Clayton herald. (Clayton, Del.) 1867-1870, 1867-08-17

Woulu iihe III 100. f. ather Is hu JUL
an-out Southerner, for he got his con-
tracts out of jeff. Davis, and made his
fortune by it. never would have been
gentleman If it hand't been for JEFF.
Davis and them contracts. m aa
waited three days after Mehitable
Ann had gone home-three miserable,
lonely days, and then / made up my
mind to go and see her. She had told
me just how to reach her. Twas to take
the three o'clock train, and when /
reached wsnseeko station, to get into a
stage, and tell the driver to let me out
at the mansion of Joshua Jenkins, which
he would pass on hisioute. M
took the train, arrived at the station,
found the stage, and asked the driver if
he could leave me at the house of Joshua
Jenkins. 39l
/ He said he reckoned he could, and
told me to jump in.
The stage was full of women and ba-
bies; but found room, and got in. i
saw that the driver and a man in soldier
clothes, that sat with him, looked at my
badge right sharp, and seemed to be
talking about it., The driver had red
face, and swore at his horses, so took
him to be Democrat But 1 didn't
care for that. / was a gentleman, and
my father was contractor, and I has a
huckleberry above his persimmon any
way. x 4. ~, if..,i, VA. Z, ,.s..s...
But to go on. The stage went three or
four miles, should think, before it
stopped, and then the driver said:
Young man, there is Josh Jenkins
house. Take good look at it now, for
I don't believe you'll stay around a
great while with the colors you wear i'.
1 thought his remarks were devilish
impertinent, but was too much of
gentleman to handy words with q stage
driver, SO paid my fare and got out.
4. did feel annoyed with the fellow,
though; but all feelings of annoyance
vanished in an instant when / saw my
red haired angel waiting for me at the
front gate of the house before me-.
In an instant l was by her side.
Tim so gladto see you'll y she whis-
pered, as she pressed my extended hand.
'iThere is father at the door. Come, and
L will introduce you TO himr' aF
went in with her, my heart beating
a wedding march with all the variations.
Father, this is the gentleman whom
/ told you about, that was so kind to me
in the cityp' she cried, "Mr. Ralph
Brundage. fatherp, .fW l 10000 lp
looked the old gentleman in the face,
and extended my hand. He had very
red face, an extraordinarily red face,
and he was very large man. That was
all that I had time to notice before he
spoke. 81
whats that you've got on your
coat2' he asked, pointing to my badge.
"That, SIR" said I, thinking to make
a hit, sis the honored portrait of the
Father of his Country, of the greatest
statesman and. most eminent man of the
present age, the renowned Jefferson Da-
Wis, President now, and President to be
againr' ass. t-
"Are you Southerner7" he asked,
very quickly. yi nf1's ao
"I am proud to say that am, sir-a
regular War Eagler' I answered.
"Then the sooner you get off my front
stoop, and clear off my land, the better
it will be for your black Southern hidep
he shouted. "Be quick, and start be-
fore set my dogs on you'll Mehitable
Ann, get into the house with yourself,
and if ever I know of your speaking to
this man again, I'll send you to lunat-
is asylump' vN
WANTED to say something, but he was
calling his dogs, and Mehitable Ann ran
crying into the house, and knew that
was no place for me to hold an argument,
And so started. But his internal dogs.
two great bull dogs at that, were after
me, and when / got to the village, a
mile below, 1 hadn't much of my pant
aloons left on me, and think there
were at least fifty bites on my legs and
thereabouts. got into a tavern, and
when they found I had money, they
drove off the dogs and got a doctor for
me, and another pair of pants. And
when told them how Mr.. Jenkins had
treated me, they said it was no wonder;
there was not a man in town that was
not Union, and it would be as much as
my life was worth to think of staying
the night where | was. They advised
me to throw my badge into the fire,
treat everybody that came in. and take
a team for White Plains as soon as pos