Dodgeville chronicle. [volume] (Dodgeville, Wis.) 1862-current, 1864-12-01

anu al; IOr uluH dHO W HoAioi @ooy
by having 'em betray their Ignorance,
for I knew that she was expectin' they
would all be struck up with astonish-
ment, the same as was. can tell you
that she was the one to be astonished in
stead of them, for, with one exception,
no one could have told by their appear
anco but that they'd lived up to the
eyes in ice-cream all the days of their
life.
GAS [ was sayin, Tammy brought in
the tea and handed it round, and they
all seemed to take it quite materially, as
'twere to the new fashion, except 'Siah
Niggleson. Somehow, be couldn't keep
his cup from slidin' round !; SO he took
hold Of the sarcer with both hands
There he sot, lookin right straight for :
ard, with his eyes fixed on Mr. Marlowe' 5
profile that happened to hang right op-
posite to him, and lookin' sorry and for
| lorn, as if he hadn't friend on the face
of the airth
s.When Tammy came in with the cake,
and doughnuts, and ice cream, [ couldn't
help keepin' an eye on 'Siah, to see how
he would make out.
"Let me help you 'Siah,' said Fan
ny Bright, who sot next to him.
"'Much obleeged to you,' says he !;
don't care if you do
"'What shall I help you to? 2 says
she.
".Well, I'll have a few doughnuts,
and some of that stuff, | guess, says he,
p'intin to the ice-cream.
$50 Fanny sot cup of ice-cream on
to plate, and put half dozen dough
nuts round it, and handed it to him.
Now 'Siah Niggleson was never made to
have many irons in the fire at once,
that's sartin, for the minute he went to
take the plate he hid his cup and sarcer
SO on one side, that the tea begun to run
out on the floor.
"'You are spillin' your tea, 'Siah,
says Fanny.
I" so | am, I do declare, and in try
in to hold his cup and sarcer even, he
tipped his plate, and two Of the nuts fell
out; and rolled half across the floor.
"'Don't you see, 'Siah, that you've
dropped two Of your doughnuts? says
Fanny.
=" We'll, if I amt the onluckiest crit
ter that ever lived, says he, and settin'
his teeth together, with determined
look, he put his cup Of tea down on the
floor, and went arter the stray dough
nuts.
"'Come Sally says Fanny, to the
gal that sot next her, cant you let me
have half of your chair, SO that 'Siah
can have mine for a table; for at the
rate he's goin' on, he wont be able to eat
a mouthful.
eyes, indeed, says Sally, for I. for
my part, think thecritter is to be pitled.
"Siah was mighty tickled with the ar :
rangement, and all went slick as lie, till
he tasted of the ice cream, when he start
ed as if he'd been bit by sarpent.
" What's the matter, Siah ? says
Fanny, who, by some means, had forgot
to tell him about the ice-cream.
'''Why, the stuff is scaldin hot, says
he, sand I'll warrant I've burnt my tongue
to blister
"'Oh, no, you're mistaken says
Fanny. That sice-cream you have tast-
ed Of.
6 .Ice-ice -cream?' says he, openin'
his eyes so wide, they looked as round
as the brass buttons on his coat.
"'Yes, ice-cream
"'Do you mean to say that this is
cream that's been froze?'
'' sSartainly I do
Well, how cream, or anything else,
could be so touched with the frost such a
warm day as this, never shall know
1t seems to me to be witch-work. Any
how I'm desperate glad I didn't scald
my tongue.
"sYes, you've reason of great thank
fulness, says Fanny, lookin' as meek
and demure as cosset lamb.
"'Well, says 'Siah to Fanny and me,
when we'd got through with the supper,
if any parison ever catches me again in
sich a scrape, I'll give him leave to tell
me Of it. Why, I should enough sight
rather hold the plough all day for a
breaking-up team. | guess Patty Mar
lowe won't get me to 60 to one of her
parties agin in very soon
"And he was as good as his word
He never liked Patty afterwards. Be
fore that, he took great fancy to her,
thoagh he was SO plain and awk'ar she
wouldn't have anything to say to him.
You see he warn't on'y nineteen then
In the course of a few years, you can't
think how handsome he grew. He didn't
look like the same pairson. Arter q
while he went to celebrated academy
and was gone up'ards of year. The
next Sunday arter he came home, there
want a young man in the meetin house
that looked and appeared as well as ht
did. Patty Marlowe was alays al
smiles and perliteness when she happen