The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1871-01-12
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itmus. have Been played out LACEY. ]
I CHANGED to visit one Of tie Dntchess d
Dutch settlements and stopped for the
4.aight with old s0ut.croht himself. fOf
course theisble was beautifully loaded -
4 coqnsed six different kinds Of pickles,
i've 81 cake, aud a for swessheats, aud
jams, and jsllies, u,prnplades, and fruit.
butter. and canned pears aud peaches, and
so forth; l can't begin ~ .epnRerate, /
only know that nO. mans Intervals ever
coptaind such al Internal codglomeration
without he has visited the interior Of
.Pennsylvany,
fit hadu'tibeen for that supper Iwculd
have been perfectly at ease, though | no.
ticed old Sourcrout was far from being so.
II wonder" don't ask me 70 give you
even the faintost idea Of his language; it
was no more like English than II. G's
writing is like penmanship.) "where Bet
scy can be all this timer he kept mutter-
ing aloud. Or asking Of his yrow, who was
modelled after the fashion Of a corpulent
pounding barrel.
Isoon LEARNED that Betsey was tbe ''sole
daughter Of his house" aud that she bad
had Onelffomihone the previous day to
attend camp meeting, upon which they are
sheasy IN That latitude. My modesty kept
sme from asking any more questions, and
after HAD smoked with old Sourcrout I'M
till was sick and dizzy, aud the mess I
had placed myself outside Of (calch me
ever doing itagainD began working. and
after drinking half gallon Of sour cider,
I crawled of 70 bed. But / hadn't got
fairly buried among che feathers-I wish
the woman that invented them was well.
first tarred and then rolled up in one-be-
fore I heard q wagon drive up, some one
tworathey- come ID: aud old SIS tongue
started of Eagglng. Msf{E5
'swhere you come from, Betsey you
aud Hanssahe asked between q growl and
ayawn.
"Canp-mseting, dad.
"Why didn't you come home fast
night s's' -.e
"Wed Hans and but the
wagon broke down. and We had to stopf"
"Hans and you2"
rYaw. TWAS dark as dunder, and We
couldn't get on and it was raining, aud
50 we stayed until daylight"
Where ;stayedsp
I'm the red schoolhocse
s(Asifeyery schoOlhcuse in the whole
State wasn't red,
Y ! Hans and yodf'
"Yaw."
WHO else?.
Nobody aelac
"Only Hans and you, Betse,s'
"Thues all"
"Douder and blixen!"
,'But soon as it was light we drove on,
gothic wagon fixed, aud came on to the
woods" ~
stkad the wagon broke againS q 4
"No;sye .eot'lost"
"And You stayed there all day."
"Yaw; we conldn't find our way out.
And ~ took yeuitill now Hans and
you lobg amer midnight
.well, Hans aud you'll get married
quicker. After staying all night IN a
schoolhouse- Hans and sou-and being
lostall daysin the thick woods Hans aud
you.n
The old man didn't in the least doubt
the honestyof5 tbegirl or Haus--s as he
told me privately. but he intended to
keep them 50, aud ifIhad remained over
Knight have danced at the wedding.
And would have done so had my stom-
ach been cOst-iron and my digestion
that Of an anaconda. But ! had realizing
recolections ofthe previous nights supper,
and knew a wedding one would be my
death. stIl for all that I came away
satisfied thatt,H sourcrout bad hit upon
the right thing to do" in an such cases
made and provided land in view Of the
future. -Bduau's Magazine.
Rua.-Rum blights the fairest roses on
'beauty's cheek, dethrOnes the reason of