Meigs County telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy [Ohio]) 1848-1859, 1858-01-12

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lyeou ever sUt yodf sjAs 5n; goesenss sout
here now1iGgot sotA ~ L hupiir box. eout
| in dads wagon; bfbaeRt'it down for Cor
ael WaldtUh, but ty0 eaf havd ft;irI'il
bring il rite straiCi1 Be- dhfnfd efiI don't.
DlsOi the strsngth of the butter, IA diclser
was speedily yoRtrttltd Tor Which Nehe-
sfniah was tlsde put 81 Immediate posses
sioapfacoa lvest t1d pAnts, Of Iariv very
le6bd material ausdI1Islftxe e1s ewo az
5s2sNowl them 'saaid Nj ,ys.wJ,at hind oi
coat win you haveR I'd
II reckon TjFh4e 4 blus run"
.xAH feRadil, Y, tis' blI At those plates, .
pointing ,SlkI ilish pIaids s5SsEsI Win
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inest I l0s of b aFibbsPlyaPs @ eyer sot your
"Yss, l see; Just step this way, then. and
think can accommodate you.
Nehemiah soon selected nice blue
coat, and vest Of green. butwas more fas-
tidious in his, inexpressiblss. He appear
ed X, indulge a weakness "a" Tong panta-
loohs, and complained that his last pair
had, moulded him exceedingly eor as he ex :
pressed ito "blamedlyfY BY hitching. oyer
his boots, and wrinkling about his knees.
- Nehemiah delved away impetuousIy
| amid stock of tive or three hundred pair,
! until lis eyes struck upon as'pair of
lengthy ones, real oblazerss with wide yell
low stripes running each way, Nehemiah
snaked them out in twinkle. He liked
them-they were long, yellow, Just the
thing-and he proceeded at once to put
them on. The new clothing store had a
cornor curtained off for that purpose, and
Nehemiah was speedily closeted therein.
| The pants bad straps, and the straps
were buttohed.! Now, Nehemiah had seen
straps before,1 but the art of managing
then, was a mystery On consideration.
he decided that the boots must go on first.
He then mounted a chair, and elevated
his pants at a proper angle, and endeav-
ored 70 coax his legs into them
He lad a time of it. His boots were
none of the smallest. and the pants ii were
none of the widest; the chair, too, was
rickety, and bothered him; but bending
his energy 10 the task, he succeeded in in
ducing one leg into the t'pesky things"
He was stradaled like the Colossus of
Rhodes, and jus. in the act of raising the
other foot, when whispering and giggling
in his Immediate vicinity made him alive
to the appalling fact that nothing but a
chintz curtain separated him from twenty
or thirty of theTprettiest and wickedest
girls that were. ever Gagged ip one shop.
Nehemiah was bashful youth, and
would have made cifcumbendibus of
mile any day, rather than meet those girls,
even if he had been in full dress; us it was.
his mouth was much ajar at the bare pos
sibility of making his appearance among
them in his present dishabile. What if
there was a hole in the curtain? What if
he should fall? b .a-aI
1t wouldn't bear thinking of, and plung
ing the foot into the vacant leg with sort
of frantic looseness, he brought on the
very catastrophe he was so anxious to
avoid. The chair collapsed with sudden
scrouch. pitching Nehemiah heels over
head through the, curtain, and he made a
grand entrance among the stitching divin-
tiles on all fours, like a tethered rhinoc-
eros. ''" '.""'l .'"i
Perhaps Collier never exhibited more
striking tableau viyant than was now dis
played. Nehemiah was model" every
inch of him, and though not exactly
revolving on a pedestal, he was going
through that movement ON his back, kick
ing, plunging, in short, personifying in
thirty seconds all the attitudes ever CHS
eled! :. AS for the gals, they screamed, of
course, jumped upon chairs and cutting
boards, drew their hands over their faces,
peeped through their fingers-perfectly
natufal--screamed again and declared
they should die-they knew they should.
TOh, -Lord!' blubbered the distressed
young man; don't, gals, don't; didn't
go tew, swar to man didn't--it's all
owing to the cussed trousers-eYery mite
ont; ask your boss; he'll tell yer how it
was. 20 Oh, Lord! won't nobody kiver, me
up with old clothes, or turn the wood box
over me? o, Moses in the bulrushes.
what will Nancy say!" "d aa' y 't'"a
I,laGH He managed to raise himself on his teet.
and made a bold plunge toward the door;
but the entangled alliance tripped him up
again, and he fell kerslap upon the goose
oil the p.essman. This was the unkindest
cut of all. The goose had been heated
expressly for thick seams, and the way it
Missed in the seat of the new pants was
affecting to the wearer. Nehemiah riz in
an instant, and seizing the source OF all
his troubles by the slack, he tore himself
from all save the straps and some fragments
that hung about his ankles. and dashed
through the emporium" at a $40 rate,
and "made tracks for hum"
E- Have you ever thought of what
that man is, who teaches children? You
Oo into the workshon of a wheel- RIGHT. he