Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1859-02-19

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try to recollect me, sir It is necessary
some one Authority should be able to know |
me. said the woman, raising her baggard
eyes 10 the face Of her visitor.
The old man adjusted his spcctacles and
gave her scrutiuiziug look, exclaiming ut
Intervals
Lord bless my soul it is II ain't Il
must il cnnt be Granny urewell-the
the-..the-.midwife that disappeared
FROM here some twelve or thirteen years
ago 2 tV. aHz
Yes, master, l am Nancy Grewell, the
ladies' nurse, who vanished from sight so
mysteriou>ly some thirteen years ago 7 re-
piled the woman.
Heaven help our hearts ! And for
what crime was it you rau awsyS Come
make clean breast Vt IL, woman =
You have nothing to fear in doing so, for
you are past the arm of earthly law now J
i know it, MASTER
And the best way to prepare to meet
the Divine Judge is to make all the repair
alton that you cnn by a full confession 7
Il know it, sir--if had committed a
crime but have committed no crime,
neither did run away
What what what What was it
then Remember, witness, you ore on
your oath = ........-. ...........
Il know that, sir, and willltell the truth,
but it must be in my own way
! At this moment violent blast Of wind
aud hail roared down the mountain side
and ratified against the walls, shaking the
wiich's hut, us il it would have shaken IL
about their ears
Ii was proper overture to the tale that
was about to he told. Conversation was
impossible until the storm raVed past aud
was heard dying in deep reveberatng ech-
oes from the depths OF the Devils Punch
Bowl
1t is some thirteen years ago. began
Granny Grewell, upon just such night OF
storm us this, that was mOented on my
old mule Molly, with my sadde-bags full
of dried YARDS, aud Stlled waters aud sich
as alters carried when was out 'tendin'
on the sick. | was on my way a-going TO
see u lady as j was sent for to tend
"Well, master I'm not ashamed to say,
as ] never was afraid Of man, beast, nor
spirit ! aud never stopped at going out all
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roads, il 10 be | was called upon SO to do.
Still must say that jest rs me and Molly,
my mule, got into the deep, thick, lonesome
woods US stands round the old Hidden
House iu the hollow, did feel queerish
ease it was the dead hour of night, aud it
was said how strange things were seen aud
hearn, yes, and doue too, in the dark, deep,
Lonesome place. l seeu how even my mule
Molly felt queer too, by the way she stuck
up her ears, stiff as 9Wlls. SO, partly TO
keep up my own spirits and partly TO cOur-
ugc her, says |, Molly says l, what are
We aleard uh BE man, Molly y But
Molly stepped out cautious, and pricked VI
her long ears all the same.
We'll, master, it was SO dark l couldn't
sec yard past Molly'S ears, and the path
was 80 narrow aud the bushes SO thick We
could hardly get along but just as we CANT
to the little creek aS they calls the Spout
cause the water jumps aud jets along till
emptics into the Punch Bowl, just as Mo
+ ly was cautiously putting her fore foot int
the water, out starts Two men from til
bushes and SeizeS poor Moly's bride 2
Good heaven 7 exclaimed Major Wal
, field.
We'll, master, before conld cry out, on
of them Villains seized me 10y the Scuf Il
my neck, aud with the other hand on IN,
mouth he says:
S BE silent, you old fool, or I'll blow you
} brains out 7
! And then master, saw for the first Tim
that their faces were covered over vii
S black Grape. couldn't a-screamed if they
! let me, for my breath was gone and IN
senses were going along with it from IL
D fear that was Oh me-.
"'Don't struggle, come along quietly an
l. you shall not be hurt says the man as ha
: spoke before.
D Struggle couldn't a-struggled to
saved my sOnl | couldn't speak
e couldn't breathe 4! liked to have a-dro
ped right often Moly's buck. One on e
says, says he:
ID Give her some brandy = And 10th
x takes out flask and puts it to my lips al
d says, says he:
]. Here, drink this @
We'll master, us he had me still by Il
- scruf O. the neck couldn't do no 9TH
ways but open my mouth and drink it,
j. Aud us sOou as took swallow my brea
ID come back and my speech.
II. And oh, gentlemen, says j, 'ef it's 20
money or your life you mean, haint
about me Deed clare to the Lord
he mighty haint it's wrapped up in an G
cotton glove ia hole in the plastering
I'd the chimncy-corner ut home, and ef yOt
in spare my life, you can go there aud get
TO says |.
sc You old blockhead,' says they, I'VE wa
rs neither one nor t'oiher Come along qui
= ly aud you shall receive no harm. But
ur the first cry or attempt to escape this sh
US stop you And with that the villain h'
the mizzle of pistol so nigh 10 my mt
nd that smelt brimstOne, while POIher {
ne bound silk handkerchief round my ey
ar and then took poor Molly's bride and
her along couldn't see, in course, a
he ! dissinl breathe for fear o the pistol.
W. But said my prayers to myself all
nd time
IN We'll, master, they led the mule on do
at the path, until we coined to a place W
be enough TO turn, when they turned US rot