Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1865-09-28

you VIII Il0O Etully a. uoLuc1 huu HSE
cousin, Jessie Sutherland, is with her.
So, between the pair Of them you will
not miss US much. Go ahead, my lad,
and entertain the lasses.'
Well, went ahead, and little while
after my arrival at Avondale, Emily and
her cousen Jessie, most magnificent
eighteen year old romp, proposed an en-
tertainment that / had never heard Of be-
fore. I was to build whifhgig, and
give them jolly ride on it, and l did.
Out about quarter of nile from the
mansion was a pond of water, frozen
over solid, the ice smooth as glass, with
a few stumps sticking up through it there,
and all around the edges perfect tangIe
Of brambles, briars and dry snags, twist
ed and lied and frozen into the ice in all
sorts of shapes.
Under the superintendence of the girls,
l cut hole through the ice in about. the
middle of the pond, in spot Ioierably
clear from stumps: thrust down into the
mud strong stake, so that the upper
end was about four feet above the ice.-
Then l brought long pole of dry, light
wood that had dore service before in that
capacity, and having three-inch hole
bored through it some seven or eight feet
from the butt end. Inserting the top of
the stake, roun ded for he purpose, into
the hole, there was horizontal sweep
with the long arm some thirty feet, and
the short end some seven or eight.
While I was achieving this part of the
machine, the girls had brought out on
the ice hand-sled, BEDFORD and two
bushels OF so of ashes. The latter ma.
terial was strown on the ice in a circle
corresponding to the short end of the
sweep, to prevent the .Joe-comtive slip
ping the track; don't you see? Then to
the switch end of the sweep the hand-sled
was attached by the whole length of the
cord, and the two bouncing girls mount
ing the sled, Emily sung out: Get up.
Joe = and Joe get up and went with all
his might.
/ had gone round the ash course, l sup
pose about fifteen times, Logging it my
best licks, while the sled, at the end of
the long cord. had all the time been wild
ening its orbit, going diagonaIly swifter
than ever arrow cut the air, and there
was only faint blush streak of pitti-
coats whizzing around me, when all at
once, as quick as lightning, rip, capsized
the sled, and z-z. ling went the ice riders,
both feet foremost, shooting off in differ
ent directions swlfter than ever swallow
cleft the air.
AS said, the girls shot off feet fore
most, and in second every rag of dimi-
ty they had on slid back over their heads;
the ice was as smooth as anything could
be, the plump, round lassies were FIVE
times smoother, and they darted in end
swifter than CREASED, high pressure light
ming.
Jessie run her race out in about three
seconds, by going straddle Of a stump
with chack that brought her to sit.up,
and there she sat bewildered barely on
the bare ice, hugging the old stump and
wondering who made her. Emily went
clear of everything till she went in among
the snarl of briars, snags and brambles,
and then-'
Now, Joseph, please stop there p
pleaded Mrs. Whitney; her face as red
as ripe tomato, and hid behind Captain
Joe's straw hat.
What's that, my dear, cut adrift
right In the richest part of the yarn g.
Nonsense. Well, shipmates, there was
a glancing white streak in through the
thicket, followed by sort of haze of lint.
aud when set Emily out of that snarl
hope 10 be happy if her dress all told
wasn't her shoes, pair OF SIDE comps
anu string of gold beads. Bun Jupiter
glory wasn't Emily striped Red and
white the whole length of her. If she'd
only had the blue laid in regularly she
would have been a superb American flag,
wound round the most artistic staff ever
fashioned in this world.
/ got my pea-jacket from where ] had
thrown i. of at the whirligig, and but
toning it around Emily. it covered her
pretty well as far down as the knees, and
then she insisted upon my going to Jes-
sie's assistance, while she scud for the
house through the snow, her bare legs
stripped and checked off with blood,
made her look somewhat like one of the
Seventy-ninth Highlanders in his winter
overcoat.
/ found poor Jessie still sitting fiat on
the ice; hugging the old stump, and The
girl was so chilled through and shocked
morally and physically, that she cohld