Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-31
KILLED IN THE ROLL.WAY.

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HALF an hour before sunrise, on Ger
tain December morning of certain veal
not long since passed away, William Ty
ner, lumbernIan, wrenched open the dool
of the long logging shanty he occupied in
common with half hundred other .lum
bermen, kicked drift of newly.faller
snow from the threshold, with u right
boot which answered, not lily, the purpose
of snow-shovel, and went plodding out
to the stable with a smoky lantern in one
mittened hand, and a great bundle under
his arm.
Mr.. Tyner was tail and muscular. He
might have been compared and not inap-
propriately, considering his erect and ro-
tund figure, with the best of the straight
pines he slashed about day after day. In
deed, to continue the comparison, we
might add that, like the future lumber
supply, it was his characteristic that he
became unreliable only at the top. Set
him at dead lift and he was your man ;
but once set about utilizing the upper
portion-which, in his case, was repre-
sented by a low, narrow head, covered
with shaggy hair behind and shaggy whis-
kers in tront-once set about utilizing this
supposed location of intelligence, | say,
and then straightway came to view such
fertility of obstinate knots and awry
growths, that anything il worked into was
certain to be wofGlly perverse and out OF
shape,
Half an hour passed away the winter
sun came up with not a cloud between its
round face and the dark stretch of Mich
igan pine lands-and nothing more of Mr.
Tyner. He ought TO have been done
quarter of an hour ago. The sun made
noiseless and successful battle with the fire
lit windows of the cabin, and brought
out drowsy men to bask in the benefi-
cence of the victor. Later it peered
over the dizzy height of the roll'way,
and pushed icy stalacites from the thaw.
ingeaves. Later still, the out-pour of
smoRe from the kitchen chimney ceased,
when the chore-boy went out on an errand
for the foreman, and there was no sign of
call TO breakfast, nor of Tyner coming to
draw water from the spring. Another
half hour. By and by a hungry man and
a curious man went to the kitchen and
stable respectively. The foreman found
only cold stove and a wondering boy7of-
all-WOrk; the latter only the oxen chewing
their cuds leisurely, and watchdog
asleep on the hay. The two investigators
met halfway, and each looked into
blank, astOnished face. Then one sum-
med up the case in an emphatic sentence:
'NIyncr's run away with the cook ~
That was all there was about it; and
they had to get their own breakfast and
content themselves with muddy coffee,
halfcooked potatoes and beans, and over
done meat Numerous and diverse were
the opinions expressed upon the interest
ing occasion. The foreman, for instance,
vowed, in language as concise as it was
irreverent, that they should both be
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damseis brother, and, being most interest
ed, said not word, but toyed thoughtful
ly with his measure, and walked away
into the forest, with hard blank on his
down-looking visage. Two sawyers, who
had each regarded the recent new gowns
and bright colors coquettishly displayed
from the Kitchen window as intended for
their approval only, and who hated each
other cordially in consequence, pitied
poor Tyner," and shock hands heartily.
And all except the brother laughed and
made idle jests over it, and told stories it
put them in mind of, for that day and a
few days to come, and-forgot it.
MIR. William Tyner and his .blushing
bride had an original wedding tour. And
Jolly" the horse, instead of hauling
water for the cooking of breakfast, and
making himself generally useful about
the camp that certain winter morning, as
well-behaved horse should, was lending
aid and couRtenance to the runaways,
and hauling the cock away from the raw
viands. The beast had been dubbed !
"Jolly," it is supposed, because he was as |
far from being jolly as an aged beast with |
few teeth and great many crooked joints |
could well be; and the countenance he |
loaned to the pair on this occasion, and |
which got over the deep-drifted path, |
with its low-hanging boughs, with mighty |
breathing and many an awkward stumble, |
looked more attenuated and melancholy |
than ever. What with the load upon his |
back-which consisted of cook and the |
entire supply of worldly goods belonging
to her and TO her steedless cavaier-and |
the load upon his feet, for the snow was
wet and packed, it was the work of an
entire day to accomplish the journey to |
tne next camp, distance of half score |
of miles.
Just as the sun was touching the tons
OF the talest pines with its last light, the |
red-shirted Justice, living half mile |
from their destination, was called upon !
to make Miss Polly Ensign Mrs. Polly |
Iyner-which he did in smutty kitchen, |
with half dozen young Justices rolling |
on the floor; and the jaded beast stun. |
bled on, not only with the old weight, but |
with the added gravity of the new re- |
sponsibilities the lady had assumed.
In half an hour Mr., Tyner put up his |
horse-the trifling fact that ii had not
been his horse twelve hours before did |
not appear to affect the ownership now
and settled down in his new quarters,
which he had engaged week before, in
his old capacity; and Mrs. Polly re-
neyed herself of divers snowy ribbons
anu DIS OF iewelry, and settled down
among lhe pots and kettles, in
heI old capacity-just as they
old camp, had they chosen-and set about
1t ia way calculated to defeat all oppo.
sition. But where are tile bright spots in
our commonplace world, if you Smother |
every outburst of romance? An ordinary
marriage would have been insipid; this |