The Conservative. (M'connelsville, Ohio) 1866-1871, 1868-01-09
g. WASHINGTON BRICKS.
LITTER HUMMER Two-BRIcKs RETURNS
FROM MICHIGAN.
LOUISVILLE. Dec. 20. 1867.

LoUIsv1LLs, Dec. 20, 1867.
To the Editors Of the Louisville Journal
GENTLEMEN: When / wrote you last,
was, If am not mistaken, in Michi-
gan. I've got back. 1 thought at
first that l would probably spend the
rest Of the winter thero. l found,
however that the climate was too sc,
we're for my delicate constitution, and 1
returned.
At the close of my last letter l was
on the eve of q sleigh-rlde with my
friends wife's cousin. As the hour
for the enterprise was about to open
up, l won't down to the livery stable to
procure a PAR of horses and a sleigh.
The horses submitted to my inspection
were extremely young, with seem.
lngly Impressive desire to be going
somewhere very fast, 1 didn't like to
take them in hand but they were the
only pair he had, and had to take
them or none. The livery man said
they were spirited, but perfectly gen
tie Itook them.
When / drove up TO the door, my
friends wlfe's cousin was .standing on
the doorstep, wrapped up in f1rs, and
looking as lovely and comfortable as
tho queon Of the Laplanders. She
opened her soft brown eyes very wido
at the live stock l had brought, and
seemed rather afraid to get into tho
sleigh behind 80 much fro and spirit
and anxiety 30 be getting over the
snow.
Are you very skilliul driver 2"
she asked as she came through the
gate.
was extremely busy holding the
horses, which was rather more serl-
GUS undertaking than / had been ac-.
customed TO, and / don't know exactly
what reply made; but l think my
answer TO tho question was tanta-
mount. TO ar Offer Of a reward of fifty
dollars for tho discovery of anybody IN
Michigan who could beat NE. Fortu-
nately no effort was made to secure
the reward, or / should have inevIta-
bly, have lost the money. To the best
of my recollection, was then enRAg-
ed in my first attempt to manage two
horses at once. Ny friends wife's
cousin was a girl of great courage, and
jumping into the sleigh AS lightly and
gracefully as a snow fake, and wrap
ping herself up snugly in the buffalo
robe, cried laughingly--
"Lot EN- rip; hi glang"
And they did rip. 1t wasn't IN my
power to keep them from It. The
harder / pulled tho fasterss they went.
Down the street we dashed like run
mad streak of dark coIored lightning,
my friends wife's cousins beautiful
curls streaming out behind, and my
own affrighted hair standing straight
up, and my hat having declined to
proceed any farther than the first
dash. In three minutes the village of
Wackhackanack was out of sight, and
we were flying through the open
country.
We had kept up most tremendous
pace for about two miles, without hav-
ing exchanged a word, when my
friends wIfes cousin, seeing a one
horse sleigh gliding along just ahead of
Us, cried with q blush which said a
thousand times more than her words
There goes my-my sweetheart"
"Who-Pyrkyns?" said /, the truth
flashing upon me that they were en-
gagged.
eyes, Mr.. Pyrkyns." said she.
To be told this, while 1 was in the
very act of spending ten dollars on q
sleIgh-ride tor her pleasure with
two such horses, it certainly wasn't
any pleasure to me. l at once deter
mined to run over PyrkyAs. / threw
the lash smartly across my flying cat
tie. They seemed to be unaccustomed
to such treatment. They strongly
disapproved of it. simultaneously
selzing the bits with q hrmer grasp,
they struck out after Pyrkyns with
the velocity of pair of winged devils
snatching the sleigh from the ground
and dragging it through the air like a
Gite. The snow storm thrown back by
their swift heels would have shaken
the rock of Gibralter. Fortunately
for Pyrkyns, the road mado sudden
turn. Pyrkyns took the turn. We
didn't. On tho contrary, we shot
straight ahead INTO sort Of ravine,
whore the snow was ut least ak feet
deep. The next instant the runners of
tho sleigh collided with hidden log.
The shock was worse than an earth
quake. The sleigh stopped Short
The horses did not step AZ Rll, They