Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1871-03-04
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H0wIessic FelslsA Her Work.
BY NELLIE EYsTER.

Rears honey like you isn't keerin
murlheitlr grateful like, fur wat ole
Nfnwe's 'lations want to do fur you
Deed an bubble, ef / war a young
lady IKE you is, wid everything dat
my heart wanted, an more too, an lctEs
of folks allus waitin ION me. an Rds
nlirin' my talons, an smakin -sle4e
.filss.about my learnin an allsdats q
..jist like fur once to 81 off todaf az
little Dutch town an show de people
wat kind OBJ q girlamy papa raised
down Souf. sDey tneber heard sich a
thing, I'll be bound; as a young lady
list fifteen years ole tallSin French as
f.s as q baby cries, an playin' de piany
iis as easy as my Tony can pick de
banja. Why, Miss Jessie, honey,
youfd be livin, breathin curiosity
sMss. like our French mustard was
to Aunt Sarah that time and she
laualed merrily as she recalled some
few ,G the incidents connected with
that first and only visit of her Aunt
Sarnh to her fathers house, among
which was that having for the first
,time tasted some prepared mustard,
,she.exclaimed, with rapture, ut is a
curiosity: So good, SO good and ate
it upon her bread and butteras though
it was currant ieay. 80 - s@
Deed, chile, ":- said old nurse,
Milly, ,"Marses loved Miss Sarah
'nrensely we'll, il yea does laff at her
funny ways, an she s a loyin you now
now for his dead and gone sake 4
knows; so don't be ongrateful like our
.spsukled hen was, who wun's st, when
lherseomb an toes was mos friz of, an
/ oiled an fused wild EN- till dey got
albright agin, mos picked nay eye out
cause stopped to smoove her back.
Now, stop your lailin, Miss Jessie;
how kin i derange your har, if you'se
.shakin your he'd 80 p A sg73,s.N
seTAenthe small round head, with its
wealth Of "bonny brown hair did
become motionless, nor were there
ANY more revelations of its busy
thoughts until an hour later, when she
satron q low stool at the Doctor ssfeet,
and holding both his hands in her
own soft palms, told him she was go
ing to confess.-rs
fSWeli, Jessie said the good doc
tor, 1'I'am ready to grant you any abb
solution required, or sell you any in
dulgence wanted, 80 begin. NM
nHhen, uncle, you're just in the
ri i1ht humor; for. it, is an indulgence
that I want, and which you only can
give. Den send me to Maytown tc
spend this vacation. Imagine how
lonely you'll be without me to vex you
Fifty times a day, or spoil your pre-
ssriptions, or spill yqnr, medicines
apart from the sacrifice You'll make
in parting with me, think how terrible
at will be for me tosspend four weeks
in a townso obscure that it is not even
down on the map; where I know no
body, and where there is no one worth
knowing, and where all the people
talk Pennsylvania dutch, and eat piel
and pickles for supper. I'll come
back to yousas rough and coarse a.
Boston brown bread" M.
THAN which there is nothing mors
sweet nor wholesome" interrupted
Dr. John. sGo on, Jessie" i st.fs
well, uncle, this is about the sun
Of if al, Ny going will be an aWfu
waste Of time. There is no uses&ir
taking my benevolence unnecessarily
and / am teetolly opposed to the Who'll,
arrangement. Now, / await my sen
.tence. Ma.fs @s ly4l 4
1T is simply this, my darling saie
uncle John, looking most tenderly int
The eyes raised to his, that beint
thirty years older than you, / fee
thirty times wiser, and sacredly be