The weekly Butte record., 1863-04-11

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Your heart, You mean" said Wilhelmina,
who, alone amid the filters Of the company,
preserved ! grave coantenanee yoar heart,
you mean, brother"
We'll, veil, By sure" answered Diedrich; ii
is mere all one knowed it was something
apout my pelly."
Susannah blushed, Wilhelmina scowled.
some half dozen nervous girls shrieked, the
rest laughed in alto, and the descendants Of
Grimalkin, terrified By the tumalt, struck up
eontralto.
It was too much for Dieirichs sensitive
soul shortening the chord by which the read
er may imagine bin subtended, aud removing
his hands 10 the bottom Of his breeches' peck
cts, he slowly and sadly walked down stairs,
where his mother opened upon him volley Of
hard names cunningly suspecting that the con
fusion which she heard above had been occa-
stoned By some misadventure of her unfortunate
son.
By the time supper was announced, the old
lady had recovered from her ire, Susannah
from her modification, Wilhelmina from her
Indignation. the other ladies from their discom-
posure, the feline progeny from their alarm,
aud Diedrich from his abashment. To him,
therefore, was assigned the duty of waiting on
the ladies at table and before him was placed
a fowl for amputation and dissection. Diedrich
lacked skill in comparative anatomy; the knife
was obstinate. the fork let go, and the fowl
projected into the lap of lady on the other
side of the table. Susannah shrewdly directed
the laugh from her brother TO herself, by pro
posing to help the lady to gravy.
4 sensitive of calefaction was visible in the
young mans countenance as be preciptably
left the table When he attained 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 a historian has failed 10 his debut and
afterwards become no despicable performer,
and although perhaps this dogma was not made
the premises upon which Deidrich based his
conclusion, certain it is, that he did not deem
the mishap of his first effort to play the agree
able as any omen that he could not by further
practice became quite an acceptable beau.
With Kattarina Standardization, Diedrich
was desperately in love, but she was ignorant
of it, for he had never more than spoken TO her
when he went to her fathers to borrow hay
fork, or some other farming utensil aud no
young lady ever suspects a gentleman's love
for her before he has unequivocally declared
himself. Miss Schminkheckchen had been de-
tanned from the quilting by frost-bitten heels.
which Diedrich before his mischance thought a
very unlucky, but afterwards very happy cir
cumstance Now, however, that he had enter
cd upon his career of gallantry, he determined
that if the ladys infected heels would suffer
her attendance at the country singing school on
the ensuing evening, be would not be oblivious
Of some attention to her.
The next evening came, and Kattarina agas
at the singing; healthfulness having been re-
stored to the hinder pretuberances Of her dis
cous feet by catapasm of roasted turnips.
With that people of primitive simplicity and
nonderivative manners, and at that popular
aggregation, country singing, each lady held
her own candIe her digtal scalness, the con
sequence of laborious houswvery. being con-
cealed by kid-skin gloves, and they again pro-
tected from the uuctuosity of the luminary by
a slip of paper wrapped around its base.
Diedrich sec,tm roluen, in what way he sho'd
do obesance to kattarina, observed that her
candle burned dimly, and must be stuffed
His heart vibrated and his yisage became
califed as he approached her, and after the
manner of others tended ber his fingers for a
pair of snufers. In his sinister hand he took
the candle, aud in the execution of his Office
burned the fingers of his dexter, He threw
the adjusted cotton into Miss Schminckfleck-
chen's lap and dropped the oleaginous cylinder
into Hannah Ochlenschlaegers kattarina's
new calico had the head of humming bird
burned out of it, and Miss Ochlenschlaeger's
barrel flannel was most ungaantly creased
Everybody laughed, even the grave teacher Of
crotchets and quayers roared though whole
stave Diedrich rushed out of the house, tax
ing with him the wrong hat, aud was seen no
more that night. except by his fathers old
negro, who just as the clock struck the wee
short hours ayont the twal," tumbed him out
of his, the negro's bed, into which the blunder
ing wight had crept by mistake.
Diedrich swore by his mothers night-eaP
that this should be bis last bunder, but be was
sealed in bis nativity a bluuderer, and was
therefore forsworn in less than a fortnight, as
will be seen by the sequel.
A few evenings after Dedrich Rodenheiser
had been laughed out of the singing-roOm, he
met the apple-dumpling checked Kattarina
Standardization at strauss dance. No fe