The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1871-09-21

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:, to the valley Even in that uncel
! tain light the weird beauty OF the-
/. harlequin masqueraders..was apparent
their red trunks-a blush in the moon
light, a deep blood stain in the sinai
Ow-stOOd out against the silver
. green foliage. 1t was as if nature i
some gracious moment had her
caught and crystaliZed the gyps
: memories of the transplanted Span
a lard to cheer him in his lonely exile
; As Culpepper entered the grove h
heard loud voices. As he turned to
= ward a clump Of trees, a figure so hi
Zarre and characteristic that it nigh
have been a resident Daphne fig
ure oYerdressed in crimson silk AM
lace, with bare brown arms and shOul
ders, and a wreath Of hOneysuckles-
stepped out Of.the shadow. 1t was fol
lowed by a man. CuIpepper started
To come to the point briefly, he rec
Ognize in the man the features of hi
respect eduncle, Colonel StarbOttle
in the female, lady who may b.
briefly described as one possessing alb
solutely no claim to an introduction
to the polite reader. To hurry owe
equally unpleasant details, both wert
evidently under the influence of liq
uOr.
From the excited conversation thai
ensued, Culpepper gathered that some
insult had been put upon the lady al
q ball which she had attended thai
evening; that the Colonel, her escort
had failed to resent it With the san.
culinary completeness that she desired
/ regret that, even in a liberal age,
may not record the exact and even
picturesque language in which this
was conveyed to her hearers. Enough
that at the close Of a fiery perOratiOn,
with feminine inconsistency she flew
at the gallant Colonel, and would have
visited her delayed vengeance upon
his luckIess head, but for the prompt
interference of Culpepper. Thwarted
| in this, she threw herself upon the
ground, and then into unpicturesque
/ mysteries There was a fine moral
lesson, not only in this grOtesque per-
| formance of sex which cannot afford
| to be grOtesque, but i'm the ludicrous
concern with which it inspired the
two men. CUlpepper, to whom wO-
man was more or less angelic, was
| panied and sympathetic; the Colonel,
10 whom she was more or less impTOp-
er, was exceedingly terrified and en-
baTTassed. T1Owbeit, the storm was
soon over, and after Mistress Dolores
had returned little dagger TO its
sheath (heT garter, she quietly took
herself out Of MadrOnO Hollow, and
happily out of these pages forever.
The two men, left to themselves, con-
versed in low tones. Dawn stole upon
them before they sepaz ated-the Col
Onel quite sobered and in full possess
sion Of his usual jaunty self-assertion,
Culpepper with a baleful glow in his
hollow cheek, and his dark eyes a ris-
ing fire.
The next morning the general ear
of MadrOnO Hollow was filled with ru-
mors of the ColOnel's mishap. 1t was
asserted that he had been invited to
withdraw his female companion from
the floor of the Assembly Ball at In
dependence Hotel, and that, failing to
do this, both were expelled. It was
to be regretted that in 1854 public
opinion was divided in regard to the
propriety of this step, and that there
was some discussion as to the cOmpar-
atlve virtue OF the ladies who were
not expelled, but it was generally con-
ceded that the real cdSlLS 6eHi was pO-
litical. "Is this q dashed Puritan
meeting?" had asked the Colonel,
saYagelY. cts no Pike county shin
dig" had responded the floor mana.
ger, cheerfully. "YOu're q Yank -
had screamed the Colonel, profaneIy
qualifying the noun. "Get! you bor-
der ruffian,u was the reply. Such, at
least, was the substance of the reports.
AS, at that sincere epoch, expressions
like the above were usually followed
IDENTIFY looked for.
Nothing, however, occurred. Colo
mel Starbottie made his appearance
next day upon the street, with some
what ofhis usual pOmposity,a little re-
strained by the presence Ofhis nephew,
who accompanied him, and who, as
universal tayorite, also exercised some !
restraint upon the curious and impert- !
inent. But Culpepper's face wore a !
look of anxiety quite at variance with !
his usual grave repOse. ''The Don |
don't seem to take the old mans set !
back kindly" observed the sympa-
thizing blacksmith. ''Pr'aps he was |
sweet on Dolores himself" suggested |
the sceptical eXpTessman.
It was bright morning, a week af- |
ter this occurrence that Miss 10 Fol |
insbee stepped from her garden into |
the road. This time the latch did not /
click as she cautiously closed the gate |
behind her. After moments irresOlu-
tiop. which would have been aWk- |
ward, but that it was charmingly en-
Dloyed, after the manner of her sex
in adjusting q bow under a dimpled
but rather prominent chin, and in
pulling down the fingers of a neatly
lifting glove, she tripped toward the
settlement. Small wonder that apass-
ing teamster drove his six mules into
the wayside ditch and imperilled his
load, to keep the dust from her spot
less garments; small wonder that the
Express" withheld its
speed and flash to let her pass, and
that the expFessman, who had never
been to exchange more than rapid
m monosyllables with his fellow men,
yazed after her with admiration. For
she was certainly attractive. In q
country where the ornamental sex fol-
lowed the example of youthful Ma
ture, and were prone TO over dress and
glaring e1flOrescence,M Miss JOS simple
and tasteful raiment added much to
the physical charm of, if it did not ac-
suggest a sentiment to her
presence. 1t is said that Euchre-deck
Billy, working ~ the guleh at the
nIossing, never saw Miss Folinsbee
pass but that he always remarked
lpolOgetically to his partner, that "he
believed he must write aletter home"
Even Bill Masters, who saw her in
Paris presented to the favorable criti-
cism Of that most fastidiOus man, the
late Emperor, said that she was stun
ming, but big discount on what she
was at MadrOnO Hollow.
1t was still early morning, but the
sun, with California extravaganza, had
already begun to beat hOtly on the lit
tie chip hat and blueribbons, and Miss
10 was obliged to seek the shade of q
by-path. Here she received the timid
advances of a vagabond yellow dog
yraciOusly, until, embOldened by his
success, he insisted upon accompany
ing her, and becoming SOLDERING de-
threatened her spOtless
skirt with his dusty paws, when she |
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lcerbity and a stone which happily
fell within fifty feet of its destined
mark. Having thus proved her abili-
ty to defend herself, with Characters
tie inconsistency she took small pan
ic, and gathering her white skirts in
one hand and holding the brim of her
hat over eyes with the other, she ran
swiftly at least for a hundred yards
before she stopped. Then she began
picking some ferns and a few wild
flowers still spared to the withered
fields, and then a sudden distrust of
her small ankles seized her, and she
inspected them narrowly for those
burrs and bugs and snakes which are
supposed to lie i'm wait for helpless
Then she plueked some
golden heads of wild oats, and with
sudden inspiration placed them i'm her
black hair, and then came quite un-
upon the trail leading to
hIadrOno Hollow.
Here she hesitated. Before her ran
the little trail, vanishing at last into
the bosky depths below. The sun
was very hot. She must be very far
rom home. Why should she not
rest while under the shade ofa mad
rOno?
She answered these questions by 90
inc there at once After fhorouoi,,