Bellows Falls times. [volume] (Bellows Falls, Vt.) 1856-1965, 1860-02-17
MISCEILAN Y.
Moses the Sassy, or the Disguised
Duke.
BY ARTEMAS WARD.
CHAPTER 1-MosES.

My story opens in the classic presinks OF
Bosting. In the parlor of an aristocratic
manshun on Bacon street sits lovely
young lady hoos hare is covered over with
the frost of IL summers; she has Just sot
down TO the Peanny 81 is singin the popu-
lar pees called Swels of the Hotion. 10
which she tells how with Pensive Thawt
she wandered by C beet shoar. The
Son is setting in its borison and its geor-
geous lite pores in golden meller fued
through the winders and makes the booti-
ful young lady twice as bootiful as she was
bed, which is Unnecessary. She is mag
nifcently drest up in Beragt bask with
poplin trimmings, More Anteck edges &
founders, brilliantly ornamented with horn
buttons, and her shews are morrocker,
with gold spangles onto them.
Presently she presses her hands 10 her
head and buzzum, starts up in essied
manner. Methinks," she whispers in
clarion tones, see vols A nobul
youth of 27 summers skrapes the mud from
bis butes in the hawl and enters. He Is at
tired in red shirt and black trowsis which
hat bewitchingly cockt on one side of his
classick he'd. In sooth he was a nobnl
child. Grease in its balmiest dase never
produced more galanter herow than Mo-
ses. The young lady gazes upon him for
few periods, clasps her hands together,
strikes position and rolls her Is wildly,
like an expiring infantile COW, cries
ala do my is decev my Isite :"
"That frame them store close those
vols it is-it is me own, me only Moses 1"
and he folded her TO his hart. Methinks
shall swoon," sez she, and pretty soon
she swoondid.
CHAPTER H--wAs MOSES OF NOBLE BIRTH.
Moses was fourman of Injine Kumpany No.
40. The 40's had jest ben havin plesent
fife with the SOS on the day introduced d
Moses to my reeders. He had his arms
full of troiees, TO wit skalps, 5 rs, 2 fin
gers; ears, which he had chopt of, &r.
When Elizy (for that was the young laey's
name) rekivered from her swoon. she asked:
"How has the battle gone? Tell me-"
"Elizy," said the brave young man,
drawin himself to his full hite, ave chewed
EN- up and smashed ther old mersheeu all
ter peeses."
al thank the godsl" she cride. "Thou
ddst full well, and henee4th / ware thee
in my hart of harts And Moses" she
continued. lain her hart confdingly agin his
weskit, "dost no / sumtime think thou
wastest of noble birth ?"
"No,', sez he. wildly ketchin hold of
himself. :" you don't say so?
"Indeed / do" she sed. "Your ded
grandfather's sperret camest TO me the 9th
er mite and seq he, Moses is disguised
Jukei"
"You meen Duke" sed Moses.
"Does not the actors call it Juke = she
sed sternly.
That settled the question.
al have thought of this thing afore," sed
Moses absrractedly. its so then it must
be 2 B or not to B-that airs the question
But no more Of this now. Dry mp. Oh,
life-life, your TOO many for mel He
tore his pretty yeller har, stamped on the
floor wildly, and was gone.
CHAPTER HI.-TRE PIRur FoiLRo-
Sixteen long and weery yeers had elapsi
since the seens narrated tn the last chapter
took piase. A nobul ship, the Sary Jane
is salein frum Frans to Amerryky, threw
the Wawbash Canal. A pirut ship is in
hot pursute of the Sary Jane. The cap
ting of the S. J. looks fateeged & as tho he
had lost his parun,s. The pirut is clost on
him and he is abowt givin up, when hne