Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1869-09-24

meet. What with ten tons of hay and Z
new barn swept off by fire, and likely call
drowned in the freshet, you see. Law, thi,
IS the world, and the other the country. .
That's true; and we shan't any Of u.
reach that country if we aren't open hearted
toward one another But Captain Jackson,
he warned me that | shouldn't get aoido,o'
mite here. He was so morally certain that
he offered to double whatever you gave.
thinking, no doubt, that it wouldn't hurt
him to double nothing in his line, to
be sure. "
"Ha ha did he? Well that's a good
one | never expected the captain would be
so generous. I'd like to twist few coppers
out Of the rusty old skinfint. tn make
him lose flesh. Now | think Of it, I've got
ten dollar bill that | was going to send
away; but | suppose the Hasents may as
well have it, and then, too, Captain Jack
son Il have to fork over a twenty 20
Thirty dollars Is very falr begImng,
thought Miss Poore 1t didn't seem exact
ly necessary for her to quarrel with the mo-
tive, when the action was so acceptable; and
therefore her business carried her back to
Captain jackson.
again I" cried he, looking little blank.
Where's the widow mite mighty small.
isn't it?' attempting the facetious.
swell no it S very good of her. She was
just going to send it away. It's a ten dollar
bill, Captain -
Thunder You don't mean it? Let's
see it. 1t isn't counterfeit, is it? Did it
give her the cramp? How did she weather
it? She must be on her beams ends Dear,
dear, and agreed to double it Well I've
doubled the capes, and good many other
dangerous points, but bless me if this ism
double trouble. There's douJloon, at all
events, and Colds up, you know. I'm the
the last man to abandon promise.
Very good trophies to begin with were
the ten dollar bill and the doubloon. The
story of how they were obtained raised
laugh in many farm kitchen, and hearty
laugh opens the heart and the purse by one
impulse. She painted Mr. Hasent's
difficulties so graphically, she related her
experiences so humorously, that few could
say to her nay 1t would have been like 60
ing to an entertainment and then refusing to
pay the price of admission Besides, none
could resist Miss Poore and who would be
outdone by Mrs. Adams and Captain Jack
son2 No one cared to compete with these
worthless; and then wasn't Squire Suffolk to
double the whole amount, after all was said
and done2
That was a pill which every one was
anxious to administer to him, and they did
their prettiest in the way of compounding
it. The more nauseous the better; swallow
it he must, lift made him black in the face,
and strangled him into the bargain
Into every house in the place went Miss
Poore and her subscription paper Where
money was scarce she accepted produce, and
borrowing a team, drove into town, and
drove her bargains as shrewdly as Reynard
himself, only more honestly. Barnyard
fowls, and game that the neighbOrs' boys
had brought down for the benefit of the
parsons and the discontinue of the Squire;
butter, eggs, lambs wool and sheep skins;
bags of grain, and fruit and vegetables-all
was grist that came to her mill
One morning, going into town, she met the
Squire himself in his smart gig, mounted |
behind tall, chestnut colored horse, for
the Squire's one extravaganza was horse
flesh, said the gossips again. He refined in,
however, when he recognized her, and asked
if she had taken to farming, said he wanted |
to let his farm on halves, would she under
take it !? and he threatened to waylay and
rob her when she returned homeward with |
the funds in hand.
You've some fine lambs wool there,
said he, aligbtiDg to examine it. "Card
md Skinner have engaged a hundred
weight of me at a premium. Here, III
drop them line, and you can take this up
to them if you like, and say sent it as an
they pay you cash down.
"But-do you know what the moneys
for ?" hesitated Miss Poore. She could not
make up her mind to this unfair advantage,
even in the cause of the Church. y
Certainly do It's to run the Squire
and enrich the parson. Shall I have to
mortgage the farm, do you think? In that
case | shan't ask you to take it at the
halves"
"A persistent little brigand! T. laughed
the Squire, rolling along over the country
road, and enjoying the breezy morning; the
odor of wild blossoms, the gushes of bird
song that palpitated on the air in an ebb and
flow of harmony, enjoying them as no
mere miser could enjoy such unsubstantial
pleasures.
cts your money or your life with her.
She wouldnt disfgure the old place either,
she wouldn't. Blood will tell she's got the
high and mighty ways of the Jerrolds, and
they bought their lands Of the Indian
much older than this, l
fancy, in this eounTy,-if they did part
with them to the devil, so to speak. Heigh-
no | thought danger was over when
fellow reached the ifties, but do believe
that, like the measles and whoopingcough,
it goes harder with the adult. "
And thus the Squire pursued bis way,
sometimes humming a strain Of that old
tune.
Lovely Zitana, list while play
Brigands abroad, l may not stay
But thy bright eyes if the brigand should see,
Thou art the bandit, the captive is he?"
All through the summer days Miss Poore