The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1870-11-15
The Right Thing to Do.

and looked upon as innocent in Penn
sylvania it must have been played out.
Last week, CHANGED to visit one of
the dutchest Of Dutch settlements, and
stopped for the night with an old
Sourcrout himself OF course, the ia.
BILE was bountifully loaded. l count
ed six different kinds of pickles, five
of cake, and as for sweetmeats, and
jams, and jellies and mamala6es, and
fruit, butter, and canned pears and
peaches, and so forth, / can't begin to
enumerate. ! only know that no mans
Intervals ever contained such an infer
nal conglomeration--withOut he has
visited the interior Of pennsylvania. z"
If it hadn't been for the supper, l
should have been perfectly at ease
though l noticed old Sourclout was
! far from being so.
IL wonder" don't ask me to give
you even the faintest idea of his
language it was no more like Eng
lish than II. G.'s writing is like pen,
manshipD "where Bessy can be all
the time?" he kept muttering aloud to
his vrow, who was modelled after the
fashion of corpulent pounding bar
rel.
] soon learned that Betsy was the
"solc daughter of his house," and that
she had gone fram home the previous
day to attend compmeeting, upon
which they are heavy in that latitude.
Ny modesty ~ kept me from asking
any more questions, and after l had
smoked with old Sourcrout until l was
sick and dizzy,and the mess had plac-
ed myself outside Of (catch me ever
doing it ngain) wo. king, and drank
half a gallon of sour cider, / crawled
off to bed. But l hadn't got fairly
buried among the feathers-wish the
woman that invented them was, we'll,
first tarred, and them rolled up in one
before / heard a wagon drive up,
some one-two rather, come in, and
old SIS tongue start Off wagging.
"Whcre you come from Be,sy-you
and Hans?' he asked, between growl
and yawn.
"Campmeeting, dad"
"Why didn't you come home last
night?"
"We did start-Hans and but
wagon broke down and we had to
stop"
Hans and your"
"Yaw. 1t was us dark as donder,
and We couldn't git on-and it was
raining, and so we stayed until day
light"
"Where you stayed ?"
"In the red school house."
CAS- if every school house in the
whole east end of the State wasn't I
red y
"Hans and your"
"Yaw.".
"Who else"
/ "Nobody."
"Only Hans and you, Betsy?"
"Tbat's all"
"Donder and Bitten p
"But soon as it was light we, drove
on, got the-wagon fixed, and came on
to the big wouds."
"And the wagon broke again ?"
"No; we got lost"
"And you stayed there all day?"
"Yaw; we couldn't find cur way
out"
"And it took you till now-Hans
and you--long after midnigat?"
"Yaw."
"Well, Hans and you'll git married
quicker, After staying ali right IN g
school house-Hans and You-and be,
ing lost all day in thick woods-Han:
and you-that's the the right thing tc
do-ior Hans and you"
The old man didn't in the least
doubt the honesty Of the girl of Hans
Gas he told me privately,) but he in
tended to keep them so, and if | had
remained over l might have danced al
the wedding. And | would had done
so had way stomach been cast iron anc
and my digestion that of an anaconda
But had realizing recollections 0
the previous nights supper, and knew
a wedding one would be my death
Still, for all that, l came away salts
fed that old Sourcrout had hit upor
the fright thing to do" in oil sucl
cases made and provided and in view
Of the future.
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