The mountain Democrat., 1863-05-02

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ed, some half dozen nervous girls shrek.
ed, the rest laughed in alto, and the de.
scendants Of Grimalkin, terrified by the
tumult, struck up cOntraltO.
It was toe much for DiedFich's sensi.
tive soul shortening the chord by which
t2SS rSaSss ID. + tnhgfne him subtended,
and removing his hands to the bottom Ol
his breechss pockets, be slowly and sadly
walked down stairs, where his mother
opened upon him volley Of hard namea,
cunningly suspecting that the confusion
which she heard above had been occa.
stoned by some misadventure Of her m.
fortunate son.
BY the time supper was announced, the
old lady had recovered from her ire, Su-
SanDah from her modification, Wilhelmi.
na from her indignation, the other ladies
from thGir discon3Posure, the feline proge.
Dy from their alarm, and Diedricb from
his abashment To him, therefore, was
assigned the duty Of waiting on the ladies
ct table, and before him was placed Q
fowl for amputation and dissection. Died.
rich LACKED skill in comparative anatomy /;
the knife was obstinate, the fork let 60,
and the fowl projected into the lap Of .
lady on the other side of the table. Su-
sannah shrewdly directed the laugh from
her brother to herself by proposing to
help the lady to gravy.
A sensation Of caleiaction was visible
in the young mans countenance as he
precipitAtely left the table. When he At.
tanned the door, he made rapid strides for
the barn-yard, and hid himself in the
corn-crib, where he remained until the
tenebrosity of night had dispersed the
ladies each TO her own home.
Many . histrion has failed in his debut
and afterwards become no despicable per.
former, and although perhaps this dogma
Was not made the premises upon which
Diedrich based his conclusion, certain It
is, that be did not deem the mishAp of bis
first effort to play the agreeable as any
omen that be could not by further prac-
tice become quite an acceptable beau.
With Kattarina Schmink6 k6eckchen,
Diedrich was desperately in love, but she
was ignorant Of it for he had never more
than spoken to Ser when he went to her
fathers to borrow 4 hay.fork, OF some
other farming utensil and no young lady
ever suspects q gentleman's love for her
before he has unequivOcally declared him
SELF Miss Schminkf1eckchen had been
detained from the quilting by frost bitten
heels, which Diedrich before his mis-.
chance thought . very unlucky, but af-
terwards very happy circumstance. -
Now, however, that he had entered upon
hiS caroar of 0a1larNry ha daforrn;0ad 81 = .
il the lady's infected heels would suffer
her attendance at the country singing
school on the ensuing evening, he would
not be oblivious Of some attention to her.
The next evening came, and Kattarina
was at the singing; healthfulness having
been restored to the hinder protuberances
Of her Discus feet by cataplasm Ofroast.
ed turnips.
With that people Of primitive simplici.
" and non-derivative manners, and al
that popular aggregation, q country sing
ing, each lady held her own candle, her
digital scalineSs, the consequence of labO-
riOus hOusewifery, being concealed by kid
skin gloves, and they again protected
from the unctuosity Of the luminary by .
slip of paper wrapped around its base.
Diedrich secum Volven, in what way he
should do Obeisance to KattaFina, observ.
ed that her candle burned dimly and must
be snUffed. His heart vibrated, and his
visage became calitied as he approached
her, and after the manner Of others ten
dered her his fingers for pair Of snuffers.
In his sinister hand he took the candle,
and in the execution of his Office burned
the fingers of his dexter! He threw the
adjusted cotton into Miss Schminckheck.
chen's lap, and dropped the OleaginOus
cylinder iNta Hannah OchleOschiaeger'S.
KattariRa's new calico had the bead Of
hummiug. bird burned out of it. and Miss
OchIenschlaeger's barred flannel was most
ungallantly creased. Everybody laugh
ed; even the grave teacher Of crochets and
qVaveFs rOaFsd through whole staVe.-
Diedrich rushed out Of the house. taking
with him the wrong bat, and was seen nO
more that night except by bis fathers
old negro, who just IS the clock struck
1.-THE wee short hours ,Ayont the tWal, u
tumbled him out Of bis, the Regro's, bed,
into which the laundering wight had crept
by mistake a.
Diedrich swoFe by his mothers night.
cap that this should be his last blunder,
but he was sealed in his nativity q blum
derer, and vas therefore foresworn in less
than fortnight, as will be seen by the
sequel. .-.,
A few evenings after Diedrich Roden.
heiser had been laughed out of the sing
ing-room. he met the apple.dumpling-
checked Kattarina Schminckflechschen at
. strauss dance. No females had accom-
panied him thither, and he was compelled
to occupy the unpleasant situation Of a
restless, envious, jealous spectator.
None but Dickens could describe, OF
q Cruikshank sketch, the clumsy attitudes
into which Diedrich writhed his body, as
I he sat in the corner, upon an inverted half
bushel measure, watching intently the
circumitions of Kattarina in the dance
So annoyed was the poor fellow by the
reciprocity of SMILES between her and the
beaux, that it was impossible for him tc
retain any one position for an instant
He who has been in love may imagine
we. who have not cannot dclineate-the
feelings and bodily contOrtions of Died.
rich Rodenheiser. He was uncomforta.
BILE, that was certain and who would moi
have been, in love as he was, deprived o.
a participation in his darling's smiles, and
she, ,manifestly delighted with others at
tentiveness.
A young mans eye will sometimes de.
viate to lady's ankle, and, when seized
with this tendency, however much he
may strive to change its direction, it will
in spite Of him, incline thitherward.-
This unaccountable propensity of mans
visual organ is greatly augmented If the
lady within bis vision be tripping it "or
the light fantastic toe." 1t is not remark