Bradford reporter. [volume] (Towanda, Pa.) 1844-1884, 1860-12-13

and call them blessed" that have stories to
tell as prove, more couclusively than the learn
ed talk Of Naturasts, that Eve was the moth
er OF Us all
! The Il liiroad is a great assimilator (: it
shakes people up together in dice box, and
trtnration frees ii, m from many of their pecu.
| laritieS. But not from all. That man over
| there, who has built his home just in the rear
! of his barn-yard-ahout whose door like
armorial bearings, are logs couchant and hogs
! rampant-who was surrounded himself with q
! cOrnfeld, and left his harrow turned up in the
! fence corner, all its teeth displayed like a
| hungry sharks, advcrtiSeS himself from down
Oh the Wabash" quite is plainly as if he had
| borne makers mark on his forehead thus
HooSier" You will find the bones of the
old prairie schooner" he came in woman, -
babies, ard all if you look, while the yellow
curclipped as to his ears and tail that walked
between the hind wheels and just beneath the
manger sIung up astern like a ships boat, has
bad, like other dogs "hiS day." and sleeps
| there in the Indian Summer sun this minute q
tattered yellow rug.
The man living yonder, who has made a
| museum Of his barn-yard three wagons with
nine wheels among them pIoughshares and no
/
colts with no mothers; calves mtimely orphan
ed odds aud ends OF old tanning mills and
threshing machines; pieces Of all sorts OF chains
and harnesses, is a fine specimen of shift
ing. shiftless, dickering" Yankee.
Over there is his brother bat his better
neat, New Eugand>h rows Of tin pans shin
ing in the sun, pIeasanter to look at than the
shield of Achilles besides the milk house
hy the spring old-faShioned vines trailed up
over door and WiudOw-withered now, but
| showing the route they went when "spriug
came slowly up this way "a glimpse of a
cheese press secured white as the steed (?J
the beautiful maiden Priscilla" rode home
on from her wedding, seen through the open
| doors; fe>toouS Of apples /; fes;oonS of blue
/ yarn adOrning the chambers necklaces OF
pumpkins SWING from pillar to post turkeys
suggestive of Thanksgiving and good cheer
Whisk him ever so swiftly, he does not forget
to bring his days with him; ForefatLers' Day
and Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years;
nor seeds from the choice apple trees under
the bill, that Swayed their leaiy heads over the
stone wall laden with red and golden, green
russets, temptations for young waylariug
Yankees en- rouls for school
And FOR bis good wife, she did not forget
the >amp,er the girls wrought, nor the
g rising Suu ad-qu.it with n piece Of every
hody's dress IN it, :0r the homemade linen, nor
the homemade heart and wayS for that mat
Ter Nor if She lie very oid-fasAOued, did she
forget the wheels, little and big, nor the reel
. with tick to lt,uUr the Swlft-we never wrote
that word before She called them swiftS,"
you kuow-nor the loom her mother ha2, or
/ her grandmother, out Of which came the trea-
>ureS Of the " chest of drawers it was as big
and as homcIy a. barn, but she brought it,
aud set it MP N the place over the wood house
and looked lovingly upon it,
Over yonder lives man not quite so neat
and pains taking, but little more dashy the
/ whileSt Of white houses the greenest OF green
! blinds he white washes his fences, his trees,
his p.gs be does not draw his words as if be
was making clock pendunS bat is brisk, short.
aud cheerful not troubled with catechisms.
brought the Fourth Of July with him, and
SweurS-hsuralivey speaking-by the State
OF New \ ork. a for his wife, she has low.
ng memory and dearly de lights to talk about
" York Stute," aud the good things she left
she has patch Of dill in the corner, aud of
carraway, to carry her back to ;he good old
times when IN dress of gloSSiest silk well saved
I and Il snowy handkerchief not shaken out from
the smooth folds Of tie ironiuL-whata savage
word mangnc Is for such bu>I.eS, =
and sprig Of the aromatic carmuative, she
went forth with d song in her mouth, TO church
on hose old Sundays when she was younger.
Just here is house, red house red be-
bind aud before; red to the top Of the chimney
Sqnattrd beside it, is an out-ofdoor oven,
shaped ike "a well to-day gray cat just from
nap on an ash-heap. An acre of cabbages--the
only sight, 10y the way, that reconciIeS US to
figure of "a sea OF heads, ,'--alnks the cat =;
pair Of square,hu.it cIumsy horses in breast
harness and bear->kin names, are standing by
the door, aud AL proclaim the Mohawk Dutch
man Strayed away to the banks Of the Cedar
Bat the Railway car is a divinng rod to
find new aud fresher homes for them ALL and
lis touch is Just now The "touch of nature :"
. RI E.s 1 La al bpln world kin >