Smyrna times., 1858-12-09
new saddle with brass stirrups, looked as gay

AS they rode up TO the meeting house dool
- Sam could not forbear Casting a triumphan
-. glance at the crowd of Sally's adores that stoo
o. around hIled with modification and envy at hi
successful audacity
), SaIiy's face was rOseate with pleasure an,
. bashfuness
o "S'op a minute, now Miss Sally; I'll jus
" " down git and lelp ye off,"
!, oam essayed TO dsmOunt, but in Sc dona
found that both feet were hopelessly fast in the
!, stlrrup. His face swelled and redeemed like a
. turkey gobb'er's. In vain he twisted and kick
ed the crowd was expectant; Sally was wait.
ing.
"Gosh darn the strrup!" exclaimed Sam.
ehdeaVorIng to break the leather with his fro.
mendous kick.
AT this unwonted exclamation, Sally looked
up and saw her beau's predicament.
Ihe byslandera began 10 sncler Sally was
greved and indignant.
r bouncing out of her saddle in n twinkl,o
she handed her entapPed escort a stone.
" Here, Sammy, chunk your foot out with
, this"
y Sally Jones, into what an error your heart
betrayed you, TO offer this untimely ciyiIlty in
The presence of the assembled coun,y-sdmi.
rers, rivals and all.
oam took the stone and struck frantic blow
al the pertlnacious stirrup, but missing his aim
II Tell with crushing force upon soft corn that
had come from wearing tight boos.
Whoa darn ye cried he losing all control
OF himself, and threatening 10 beat his horse,s
brains out with the stone
Don't strike the critter, SAMMY" said old
Jones, "you'll give him the poll evil. Bu, ;,s,
let me go on girth the saddle, and wei ei, Won
loose in no time"
ln Short the saddle was unbuckled, and Sam
u'sNounted with hsfeet still fast in his stirrups,
looking like a criminal in foothobbles.
| WIN some labor he pulled off his boots.
squeezed them out of the stirrups, and pulled
them again.
The tender Sally stood by, all the while mani.
Testing the klndest concern: and WHOM bo u,
nnaiIy extracted, she took his arm and walked
him into church.
But this unlucky adventure was too mrcb for |
Sam; he sneakcd out of the meetino dur;D,
The tIrst prayer. pulled off his boots. and rode |
home IN his stockings.
From that time Sam Bates dis,ppeor.d from
society Literally and Meta aphorically. he shin,
up shop, and hung up his fiddle. He did no,
take to liquor. like TOOL but took TO his ave
and cleared don't know how many ocres .,
rugged heavy tlmbered land, thereby increasing
the value OF his land several hundred doIlars
Sally indirectly sent him divers civil mos.
Sages' intImatng that she took no account Of
mat little accident at the meeting.house. and
al length Ventured on a direct present of pair
OF grey yarn stockings, knit with her own
hands.
But while every effort to win him back 70 tho
"o''u was unsuccessful, the yarn stockings
were great comfort in his self. imposed exile
oam wore them continually, not on his fe, I,
as some mat'er-of'fact body might suppose, but
IN his bosom; and often, during the intervals of
ms work in the lonely clearing, would he draw
'ne" out and ponder on them I'LL big tear ga.
Ihered in his eye
Oh Sally Jones. Sally Jones, if had ONLY c
nad the spunk to have courted ye Saturday +
night instead of waiting ill Sunday morDing. /
things might have been different
Aud then he would pick un his avn .,I I
""ack Into the next tree with the energy of t
despair.
AT length the whole country was electrified L
Oy 'he announcement that Farmer Jones had S
concluded to sell out and 20 West" On the $
Jay appointed for the sale. there could not have
been less than one hundred horses te,bcred in 9
The barnyard. C
sam Bates was there, looking as uneasy as !"
pig IN strange corn.feld.
sally might have been little thinner than d
usual Just enough to heighten rather than IN a
llmnlsh her charms. "
1t was generally known that sbo ,v.. ovo.so y y
10 moving West. In fact she took no pains to t,
conceal her sentiments on the sub ect. and her a
pretty eyes were evidently red with recent "
weeping. q
one looked mournfully around a { each familiar,
DbJect' The old homestead, with its cb;oLod C
and daubed waIls the cherry trees ,odo Fl
which she had played in childhood the flow. !,
ers she had planted; aud then 10 see Ina d..x +,
old furniture ancIioned ofF-;he churn. Tho Il
apPle-butter pot, the venerable quilting frame q
the occasion of go many sociable gatherings
But harder than oil il was when be, ou,O
white COW was put up; her pet, that when a a
CALL "he saved from the butcher; it was too e
much. and the tears trickled afresh down Sallv.s
blooming cheeks.
"Ten dollars, ten dollars for the COW - il
"Fifty dollarsr' shouted Bates. o
"Why sammy" whispereda a prudent neiob. "
Dor, "she amt worth twenty al the outside"
"rll gin fifty for her," replied Sam, dopp.d. :
ly