Juniata sentinel. [volume] (Mifflintown, Pa.) 1846-1873, 1873-04-16
WHOLE NUMBER 1862.

''Oh ! but if Annie's face didn't catch
fire then You might have lit number
Of candles by it.
These suspicious symptoms did not
escape the eye of the skilful inquisitive,
who calmly continued:
Pears so 20 me cause them big
whiskere put me in mind of his'n and
then the awkward way he gripped me
with his big paws !"
No answer But Annie was wonder
fully busy. She bent over her work and
drew her needle through so quickly THAI
the thread snapped, and then she didn't
have time 10 talk, she was so taken up
wish trying TO coax tie thread through
the eye again
lnhexible Mrs. Moore went Oh
IL don't believe that kiss was intended
for me after ALL Do you, Annie Z Well
of course, we know it wasn't. But then
| do wonder who it was intended for ?
And | wonder If y2u don't know more
about it than you seem fit to tell 2
"Ne, mother q
Yes, me mother you was mighty
anxious to get me an' Pap off to Aunt
Ruth's tonight but noticed you was
slieked extraordinary for all you wercn t
going"
Here Annie lost her needle and went
down On the floor to hunt it.
Now, Annie" her mother went on
I'm gettin' old, | know that, but l hav-
en't quite lost my eycsight yet, nor my
hearn' neither. I've smmised little
sonethin' about these COINS on between
You au' navid afore now. What are you
p!ayin' possum fur! Out with 1t, | say.
faint fair to be tryin' to come it over
yonr old mother
Thus adjourned, our small feminine
Machiayal made clean breast of it,
much rc!icycG to fud that mother 'hadn t
nothin' agin him, and 'woul! give father
i talkin to about it an bring him around
bat, Annie said Mrs. Moore, dryly,
in conclusion, 81 want you to tell David
Ia rather he'd not make such a mistake
again. don't like the feel of lis big
wLiskers about my face, and, moreover,
l don't approve 0; promiskus kissin' ~
David never heard the last Of that kiss
in the dark Old Squire Moore of course
heard of it, and ased to take great de-
light in slyly abiding to the circumstan
ces when all the parties concerned hap
pened to be present lie would shake
his buriy sides with laughter at David 9
discontinue and his wife tart replies,
while Annie would eide with her father
and poke sly fun at her sweet heart, and
then both of them would laugh again at
tie other two until the tears ran down
their checks.
"Never mind, David Mrs. Moors
would say consolingly to the abashed
lover, "!et them laugh He'd have been
only too glad to have been in your place
thirty years ago. He had hard work to
get a kiss from NE then. l hope the oc
currence will be a lesson to you an An
ME agin the an policy Of undelhand
dGin Of all sorts, scein' as how they re
liable to end, in sich cases, in kissin' the
wrong one in the dark.
The daughter of q doctor in Craw fOrds
vile, Ind, had her fortune told by one
of her fathers patients, who predicted
that she would be married on 4 certain
day. The yourg woman had her wedt.
ing garments all ready, but the bride,
groom appeared not. The patient did
not pay his bill, the doctor sued for bis
money, the patient entered a counter
claim for services in predicting the fu-
tnre, the doctor pleaded the great ex-
pense that he had incurred on behalf OF
his daughter, and they had a good time
in Charlottesville, and the doctor col
Judgment for FIVE dollars and costs.
----s- ..S--
\ well known Methodist brother who
lives in the 'rhubarbs" of Northampton,
recently drove to the village, hitched ais
horse, transacted hi5 business, and for
getting all about the team, walked a mile
and half, home. Some of the Younger
members of the family were in the vii
lage in the evening, and recognized the
horse, which was still standing there
lonesome and disconsolate, and after q
vain search for the owner, drove home to
find him comfortably abed and asleep
But he probably won't hear the last Of
that E.isadventure righ; away.
Captain Dummit, owner of thee finest
orange grove in the United States, if not
in the world, lives with his daughter in a
board shahty Of one room, with two oil
three wooden chairs in the4ine of luxur-
ious furniture, and a well-bound copy ol
Byron and numbers of the Gentlemen s
Magazine, ranging from 1890 to 1901
by way of literature. There's energy
for you, chunks OF it,
A good deal is said, or rather used to
be, about the "roast beef Of old Eng
land" 1t appears now that the tota
meat supply Of Great Britain last yeal