The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1865-10-25

About half past seven O'Clock on Sunday
...riaht. human leg, enyeloped in blue clothes,
might have been seen entering old Cephas
Earbary's kitchen window. The leg was fol-
.lowod by the entire body of a Yankee, atdred
!, in his Sunday go-to-meeting clothes. /. was,
in short, Joe Mayweed, who thus burglari-
ousy won his way into the old Deacon'ss
kitchen. inss 81 .1aasiasg i.s9 .aA
4Wonder how much the old Deacon made
by ordering me not to darken his doors asln,
soliloquizeu the young gentleman. fronlseu
him wouldn't but didn't say anything ABOUT
winfers Winders is as good as doors, !. y 10
tear trowSers onto. wonder sally WIZ
come DOWN. The critter promised me. am
afraid "a move about here, might break my
shins o,rer Something or another and wake the
u old man Cold enough 70 freeze a bear here.
p Oh, here comes Sally
~ N Tine beauteous maid descended With q smile,
Fa talow candle, and box Of luciier matches.
ii AfieF rapturous greeting, she made RUS
2 ing FIRE IN the cooking stove, and the happy
Young couple sat down to enjoy the sweet IN
terchange Of hopes and VOWS.
But the course OF true love ran not bit
smoother in Barbary's kitchen than elsewhere,
and Joe was just making up his mind to treat
himself TO q kiss, when he was startled by the
:. voice OF the Deacon, her father, shouting ffoan
the door Of her chamber
rsall What are you getting up in the mid
-Iell him it is morning. whispered Joe
1ayweed. 49,, -. -. -. e
5 ~ "A can't tell fib,s said Sally. 5soia sgT
TN make 1t a truth, then, ? said Joe, and
running to the huge, old fashioned clocz that
.s-stood in the corner, he put the hands al FIVE.
Look at the clock and tell me what time 1t
Is" called out the old man.
"Its five by the clock, said Sally, and cor
roborating her words the clock struck five.
The lovers sat down again and resumed
their conversation. GMFR&hEN
Suddenly Ghestairs began to creak.
nIhe Deacon, BY thunderl" exclaimed Joe.
Glide me, Sally - 90 r~AHw
sWhere can fhldeyOu 2 exclaimed the dis
tracted girl
the clock CASE 81 IN ST
And without word be concealed himself in
the case and closed the door.
Inc Deacon was dressed, and seating him
se BY the stove, pulled out his pipe, lighted it,
and began deliberately to smoke.
"Five O'Clock, hap said he; swell. r shall
have TO smoke three or four pipes, and then Pll
go and feed the critters"
Hadn't you better 90 and feed the critters
{ sfrstT suggested Sally i
mo; smoke clears my head, and wakes me
up" replied the Deason, who seemed not a bit
dip diyp0'ed to hurry up the spjOsnefs Of his
BURR, -whiz ding, ding, ding, went the
es''' forRented ligh te1iinsr p cried the Deacon.
starting up and dropping his pipe on the stove,
"whatin earth is that?"
"Its@only tlle4olock striking i've. replied
Sally, tremulously.
"Power of creation" cried the Deacon
Striking hvel has struck hiore'n hundred, 4
already"
"Deacon Barbary," cried the Deacon's wife.
who had hastily Fobed herself, andnow came
plunging down stairs in the widest state of
alarm, what in the universe is the matter with
the clock?" o4r
GOODNESS only Knows, replied the old man,
ut is hundred years IL the family, and /
never knew it to carryon so before"
~Whiz, ding went the. clock again.
@Itlfburst itsef." cried the ord lady. she'd
ding food Of tears, @and there won't be moth
& ING lett of1its M IEET FFh
I1its bewitchedgs cried the : Deacon, who
contained leaven OF Kew England supersti-
ton in his nature
ANYHOW said he, aftera pause, Advancing
resoiuteiy toward the clock, I'm see what's
going on in it." $50.
@Oh, don'tt' cried his daughter, Selling one
coat tail while his wife caught the other +,
"A rDont," cried both the women together
~Eet go my rairnent," shouted the Deacon;
I'm not afraid OF the powers of darkness"
Bnt the women wouldn1 lei gos so the Dea-
Jul oAippUu Jul Vi his coat, ana While from
the sudden cessation of resistance they fell
heavily TO the floor, he pitched forward and
held the knob of the clock. asas ssd3
The old Deacon began to be dreadfully |
frightened. He gave one more tug, When an |
unearthiy yell, as of ffend In distress, burst |
from the inside, the clock pitched head-fore-
most at the Deacon, aud wrecked its fine pro-
portions. The current OF air extinguished the
candle. The Deacon, the Did lady and Sally
few up stairs, and Joe Mayweed extracting
himself from the closet, effected hisescape in
the same way in which he had entered.
The next day all Appleton was alive with
the story of how old deacon Barbary's clock
had been bewitched; and though many be- |
neved his version, yet some, and especially Joe |
Mayweed, affected to discredit the affair. and
limited that the Deacon had been irving the
experiment Of tasting frozen cider, and that
the vagaries Of the clock existed in a distenl
pered imagination ~ aeds aai7 o. q I'M
However, the interdict being taken off. Joe
was allowed to resume his visits, and won the
assent OF the old couple to his union with
Sally by repairing the old clock Till it went as
wen ~ ever. I.f 11tHn sAlE4 tBGst-8 O. DL8