Gallipolis journal. [volume] (Gallipolis, Ohio) 1837-1919, 1862-04-03

dssdenin' te chop wood thst day
Bless my stars, how cold it was--the
, wind blew through the bare limbs Of
. the old oaks and naples. ike wrath
, But my heart beat double quick: you
. know, boys, hosnit sgoes; and Il chop
ped away ike blszss.' bos ,vi,isss 81
You're ina hurry, Sam, sin't you7'
said the old man.
/ No other way 10 keep warm, father,
said I; but I wasn't cold, not I. We
/ kept at Il all dsy, and a long day il
was I, tell Ye. Just. before snndown,
We turned ia and sbouldered our, axes
for home ''s
Sam said the old msn. 4 am right
tired somehow myself. snd you may go
down to the lower meadow; and fodder
the stock. si11 sts ogE a.s,n
of Istruck, like mad, for I knew it
would take me till pitch dark to get
done: snd then I'd have my supper to
eat. my beard 10 take off,. and fx up.
and wsik mile and a bali. and it
would be nieh on to eight o'clock,
when p5 ger up to the 'SQuires.-
The snow Was lallirs a perfect sheet,
snd 3hs 9inH blew Ssfdef and Harder,
ec1t kheW that marm would be up
abohf my going out such a night. for
stnsthers used 10 know something about
their. boys in them days. thought
there never was such a night, and I
guess there wasn't neither.'- -a-H.rs91
/, fOld brindle didn't get any more
dtsn full dose Of nubblns; and as like
: 4. not. Dobbin-- found the hav-rack
$mntv fore mornip'. Marin had
hush and milk for supper--and hang
the mush, it wouldn't cool, and l
burnt nv nouth.to a blister. first dish:
"a slammed down The spoon and pushed
back the STOOL
What's the matter, SAM" said
father IS. "a 'sii4-~
Nothing, said I.,a,1s,0 q. t.z.
,sSoe looked at Tom, and Tom wink.
ed at. Bill. and Bill couldn't keep in
SANS going up to the 'Souires,' he
spickefed ont. Father looked at marm,
and she blowed her niush, and they
didn't say a word. So put up the
ladder, to get on my butternut breech-
es. striped vest and blue hunting shirt.
Warn't there a giggling when I started.
Bill had told. .-f.E,f,
Ailthe way up was thinking now
L should n1 ITO get chanee. 80.
The Squire ana nis wiIe were sun,
old church siolks' and know tney
not go TO oed and leave l ana feiiy up
In falk. II Il nn -. u 'nn go inin =, IL
s.otnly " Oe ou =" ."e Pof.I - 80
~ tue nioUu, r"u Nv A'"u - y o" y
nave a siIu.n @ p,Ie Ir I VIC Ronu O,',In,, d
oniy que iOOI ,h;Is ~ s"o no "ousf I'm ,rns,
tn'nA " HU1s' Wusr I'D
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oolu up " 'no !eo' my IJ LII 80. -
my PocAgts as I,S y ~ %ouiu '' uI.;n S'an an
ouI, TI' TIi 80 %a' J .W.n. 81 ,Ia
a~lul loud An9cA. " a'A .n' Sa' M .iS
squire 0oou evening" oamuei' sa'u
ne: NE: no" > an 1 'n1 ,oA &C." = % ~
MidGiih' l snAnH ye' o9ul1eMIO" 9enaI =.
uo H.' uo = -
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&C. os - h s,;rr;na, soid be .tste
, - 49, band Sor,neI oh eer,
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'The old man was sitting IN the cor
ner of the FIRE place, with his red wool
en- night cap on, toasting his toes with
a candle in one hand and his newspaper
in tother. Marin Porter sat at his
elbow darning stockings; next to her
Polly, and then Ann; Jack and Eph
were churnlng over IN tother corner
turn about; Zeke and Dick were dress
ing axe helves; and betsey sno ha'e
were preparing apples to make pies the
next day; Mary and EmIe' and Joo
and John. were playing Jack straWs
with the baby on the floor. TOOK my
seat near Polly. She and Ann were
working at the corners OF the same
blanket, putting on the roses, or some
other foolery, with blue and red yarn oil
their Own spinning and ,coloring-not
like the cruelties you gals work with
now w-a.days.'
"How the deuce I was to FIX it I could
not tell. II the gals had not been at
work on the same blanket, I'd got
'em apart somehow; but there they was.
their heads cen a list touchin'-Polly
was next to her mother, and Ann next
to her, and next to Ann. Ann was
mighty busy. and didn't know what