New Oregon plaindealer. (New Oregon, Iowa) 1859-1866, 1862-07-25
NEW OREGON HOWARD COUNTY IOWA, JULY o. l862 ~

and the plan was avery unpopular one with
me-. Lo here was /, in the hons mouth. od
The name of skeggs had sounded strange
ly familiar to me, from the first Young
Crichton was cousin Of the family. You
may be sure kept pretty good distance be-
tween us tho rest of the day. The next morn
ing, however my zeal in governsssing receiv-
ed severe blow. IA 5, ~. "'a~ ..
| | was reused from my Aumbcrs by what
Madame Skeggs called a hullabaloo' viz, six
immortal souls shrined in Skeggs easements
beating 'tattoos' on my door, and exercising
their lungs to the tune of 'Pandemonium let
loose and upon listening at the door, man.
aged to extricate from the mass of jabbering
rubbish outside, the fact that the legitimate
warden of these precocious Juveniles had
gone off in disgust, and that was desired by
that pattern women, Mrs. Skcgges, to take
upon myselfrurse's duties, in addition to my
own Wash, dress, and comb six untam ed
Skeggscs !? I in white muslin wrapper :?
Decidedly, would not do it. If only to set
a good example to future governesses as gen.
uine as was bogus, would not do it, and SO
I told madam in her own dining room. with
in the hour-that regiment of young Sepoys
howling vindicatively all tho time Wouldn't
I do it this once? Not .-a.r ..... .
Such storm as that dlning-room Witness
ed Mrs Skeggs, had thought would en-
dure any thing am slow to anger, but my
usually cool blood tingled at her abuse
only laughed at her, however, and adjourned
to my own room. In the hall, met Crichton
with that same quizzical smile on his face.
Have you got menagerie up therc!' he
said alluding to the Skegges uproar.
'Thc old one of all is loose in the dining
room,' replied, with rising color, car eless of
the fact of his relationship. .-
'Ah!' he said entering the dining-room,
where, dare say, he was regaled with an ac-
count Of my msdoings. - .,....-
l went up strirs, heartily sick of my ri.
diculous enterprise and wishing myself safe
ly back with dear old Uncle Lolypop, who,
! ior-aus''t know, ia his anxiety Goout me,
would will all his money to the Veterans
Hospital, have me cried through the streets
rs Lost lost lost or do some other as IL
diculous thing AS | half rcclined on the
miserable cot that did duty as my bed (I had
locked out those young hycnas) I heard the
Skegges 7oice Dispensing the noisy troops
outside. A low knock follow ed at my door,
got up and opened it. Mrs. Skeggs ap.
peared, one solid smirk smiling, and bowling
like = tcetotuna, ut the rate Of about three
mods to minute. Sha was as hunsble as if
had been Englands princess She apollo
gized abundantly, pretended great surprise at
my room andits sparse accommodations, and
marsh aled me forthwith to the best room of
the house. I, nothing 10th, accepting it all
as only my due, without any suspicion, till
by an unfortunate slip of the tongue, Madam
Skcggs addressed me as Miss Olnstcad
Whew the murder was out then. She
had somehow become informed as to who
she was ordering round ut such furious
rate. remembered, then, Mr.. Wilson Crich
tons quizzical smiles when nc had met me-
and connecting this with his absence from
Willowton, few days soon after my arrivsl,
/ understood that promising and not very
handsome gentlemen had known me all the
time, That precious uncle of mine had Civ
in him my picture: he knew me by that,
and had kept Uncle Lollypop posted, while
he remained on guard at Wilowton. .
Returning from these interesting reflections
to contemplate the singular and violent con-
fractions Of the Skegss spinal column sue
cumbed to such an attack of laughing as
quite shocked madam Of course, was
glad to vacatc my situation in favor of one
at Uncle I.ollypop's. Nelson Crichton ac-
companied me thitllcr, wonderfully to un-
clc's satisfaction, and somehow forgot all
about his homcly face looking at his hand-i
some eyes, and became very much ashamed
of NY governcssing trip.
How Uncle Lollypop did laugh at me!
And to cap the climax, when Nelson Crch-
ton asked me to marry him, Isaid Yes, with
all my heart ....,--.
Finally, I discovered in my little advcn-
ture, that it is very foolish to Jump out of the
friyngpan into the fre,' and that the fife of a
governcss is not the most agreeable ono in
the world, by any means. May never be-.
come Mrs. Skcggsn ~, -
"Woil, what next ?" said Mrs. aPartin gton
as she interrupted Ike, who was reading the
war news--."the pickets were driven in Eve
miles Bless my poor seul but that will
make strong fence. lsuppose they had to
be driven in deep, to keep the sccessionadcrs
from digging under them. 4 ssaa.a @aa' ssis
| Although the seccssionists and The abolit-
ionists seem to pull in different directions,
their tails, like those of SampsoD's foxes arc