Ashtabula weekly telegraph. (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1880-1886, 1880-05-28

way, nuther. SO you see Y WAS natoral |
should feel n kind o. nearness 10 /
Garafely, and 1 up and asked her |
why she didn't seem 10 feel no livelier. |
" She bust right out cryin'-though |
she neyor seemed 10 be one that cried |
80 terrible easy as some, Garafely |
didn't. She said she couldn't seem 10
feel no nearness 10 Bart; that he didn't
seem mite like Bart, and she shouldn't
b'lieve he was Of he didn't know 30
many things that had happened when
they was children that nobody but Bart
could know. She didn't feel no affection
for him, and she didn't want 10 merry
him. kinder thought l could see
through II. Bart had been gone a long
time, and she had been CROWN older,
and her idees changin'; and she'd had
her mind sOt on him all the time, and
had been kinder alterin' on him over,
and fixin' on him up to suit herself, tin
her idee on him didn't bear no more re-
semblRnce to the real Bart than one o.
them fancy yatchits does to a fishin'
smack. That's what thought, and l
told her she'd better merry him, and
settle down stiddy and sensible, and
she'd like him well enough arter a spell.
But women is Gurus creturs, and ef
there's one thing mOre'n another that
they amt apt to be it's stiddy and sensi-
BILE. They must hev jest about so much
highfalutin.
"Garafely said she s'posed I was
right, but She felt terrible sot agin hev-
in on him. felt sorry that l couldn't
give her no more comfort, but 1 gin
her the best advice knew how. But
arter she'd gone 1 didn't feel what you
might call easy in mind. For l amt
jest found out what an old fool / be,
and ginerally know better'n to advise
women folks, bein' as no man can't fol-
low the workin's o. their minds.
"Garafely, she begun the winter
school, as eff she hadn't no notion o.
gittin' merried. Mis- Aminidab, she
was used to fetchin' things to pass about
as she wanted 'em, and l knew that be-
tween him and her Garafely was bein'
thwarted a terrible sight, and l won
dered that she didn't give in. He stayed
round here most all winter. Sometimes
he'd go off and stay a week or two, and
then he'd come back agin. He courted
her up good and spry, there's no mis-
take, and when it come spring she
kinder seemed to give in, and Mis-
Aminidab was hurryin' up the fixin's
for the weddin'.
cit was one Sunday along in April.
Elder Lyford, from Blue.hill, he
preached for us, and there was a great
turn out, for we hadn't had no gospel
privileges for six months before. But
I'm afraid what the Elder said that day
was kinder upset in folks minds by
what happened afterwards. We was
comm out of meetin'. Mrs. Aminidab
was leanin' on her sons arm, and Gar
afely was walkin' aside of her. 1 was
Jest behind 'em, and | see, before they
| did, that there was a stranger, about as
rough lookin' n chap as you often see, a
leanin' agin the fence. We don't hev
many tramps on Barberry Island, but l
knew the minute l sot my eyes on him
that this ere feller was one on 'em. He
had a slouchin' hat drawed down over
his eyes, his close was ragged and dirty,
and his shoes was about as well worn
out as any pair o. shoes l ever see.
Folks stared at him, of course,
but his hat was drawed so far
over his face that they couldn't
see much of it, but when the old
Cap'n's folks come out he pushed it
back little and looked straight up at
'em. Mis- Aminidab she was leanin'
on her sons arm, lookin' proud and
pleased, as she allus did when she was
with him, and he was a talkin' to her
and Garafely as clipper as could be.
But when he ketched the tramp's eye
he kinder wilted down. He turned as
white as piece of chalk. happened
to be a lookin' straight at him, and l
see it, though it want but for a minute.
But Garafely! I'll never forgit the look
of her face, nor the cry she give
"'Bart! o Bart, this amt dream!
she says, and she throwed her arms
around his neck-the tramp's neck, all
dirty and ragged as he was-and tainted
clear away with her head son his
shoulder.
"He took his hat off, and he stood
there unkiyered before us all, and 1 de.
clare for It l was dumfounded. The re.
semblance that there was between them
two men beat every thing ever see
without twas twins. And which one or
'em was Bart Ramsdell / couldn't tell
Garafely she had took her choice
there want no doubt about that; and
when the ragged feller gin me look
straight in the eye, there was a material
ness about it that hadn't never found
about the other one. Mis- Aminidab
she looked from one to t'other in 6
dreadful unsettled way.
"'Who is this manP' she says.
"And the spruce feller, who had
kinder got over lookin' scairt, he says
very pert:
"'It's an impositor. It's a fellel
that was aboard ship with me comm
from Australy, and they used to cal
him my double cause we looked sc
much alike!'
"Well, you see Mis- Aminidab she
wanted to believe that. She was terri
BILE proud, Mis- Aminidab was. The
fust one was slicked up, and smart ap,
pearin'; he had let on that he had
money, and folks thought he was con.
siderable, and the other one sartin didn't
look to be no credit to his folks. Human
mater is Gurus, as mebbe you've heerd
me say before, and folks is apt to find il
dretful easy to believe what they'd
ruther. She turned her back on the
pleadin' look that the ragged one gin
her, and cluug TO the smart-appearin
one. Garafely, she'd come to, and the
roses had flew into her cheeks, and hei
eyes-didn't they shine 1t didn't
seem 20 make the least mite of differ.
ence to her how dirty and ragged he was
"' Don't you know BartP she says
to Mis- Aminidab. Don't you see
Bart's eyesP Bart's smileP Bart's OWL
self?'
at would IA done you good to see