The Hancock Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Ohio) 1857-1870, 1862-01-24

u1OtIltUt DOtO udN6 tuTncu UlnctcoD,
and neither has reached twenty;) ex
actly Of a stature, (so high that Fred.
eric the Great would have coveted
them for bis tall regiment.) with ha'
eel eyes, large mouths, full lipe,
white teeth, brown hair, clear.
healthy c c'mplexion, and that sort of
nose which is neither Greek nor Ro-
man, nor acqualine, nor ce petit nee
retrousse, that somo persons prefer
to them all but nose which, mod
erately prominent, and sufficiently
well shaped, is yet, as far as know,
anonymous, although 1t he, perhaps,
as common and as well looking
feature az ia to be seen on an Eng.
lish face. Altogether, they were a
pair Of tall and comely maidens, and
being constantly attired in garments
OF the same color and fashion, look,
ed at al, times so much alike, that no
stranger dreamed OF knowing them
apart, and even their acquaintaDces
we're rather accustome TO speak and
think of them generally as the "Ev.
anses," than rs the separate individ.
uals Jane and Patty. Even those
who did pretend to distinguish the
one from the other, were not exempt
rom mistakes, which the sisters
Patty, especially. who delighted in
the fun go often produced by the un.
usual resemblance were apt to ia.
vor by changing places in walk, or
slipping from one side to the other
at country tea party. or playing a
hundred innocent tricks, to occasion
at once q grave blunder and merry
laugh.
Old Dinah Goodwin, for instance,
who. being rather purblind, was
| jealous OF being suspected OF seeing
less clearly than her Deighbors, and
had defied even tho Evan es to puz'
zle her discernment--aeeking in vain
or Patty's hand the cut finger which
she had dressed on James, ascribed
the incredible cure to her own in.
comparable salve; and coull hardly
be undeceived. even by the pulling
off OF James glove and the exhibit
ton Of the lacerated digital sowed
rou,d bv her own bandage. Young
George Kelly, too, the greatest beau
in the parish, having bet at Christ
mas party that he would dance with
every pretty girl in tho room, lost his
wager, which Patty overheard, by
that saucy damsel slipping into her
sisters place, and peranading her tC
Join her own uucon'cious partner -
that q orse danced twice with Patty
and rot at all with Jane. a banter
ing piece of malice which proved, a,
The young gentleman "a rustic ex
, qnisit OF the first watcD WAS pleased
, to assert. that Miss Patty waa no
f III Pleased with her partner. How
little does vain man know Of wo
, man kind Ii she had liked him
she would not have played the tricl
or the mines o! GolcouIA. In thor
= from their school days, when Jam
' was chidden for Patty's bad work
, and Patty slapped Tor James ba,
2 spinning, dorn to thoir prime q
| womanhood, ,h,r, La be u no en-,
}, to the confusion produced by this re
mark able instance OF family like
Q ness.
o And yet nature, who sets som
/. mark OF individuality upon oven tn
e meanest productions, making som
Y unnoted difference between tn
lambs dropped from one eve, the rot
q ins bred in one nest, the flower
z growing on one stalk, and the leave
growing on one tree, hath not lei
4 these meidens without one perma
II nent distinction, a natural and strik
: ing 1issinilarity of temper. Equa
!. ly industrious, atiIc;ionate, happ
/; and kind; each was kind, happy, a
e iecli onate, and Industrious, in n di
3; fcrent way. Jane was grave; Patt
's was gay. If you heard u laugh,
l. a song, be sure it was Patty; sh
d who jumped the stile, when her eli
d ter opened the gate, was Patty; ST
y who chased the pigs from the gardeI
3 as merrily as II she were running
r. race, so that the pigs did not min
her, was Patty. On the other han'
- she that so carefully was maxim
le with its own raveled threads, an il
n. visible darn in her mothers ham
I'd kerchieis, and was hearing her sist
ty read the while; sho that so patient
e, was feeding, one by one, two broo'
I'd OF young turkeys, she, too, that
IN pensively was watering her own b.
ca OF delicate and somewhat rare flo,
no ers--the pale hues OF tho Alpil
n, pink, or the alabaster blossoms
Is, the white evening primrose, who
ue modest flowers, dying off into blus
er resembled her own character, W
cd Jane. Some of the gossip of Abe
ng leigh used to assert that Jan,
he sighing over her flowers, as well
mt the early steadiness Of her charactt
arose from an engagement to n
ar. lords head gardiner, an intelligeI
m, sedate, sober and steady you
IN. Scotchman. Of this know q
lp, thing. Certain It is that the prei
ly, est and newest plants were aiwa
om to be found in James little flow
80 garden; aud il Mr.. Archibald n