The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-03-06

think the profound contempt with
which Orange Zee regards all Eng
lishmen, to whom he owes his origin, is prin-
clpally based upon the information which
gave him that there we're actually many peo-
pie in England who did not know how to
drive nail. Nor does he yet understand
as of course everybody. must be constantly
wanting to drive nails in England as in Ame-
rica-"what on earth they do, If they don't
know how"
After Orange Zee and had seen Dollie,
and ound that the adjoining farm was for
sale, we determined to buy it; and we accord
inglv went to Dollies uncle, to whom it be-
longed, and told him that the fences we're all
ont of repair, and the house was falling to
pieces, and the meadows were all "run out, +"
aud that it was a miserable old place 'any
way, and not worth taking at gift. Dol
lies uncle saw at once from this that we
were dying to get hold of the place, and, as
he was equally anxious to sell, he said that he
had now given up all idea of selling, and in
tended to hang on" to it. Orange Zee told
me afterwards that the great art of buying
you did not want to buy
hang back. So we hung back.
AS we were boarding with Dollie's
parents, 1 found changing back" quite a
pleasant occupation. At last one day Dollie's
uncle came and said that he had been offered
$75 an acre for his farm, aud that if we
wanted it we had better speak, as he was
going to let it go at that. To my surprise
Orange Zee said he had Just offered $50
an acre for q better farm on the other side of
the lake, and expected to get decided answer
from the proprietor tomorrow. l felt quite
angry with Orange Zee when heard this, as
l hated the looks of the other side of the lske
and when Dollies uncle went away, 1 told him
he might go there if he liked 10y himself, but
that 1 should continue to chang back
He laughed at my innocence, and as
sured me that what he had told Dollie's uncle
was only as big lie as what Dolie's uncle
had told him, and show else could we expect
ever to get hold of the farm? ?" So then, of
course, / said that it was all right and we
went on hanging back" Finally, we had a
talk with Dollie's father on the subject; and
he said that if we would give him hundred
dollars down, and note of hand at six
months for O hundred more in case he
succeeded, he would get the farm from
his brother at fifty dollars the acre.
but in that case we must leave the place for
the present and seem to have given up all
idea of settling here. Orange Zee told me
afterwards that the old man Eve always called
Dollies father ''the old man') had held a
mortgage over his brother, and by threats of
foreclosure forced him to SELL The old man
WdS ulSuly IcSptCttu duu 10 IOr
many miles round as being the best horse
doctor and the ''smartest" man at a trade
generally to be found in that part of the coun-
try. He was also an elder of the Baptist
Church, and exercised most powerful gift
on the occasion of ''revivals" and ''protracted
meetings" When he found ont how m alters
stood between Dollie, Orange Zee, aud my
self, he got nearly all our money
out of us by secret promises of Dollie-tir
ffNA and han To ha 9TH
but the accident of Dollie herself taking
decided stand of her own, prevented our
being turned out of the house Dollieless and
penniless The whole details of this fnan-
cislly romantic transaction were after wards
reported in the Van Snookville Dena0crut,.'
and the old man received sort of ovation
for some time afterwards whenever he entered
a store in the village, in compliment to his
skill in having thus turned the charms
of bis Dollie to such good pecuniary ac-
count. This did not prevent our having
a wedding, which was the occasion
of great rejoicing amongst all the members
of the church to which Dollie belonged aud
which bore grateful testimony to her popu-
larity among the farmers daughters in the
neighborhood, who flocked to her marriage,
in very elaborate Partisan toilets, in buggies
and spring wagons, and accompanied by
'beaux" tho honesty of whose intentions it
was refreshing, to one accustomed to less
priElitive conditions, to contemplate. If
decline for reasons which may hereafter
appear, to say whether Dollie was
married to Orange Zee or myself on this aus
picion occasion, it is not because either Dol
lie or her husband have ever since done any
thing TO be ashamed of. OF the purity aud
simple innocence of our menage there has
been a question. Nor did the fact that one
of us had failed to realize his aspirations in
respect of this estimable young lady embitter
our home relations. The sceptics in virtue
on the other side of the Atlantic may sneer,
but 1 am proud to say that no cloud of jea-
lousy ever disturbed the serenity of our do
mestic horizon. Nor was the disappointed
Smith ever for one instant false to the pure
and innocent sentiment of fraternal affec-
tion which bound him to the other two. In-
deed may say that we we're (and trust still
are) all three very Justly considered models
of propriety by the highly moral community
of the village.
The said village consists of a single street,
with three churches and a school. l.house, all
facing each other, in little square in the
middle, with pugnacious-looking steeples and
hostile cock to the gables, as though they
were all longing to fly at each other. There
are three dry-goods stores, and hardware
store, and drug store, aud a blacksmith's $
| shop, and billiard saloon, aud two taverns,
besides grist mills, saw-mills, carpenters
shops, etc. The population is genial, good
Datured race enough. Everybody is fami-
liarly known by his or her abbreviated Chris
tian name; and the most minute details of the
daily life of every fomily, and every obscure
member of it, are accurately known and care
fully discussed at post-time in the store that
keeps the post Office, and which serves as