Lewisburg chronicle. [volume] (Lewisburg, Pa.) 1850-1859, 1858-11-19

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/ sam ossayed to dismount, hut, inso
doing, found that both feet were
hopelessly fast in the stirrups. His
face swelled and rediened like 4
turkey gobler's. In vain he twisted
and kicked the crowd was expect
ant; Sally was waiting.
The bystanders began to snicker.
Sally was grieved and indignant. vt
last, the saddle was unbuckled, and
Sam dismounted with his feet still in
the stirrups, looking like a criminal
in foot hobbies. With some labor no
pulled off his boots, squeezed them
out OF the stirrups, and pulled them
on again. Sally stood by, all the
while manifcs,ing the tenderest con-
Germ and when he was finally extri-
Gated, she took his arm and walked
with him into church. But this un-
lucky adventure was too much for
sam he sneaked out of the meeting
during the first prayer, pulled OFF his
boots, and rode home in his stockings.
From that time, sam Bates disap-
peared from society. Literally and
metaphorically, he shut up shop and
hung up his fiddle. He did not take to
liquor, like fool, but took to his axe,
and cleared | don't know how many
acres of rugged, heavy timbered land,
thereby increasing the value of his
tract to the amount of several hun
dred dollars. Sally indirectly sent
him divers civil messages, intimating
that she took no account of that lit
tie accident at the Westinghouse, and
at length ventured on direct present
Of pair OF gray yarn stockings, knit
with her own hands. But while ev-
cry effort to win him back to the
world was unsuccessful, the yarn
stoeLinps --e-e c-~-s -~--e--< -,
his selfimposed exile. Sam wore
them continually, not on his feet, as
some matter-offact BOBBY might sup
pose, but in his bosom and often.
during the intervals of his work, in
the lonely clearing, would he draw
them out and ponder on them till a
big tear gathered in his eve.
30, sally Jones, sally Jones, if I only
had the spunk to have courted We on
Saturday night, instead of waitin' till
Sunday morning, things might have
been different" And then he would
pick up his saxe, and whack into the next
tree with the energy Of despair.
At length, the whole country was
electrified by the announcement that
Farmer Jones had concluded to sell
9yt Sgitp and 2 RS ,As Mest , Rert 2e the oad a8s
have been less than one hundred hor
ses tethcred in the barn-yard. sam
Bates was there, looking as uneasy
as a pig in strange corn field.
Sally might have been little thin
ner than usual. just enough TO height
en- rather than diminish her charms.
1t was generally known that she was
averse 10 moving West, and her
pretty eyes were red with recent
weeping. She looked mournfully
around at each familiar object. The
old homestead, with its chinking and
daubed walls; the cherry trees, I'M
der which she had played in child
hood {: the flowers she had planted
and then to see the dear old furniture
auctioned oif-the churn, the apple
butter pot, the venerable quilting
frame, the occasion OF so many social
gatherings. But harder than all it
was when her own white COW was
put up her pet, that, when a calf,
She had saved from the butcher IL
was too much, and the tears trickled
afresh.
Ten dollars, ten for the GOVT
Fifty dollars. = shouted Bates.
"Why, Sammy" whispered pru-
dent neighbor, 'she hain't worth
twenty, at the outside"
iii gin fifty for her" replied Sam,
doggedly.
Vow. when Sally heard of this
, piece of gallantry, she must needs
. thank the purchaser for the eompli-
ment, and commend Sukey to his cs-
; pecial kindness. Then she extended
her plump hand, which sam seized
) with such devouring grip that the
, little maiden could scarcely suppress
q scream. She did suppress it. how
, ever. that she might hear whether he
! had anything farther to say, but she
was disappointed. He turned away
: dumb, swallowing, as it were, great
5 hunks of grief as big as dumpiings-
When everything was sold oil, and
5 dinner was over, the company diSpos-
: ed itself about the yards in groups,
, reclining on the grass, or seated on
!, benches and dismantied furniture.
The conversation naturally turned
upon the events of the day. and the
t prospects of the Jones family, and 1T
5 was unanimously voted pity that 50
fine a girl as Sally Jones should be
? permitted to leave the country so ev-
D identity against her will.
D "Hain't none Of you sneaklny
whelps the sperit to stop her? asked
:, the white-headed miller, addressing
group of young bachelors lying near.
), The louts snickered, turned over,
G whispered to each other, but no one
n showed any disposition to try the ex-
l. neriment. The sun was declining IN
4 tho west. Some of those who lived