Urbana union. [volume] (Urbana, Ohio) 1862-1872, 1870-04-06

her over and over again.
! One Sunday evening, as indeed wa
/ frequently the case, Jones and Greer
happened to call at Lydia's about The
same time.
/ Lydia went out Of the room about min,
/ O'clock on the pretence Of bringing {
! book of engravingS, but she shortly re
turned in great perturbation.
What Is it ? What is the matter y
! cried the two levers in eager chorus.
\ oh dear me :! sighed Lydia, such g
/ dreadful thing! Who would have
| thought it in our peaceful community
! Oh, Mr.. Jones, Mr.. Green You cant
/ think how glad-how relieved am thai
/ you are here. should be frightened t.
/ death were it otherwise y and clung
| first to one and then to the other with q
confidence perfectly infatuating.
Tell US what it isn cried Green
'Enlighten us as to the cause of this
emotion |! said Jones, who had been ia
/ the Chicken Valley Academy 70 quar-
ters, and used some large words.
tOh, you are both so brave 2 cried Ly-
dia, admiringly-I feel as if I We're pro-
teCted by an army y
Green drew himself up to his full
height, which was Just five feet, and it
must be confessed that beside the hercu-
lean Jones, he looked like a bantam
rooster beside shanghai.
Command meu said Green, 'Only let
me do your biddingu
Ask my existence said Jones, and
it shall be given free ast the streams give
to the sounding ocean,
Hush y cried Lydia, don't speak SO
loud He may hear you and take the
alarm, and kill us all before you have q
chance to capture him.
He? who? what g demanded Jones,
in tragic whisper.
Hush for pittyis sake, said Lydia,
he's up stairs in the spare room, under
the bed Father had q hundred dollars
paid him yesterday for COW, and this
is a plan to rob the house. I saw his
boot sticking out from under the counter
panel
Good heavens! :, cried Green, getting
behind Jones.
tAnd such big boots, too, said Lydia
-'twelves, am sure y
Jupiter what a giant he must be =
said Jones.
Tom oh Willie. protect me !'-cried
Lydia pathetically, and they both pro-
tested that they would shield her with
the last drop of their blood.
Then go up and seize the villain, said
Lydia.
you had better go first, said jones'
'I-don't know the way
Nor I. said Green, and you're the
biggest it belongs TO you TO lead on
will show you the way, said Iy-
dia.
And the two gallant young men re-
luetantly followed her up stairs. She
oroonoI tbr door -,,F tl,o ,r,,rn .B.,,I,o,,
softly, and they saw the boots very dis
tinctly a most extremely dirty pair Of
cOwhides, which looked as though their
owner had tramped through twenty
miles of swamp, aud made no acquaint-
ance with rug or scrape afterWard.
IA mighty big man he must be,
with such a pair of feet said JONES'
Hadn't we better call your father and
Mr.. Berry, the hired man p
4 think we had, said Green, timidly.
4 don't said Lydia, decidedly.-'See
/ believe the bOOts are moving. oh
goodness meu
And as she screamed, Jones and Green
simultaneously made rush for the door,
Jones stumbled over a wash-stand and
went headlOng to the foot of the stairs,
wash-stand and all. And Lydia, by
clinging to the skirts of Mr.. Green's
coat, kept him from following his rival.
What in the deuce is to pay here q
asked Jack Berry, appearing on the
scene in his shirtand trOwsers, and his
curly, light hair Standing out all over
his head, like the bristles on 4 lamp
chimney brush.
Lydia points to the boots.
Don't touch him, =wllined Green.-
He may have a pistol or something
about him and hurt somebody
You chiUken-livered whelp y cried
Berry. YOU'RE afraid to see what's be-
hind the boots, are ye? Wall, Tll show
you -... |..r
And Berry seized the fIightful objects
and gave pull so strOng that he went
over backwards OH the floor, with a boot
in either hand.
'Jupiterp he cried, Inever saw any
boots come Oft so easy as that are. Let's
see the feet And diving under the bed
he lifted the cOunteTpane and displayed
nothing.
But where is the owner of the boots .
cried he, scratching bruise OH his nose
and looking infinitely puzzled
Here p said Pa White appearing at
the door. ''Tm the owner, and here
I've been hearing this drafted noise for 4
the last ten minutes, and thinking there
was fire over to the corner. But not
sign of my boots could I find. Who put
'em there Lydia -
But Lydia was bathing Berry's nose. /
Green and Jones had sense enough to |
see that they were dc trOD, and they !
took their departure without any very
fareWells.
BY jinks, says Green to Jones, on |
their way home. I've got an idea it's |
my opinion that jade Of a girl put them |
boots there herself, on purpose to try |
u.s. " ..r
of course she did, said Jones, sulEi-
y, women are as deceitful as the devil !