The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1859-07-23

guarueu the Ofpkeh feesr as We'll Us ne IniGut
from jolt and jar: So tae singular spectacle
wheeled slowly up Rattle and down Smist
streets, TO the great delight Of all behol3ers
though happily for Sally, but few Of hel
friends ventured abroad on that sultry July
evening. aad she escaped comparatively IN.
noticed By those from whose notice she
might have shrunk. Now, i, was the queer.
est Of all times and places for any senti-
mentality to bud. or even take root yet. IL
strict honesty, i, must be made known, thai
if Sally Norton ever begin to love Professor
kramps it was there, in that very ox-cart
all bruised and wretched as he was; for Sally
was the veriest woman concoeteG since Eve,
and no amount of wooing. done in the mos
approved style, could have moved her ten
der, simple. gentle heart so thoroughly rs
the genuine helplesness and suffering of the
man whose head she held, from whose wide
and thought lined forehead she wiped away
the damps of pain and weakness, as tender
iy as his mother would have kissed it.
Sally wondered why she had thought him
so ugly: now his wan. transparent eveIds
were closed over the burning and restless
orbs beneath his finely chiseled lips set like
marble in the compression of anguish, and
his dark hair, crisped with heat and moist
ure. falling on her own white wrst-reallv.
he was not classically beautiful, but what
the ladies call most interesting man-and
Sally's heart grew softer and softer. The
head was more gently Graded. the brow
wiped with lighter finger, and once the
heavy hair drawn of by most spirit like
touch, as one hot tear rolled over the swell
ing eyelid, and hoped on to the bridge Of
Theodosius Cramps nose, whereat he looked
up and smiled. his first recognition Of con-
sciousness. Sally blushed most exquisitely
but she couldn't put him down, and for two
minutes two people We're supremely blessed,
bruises and bones to the contrary notwith-
standing: but those two minutes brought
them to Mr.. Norton's door: and the whole
family. being strewed over the veranda, the
peal of laughter which burst at ouce from
father, mother, Charley and Ned, was too
much for poor Sally. Down went tho luck
less head of Theodosius with a terrible
bump on the cart bottom, and out sprang
Sally over the wheel. and rushed headloug
up stairs to her own room, where. having
locked the door, she INDUCED in good cry,
as becomes every young woman in like cir
cumstances: and she sensiblv washed her
face, rubbed her black ahd blue shoulders
with some lotion Of sovereign virtue, laugh
ed for ten minutes harder than she had cried
and went TO bed like the commons sense girl
she was, having just unlocked the door to
admit her mother, on her nightly rounds to
see that all were safe in bed before she slept
herself.
In the meantime the Professor. something
discounted aud amazed by his sudden col
lapse on the stout hickory beneath, was lf-
I'd carefully out Of the cart and ensconcad
in Mrs. Norton's best bed room. Will" Ned
was dispatched for the the family physician.
and Charley sent to the hotel for his goods
and chattels.
At length, seeing his guest, b7 dint Of the
penitent Joe's ceaseless efforts, safely in the
hands Of two NJ. DIS. and "deputv saw
boncs,' Mr.. Norton commenced AN uuspar-
in. inquiry into the rights Of the case, and
having wrung them out oc Joe's rcmorscful
lips. gave him such II pittilcss and severe
blowing up (to use tecncality J that the
unhappy youth resolved directly to run away
and 20 to sea the next morning, and was
packing his carpet bag 70 that effect, soon
after the family dispersed for the night,
when his plans were somewhat deranged by
hearing, through TIL open window Of his
father's room, most unextinguishable bursts
of laughter. accompanying the recital to
mother Of his cross-examlning Joe. and the
door fellows dismal responses. Joe emp
tied his carpet bag into the middle Of the
n0oy, performed an Indian war dance about
the miscellaneous contents, and went to bed.
where he dreamed Of Thcodosius kramps
beating him numerically with wooden
leg.
Well, long story becomes short when
its climax is manifest. Six weeks was the
Professor an inmate of Mr.. Norton's house:
everybody liked him, and waited on him,
but nobody was like Sally. She made him
incredible dainties. and served him in a way
to have suited an old maid fairy. She read
to him in fearful!v big books, all about the
dual number, and hexameters, besides a
great many other things that she didn't
know. and don't either, but Mr.. Kramp-
did. She brought him flowers, at which he
gazed in ignorant delight, not knowing
whether they were s2ponents of potatoes
and beets, or herbs for the healing Of man.
hut only that Sally held them in her fine
fingers. and stood right before his eyes,
'herself farer flower"
Ms u!iireT state oA tniu5s "eut Oh
continuously,
9TH ont ~ long trnsration Of her care,
And pen>,vc tendance in the aiI-weary Moons"
and al! that, Sally was quite ready to say
.'ves," like a good little girl. when she was
asked and in due time, on fine dav OF
October, as awkward ao she could be made
by abundance of six and lace, she WAS DC
clared Mrs. Theodosius hramps, in proper
form, and with plenty Of crying, kissing and
laughter, all to the great edifcation of her
husband, who was not possessed with that
self -consc sciousness and false pride that
makes man "dete.t sccnes,' but was HIM
self true and genial enough to enjoy the
in others and unseifsh enough to have en-
joyed it because they, had he not also shared
the emotion. Sally left a lonely house be-
hind her; Joe took refuge in the contemDia-
ton of voyage before the mast, but at
length went vehementiy to studying, as he
was to enter Hale College the next term,
under the Professorial auspices. Mother
had hearty cry, and then settled down
aga: II to the old routine. Mr.. Norton missed
Sally's daisy face most of all, now never
peering over his dusty law books, or tearing
him out Of his best business hours into
drive, or froic, or picnic. TIE younger
boy. were at school; they thought of Sally
at home. whea they stopped 10 think but
very rarely tid their daily scsapes and ex-
plo!ts leave them any room for meditation.
Sally herself was Aprilesque, as usual.
Sometimes crving, ofteusr smiling. che made
the journey 10 tns UidpoFt a little romance
to the Professor. who watched her much as
if she were "A bird he had unexpectedly
caught, and Of whose actual possession he
was vet doubtful.
Once installed in her diguities, poor Ssl-
ly's real life began; every day, indued in
some bridal fnerv, she had TO sit IN state
and receive the solemn calls Of the Faculty
wives, and every evening, when she ionged,
after such stupid day, to pull Of her Little
shoes and carl up in one coTneE OF ...c sofa
for ncs nap, or try and coax her " dear
old Theo' into an ungsinly garDbgl, IN came
the Faculty per. se-, Que or another, and she
stiEensd into Mrs. Kramps, with bali sop
pressed yawns, and frequent rGbbInss Of
her mis-: bIns eyes with the dinpied knGcklas
Of hands that should bsvs dseorously re-
posed ga her handkerchief. aa..
Bot Sally could rot b= proper; i Vas not
IL hsF how shall give 10 r-tFectsble
pahlic a mild account of her EaeessaB, mis-