Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1869-04-23

VfuIn. aiS WIS bOAH anu iAis1u ~
the country. His father gave him |
good education, and allows hin
.p1erty of money. But John, will
all other attaiuments, fsevcrs coult
accustom himself to the society o
females, not because he didn't like
the girls, but. because his shy nature
would not permit him to associate
with the fair sex. 1t once happened,
not very long ago either, that Johns
father had some very important busi.
ness in the city. He also had some
very particular affairs to attend to at
home which demanded his personal
attention, and not possessing the
power of ubiquity, he delegated his
son John to transact that i'm the city.
John, being thus commissioned,
Immediately proceeded to the city
aud to the residence of his fathers
old friend, whom he found to be a
very nice old gentleman, with q
beautiful daughter, and gold specta-
etes. 4 a.. -an2spvvv.s~. H...SN
John was ushcred into the parlor
ia new thing for him) and motioned
to seat no! sofa (another new
thingl. a.m.
Butwe must use his own language.
took my seat end made observa-
tions. Everything was fine! Fine
carpets, fine sofas, fine tables, fine
books, fine pianos, fine everything,
and especially fine young lady who
was dressed in fine silks, fire satin,
and who had fine eurls, and q fine
appearance generally.
After chatting with the old gentle
man few minutes, he took down
his hat, told me to make myself at
nome for an hour or two, and left
left me alone with his daughter and
u small, miscellaneous boy, the young
lady's brother. / didn't relish the
situation at all. The idea of my
keeping q city belle engaged in con-
versation for two Transportation
Silence reigned in the parlor for q
short time. you may bet. I amused
myself as much as possible with the
boy-that is, j loaned him my knife
and watch-key, and watched him cut
holes in tAe carpet with one, and
spoil the other. / don't know what
/ would have done had it not been
for that boy-he was so good to at
trnct ones attention, you know.
1t is true that he asked some very
startling questions, occasionly such
as this, for instance: "Are you goin'
10 court sister Emily?" But such
things must be expected under such
circumstances.
Miss Emily, thinking, no doubt,
that to be good hostess she must
keep her guests engaged in converse
ton, asked me show liked country
life," etc. She said that sit must be
beautiful sight to see the laborers,
both male and female. romping on
the new.mown hay OH New Years
day; that she always did think she
would like to spend Christmas i'm
the country, a nut-gathering with
the village lads and lasses; that 1t
always had been a mystery to her
how they got eggs off the trees with
out breaking Them" etc.
In return, thought, to keep Up
my part of the conversation, it was
necessary for me to quote poetry and
the like, which did. Among other
quotations, unfortunately repeated
the well-known lines of Shakespeare
There is divinity that shapes our ends,
Rough hew them as we will"
At this juncture, the boy, who had
perched himself upon my knees
looked very earnestly into my face
and said, Divinity shaped the enc
OF. your nose mighty Gurus" I'm
certain that 1 wished somebody
would spank the young rascal. We
talked of hills, mountains, wales
cataracts-I believe / said waterfalls
when the boy spoke up and said
"Why sisters got trunk full of 'em
up stairs-pap says they are made OF
hoss hair" ~r
This revelation struck terror into
me and bushes into the cheeks OF
my fair companion.
1t began to be very apparent to me
that I must be very guarded i'm what
said, lest said boy might slip in his
remarks at uncalled-for places; in
fact, l turned ell my conversation to
him. / told him he ought to &c
home with me, and see what nice
chickens we had i'm the country. I'm.
luckily mentioned yoke of calves
which my little brothers owned.
The cdipes ruined all. The little fell
low looked up, and said: SISTERS
got dozen of 'em, but she don't
wear 'em only when she goes up
town o. windy days"
Leave the room, you unmannered
little wretchn ~ exclaimed Emily ;
''leave immediately
81 know what you want me to
leave for" replied he; "you can't
fool me--you want to set on that
mans lap and kiss him like you did
Bill Simmons the other day-you
can't fool me I'll jes' tell you. Gim-
me some candy like he did then I'll
go. You think because you've got
the Grecian bend that you're smart !!
Guess I know thing or two! am
mad at you, anyhow, cause pap
would bought me top yesterday,
If it hadn't been for you a gettin'
them curls you've got on, doggone
ye! You needn't turn so red i'm the
face, cause I can't see 1t for the paint.
Where amt no use in you winking at
me with that glass eye o. yourn,
cause / amt goin' outen here, now
that's what's the matter with the
purps. j don't care ii you are twenty
eight years old, you amt no boss o.
mine, you ole fool" Z
That is all the story which John
related. He says he don't know how
he got out Of the scrape.
E~ - - ...
Celestial OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES are Prom
ised novelty, next June, in the re-
turp of .Winecke's comet, which has
been Yhisk lug its tail through space
for these ever SO. many years. The
advent of this phenomenon will af-
ford much qualification to all taking