The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1867-01-29

gestive apparatus, When IN Waihco Jul
fashiona able friend Doodle, with q ten
foot whip in his hand and an elegant
Havana stub in his mouth. 'Trifle, old
boy" said he, "come out and take ride"
In an evil moment we consented and
went out. We got in his conch shell
with him and soon were whirling along
the street to the sweet, perpetual music
of cow-bell, behind one Of the fastest
e1-omnibus horses in town. Oh! this
sleigh riding is SO e1hilarating!
"Get up thar Hi! ga-long" Boo
die hollered to the engine, &C
companying his remarks with little
cow-hide, and our pace soon became ter
rife. How the people stared. Boys
sleds, fancy sleighs, dry goods boxes,
and all other sliding vehicles had to
clear the track, for We were the
fastest team moving, and all acknowl-
edged our supremacy. But crowd
gathered at the street corner. What
eau that meant We are the object OF
Observation-Disclosures, perhaps. Whiz;
what's that, we wonder; somebody
throwing at us, and, as we turned to
look, a "soaker" of SNOWFALL, about
four inches in diameter, settled under
our left eye, laying us suddenly back on
the buffalo robe. Oh, how thick the
balls few-the battle Of Chickamauga
was nothing in comparison with it.
Doodle was hit half dozen times, and
we came ont with no less than about
three times that number Of favors.
These boys are too bad, and if we were
daddy of them, We would learn them
how they would fling their missiles.
But we were soon out of their way and
shot along down street, racing with an
old fore and aft cutter marked "Maltbys
OYSTERS" We soon threw Maltby in
the shade, and closed up OH big fam
ily sleigh with half q dozen girls in it.
We then put on style. Doodle put whip
to the nag, and we were borne along
side of them; moving little in advance,
the girls smiling at us, and rsmarking
what nice young men those were, and
what nice sleigh they had, &c. We
were las proud as fighting ROSTERS, and
were Just about to leave our female
companions and their old sled behind,
when q God-forsakeu, short-haired ur-
chin of ill-manners and vicious habits,
let fly big SNOWFALL, that ricochetted
on Boobies proboscis, and, striking
the old horse, made him shy to-
ward the big vehicle on our
left. The collision was terrific. Doodle
and ourself went over one way and the
girls went over the other-all in the
beautiful snow. Crinoline fluttered
very lively for few moments, and sew
eral pretty screams called for assistance.
We were not the men to falter. We
leaped to the rescue, and soon had one
each of the sweet dears carrying them
through the deep snow into peanut
and candy shop near by. We then re-
turned and carried another couple who
had been calmly awaiting our aid.
When we got them all in we found that
only two of them were hurt. These
felt very faint, and we had to fan them
with our handkerchiefs to restore them.
But they needed some other. restora-
tive we thought. Doodle and we step
off together, dubbed our loose change,
and sent the fellow that was driving
them out for some brandy. When it
came Doodle did the nice thing. He
procured a glass and very politely Of
fered one of the ladies some, urging her
to take it as being necessary to restore
her strength. She opened her sweet
hazel eyes, smelled the bottle, took one
long gulp, and then passed it t2 one OF
the others, saying: ISIS, try 'er o
whet. It's dorg-oned good" This
was enough for us, and being
assured that they could get along
without further aid, we left. We
found our animal and vehicle in charge
Of fair-haired youth, who claimed a
quarter for services rendered, which We
willingly paid, and then started on our
trip. We went up Main-sleighists
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every fellow that was earning his daily
bread shoyeling snow off the house-tops
made mark Of us, and tried to cover US
with the melted stuff he was working
in. Before we had gone two squares
our sleigh was almost filled. But we
got through it-run tho gauntlet of all
the short coated clerks and their mis-
siles-and put up our sleigh-vowing
not to soon ride again. Doodle went
home with headache and damp suit
Of clothes, but we went off, only too
happy if we could have made our ac-
count of accidents thatshort. We were
wet through, and had an awful head.
ache from the shock, but the worst Of
all was the first ball that struck us
caused our eye to become very sore, and
We now wear it in deep mourning. We
applied fresh beef, oysters and leeches,
but all in vain, and We now sit, holding
mush poultice to it, soothing ourselves
With fba VOW at wa will never sleigh
ride again.
"There 10 = Garaea in Her Face"
So wrote Richard Allison, the poet.
His lady's face was not we'll stocked
garden; be can only find roses, lilies
and cherries in it. We can do more
than that: We see tulins An apple in