Anti-slavery bugle. [volume] (New-Lisbon, Ohio) 1845-1861, 1858-03-27


when the pig had passed, l discovered Blue Peter
sprawllng ia n paroxysm Of laughter.
But the scene, however comic it mighs have
been to him, was truly dolorous to me. The last
glimpse l obtained Of Sir Simon, his enormous
ears we're Tapping up and down like an eagles
wings, triumphattly AS it seemed, hearing HIM on.
ward to his prey. Granny, mounted On her infatuated
Ned, was hard by his haunch no aid was at hand
and | foresaw that, il Sin had nine lives, they would
in a very few moments be nine times anuihilated.
Sir Sim.n would rip up his nanks-the Ned would
scrunch his ribs, and granny would complete the
massacre by tearing him limb from limb. The ia
tai consequences vi so uudacious al eEploit would
not be felt 50 much by the Ned, Sir Simon, or
granny, rs by me-the first cause of the calamity.
Ia u, l WAS sure. had detected me behind the less.
anime as he passed, aud L determined to decamp.
After having made my wet and grimy toilet, |
descended the stairs, and, KITTY having gone out
to zee the fun--inade my escape by the baca
door. sneaked along the garden. sal through she
ditch OF the meadow, into cover. 4 descended the
maiden oaH -trsversed the brook Until tue point
where it reached Cuckold's IIarem Field-energed
there and threw myself fat in a diagonal turrOy,
Many hours elapsed. and when the vest began to
grov rosy, | ventured to peep above the .corubisass
My eyes Tell upon the face Of u human b%eiDg--it
WAS that OF dear little Agnes.
Her father being irum home again, she had
brought me successfully, my breakfast. dinner, and
supper. Surprising that | VAS playing The truant.
aud would probably make my sppearauce before
night, she kindly concealed my absence from the
servants. How | loved her! The bacon, though
cold Was capital. / did not eat--l devoured !
Her aspect gradually frightened up, and at length
my vOracity 50 much amused her, that she cackled
like n pullet. While she was in this pleasant
mood. having satisfied my appetite, and drained II.
shooting horn OF stout old cider. which she had
brought with the bacon, | r%ecOunted my recent ex
ploits and perils, and from my mode of treating
them, they seemed TO strike her as being replete
with fun. Once now and then, however, she turn
ed pale and stared at me awiully; and when | show.
ed her the ridges raised on my urchin hide, by the
short decker Of that strocious postillion-base born
AZ myself-she recoiled with horror, and l hsd
much ado to prevent her from running away
As soon ~ | could prevail Lp0n her to resume the
seat she had previously occupied, | excited her in.
terest by discuursing on my future prospects. ]
had made the village ty far too hot to hold me. and
| cOnsldered it very advisable to be off. IL was
Saturday evening. and l proposed, during the night
to crawl away to Caddiscom5e, where, If Lavolts
kept his word, | should meet with him at the fair.
On Monday morning. Agnes suggested, thut the
intervening Sabbath would stsrye me. To kuock
this objection on the head. ! proposed to pocket my
un oucued matinal mess Of fried uotatoss. vesper
ditto OF brown bread and cheese besides. | should
meet with lots of hawthorn buds, and it WAS hard.
IT after all my experieuce--as l meant to work
my way as much as possible in covtrt--I couldn',
hnd at least one squirrels winter hoard of nuts un
ex hausted, in the Caddiscumbe woods.
We were sitting opposite each other in the dag.
nnal furrow, into which | han first thrown myself.
Agnes. with "a melancholy glance. surveyed the
space between my naked head and naked ankles
she gazed on tat,ers. Granny never thought OF
buy ny me raiment-I clothed myself. The meth
er garments | wore, were my own. | purchased
them for a penny three months before. from Dick
Withers, who had found them somewhere; my
acket was a loan. ! bad no pretensions 10 shirt,
wuisIcoat, hat, shoes Or stockings. Had | accepted
tha tpn aftar urtinlaa frnp,s E1r. anI b;s ,,co -. !
haps | should not have had the courage to have
worn them-iu me aud among my companions, it'll
would have looked proud.
Agnes. without speaking a word. took from her
bosom n little husuye. given to her ior the purpose
of dressing her dolls. Selecting a little fairy nee.
die, and threading it with u bit of blue silk, she
knelt down and commenced sowing up a lar re rent
which revealed the whole of my right knee. Wei
soon began to talk again. and before she had pro-
ceeded lar IN %eobbling up the numberless breaches
in my garments, | had half persuaded her to he
The companion of my medita.ed expatriation--fur
such the flight to Caddiscombe to both of US az.
peared. Her father had often threatened to pack
her of TO- boarding school; but do what she would
to make him angry, he still delayed the iulilment
of his menace, which it was her intense desire to
bring about, for she felt sick of home, and longed
to learn dancing. Poor little dear! She had no
mOtAer-no sisters or brOtheTs-no companions.
Her intercourse with humanity was rigidly restric-
ted with nothing to do she felt herself enslayed.
W UeD ~ UDbu ElTl size WIS ultuNeu 10 nlnN WIFI
her dolls in ,he parlor or the garden when deem.
ed naughty, she was shut 1p with them in the
browp Closet. behind the back bei.room'
We were lust ON the point of coming to a con.
cfusirn, when somebody tittered-we looked up
and there was Blue Peter over his shoulder
cleaned the ruddy countennnce of Dullv Thev
had overheard US, and in n few momeuts our nrn.
;ect. so far as REGARDED Aynes. was ntterIv annihi-
lated. Neither of them would for an instant or.
ter,ain it. Agnes was lursed home. sbriekitg. nv
Dolly and Blue Peter promised to hide ma under
n ben.coop in his own cottage. during he Snhha,h
ard nut me far and free on the roud ~ Cad1i.cnmne
long before the sun rose on Monday n,nrnin~ for
he ,boupb t that | could no; do better than r., M
luck Win Lnyulta. Nv grandmother. he said was
ruined, out and out for not only did Sir Simon
sncr;6re Sin LnI tho fernc;nns oI I"a
most severely thrnshed Souire pa,cb $3.50
On bearing this. wonId on no occount ,r,s,
myself, for a whole DAY., to the nrotection Of Bi"e
Peter, hen.coon. but dc,erminsd m ge, owara,
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