Staunton vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1860-1896, 1874-06-19


where Josiah Allen lived.
Says Josiah, I am Twin at the present
in the one-horse wagon
Says he, you are thinkin' of buyin' a
sewin' machine, haint you? p
Says Josiah, 4 am turning my mind that
way
So that acknowledgement man turned his
. horse round, and followed us, and [ see
that he had SEWN machine iii front of
his wagon.
Our old mare had colt, and SEEM a
strange horse come up so cluss behind US,
it started the colt up and she kicked up
Lher heels and started off full run toward
Jonesville. and then run down cross road
and into lot.
Says the man behind us. L am a little
younger than. you be, Mr.. Allen. If you
will hold my horse l will go after the colt
with pleasure
| Josiah was glad enough, and so he got
| into the feller's wagon; but before he
started off, the man, says he,
g You can look at that machine in front
of you while am gone. l tell you frank
ly that there haint another machine equal
to it in America. 1t re Iuires no strength
at all infants can run it for days at a
time idiots; if any body knows enough
to set a whistle they can run this machine
and it is especially adapted to the blind
blind people can run it jest as well as them
that can see A blind woman, last year, in
one day made 43 dollars a maxim leather
aprons; stitched 'em all around the edge
| in two hours. She made two dozen or 'em
and then she made four dozen gauze wells
the same day without changing the needle.
That is one of the beauties of the machine
it's goin' from leather to lace and back
again, without changing it's gear-it
makes it so handy for wimmen. 1t is so
tryin' for wimmen, every time they want
to go from leather to gauze, and book mus
lin, to have to change the needle. But
you can see for yourself that it haint got
its equal in North America
He heard the colt WINNER, and Josiah
stood up in the wagon and looked after it.
| So then he started off down the cross road
after her.
So we sot there, feelin' considerable like
procession, Josiah holdin' the strangers
horse, and the old mare. And as we sot
i there up driv another slck-lookin' chap,
and l bein' ahead, he spoke to me, and
says he:
Can you direct me, mem, to Josiah AL
lens house,
1T is about a mile from here,' and adj
ded, in friendly tone, Josiah is my hus-
band
| rs he p says he, in a genteel tone.
| YES" says I. I'VE have been to Jones'
vile, and our colt ran down that cross
road, and"
| L see,' says he, interruptin' of me; i
see how it is And then he went ON in
lower tone, If you think of buyin' sew
in machine, don't get one of that Teller in
the wagon behind you. 1 know him we'll
he is one of the most worthless shucks
in the country. as you can plainly see by
the looks Of his countenance. If | ever
see face in which knave and villain is
wrote down, it is on hisen. Any one with
half an eye can see that he would cheat
his grandmother out of her snuff-handker-
chief, if he got the chance.'
| He talked so fast that I couldn't get
chance to put word in edge-ways for Jo-
siah. ST.
| His SEWN machines are utterly worth
less. He haint never sold one yet; he
can't His character has got out-iolks
know him. There was a lady told me the
other day that her machine, she bought of
him, all fell to pieces "a hours after she got
| it-fell onto her infant, sweet little babe
and crippled it for life. see your husband
is having hard time of it with that colt.
1 will jest hitch my horse here to the
fence, and go down and help him. l want
| to have a little talk with him before he
comes back here So he started off on the
run.
| told Josiah what he said about him, for
it madded me; but Josiah took it cool. He
seemed to love to set there and see them
two men run. never did see colt act
as that one did. They didn't have time to
pass word with each other, to find out
their mistake, it KEEP 'em so on keen run.
They would get it headed toward us, and
into some lot and canter round in circle
with it's head up in the air, and then they
would leap over the fence. The fust one
had white pantalOons on, but he didn't
mind 'em; over he would CO.. right into
sikuta OF elder bushes. And they would
wave their hats at, and boiler, and whistle
and bark like dogs, and the colt would
winner and start off agin right the
wrong way, and then two men would go
a pantin' after it, They had been runnin'
nigh on half an hour, when good lookin'
young Teller come along, and SEEM me
settin' still and holdin' the old mare, he
up and says
Are you in any trouble that can assist
you p
| Says [, we are goin' home from Jones'
vile, Josiah and me, and our colt got away
and
But Josiah interrupted me, and says he,
And them two fools a caperin after it are
SEWN machine agents.
The good lookin' chap see all through it
in a minute, and he broke out into a laugh
it would have done your soul good to hear,
it was so clear and hearty and honest. But
he didn't say aword he drove out to go by
us, and we see then he had machine in
the buggy.
Are you agent p says Josiah.
| Yes, says he.
| sWhat sort of machine is this here p
says Josiah, liftin' up the oil cloth from
the machine in front of him.
"A pretty good one, says the agent look
in at the name on it.
! rs yours as good p said Josiah