Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1861-10-24
The Magic Tug.

CHAPTER I.
"If you love me as love you,
No knife can cut our love in two,"

No knife can cut our love in two,'
BILL PAXTON.
Reader, have you ever stood on the heel
side OF the Ohio canal on one Of those mild
January evenings peculiar to the early
autumn, and watched the sun rise from
his gorgeous couch athwart the western
sky, and listened to catch the musical
warble Of distant coal hcavers, mingled
with the cries Of the ragged canal driver
encouraging pair Of antenuated calico
mules? OF you don't remember at once
whether you have or not, take time to
consider, and inform us through the post
office, inclosing stamp.) 1t was at
such time aud on such a spot that two
solitary youths might have been seen
walking arm in-arm, in the vicinity about
that time. And we tell you that one was
a daughter Of poor but wealthy parents,
and that the other was her lover?
After considerable time passed in re-
Election, it appears rather necessary that
we should, because you wouldn't know if
we didn't. The young man had seen but
nineteen springs, yet he did urge his suit
with the passion and ardor Of one who
had attained the ripe age Of four score
years and ten, and notwithstanding his
weight did not exceed one hundred and
twenty-five pounds, he couldn't have
plead more eloquently had he weighed a
ton. The maiden was fair. Tooth brush
handles conld not compare with her teeth
in whiteness, and the ravens wing had
no more business by the side OF her glossy
curls, than stove brush. Could we
wonder that the young man swore he
would cheerfully catch the measles for her
sake, and expressed willingness to have
the scarlet fever the second time to prove
his devotion?
Alas! the perversity of woman. AL
though loving him devotedly, she replied
to his ardent declarations by setting down
on stone boat, and writing him letter
of introduction to the marines, to whom
she advised him to report that narrative.
Driven to frenzy by such trihing, Caleb
turned SO red in the face, he tore all the
buttons off his vest, and frothed at the
mouth to such an extent he split bran
new vest down the back. Then casting
upon her look of unutterable anguish
through pocket telescope he cried, false
one! tareweH for e-v-s-r! threw a double
hand spring, and disappeared behind
high board fence, Pheeby Ann phainted.
CHAPTER II.
"Where are you goi e, Lord Lovel?" she said;
"Oh! where are you going!' said she;
81 am going, my Lady Nancy Belle.
Strange countries for to see. see, see.
Strange countries for to see -PAxoN's ODEs.
We left Phebee Ann in swoon, or
rather Caleb did. AS soon as conscious
ness came, Phebe Anu came too, and then
she remembered with pang that she
had driven Caleb away. She called
aloud-"Ca-leJ! Ca-leJ!" but no Caleb
answered. However well other Calebs
might answer for others, none but her
Caleb could answer for her, and he
couldn't because he wasn't within hearing
Then she recalled his love for the "bri-
ny Deep" which induced him when
mere lad to run away from home and
drive on the canal Afterwards his faith
er, humoring his passion for ridir 6 on the
mountain waves, and climbing the tow
ering mast, procured for him, through
his influence with the President of the
United States, the appointment of third
assistant lock tender. What more nat
ural, thought Phoebe, then to follow his
youthful passion, and go for sailor?-
After due reflection, her face frightened
up, and she hurried away to execute
suddenly formed design. What was it?
We shall see.
CHAPTER III.
"One for the money, two for the show,
Three to make ready and four to 60 "-WArTs.
WHAT!!!l!!
Before explaining the meaning of this
thrilling ejaculation, let us take a review
Of things at the period Of our story. Old
Burbon, who is nov in Kentucky,
in the whisky business, swayed the scep-
ire OF France. Gin ruled Holland, and
Sweden was governed good deal by the
price of Swede's iron. Wales was just
beginning to be celebrated for her prints,
now generally known in this country as
the "Prints of Wales" and Spane was
getting up excursions to Putin Bay
Glancing at the World, Jerry Baldi was
weighing out candies on Statan Island,
and had not dreamed of driving the Pope
into Rome swamp" in the name of the
Continental Congress, and Christopher
Columbus, having completed his labors
by discovering Sandusky, and retired to
the Hermitage at the North Bend of Ash
land on Mount Vernon, and is writing for
the New York Ledger. Our readers being
posted in regard to the condition OF
things, we will inform them what's what
in another.
| CHAPTER VI.
"Now comes the Tug"-JAcK SMITH,
When Caleb left the tickle Pheeb e. II
was with determination never to see her
again. He would be wanderer. lie
would land on other lands. climb foreign
climes-he would go and be an ancient
mariner. Filled with this desperate re-
solve, he sought his boarding house, pu
on clean shirt and collar in cotton va
lice, and started for the river. A gallan
, tug lay at the dock, which he boarded
, and requested to see the captain. A sailor
whose voice was deeply bronzed by ex