The Lake County star., 1877-05-17

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Both me arms round yer- waist, - r. : 4 !.
An be stalin' q taste
Nv thin lips that are coaxin' me So"
Thin she blushed more illigent red,
As she said, widout raisin' her head,
An her eyes lookin down, .o..,r
Wealth her lAshes 30 brown,
Would yer like me to dhrive, Misther
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MY GREAT-AUNT's, WILL.
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THE TRrByLArIoNs OF "A, CLERK IN
A oorHTFY STORE.
a., i ann clerk in q country store, and
sometimes wish I'D been q MARTYR
in those days when they stretched pe0-
pie ON beds Of spikes or roasted them
on q grid-iron. Then I think / could
have taken a'little comfort In life.
This Is the way of It I am behind
the counter on the side where we keep
prints and there trots up to the OppO-
site side, where we keep fiannels, a
customer neither yeuhKno beautiful; I;
l hurry around and across, and she
asks for calicoes; then 1 turn her
about and make my way back. and /
!, just. gaxes at the shelyes, says she'd
like tO look at the under piece ON the
top shelf; climb up ut the risk of
breaking my neck and get the under
piece out, and she concludes Dtisn't
T-what she thought Il was. Then she
says she'd like to look 'at the stripes" 1"
n,I blunder on TO every other stripe be-
foro see her particular stripe. Then
she says she wants little figure, and
- ] get all the little figures out for her.
, She wants to know how much tits q
syard; say six cents, and she says
,.sbe can get better In Springfield for
five cents, and she looks at me suspic-
iOusly, as II were q cheating youth.
She wants to know II it'll wash, and
say presume 80, most calico does
iy, as 10 were a saucy youth. Then
she asks melH we take eggs and say
we do, and we pay twenty-eight cents,
and she says they're paying thirty at
the other store, and off she goes, and I
-IPuti up the prints and ann down at the
r. h,iarther end OF, the room turning fraG-
Inents out OF a. cracker barrel, when
s1sa Saen spr tp.ia~ fioN~ss .nd wi w'apts some sam
1naSWe,keep the, 4,psto f,ice, and by the
time get back to my cracker barrel,
In comes a man who wants to know II
he hasn't a letter. He never had a
letter In his life. and he KNOWS It, and.
know 1t but 1t Is one 0f those facts
] thai Ibothmrties ignore, and I go back
and loek, and give him the consoling
y: assurance. that he hasn't any, and he
i-departs in peace of mind. rs ..i,.,.
Then nthsre Is, q lady who wants to
a. match = confolinded bit of silk braid,
drab bordering on lilac. It takes me
five minutes to find one box of silk
braids, and five more to find we
haven't drab bordering on the lilac.
ID Then he wants sewing silk the same
shade. and hunt through all the
Al sewing silkS, and there's drab border
Ing on everything under the sun ex-
,,eept lilac i and know by the way
her fiounces sweep out that o mercan-
tile house not keeping drab bordering
/, on lilac stands very low. .nfrn1. b.. ,.Iir
~. That's the way It goes day after day.
- test saleratus, abhor Goldfish. and wish
calico. cotton cloth, drilling, hooks
and eyes, and all Of the rest of the
wretched necessities of an artificial
civilization were al the bottom Of the
, Indian ocean. j long to be savage
more than / do to be an angel, and /
shall be, one of these days, though /
do wear cloth suits, and have shaw
ing mug ct the! barber's marked in
gilt letters, 8. o. Haynes. Il wonder
that all self-respec and sentiment of
humanity isn't long ago perished from
ont my bosom. .,.I.0,l fi,.p.
Such were my reflections one fine
morning Just after train time, while /
was Weighing out half b. pound of
o black tea, when my fellow sufferer in
the dry goods and grocery inflIction
called out:
"Here's lady inquiring for you,
Sam" K : =
In distinct outline before the door
stood o little woman, her skirts spread
out BY Q triangular hoop like the skirts
of the female figures we used to draw
on our states at school. came up tu
make my bow, and saw she had de-
posted d brown willow basket on the
showcase and dropped black glazed
bag at her side. She wore o. stringy
kind of shawl, with fearfully long
fringe, and seemed to be afflicted with
numb palsy. !.
Are you my nephew Sam'wel ?"
asked she.
ma'am." ~, = 4
"Pm your fathers aunt, Loueezer
aY% siaa to sseeHy lee You, AantL aunt Louisa. L@aia
She looked at me sharply, as III was
making fun of her. l suppose It is be-
cause the corners of my mouth turn
up, people are always suspecting me
or making fun of them. wish those
= CORNERS would sink. and wonder they
~ ~ q Tam your only living female rela-
tive on the fathers side, " aid she. ~
~ MY business experience With females
had been so embittered, Was glad to
learn she was the only one on the
fathers side 'nrt. Ere -rE tlt ~
. soa'.As you've no mother felt Il my
duty to help make home for you.n 4
Instantly remembered that Aunt
s.Loulsa was worth seventy-hve thou
\ sassd. h9think i learned that fact In
.seaYly yeaSs at the paternal knee, along
with who made me, ant what state /
lived In. know IL always stood to
.--l4i6n s6f - pfimary truth. NY father
all his life, courted poverty through the
'saiedifnf ~ dry goods and groceries,
and ent through, bankruptcy as often
NJ the law wotffd allow. During these
periodic seasons before calling the
creditOfs and making an assignment,
ne used TO clasp his hands 10 his head
and ejaculate. Louisa might help me
II 6he only would ~ tthT sasl
~ BUt fnulsA wouldn't or at least did |
MT, and wh4tfver may be thought OF
her filial affection Anature observations
= on the OSCILLATIONS in the molasses and |
ginger market have convinced me Of
the soundness Of her Judgment
I'm delighted to see you, aunt |
y :. Loufea III go right down 70 my
: boafding-place with you.n sas-l
Hence, with brown willow basket |
In one hand and shiny leather bag |
IN the other, and my, great aunt trot- |
ting kehihd-why under heaven she |