The Lambertville press. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1858-1???, 1861-02-27

amt South get 0y q 1UqJ Utt.
One would materially hev sup
posed that would hev brought Perme-
ly out, but it didn't; she never stirred
MORN though she'd been stork OF
stone, or hethin idle. So thar we
sot and sot agin. +"
"My gracious, how funny !" ex-
claimed Ellen.
Funny {! wal twas anything but
funny to me. I'd gin boot to bin a
humble bees nest. Howsomever, /
felt the time he'd kim to do or die, and
broke right out.
Miss Spaldin !" says 7.
Wal 2" says she
Permely," says T. s.
i" Wal 2"
Will you hev me 2"
No!'
"You won't 2"
81 won't. :"
"Good night, +" says /
Good night" says she.
That night slept better than I'd
done for three weeks. I'd got load
off my stomach.
AID do you call that being near
married, uncle Daniel 2"
Why of course | do. She could
hev said yes, just as easy as no,
but Pm glad she didn't That ere gal
married Isaiah Cumstock afterwards
and she druv him fust to drink and
then to self suicide. I was crowner
Of the jury that sot on his body, and
while we sot we could hear her scold-
in in the next room like sixty. Sowe
gin in that the suicide was justifable,
only that he'd orter done it to her in
stead of to hisself"
"Now uncle, lets have the other
episode"
Tother what 2"
mean your other love adven-
ture."
Oh, that want much of an adven-
ture. You see hed'nt niue b to do
with the feminine. sects for several
years arter Permely mittened me, and
made up my mind that | didn't keer
a cuss for all the pettycoats that ever
was spun.
was wrong throug all my calker
lations. Liddy Baker tuck all that
consait out of me- She was born and
bre1 in our neighborhood, but went
away when she was little gal to live
with an Ant of hern up in Cohoss, and
never kim back till she was growed up.
Aud when | seed her at meetin the
next day, after she got hum, her eyes
looked SO blew, her hair so red, and
her mouth was puckered up so pretty
| wanted to bite her."
Why uncle ! Bite her !"
Sartinly, I'd bit her in a mimi.
Saint Mkt pears was nothin to her
they don't raise sich gals now"
Here Uncle Daniel paused and with
his elbows on his knees, resting his
comfortable double chin in both hands,
and closing his eyes, was evidently
travelling back on the long bridge of
years, to contemplate the charms that
had SO smitten his youthful fancy.
"Well uncle Daniel" at length said
his niece, Iinching his leg to arouse
him.
WAL" replied the old man, wipiDg
his eyes with a blue cotton handker-
chief, and blowing his nose very hard
indeed, Wal, 10 short I'd got the
likins agin the wust kind, but hed'nt
forgot the time | Led when / axed
Permely Spaldin and though I'd a
gin the sheep pastar and the Rundlet
wood lot to hev got that gal, | darsent
go nigh her. | got melancohc and
lost my appetite, for better'n fort
night | couldn't eat nothin but bread
and milk and sassigis, with may be now
and then raw tarnip 1 tuck to
greasin my hair so dreadfully, that
mother had to lock up the lard frkin.
I also hollerd in my sleep, and even
tried to write poetry"
Ha-ha-poetry Say uncle, did
you really court the muses. ?"
" Who in thunder are the MUSES.
| never courted anybody bnt Permely
and Liady-never heered of the Mu
ses-mnst hev been a Dracnt family
by the name"
"Oh, lor, uncle, how stupid you are
| only meant to ask if you really die
essay to mount Pegasus r"
F" Pig-what ~
My patience J Did you really evel
try to make yerses-there, do you I'M
derstand that 2"
"Oh, yes, yes,p' said the old man
Il understand now, you talk English
Yes, / did try, but / don't think hef
a MATERIAL gift for it. IF he'd poetry
in me it was dreadful hard to git out,
seemed to stick and hang powerfully