The Baltimore County union. [volume] (Towsontown, Md.) 1865-1909, 1877-10-13

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''If want to make Miss Warden ac-
quaintance, l can, without asking you
to introduce me. But" | continued
coldly, "1 don't care about gettin' ac-
quainted with Miss Warden, | heard her
name talked over too much inthe street.
l am afraid she haint likely girl. l
am afraid she haint such a girl as l
should want my Tirzah Ann to associate
with. Ever sense started from Jones'
Vile l have heard that girl talked
about" There is Dolly Warden ! and
'Oh look at Dolly Warden 7 l have
heard it q bet) more hundred times
sence l sot out And it seems to me
that no modest girl would be traipsin'
all over the country alone, for | never
heard word about old Mr.. and Miss
Warden or any of the Varder boys
Not that it is anything out of character
to go off on tower. am off on tower
myself" says l, with quite good deal
of dignity, "but it don't look well for
pound girl likehe to be streamin' round
alone. | wish l could see old Mr.. and
Mrs. Warden l would advise the old
man and woman to keep Dolly at home
if they have any regard for her good
name. Though I'm afraid, repeated,
lookin' at him keenly over my specs,
''I'm afraid it is too late for me to in
terfere, | am sure she haint likely girl"
His face was jest asred as blood. But
he tried to turn it off with laugh. And
he said somethin' about her "bein' the
STYLE" and "bein' gay" or somethin'.
But jest stopped him pretty quick
Says l, givin' him awful searchin' look.
'I think jest as much ofDolly as l do
of her most intimate friends, male or
female" q"
He pretended to turn it off with a
laugh. But knew a guilty conscience
when l see it as quick as anybody. l
haint one to break bruised reed more
than once into. And my spectacles
beamed more mildly onto him, and l
to hiE. in kind but firm manner.
"Young man, if was in your place,
1 would drop Dolly Varden's acquaint-
ance." Says l, 81 advise you for your
own good, jest as l would Thomas JEFF
ferson."
"Who is Thomas Jefferson" says he.
Says I, in cautious tone, "He is Jo-
siah Aliens child, by his first wife, and
the own brother of Tirzah Ann. "
then laid my hand on piece of
chocklate ground calico, and says l,
''This suits me pretty well, but have my
doubts" says l, examinin' it closer
through my specs, 81 mistrust IT will
fade some. What is your opin -
says I, speakin' to elegantly dSsasss1-zs.1 ss-s,.t
woman by my side, who stood there with
her rich silk dress trailin' down on
the floor.
"Do you suppose this calico will wash,
nam 2"
was SO busy a rubin the calico to
see if it was firm cloth, that l never
looked up in her face at all. But when
l asked her for the third time, and she
didn't speak, looked up in her face,
and / haint come SO near faintin' sience
l was united to Josiah Allen. That
7o0man'S heal a0aS off?
The clerk seen that l was overcome
by somethin' and says he "What is the
matter ?'
l couldn't speak, but l pinted with
my forefnger stiddy at that murdered
woman. l guess l had pinted at her
pretty nigh half minute, when l found
breath and says l, slowly turnin' that
extended finger at him, in so burnin'
indignant way that if it had been
spark he would have been dead on it.
"That is pretty doin's in a christian
country -
His face turned red again-and look
ed all swelled up, he was so mortified.
And he murmured something about her
''bein' dumb, or "dump" or somethin'
but l interrupted him-and says,
says l.
81 guess you would be dumb yourself
if your head was cut off," Says l, in
awful sarcastic terms, ''It be pretty apt
to make anybody dumb"
Then he explained it to me that it was
wooden figure, to hang their dresses
and mantillys on. And cooled down
and told him l would take yard and
three-quarters of the calico, enough for
an honorable apron.
Says he, "We don't sell by retail in
this room"
l give that clerk then a piece of my
mind. l asked him how many aprons
he supposed Tirzah Ann and l stood in
need of? l asked him if he supposed we
was entirely destitute of aprons And
asked him in a awful sarcastic tone if he
had a idea that Josiah and Thomas JEFF
ferson wore aprons Says l, "anybody
would think you did," Says 1, turnin'
away awful dignifed, "when l come
again will come when Alexander is in
himself"
joined Betsey by the door, and
says |, "Less go on at once"
''But,' says she, in a low mysterious
voice: "JoSiah Allen wife, do you sup
pose they would want to let me have
colored silk dress, and take their pay in
poetry?"
Says |, ''for the lands sake, Betsy,
don't try to sell any poetry here. 1 am
wore out. -
eff they won't take socks and nit
tens, or good butter and eggs, l know
they won't take poetry"
She argued spell with me, but I
stood firm, for 1 wouldn't let her demean
herself for nothing. And finally l got
her to go on.-Baltim0ye ElocukioniSt.
R9~ Fashionable Milliner--" You'll
have the flower on the left side of the
bonnet of course, madam ~ Fashiona-
BILE lady-"Well-er-no. The fact is,
there's a pillar on the left side of my
pew in church, SO that only the right
side of my head rs seen by the congre-
cation. Of course, l could change my