Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1869-02-11

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him Ii yerg bashful- too bash
Eal, in truth lIisfatIicr gaye hin
a good education, and allowed bin
plenty 81 money, But John, viii
all bis otIior attaiumsnts could new
er aeeust0m himself 70 the sOeetl
Of females; not boeause BE didn'
like the girls, but because his shy
nature would not permit him "a
associate with the fairsex, II opc'
happened, not very long sgo, sei.
ltheE that Johns father had some
very important business to transact
in the city He also had some
very particular affairs to attend 10
at home, which demanded his per
sonal attention, and not possessing
the power Of ubiquity, he delegated
bis son John to TRANSACT that ini tho
city, .... .. ,ar lssi.ts6
John, being thus commissioned,
Immediately proceeded to the city
and to the residence of his fathers
old friend, whom he found to bs a
very nice old gentleman, with a
beautiful daughter, and gold spec
tacles. #.E
John was ushered into the parlor
a new thing to HIM J, and motioned
to seat-no ! sofa another new
thing.
But we must use his own Ian
guage:
81 took my seat and made Obser.
yations. Everything was fine!- -
Fine carpets, fine sofas, fine tables,
fine curtains, fine books, fine plane,
fine everything, and especially
fine young lady, who was dressed in
fine silk, fine satin, and who bad fine
curls, and very fine appearance
generally.
"After chatting with the old gen.
tleman a few minutes, he took
down his hat, told me to make my.
self at home for an hour or two,
and left-left me alone with his
daughter and a small mischisVous
boy, the young lady's brother. I
didn't relish the situation at ALL
The idea Of keeping a city belle en-
gagedin conversation for two hours
-perditiOn! Silence rcigned in
that parlor for a short time, you
may bet. l amused myself as much
as possible with the boy-that is, I
loaned him my knife and my watch
key, and watched him cut holes in
the carpet with one and spoil the
other. don't know what / would
have done had it not been fer that
boy-he was so good to attract at
tention, you know.
at is true that he asked some
very startling questions occasion
ally: Are you goin' to court sis
ter Emily But such things must
be expected under such circumstan-
ces. at...
Hiss Emily, thinking, no doubt,
that to be good hostess, she emust
keep her guest engaged in CONVEX
sation, asked me how liked cOun-
try life, etc. She said that it must
be a beautiful sight to see the Ia
borcrs, both male and female, romp-
ing on the new mown hay on New
Years day that she always did
think that she would like to spend
Christmas in the country a nut
gathering with the village lads and
lasses; that it had always been a
mystery to her how they got the
eggs off the trees without breaking
them etc. '''f
an return, l thought that to keep
up my part of the conversation, il
was necessary for me to quote po.
etry and the ike, which l did
Among other quotations l pnfortu-
nately repeated the well-known lines
Of Shakespeare:
There is Divinity that shapes our end
Rough, how them as we will ...4
AT this juncture the boy, who
had perched himself upon my knee,
looked very earnestly into my face
and said; Divinity shaped the end
ofyour nose mighty curious I'm
certain that I blushed a little F; | am
very certain that / wished somebody
would spank one of his-well, we
talked of hills, mountains, wales,
cataracts-IbeIicve l said waterfalls
When the boy spoke up and said:
Why, sisters got a trunk full Of
'em up stairs pap says they're made
out 'en boss hair ~.
"This revelation struck terror into
me and bushes into the cheeks of
my fair companions 7~ ta
,-It began to be very apparent TO
me that must be very guarded in
what / said, lest said boy might
Slip in his remarks st uncalled for
places. In fact, Itufned my con-
versati0n TO him; | told him be
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