Delaware inquirer. (Wilmington, Del.) 1859-18??, 1859-12-10
$500 PER ANNUM.

" settled herselfin her chair opposite her brother
Z The brother looked critically at the leg, raise
il a little with his fork snuffed the caper-saucc
y and then looked at his sister with an expires
sion of doubt almost amounting to disagree
" ment,
i, Then it is MT to be beauty after all I
u cried Miss Molly taking fire: "and why not,
wonder? Have | been a slave to you an,
your famly-have been a mother to you
motheress children-have I put my fortun,
into your till-have ! sacrificed myself to you
leg of mutton" But Mr.. Browns look wal
at this time so serious, so abstracted from
anything like pettishness-nay, so dignifed,
may say, that the virgin could get no further
She bent towards the mystic dish, and the odor
of the caper-sauce had the unwonted effect OF
difiusing an expression Of dismay over her fca-
lures. Mr.. Brown bent down upon the object
of his scrutiny cut little, very little-only
just enough to raise the skn-and then, laying
down his knife and fork, said to his sister with
dreadful calmness
"Miss Brown, this is leg of pork !" The
worshipful member was right. It was our leg
of pork, which Tom had exchanged in the
twinkling of an for their leg of mutton; but
Mr.. Brown would have gone that moment be-
fore any justice of the peace in the kingdom,
and made oath that there was no other leg in
the saucepan-that his audacious sister had
determined to crafty at once her taste and her
stubbornness at the expense of everything great
and sacred in human society. On her part,
Miss Brown met the charge like tigress. She
had been sacrificed all her life, and would be
sacrificed no longer. This leg was none of
hers, but his. She had boughtit it by his desire,
not her own; she had put it into tine saucepan
with her own hands, as beautiful leg of NUT
ton as ever ran; she had watched it ever since
as cat watches mouse no human being had
entered the kitchen that day but herself; she
had skinned it, and turned ii again and again.
not two minutes before Il was dished she had
raised the lid, and saw that it was the true leg
of mutton il had been all along she had poured
the caper-sauce over it when il came out, just
as if it had been an infant of day old; and
there il wasl
"But tell You it is a leg of porkp said Mr..
Brown bitterly.
"Let it be what leg it WILL" replied Miss
Molly, al have told you all know about it.n
"Who ever heard of caper-sauce with pork2'
said the brother, al could have forgiven any
thing but that. That is downright horriblen
Here Miss Brown could hold no longer but
burst into tears, and rung her hands at such
rate that Mr.. Brown was almost staggered in
his idea of her criminality. After the mystic
rious dish was put away in the larder, and
they had dined on bread and cheese, tranquility
was in some degree restored; but several times
throughout the day, as the recollection recur-
red to Mr.. Brown, he looked sternly at his sis
ter, and was heard to mutter between his
teeth, "Picklcd pork and caper-sauce p
While this scene was passing, we were get |
ting up the river Mt q prodgious rate. Never |
was there finer day, never did the sun fash |
so brightly upon the water, and never did the |
water break into such radiant smiles in reply |
As for us, we were young, hearty fellows at any |
rate but on this occasion, the elaton of sue |
cess, the consciousness of having done our
work ceverly, gave additional vigor to our |
arms; and in the midst of songs and wild |
,o,nh,er that st;Il r;no in ,l,;s on1d an, -.
vo nursued onr ,yov. mok;nc tbo st;e Loo,
along tbo wotcr ike tbe raco.borso ov,ora
main We dined early and found tbot tho
mutton e,,l, ;ns,;eod ,ho. onio,,;,,,,, oe me-
Molly Brown Beino nrovided bowover ,v;,h
otbor ,;,,ss wo d;d NOT comnletoi,, fn;sI,
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strehg'neneu py natural curiosity we ieit 10
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