Lexington weekly intelligencer. (Lexington, Mo.) 1871-1887, 1878-02-16

but it was an event! such a thing
had been seen in kentucky.
Bob Iarieton, a strapping fellow
with II head like a chestnut-burr.
and a look like a boar in All apple |
orchard. slipped up, caught hold of
the looking-slass of one of the girls,
and grzing ut 1t for a moment, cried
out: 'Joe Taylor. come here, come
here. I'll be darn'd il Patty Schultz
amt got II locket that YOU can see
your face i'll. as clear as in a spring of
wnter!' In n twlnkling all the hun
tdrs gathered around old Schultz's
daughters. I, who knew what look
ing-gins>es were. did not bulge. Some
OF the girl. who sat near me were
excessively mortified AT finding theul-
selves thus deserted. | heard Peggy
l'ugh say to Sally pigmam, .'Goudncss
knows. it's well SchulIz's daughters
u got them things round their necks.
for IT is the first time The Young men
crowded around them" IN II twink.
ling l saw the danger of the case so |
stepped up TO the girls and Whisper
ell 10 them, Poly sqid |. Those
lockcts are powerful! tiuc, and become
you amazingly, hut you don't cou-
S'dcr that the country is not advanced
enough in these parts for such things.
ynu aud | understand these matters.
but these people dom't;you had better
lay them asidt or we will have no
peace" They laid them aside and
haiAony was restored, otherwise |
verify believe there would have been
an cud OF our community. This was
the first time that looking-giasses were
seen i'll Kentucky. His first meeting
with his wife, il not romantic. was
certainly out of the usual order of
things. Going to Bardstown to
commence the study Of the law. he
says, [ had taken my breakfast and
was waiting for my horse, when in
pacing up and down the piazzi,I saw
u young girl seated near a window.
evidently o visitor, she was very
pretty, with auburn hair, blue eyes
aud was dl cssed i'll white, l had seen
nothing of the kind since | had left
Richmond. Never was a poor youth
more taken by surprise, aud suddenly
bewitched; my heart yearned to
know her but how was l to accost
her? Had she been Peggy Push. or
Sally Pigman, OF m other of my
leatherm-tressed bellies Of The Pigeon
Roos;, should havo approached her
without dread nay, had she been as
fair as Schultze's daughters with
their looking-glass lockets, | should
not have hesitated. l don't know
what put it into my head, but |
thought all at once that l would kiss
her. 1t would take a long acquaiut-
auce to arrive at such a boon, but |
IN ght seize upon it by sheer robbery;
nobody knew me here, l would Just
st.p in, match a kiss, mount my
hJrse aud be of-,he would not be
the worse for it. gave no tine for
the thought to cool; l stepped ia.
tapped her chair aud as she looked up
| snatched as sweet a kiss as ever was
stolen aud vanished in q twinkle.
TIE mex momeut | was on horse
back gai!cping hoineward, my ears
tlugtiug at what l had done. Numer-
Gus are the women doomed TO have
a ,ckass for II husband jackasses
nave gone to congress by the score,
and are not wholly Unknown soIne-
times as governors, but doubtless i.
WAS never before true that y ON
got such q husband one state such a
member of congress, aud another
such a governor. and each indebted
for the honor 10 u tckass.