The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1872-09-06


on comet, or anything about it. 1t was
undoubtedly case of love at first sight,
and powerful bad case at that. For
wonder l got through the frolic without
making myself conspicuous or cutting up
any extras, I'm in the habit of doing
when go into public. I'd set my pegs to
go home with the widow after the ball, but
just as | was fixing my mouth to ask her,
up steps big, long, leather faced doctor,
named Mabry, and walked her right Off
before my eyes. That riled me little, but
kept my tongue still, inwardly swearing
to break his bones the very first opportuni-
ty that presented itself. 1 saw there was
no use saying anything, so l went home
and went to bed, and all the rest of the
night l was dreaming abvut rainbows an
gels, butterflies, fiddles, widows and doc
dinner.
''Wen, Squire, to make a short story of
it, made up my mind to have the widow,
or kill myself, or somebody else.
$50 made it convenient to be on hand
where she was, upon all occasions. l
| could not eat, nor sleep, nor work, and if
the thing had held on, wouldn't had sense
enough to skin rabbit. But l was deter
mined it shouldn't last long, for I'd been
! fooled so often by women that l thought |
wouldn' t give her time to think of anything
but me. She appeared to take TO me right
| sharply and the doctor seemed inclined to
mix m with me, but | didn't consider him
no more than n brush fence, for l was So
! far gone | thought she could see nobody
on earth but me. Well, Squire things
went on so for about month, and one
| Sunday [ screwed up my spunk and put the
question to her. She sorter laughed and
sorter looked one-sided, and finally told me
! she couldn't give me an answer just then,
| but if I'd call at her house the next Thurs
| day evening, she'd give ME final answer.
! Thinks l you are mine Just sure as
| there's fiddler below. Whenever Il wo-
man takes time to study she'll say yes.
| Squire, don't the poet say something about
| the calculation Of men and rats going
| crooked ?"
''NIice and men, Buns says I replied.
| ''Well, mice and rats is all one, ard so is
fools sometimes, as have found oUt in my
| travels. ! was so shure she would nave me
| l went off and spent all my money FOR fine
| clothes, thinking would have them ready
| for the wcdding-and | did? ConfJund
that widow, I say Confound all tLv wild
ows In time Thursday evening came,
though it was a fong time about it, and
over went feeling as big ~ Josh Raynor
| did when he was elected Coroner. I got
there about dark, and found a right smart
crowd collected, which was not On the
bills, but l felt as big and as good ~ he
rest of EN-. So l marched in like a blind
mule into a potato patch, and took a seat
by the fire. | didn't see anything OF the
widow, but kept looking for her to come
| in or send fer me, and passed away the
| time by cussin' the crowd to myself, think
| ing they had no business there, and
would not get to talk to my woman bit.
| Presently the door opened and in walked
Polly and that long-legged Doctor, and a
whole team Of boys and girls fixed up saw
agely, l tell you. | looked around for Il
fiddler, thought they were goin' to have a
ball, but wondered what they kept so still
for, and was about prOposin' a reel, when
UP gets little preacher, and before you
could swallow a live oyster, he had Polly
and the Doctor married faster than Mex
lean greaser could tie bulls horns. l
was so completely f1unmuxed that l set
there with my mouth wide open like | was
goin' to swaller the whole crowd, and my
eyes looked like billiard balls until the Ger
emOny was over, when | jumped up and
beloved
81 forbid the concern from being eonsti-
tuted.'
'You are a little too late. my friend, u
said the preacher, and they all commenced
laughing like they seen something funny.
! s'pll be squizzled if l don't be soou
enough for somebody yet" says /, ':for
, was mad, Squire, and no mistake IN the
ticket. do believe | could have had a
fair chance at him. 1t was too bad, after
had fixed up to marry her myself, foi
her to walk right out before my eyes and
marry that great baboon.'
'-It was bad, that is fact, said l.
s'Bad - cried he, 'it was meaner than
eating fried coon. / first thought I'd &c
straight home, but then concluded tina;
: wouldn't spite nobody, SO l determined tc
. stay and see if l couldn't get satisfaction
out of somebody. You know I'm the deuce
! to get myself or somebody else into a
scrape when l take a notion. I'd taken
one that night that went all over me like a
third day chill, so l commenced studyin'
I out some plan. reconected hearing the
, doctor say that where he come from (bui
r the Lord only knows where that was) the
, bride and groom always washed their faces
/ together before they went to bed, as a
, charm against infdclity, or imbeoility, OF
| some other long word. While Twas study
f in about that, spied the DOCTORS saddle
Ia 1rs sittincr in the cnrner. so | waited till