Columbia Democrat and Bloomsburg general advertiser. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1850-1866, 1861-06-01
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the impression that it was her usually So
ber spouse, who must have come home in
an unusual exhalted condition. thus 10 in
dulge in such unwontcd expressions of aft.
cction.
"Got out ! Get out, say! Who are
you anyhow? Murder! thieves Hctty,
come here Here's a man kissing me like
a mad man."
But the intruder had by this time dis
covered his mistake-it did not need the
pummeling and scratching of the old ladys
vigorous fists to cause him to relinquish his
hold and fly as if pursued by some indig-
nant ghost.
Hctty nearly choking with smothered
laughter, in spite of her trobidation, now
come to the rescue.
81 never was so frightened in all my
life y Who could it be? Hctty, have
you any idea.
But that dutiful daughter was, to all
appearance, innocent as a sucking dove
She soothcd the old lady by representing
that it might have been one of e neigh
bors, who having mistaken the house and
the housewife. She searched the entry
for the missing spectacle, dropped in the
scuftic; re.arranged the rumpled yarn stir.
red up the fre-all in the most amiable
manner possible-and at length had the
satisfaction of seeing her accustomed tran.
guilty.
Mrs. Thomas was fully awake now.-
She had new idea in her head, and in.
stead of setting hcrsolfup for another nap
she pursued the train Of thought and of
knitting, both at the same time, with won
derful rapidty. At length stopping, and
looking keenIy at Hetty--
81 suppose it's queer notion of mine,
Hetty, but I've a notion that man was 81.
ali Iaw!cy.
My! but if Hetty face did not fire up
red then. You might have lit candle by
1t. These incipient symptoms did not es.-
cape the wary inquisi,or.
Pears so to lac. Cause those biz whis-
kers were SO much like his'n, and the awll.
ward way he gfippcd me with his great
paws.
Hetty was wonderful busy. She bent
over her work, and drew the needle
through so quickly and the thread snap.
ped, and then she was so much engaged
in threading her needle again, she didn't
have the time to answer.
81 don't suppose that kiss was meant for
me, after all. Wonder who it was intend
cd for! and wonder if you don't know
something about it Hotty
Me, Mother ?"
eyes, you "Hctty! You was mighty
anxious to get me and Pap off to aunt
Ruth's this evening, and l noticed you
were siicked up extraordinary, for all you
wcrn't going. Hetty I'm getting old; l
know it, but l havn't quite lost my eye
sight yet. I've heard something about this
between you and Siah Hawloy. What are
you playing possum for? Gut with it, 1
say!'
Our little schcmor, thus adjurcd, made
clean breast of the matter much re-
licvod to find that mother hadn't nuthin'
agin him, and would give father a talk
about it, and bring him round"
"But, Uctty, want you to tell Siah I'd
rather he wouldn't make such a mistake
agin, | don't like the feel OF his big whis-
kcrs about my face, l don't approve of
promiscoas kissing"
"Siah never heard the last of that blum
der, Old Squire Thomas used to delight
in rehearsing the story whenever all the
parties interested happened to be present
He would shake his fat sides at Josiah's
discontinue aud his wife tart replies, and
Hctty would join him, and both would
laugh unit the tears ran down her checks.
Never mind, Siah," Mrs, Thomas
would say. Let him laugh. He'd been
only glad to have been in your place TWEEN.
ty year ago. lie had hard work to get a
kiss from me. And l hope it will be a
lesson to you and IIelty again the impoli-
cy of conccalment and underhangings of
all sorts.