The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1872-05-30
Why Agat Sally TsVa MlrrI1a.

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lster' aod promised you would te
us all about it sometime. Now, te
US please"
"Well, If I ever did see such girl
IN my born days. It's tease. teas,
nom morning till night; You mus
know all about everything you hay
no business to know anything abou'
Such inquisitiye, pestiferous critter
as you are! When 1 was vouno
girls were different; they mindeI
their business, and didn't 90 sailin,
around with whole string Of bc.anT
! getting their heads illIed with d
xmas ot nonsense. I never daret
ask my aunts, married or single
about any of their affairs. Prett,
mess I'd have got in if 1 had. Whei
they ofeie to tell me anything O
their own accord, kept my moutl
shut and listened. Everything i!
different now adays; young folk,
have no respect for their elders
But as I see Pm not going to have
any peace till I do tell you, why iust
listen, and don't let me hear a word
oHt Of one Of Jour mouths till 1 get
through.
That's right, Aunt Sally; 20
right ahead, do, and we will keep
perfectly still"
"Well, you see, when I was about
seventeen years old, was living in
Utica, in the State of New York.
Though l say it myself, I was quite
a gOod-lOOking girl then, and had
several beaux. The one that took
my fancy most was a young minis
ter, a very promising young man,
and remarkably pious and steady.
He thought q good deal of me, and l
kind of took fancJ to him, and
things ran on till we were engaged.
One evening he came to mel re-
member it as well as if it were only
yesterday. When he came into the
ParlOr where l was alone, he came
up to me and-but now. pshaw!
girls, 1 don't like to tell the rest"
ooh, Aunt Sally, for nercy's sake,
don't stop; tell US what he did"
''Well, as I said, he came up to
me, and put his arms around me and
rather hugged me, when 1 got ex-
cited and some frustrated; it was
long time ago, and l don't know
but what I might have hugged him
back little. Then I felt-but just
now clear out, every one Of you, I
shan't tell you any more"
Goodness, gracious no, Aunt
Sally. Tell us how you felt. Didn't
youfeel good? And what did he do
nextY
"Oh, such tormcnts as you arc.
I was ike any other girl, and pretty
soon I pretended to be mad about
it, and pushed him away, though ]
wasn't mad bit. You must know
that the house where 1 lived was on
one Of the back streets of the town.
There were glass doors in the parlor,
which opened right over the street,
and no balcony nor anything Of the
kind in front Of the house. As it
was in the summer season, these
doors were open and the shutters
drawn to. l stepped back little
from him, and when he edged up
close / pushed him back again. l
pushed harder than I intended to,
and don't you think, girls, the poor
fellow lost his balance and fell |
one of the doors into the
street. Yes, its so. As he fell l
gave a scream and caught him-but
declaIe I won't tell anything more
I'm going to leave the rOOm."
e. ''No, no, Aunt Sally. How did
you catch him? Did it hurt him
well, if I must, must. He fell
head first, and as he was going
caught him by the legs of his trOw
sers. held on for moment and
tried to pull him back, but his sus-
penders gave way, and the peor
Young man fell clear out of his pant
aloons into a whole parcel of ladies
and gentlemen passing along the
street"
"Oh, Aunty, Aunty, Lordy, Lor-
dyr
There, that's right, squall and
giggle as much as you want to.
Girls that can't hear a little thing
like that without tearing around the
room, and he nc ing in such a way,
don't know enough to come home
when itrains. a Hice time the man
who marries one of you will have,
won't he? Catch me telling you
again"
But, Aunt Sally, what became of
him? Did You ever see him againg' !
''No; the moment he touched the !
ground he got up and left that place
In a terrible hurry. / tell you it
was a sight to be remembered to see
how that man did run. Father hap
pened to be coming up the street at
the time and he said he never saw
anything to equal it in his whole
life. heard others say he did the /
fastest running ever known in that
part of the country, and that he new
er stopped or looked behind him un-
iii he vas two miles ont of town
He sent me note a few days after
ward, saving that the engagement I
must be broken of, as he could nev-
n look me in the face again after
What had happened. He went out
West, and I believe he is preaching
,ut in Illinois. But he never mar
led. He was very modest ana II
he was so badly frightened
hat time he never dared to trust !
,imself near woman again. That,
yirls, is the reason 1 never married,
felt very bad about it for a long
lme, for he was q real good man,
md I've often thought to myself
hat we should always have been
Happy if his suspenders hadn't Civ
n away"
The New York Commercial styles
Grant 'the hero of Donelson and
The idea Of calling 3
nan the hero of Donelson merely be-
.ause he happened to be somewhere
n the neighborhood when twelve
bousand worn-down, half-starved,
,slf.naksd, half-frozen, half-aEmed /
nen and boys surrendered to keep /
rom being run over and crushed to
lo.4b bv a sDleudidly equipped ar