Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-10-22

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"You are man Of the world" sho re-
Piled" you know more than ] dow
burst out laughing " He looks like
splendid fellow" / said.
:" lie Is! He Il great oarsman, he Is in
the University crew. lie stands very high In
relatives very rich, too. His family live In
Boston. But
/ shook my head. "Then n that Is all 50"
I said, " he Is not in earnest"
She looked at me a, moment, her breast
heaving, her tears ready 20 flow. "I do
not believe word you can say" she cried,
but
I" Aye, indeed" 1 said with a smile
'hButvn
She was very beautiful as she stood there
In the moonlight / almost pitied her.
without another word she turned and ran
into the house.
II was Brother William who helped me put
up the rods upon the barn. Upon the steep,
shingly roofs the old man was as agile a.
cat. / never saw better r0Of-cllmbing. j
was gazing with silent admiration at Brother
William rs he carried thetwisted lengths Of
rod along the ridge pole Of the barn and
holding the hammer In his mOuth-hls gums
were very hard, / learned, and served him
quite as well as aching, thankless teeth
watched him not without a certain envy. lie
noticed my long continued gaze and called
out:
aye sec, save an eXtry mana hull morn
in's work by doin' Il myself" he said.
Like the crow in the fable, he forgot the
precious contents in his mouth. The ham
mer fell, he quickly sprang to catch it. II
was too late The cid man fell also, bound
ed down the steep roof, struck upon the cave
Trough, glanced off and fell, sheer, after the
hammer, nearly thirty feet upon, fortunate
ly, pile Of manure which broke his fall
He rose, rubbed his shoulder little.
Wa'al ~ he cried up to me. was gazing
down at him hOrrOr-struck, expecting GER
tainly he would be killed. 81 almost think
I'd rayther try the lightnin' next time"
He didn't come up on the roof again, but
sent Charles, the hired man, up. For the
rest Of the day, however, he worked with his
usual energy In the fields. At noon, having
finished the barn, l came In for dinner, in
tending to fix the house in the afternoon. II
was a very hot day, and OF all things roof
climbing Is the hottest kind Of an occupa-
tion. / felt not little exhausted. 1t hap
pened to be Friday. The schOOl-ma am
usually gave herself half holiday on FRI
days. She came In looking hot and tired,
nervous and-well, I will say it-cross After
dinner, meat dinner, too, she was little
more cheerful. l came up to her and said:
"WOuld you believe II, my horse and red
wheeled buggy need exercising this after
noon"
Perhaps" she said, "at four O'Clock I
will 20 with you"
At four o'clock 1 "hitched up" and drove
my now freshened lively horse up and down
the road past her window. In moment or
two she appeared at the door with her hat
and a red shawl. She hesitated mo-
ment and went back. Then l turned around.
| When l came in front Of the house again,
Mary Newman was at the gate to meet me.
We had not driven more than couple Of
miles along the beautiful river road when
Miss Newman gave great start and clasped
| her hands together.
"What is the matter?' 1 asked.
ooh, turn around, turn around, turn
around w she cried breathlessy.
Then l saw what was the matter. The
| KnickerbOcker gentleman was strOlling along
| the road ahead OF us with q gun on his shOul-
der. The road was very narrow just there
and it was impossible to turn arOdnd, un-
| less l drove up perpendicular bank, and
climbed maple tree and backed down the
other side.
stop. He will soon disappear in the dis
| tance."
But he did not disappear in the distance.
| He turned about and looked at us. He re-
\ cognized the red-wheeled buggy at once.
We drove on briskly, the poor school
ma'am's face red as the buggy wheels. The
Knickerbocker gentleman looked very
| gloomy. He touched his hat sOlemnly as we
passed, with defiant glance at me. After
we had gone little way the school-na am
said:
"Oh dearl had something wished to
| say to him"
| pulled up at once. could see that she
wished to explain to the student that it was
purely by accident that she was riding with
me in my lightning-rOd buggy. At the same
| time the thought struck me that 1t would be
but fair to give them both q =" show IL for
one am fond Of fair play! As pulled up l
asked her question.
"Why does he not come Qike a man, 1
was about to add, but didn'D, TO the house,
| IL he Is sincere"
"Because brother Amos and William, they
hate him." said the school ma am.
| "Oh." said, 81 seelp
Then did, must say, the very kind, ac-
cOmmodating, handsome thing. waited a
moment until the young man came up. l
got out, pretending to have desire to eK-
anime the riyer-bank, asked the young fell
low to drive about little for an hour until
| came back He stared at me somewhat
dumfounded. However, lie got in, leaving
his gun and shot-pOuch with me. He seemed
very happy as he drove off.
As for me, finding the gun loaded, /
climbed the fence and made for piece OF
woods. Here found one or two red squir-
rels, which / ruthlessly shot; phoebe bird,
also, and small wren, yellow bird and a
blue iay-a pretty good hours sport! When
came back to the road l could see nothing
of my red buggy. waited fully half-hOur
over the time set. They did not come.
thought 1t was very strange that these young
people should not come back at the precise
minute sci, anu WhlkEu uDuul III htaIGu Oh
another bird to bring down."
Finally l saw my red-wheeled buggy COM
| ing down the road. / went to meet it,
squeezing myself between two upright gate
posts. The school ma am face was radiant.
"Why," said, ''where have YOU beeng' >
"We have been to the Elysian fields, u
said the student, "where," " he added, "we
! have been very happy"
In fact, | needed not to be told by the
schoo-ma'am that, during that short but
eventful ride in my advertising vehicle, a
| little contract between them had been made
which il carried out, would eventually end
! in q lifelong arrangement, which might pos
sibly affect the welfare of future genera
| tions.
The next day, though Saturday, a full
! holiday, Miss Newman thought 1t her duty
| to spend at the school-'us. ] had finished
placing the lghtning-rods on the house
when, toward supper-time, she returned
She was in one Of her nervous moods again.
! The family Of the knickerbOCker gentleman
! had been told, had secuted the idea, had In
fact put their foot down. Amos too, was
more importunate. Her sister, whom she con-
! fided in. told her to beware of marriage,
| that It was a snare and delusiOn-the poor
widow had, suspect, had hard time Of it,
The old maids were suspicious Of her and ac.
| cused her of meetings with " that student. ~
The latter had been already warned off the
premises by Brother William.
"Why-don't you-elOpeP ] suggested to
| her after tea.
That is what he says,'' she said, through
her tears. "But Pm afraidw
"YOu can meet at the school-'us. / will
have minister there; you can be married
| 1 will drive YOU on to, say, BrattleborO, right
afterward. He can sit up behindW
"Oh it would be glOriousW % she cried,
clapping her hands, ''to outwit that horrld
old AmOsv
The school -ma'am taught little Sunday
school class at the schOol-'us Sabbath after