both raped
in concert Lizzie came to the door
'Ah good morning, gentlemen. Walk
in. Will you baye-have-Aha ha ha-
ha-ho-t Tho e-e-
And agin the bright eyed girl laughed
till she was faint.
Miss Piugleton, spoke be of BimtowD,
misysI ask the meaning of this -,
NO, no, you mustn't ask me anything,
she replied; and then turning towards the
hall, she cried out, in loud and merry
tone
Lizzie Lizzie
What came from distant apartment.
Here come and take care of your tail
or Come quick He's got deadly
weapons with him, and looks as savage
az meat axe
In few moments more light feet were
heard pattering upon the floor, and soon
second girl n ade her appearance. But
who was she ! A ghostl Surely she
must have been. She was Lizzie Pin
gleton. Jerry looked, and Jersd looked.
There stood Lizzie and there stood Lizzie.
They were two, and yet they seemed
but one. Which is which
+ (which is yours, j Jared asked one of
them, smiling. -I.,I
Poor Jared looked first upon one. and
then upon the other, aud gradually the
truth burst upon him.. He knew that
Lizzie had sister, but be did not know
that she was a twin sister. he never hav-
ing seen her before. But he began to de-
tect aedifference.
You are mine, be said. holding out his
hand to the one who had answered their
SUMMONS. |aa-lt
1t'Ye es. Jared. yours fully and forever,
she replied, giving him ber hand.
Is Aud you are mine, cried Jerry Hop
kips, turning to the other sister. "a
Yes, Ill be as true to you as my sister
can be to Jared, she said, allowed him
to draw her upon his bosom. st Ifq
Ere long the enigma was solved. Eliza
and Elizabeth Pipsleton we're twins. and
SO near alike where they in form, 10 size,
in feature, and in voice, that their most
intimate friends were often at fanlt when
the sisters were apart. aa faa
Some years before Eliza bad gone to
Blmtown, TO work in relatives family
there; and there Mr.. Hopkins bad woocd
and won her. 1854
Jared had often heard his Lizzie speak
Of her sister Eliza. but he had never seen
before, he having been in Blytown9 only J
few years. The people with whom Eliza
lived like the name of Lizsie, SO they had
called her thus; and thus she was called
in Bimtown. 20 z e
And poor Hopkins bad teen as igno-
rant as bad Milliken. lie had followed
Eliza from Bimtown,f according to ar
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