M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1860-12-20

extraordinary position. It was a lame
explanation, wonderfully mixed up
with irrelevant matter and stammor-
ed and suffered through in way
| that should have disgusted any sonsi.
| bic person. She seemed to be serious.
Ily pondering during the recital and at
! lis end, looking at me as though ask.
ing the most simple question in the
world, said:
whats to be done"
"Let me jump ont of the window as
| came in, said l, in sickly tone of
voice, for the thought cameto me that
to achieve this end, | must make some
desperate display Of myself in a style
of costume which | deprecated. She
relieved me instantly:
"No, that will not do; there are
people moving about and you will be
seen"
1t was now my turn to stalnmer out:
"What's to be dono?' For | saw
that the little hazel.eyed girl was SUI
Yerior to me in presence Of mind and
energy of action. ShO did not wait
long to answer my question.
"You must lie still here until get
up. When have left the room you
can rise, dress and 90 away at the first
opportunity" was her response dcliv.
cred in a quiet and business like man
ner.
And so I did. Under May Stevens
command l buried my head under the
bed. clothes, and kept well covered till
| heard the retreating footsteps on the
stairs; which was but a few moments
though it seemed an age; then with {
desperate bound | sprang from the bed
and turned the key on the departed
one. 1t was the quicket dressing
ever made, and | will venture to say
that no man ever sneaked out Of hiI
apartments more stealthily than did
That morning we met May Ste
vens and lat the breakfast table,
in the character Of the newly arrived
that morning--and were formally in
troduccd, during the ceremony 0
which we astonished every one pres
! emf, and planted a thorn Of wonder il
| the sides Of Nettie and Carrie, b,
! Bursting simultaneously into a heart,
/ laugh, which we never fail to rcpea
| when the memory Of our first meeti1.
: comes up.
t And now, cousin Jane, you hav
the whole story OF how | first met m
S wife"
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HALF IEJUN, HALF INJUNEER.-
! Where the engineer of the Atlanti
and Great Western Railroad Compg
ny has been engineering for til
road near the head-waters of the a
leghany River, New York, there
quite a remnant Of the Seneca tribe {
. Indians. Their land grant is half
y mile wide on each side of the river an
:. forty miles in length, and "inaieni
! bic forever" 50 that they nor the Sta'
- or Federal Government can sell eve
: to the Railroad Company Tor the
= track to cross it, They cross 0
! leased ground only. Thus this tril
" have been unlike the trolling etor
~ :, that gathers no moss" but have b.
- - como rich. The old chief has a ver
:, . pretty daughter, well up in her teen
: and, strange to say, about a year a
- :, ter the engineering commenced, tN
% " forest fawn had occasion to exercit
IL maternal care. One day the enc
y ueer rallied the old chief on the fade
i appearance Of the little half orpha
!" ~ Ugh" grunted the old chief, "ha
~ ~ Injun, halt lpjuneer" May be tn
-. -, speech didn't bring down the house
:, railroad boys, and may be that eng
~ ~ noer has never since heard that on
~ - nous Ugh"
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