The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1880-01-29

Jeremy Green left the potato field
just a quarter before IL by the sun
and went in to dinner. Instead of re-
sorting to the weed as q solace for
weariness, he devoted his spare time
to the Weekly Narrator, the only
newspaper he eyer took. As he wa.
poriDg over its contents that eventfuI
noon he all at once lesped about three
feet in the air, and in his descent
brought down his fist with such force
on the table that he overturned a huge
pan of soup that his mother had pre-
pared for dinner, beside breaking a
few dishes. g. @ o.
What is the boy about?' fairly
thundered the father.
He has split the soup, broke the
blue platter, and, dear me, 1 don't
know what elsev replied his mother,
in calm, though 'vexed tone.
Jeremy's next sensation was that of
an affectionate caress from the lash OF
an immense horsewhip. This was the
first appeal for good behavior he had
received in four of five years. For .
moment he looked savagely at the old
gentleman, and thought of his own
superiority of strength, but soon
quelled his pugillstic desires and sat
down again to the Narrator, or rather
to the advertisement that SO elated
him. 1t was a call for agents. Ten
dollars q day guaranteed, etc. For
particulars, Roy & Co., No. 8 Village
avenue, A., N, Y e. were to be con-
suited. Jeremy had always been con-
fined to the farm, and. feeling tired of
it, considered this a chance for him. so
be resolved at once to give the bust
ness q trial.
He planted potatoes all the after
noon. keeping one or two rows ahead
of his father, and MIXED the cows as
usual that night, but the next morn
ing before daylight, he was on his
way to the city. About noon of the
same day he entered the village of
Smytheville, just twenty-five miles
from home, feeling tired, hungry and
a little disturbed in conscience. In
this condition he called at farmer
Smythe's, where he procured dinner
and an invitation to remain until the
following morning and rest himself.
His father and Farmer Smythe once
went to school together F; Jeremy now
profied by it. But We hardly think he
would haye .tarried, so anxious was he
to get to the city, only that Farmer
Smythe had three very pretty girls.
Heptalina, the Oldest, was Is, just 3
year younger than himself, and 90 fast
did their acquaintance progress that
he became the owner of q card bear.
ing her name and address before they
parted. Jeremy slowed it away care
fully in his vest pocket, feeling that
the donor was, to say the least, an
angel, and that he somehow or other
had taken leap into paradise.
The remainder of his journey was
passed in kind of delightful trance,
from which he did not thoroughly
awaken until he found himself in
view of the city. Then his heart gave
q great throb, for was he not soon to
know his destiny2 He never had
been to the city before, and the sights
were so new and startling that he was
in a tremor of excitement by the time
he reached the locality indicated In
the advertisement. He found the av-
enue dirty one, No. s dilapidated
concern, and the women at the door
bore haggish appearance ;but he sum-
moned courage TO inquire If man
was living there who employed agents
She replied that there was, aud show
ed him into small, shabbily-fnrnish-
ed apartment, where an oily-tongued
old fellow informed him that the ar
ticle to be canvased for was a grease
extractor Of the greatest merit he con-
idered it the most marvellous discoy-