The weekly hawk-eye. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1858-1860, 1859-12-24

< place on this mortal spear before, nor since
Josh growed red and green, by turns; IN
Poll looked - sour % q four year old butter
!. milk cheese
i The Misses Miller bristled up like two ssi
y tin hens, and made of from Us as If the
p spected we'd got the small pox, or some 9th
i er confection.
e How do you do, Uncle Josh Inn glad {
y see your SCI Azariah, marching up with hi
carpet bag in hand, his valise i'm to.her. um
h brill undefhis arm.
X lie deposited the things on the carpet, ant
. grabbed Josh's little white hand in an Oh,
Il Fellows grip.
! .Hows yer health Can't you answer
q teller I've come to pay you little visit of
. week or two; and Nv brung bushel OF Bald
T win apples to kinder help along for oul
3 boards while we're here! Bets and Salll
! Jane has got EN- there in their satchels r
This elderly lady is my wifc-the red haired
! ones my darter, Sally Jane, the telle O
i brownville; sot more fellers' hearts d thump
. IN than could stand between here and tho
Rock Of Gibralterl'
You have no idea how worked up them
} Millers wasl They was ashamed Of me know
J by the way they singled. Mrs. Miller was
took dreadful sudden with cough, aid Josh
kept settin' his feet together, as If he wasn'i
! sartin of their being mates. Azariah didn't
keer particle, but turned round. and bowed
to tho company
Why don't you Introduce me TO some Of
yer friends, Uncle Joshua says he, Il should
like to make their acquaintance Sally, too,
calkerlate ca her catching beau before we
clear out from here
'Merciful Heavens cried Josh's wife, lift
ing up her hands, 4 do believe the man is
erazytic he has ruinated my nervous 81 stem
intirelyl An apparatus from the other world
couldn't have pretixed me more I
Don't take on so, Polly says /, offering
my sympathy to her--'Dont bee of your
Azariahis only glad to see you, and he's got
q queer way Of showing 1t. We won't be no
trouble at all. you've got company, | seed
one of your cousins at the door and if there's
more Of EN- here and your beds is fall we
won't mird sleeping on the floor! Only give
us comfortable or So
Poll shook herself clear Of me as If had
been lizard, and says She
You impudeat huzzyl Let 90 &c me and
corporate the pEsMises can't indure the
signt you'll
This, ye see, kinder riled me, and had to
spit it out
Law sakesf says !, you needn't be SO liz
that know OF Yer great grandfather
fatheE was niger, and
Poll screamed and fcl. down on the sofa,
and dozen crinolings gathered round her
to keep the air from her, and offer their smell
| ling bottles.
Throw some water in her face, and unlsoe
her stays sez |, trying to get nigh enough to
90 Something, lawi before could say another
word, Josh Miller ketched me by the arm,
pushed me out of the room, into little poke
hole OF place, and shut the door and locked
It. was captiyated. pummelled and holv.
Tered, but nobody took no notice Of me; and
the door was tight as cap, and the sound
aiun seem to go through. After while rot |
tired Of hopping around for nothing, and 80
lsot down on something nice and soft as |
new iether bed. felt pretty considerable
indignant for spell; but byne bye, began
to grow sleepy, and singular enuff popped |
oil to sleep. don't know how long Id slept
mot great while, guess-when was |
walked up by somebody's opening the door.
with light in his hands 1t was Josh Miller.
lie looked kinder sorry and mortified like and |
SEE he:
Come come, Betsy, git up and come out.
I'm sorry served you SO, but my dander was
up
lie gave me his hand to 'sist me up, but
lawful goodness you might rs we'll have
stirred Lake Superior out Of its foundationi
y cot into mess afsane kind, though what
il was eoaldn't tell
Heavens and earth screamed Joshua, if
you amt sot down in the tub Of icecream Z
and sure enuif so | had and froze inl
! stopped mint to think of it, and mad
enatf was! | give one spring, and crack
na at ln ID u u \
should have gone into the arms of Josh Mil
Ter, il | hadn't hit him 50 sudden as 10 tip him
over. Down he went, down went, the can.
die was already down; and in the height Of !
it Azariah and Sally Jane, hearing the out
cry, come rushing at the sound, and the trans.
position from the lighted room to utter dark> n
ness had such powerful effect upon EN-
that they both stumbled and fell. We was
all down as low as the chronometeter in dor :
days. got up first and run for . light !
s,akes alive it was terrible oareplasm Josh !,
had broken his watch chain in three places
and smashed the cistern of his watch, besides !
burst out the sleeves of his bran new broad >
cloth coat, and crushed into nothing a yaler-
able pair Of gold bowed spectacles, Sally
Jane had stove her shell haircsmb all to
flinders and knocked the stone out OF her To- !
som pin She was so mad about her missfor.
IN that didn't say word about mine: and
not saying anything about it kinder made me i
orget about it, and afnre knowed it / was II
'ut among the company, never thinking at
VI about my gowned skirt Everybody put Il
heir handkerchiis to their mouth to stop II
,lgsling, and that brought me to my senses. \
'oil, who'd got about half way back to con- :
cionsness, gave another scream and tainted :
lead away. BY this time Josh had 20. tired
! his close quarters under Sally Jane and q
izarlah. and he began to twist and Loller,
Murder! thieyesl robbers, help! helm
The folks in the parlor quit Polly to help
oshua Seeing losh's legs, with patient
sather boots and guilt button examinations an
itching out Of the closet door, they naturally
npr osed that a thief had secreted himself in
ne cupboard, and that them feet and legs Ii
eionged to him, and so they grabbed moor
oshua by bis understandings and pulled and
auied and thrashed him about for as mucn
fifteen minutes afore he could convince EN- ~
lat he was hisself and not somebody else II
as soon as Joshua could get breath to :
'eak, ne explained things in q terrible s.a. II
ed Kind ola way, and doxologisel 10 US and ~
oAolosised to the company, and said he gu
as very sorry Tor the mistake. Bnt W. W.
zariah wouldn't be pacitied no way; his Wa
mper was teched; and he UP and told the an
hole history of the Millers from the oldest !
the youngest, He didn't spare a single -
lrticular arter he'd got his tongue a going;
u more mortified critter than Josh was
"a never seed. He tried to hush Azariah
}. and persuade him to stay all night, but n,
was no go. My husband was determined a
clear out, and Sally and had to do as he +
ID. For my part, I'd been willing to have
rgot that he church member. We lodp ~,
~ the tavern that night; aud the next day
y % loot for home. When 60 to another N
'anksgislng without an invite, you'll know con
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