Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1859-07-13


3Good morning, sir" said she, "and pray
what on earth makes you look so badly,
this beautiful morning, isn't the controver
sy between the churches doing good SER
vicew
eyes"
aIsn't Deacon W. making plenty of bad
whiskey?"
eyes"
"Well, what is the matter, my highly
honored master!"
Everything else is going on we'll e.
nough," replied the Devil, "but," land here
he looked as sour as a monkey on crab
apple tree,) "old Blueford and his wife,
over here, are injuring the cause terribly
by their bad example, and after trying for
5e-s..sas-- sdnea. thana, To do better must
say consider them hopeless.
The hag stood for moment in deep
thought. sAre you sure you have tried
every way"
"Eyery one can think of"
"Are you certaina"
eyes"
"Well," replied she, "if you will promise
to make me present of new pair of
shoes, in case | succeed, will make the
attempt myself, and see if can't raise a
quarrel between them"
To this reasonable request the Devil
gladly assented. The old hag went her
way to neighbor Blueford's house, and
found old Mrs. Blueford very busily en-
gagged in getting things ready for her hus-
bands comfort on his return from work.
After the usual compliments had passed,
the following dialogue took place:
"Well, friend B., you and Mr.. B. have
lived long time together"
olive and twenty years, come next No
vember," replied Mrs. B.
"And in all this time you have never
had the least quarrel"
"Not one"
81 am truly glad to hear it." continued
the hag, II consider it my duty to warn
you, that though this is the case, you may
not expect it SO to be always. Have you
not observed that of late Mr.. B. has grown
peevish and sullen at times?"
ga very little So" observed Mrs. Blue
ford.
81 know it." continued the hag, "and le
me warn you in time to be on your guard
Mrs. B. did think she had better do so
and asked advice as to how she ought tx
manage the case.
"Have you not noticed" said the hae
"that your husband has bunch of long
coarse hair growing on mole under hi
chin, on the side Of his throat?"
"Yes."
"These are the cause of trouble, and a
long as they remain you had better loo
\ out. Now, as friend, would advise yo
to cut them off the first time you get
chance, and thus end the trouble"
. eff you say do so, | WILL" replied tn
) credulous old lady.
Soon after this the hag started for hom
and made it convenient to meet Mr.. B. o
the way. Much the same talk, in relatio
to his domestic happiness, passed betwee
them as did between the old woman.
"But, friend Blueford," said she, II thin
> it my duty, as Christian, to warn you
!. be on your guard, for tell you that yo
wife intends your ruin"
= Old Mr.. B. was very much astonishe
e yet he could not wholly discredit her WORD
. When he reached home he threw hims,
. upon bed in great perplexity, and, feig
y ing sleep, studied over the matter in /
own mind. His wife, thinking this 60
! opportunity for cutting off the obnoxio
- hair, took her husbands razor and ere
- softly to his side. Now the old lady W
> very much frightened at holding razor
! close to her husbands neck, and Ter ha
70 was not SO steady as it once was-so,
- tween the two she went to work very aw
" wardly and pulled the hairs instead of CT
of ting them off Mr.. B. opened his ey
- and there stood his wife with razor
~ his throat! After what had been t,
- him and seeing this, he could not do,
- that she intended to murder him.
- sprang from the bed in horror, and no
- planation or entreaty could convince b
- to the contrary. So from that time for
/ there was no more peace for that house
It was jaw, jaw, quarrel, and wrangling
the time.
~ With delight the Devil heard of the S
s ss cess of his faithful emissary, and sent
3 word that if she would meet him at
~ end of the lawn, at certain time, he we
pay her the shoes.
At the appointed time she repaired
the spot, and found the Devil at the pl
He put the shoes on the end of long p
and standing on the opposite side Of
I'm fence, handed them over to her. She
'u- very much pleased with them, they v
zee exactly the article.
nd "But there is one thing, Mr.. Devil,
he Iwould like to have explained, that is,
'he you handed them to me on that stick |?
ad "Very easy to explain" replied he;
*; one who has the cunning and meannes
the do as you have done, don't get nearer
"n, twenty feet of me-" So saying, he file
as terror.
evil After while the old woman died,
ne) when she applied for admittance to
ate lower regions, the Devil would not lei
the in, for fear she might dethrone him, az
y was SO much his superior. So the ole
not man is yet compelled to wander owe
10 world, creating quarrels and strife in p'
nee ful families and neighborhoods.
Tam Would you know her name?
eVli 1t is Madame Scandal. When she
'een her children, the young Scandalizers,
'uldi left orphans, but the Devil, in consider
oe- OF past service done by the mother. a,
ong,l ed them, and so you sec he is the fatt
mptl that respectable class called sco,,doI
the gers.