Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1861-02-15
the dry-good's clerks: But the worst
of the whole affair is, that I've promised


of the whole affair is, that I've promise
to visit this unmitigatsd huisancer
"Softly, Tom; that's not gallant
And whatever you do, stick to your gal
= lantry. And when do you propose t
make this fair maid yisit?"
"Next week, distract it!'
"Then' she thinks you will arrang
for the saerifce-excuse me, for tn
nuptials?"
aExactly so, but I beg to assure le
ladyship that it will not be so. Anc
now, no more s-questioning, my Ee
loved apostle of Blackstone; but pro
ceed to declare youself."
"Miss Arnold doubtless thinks yer
are young7" (
ayes, and, I may add. handsome.
at Is very easy for You tsshe nei
ftherr'
"How9 By getting angry as I an
this morning?" It is not improving te
a fellows looks, is it? But; Ned, il
would fever do to go to Miss Arnold in
a towering rage, for the sake of looking
ugly?" ;
"Certainly not. But allow me to lay
down as the starting point, the axiom
that all women love handsome men; and
no woman loves homely one. Anc
now all you have to do, my dear Apollo
is, to transform yourself into middle
aged man, with a stoop in your shoul'
ders and present yourself to Miss Ar
mold, and insist at once that she marry
you. Be as awkward and bashful as
possible, also; and, ten to one, Miss Ar
mold will call the servants to show you
out, besides giving you fall release
from your engagement
"Can do it?''
"Nothing easier: just get brindl:
wig, pair of brindle- whiskers, KNOCK
out one eye-or else wear goggles, as
you choose-have terrible cough, and
expectorate. Take a chew of tobacco
while you are sitting with her; and
when you come back, I'll take that bob
tailed nag We wot Off
"Agreed, Ned; give US your hand"
Madge Arnold sat in her pretty bou-
doir, at Rigeweod Place, tapping her
foot impatiently upon the floor, and
twisting letter she held in one hand
into a lamplighter. Madge was evi-
IDENTIFY pouting, and'being one of those
pretty girls whom you seldom see,
though you hear a great deal about
them, pout was not unbecoming to her.
Don't any of my young lady-readers be
encouraged by this into pouting-for
there are but one or two faces in the
world that can stand this, and Madge
had one of them. Madge's lips always
gave one desire to touch them, they
were so full and tempting Git was whis-
pered that this temptation was not al
ways resisted by Miss Madges admirers)
Madge's hair rippled all over her head
in curls. Madgeis eyes were -perfeet
bluebGlis, and so full Of mischief that it
overhowed from thenl all over her face;
and Madges hands and feet were perfect
byouu.
"Lell," she exclaimed, pettishly, to a
friend who sat by the window crocheting,
IN fit subject for the Lunatic Asy-
lum. wish you would apply for ad-
mission for me at once. Perhaps a
straight jacket, and diet of bread and Gu
cumbers, might do something for me- "
"Very well, I'll apply; but what's the
matter? l thought you were feeling
perfectly salubrious this morning :,
''Fools generally do feel salubrious, 1
believe; and | am born idiot
"Then it will be an entirely different
institution where l shall have to get you
in But what has scattered the small
remainder of wit with which you were
endowed yesterday, my unfortunate
friend?"
THAT"
And Miss Lell received the poor
abused bllet-doux on the side of hel
head
$50 your unknown lover is coming to
Ridgewood to see you?' she said, CLAN
cling over the letter; "and wishes to be
married as soon as convenient? That
wouldn't make most young ladies mad
Madge."
But to think what fool I have made
of myself, writing the most nonsensical
letters to him, and never thinking of see;
ing Tom Loveland any more than !
should of seeing the sovereign of Borio-
boola- Cha. And to carry out the mao
freak, when he was fool enough to ask
me to marry him, consenting without q
word of hesitation He is fool, him
self, that is one consolation. If it were
not for that, I should be very much
amazed at the opinion he must have o.
me- AS it is, l would give that new dia
mond this minute, Lell, to be well ou
Of this scrape."
Nothing easier," said Lell, who was
small Napoleon in such matter. "Fol
my part, l see good deal of fun in tht
afair-that is, if you really don't eart
what sort of an opinion Mr.. Tom Love
land has of Madge Arnold"
s'Why should 1? He's a brainles.
popipjay-who, believe, is the happi
est man on the face of the earth, or, a
least, ought to be-
'Why so Madge?''
Because he is deeply in love will
himself, and hasn t rival in the Who'll
world. But what is your plan of ope
ratlon?
.:Your admirer probably likes hand
some women?'
"He would not be man, else
"And he has, probably, an insur
mountable objection to homely ones, es
: pecially the red headed
7 "That is so, beyond question"
Make yourself hideous, then, and dis
enchant him"
7 THAT might be an easy job, if it wer
you, Lell; but how am I to be made hid
sous?' said Madge, with arippling laugh
: Mature has nearly saved you an
trouble in the matter; but with one 9
: two touches, you can be made to frighte
Lucifer himself. But I tell you, Madg'
h l think you had better accept him q
r once; for l believe it to be your lai