Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-11-12
CLEVELAND. 1859.


What New York country boy-bov
twenty years ago does not remember
that inn-cannot shut his eyes and see it
now, as it stood a rambling structure. with
a low-browed ''Stoop" and that wel-worn
step, and the traces Of Time and Storm I'M.
en- its battered gables Here vas the bar.
room here the great fireplace, with its
huge old knob-headed hand-irons, in the
old-fashioned winter, bearing pyramid Of
hire, while around it the rnsh.bottomed
chalrs were drawn up in a great circle.
Aad where is the phlegnatic old Boniface
that with good capon lined" shuffled round
IN his slippers, and stirred the glowing loos
with the great shovel till they roared
again Aud where is the old village Squire
that sat there in the corner, and nightly
saved the nation from war. pestience and
famine )" where the village gossip that re.
tailed to the grOnp of listeners the small
scandal of the day The walls are covered
with old handbillS all that remains of one
fragment about carding-machine
while the top Of the bill "where the Wool,
onght to be-" went away in Whit as il
lighted some body's pipe while in lien there.
OF Consta6Ie's Sale" done with a poor pen
ana pale INK, is attached to the wall with
four sections of an unfortunate wafer
Here an impossible horse is getting away
from an ndeScribabe man there, an old
piacard OF caravan, hangs in tntters. a
green parrot having alighted on a blue ele-
phant, and rampant lion having thrust
Ills nose into the pocket of stage drivers
coat that hAgs from wooden pin but
grandeSt OF all is picture of stage coach
labelled the Enterprise, that drawn bv
iour spanking horses with three legs or so
apiece, Is punging directly into thunder
cloud, while John Rogers and famiIyn
stand aside to see the world go by.
Here is bunk, strown with buffalo
robe, rough coat, the advertiser half of
an old newspaper, whip with an Alexan-
drlne lash, and village loafer and there
IN that dim corner, is cage, with wooden
bars pointed at the top, and little open |
ing ana narrow shelf beneath. through |
which, atoretime, little green tumblers and |
round black bottles came and went as the
weather was cold or hot, or wet or dry. or
the wind blew from the North, or "there was
great calm" Then there was the dog
huge shaggy and old, oil as long ago as we
can remember, old before that forever
asleep under the bunk, and forever living
with his nose between his paws in the open
door.
1t is summer, and summer noon.-The
olg yellow watch hangs motiOnless the
blacksmith's hammer intermits, man lies
asleep on the dry-goods box, and the mer-
chant stands still iu the door. A thirsty
dog is tapping water at the trough by the
pump, and dove is saying prayers on its
edge. The bar room is silent, all but the
heavy breath of doing master and dog. and
the drowsy hum of flies. The fireplace is
green with asparagus, for the winter is long
over and gone. Family in the distance is !
sound it is a bee in the garden. Shriller
clearer it is shout Louder, longer !
nearer ; it is the horn of the comiRg stage! ! !
How it winds up and down among the notes /
ike bugle abrupt aud emphatic, and {
then with a "dying fall" aa So
The landlord rouses himself, the dog is
wide awake the Postmaster comes out up
on the steps the oster saunters lazily from
the old roomy shed the tailor looks out up.
Dn the window. The rattle Of wheels is !
the jingling of bolts, and the {
rack OF the long whip. Down the bill, v
'ver the bridge, here it comes, rounds to Il
With flourish, and the four-in-hand are I
brought up before the door with an empha- b
is that makes the old coach rock aud swing s
Ike ship in a swell. a
The door is thrown open, and one woman, n
y a green calash, emerges; the depleted q
mailbag is whirled out from beneath the b
lriver's feet, and the leaders and wheel D
II. L., a % |
hey delile ont from the shed, the leaders 81
ray with tassels and the bright plated a
ings, o
All right" is the cry the ribbons are L
D hand two sharp notes upon the horn 4
he woman in green calash comes out again n
he coach door goes 10 with a bang the