Clarksville weekly chronicle. (Clarksville, Tenn.) 1873-1890, 1881-10-22
AN EFrEcTINe TALE.
A Tremendous Ghost story, as
Told by Burdette
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ful Canadian named PonigaWasset
Observation-Disclosures, The lovlicst
flower that ever grew in the sun
shine and showers. chaste as Diana.
true as Penelope the yiolets Daled
IN the blue OF her eyes, and pearls
sold for second choice in the pools
when she smiled ivory-white was
her broad high brow, for she didn't
comb her bangs down into her eyes
like the foretop of Shetland pony,
and the semi-oecasional fOgs of her
native land kept down the freclxles
and the tan. She wore good clothes
and moved in the highest circles.
She embroidered her own number
one and q half Inoccasins, and was
the belle OF the singing-schO0l. Her
father owned more acres OF spruce
and pine lands than he could count
in a month; he could get out
enough ships knees in n day TO
build United States navy and two
schOOners, and was rich and proud.
He sat in the best pew in the
church, and responded louder and
contributed smaller than any other
member OF the congregation. and
possessed all other ear-marks OF q
wealthy man. One day man
named Michilimachinac- Pierrepont
Il. Michilimachinac-came down
from the upper river country with
load of pelts. He was q mighty
hunter. and every year he captured
by trapping, shooting and swindling
the untutored Indians, enough furs
to control the market, and he was q
growing monopoly. He wore n
plug hat and shirt that buttoned
behind, and hung his watchchain
outside his coat. He was mashed
on Pemigewasset In the first inning.
He was lonely man, he said. He
took her hand In his, and said he
wanted some fair maiden to go with
him and stay in the north woods
about nine months in the year and
helD him skin beaver, and mink,
and otter, and fox, and certain va
rieties of cats and bears, and cook
for him and help him to bamb0Ozle
the Indians out OF their peltss and
pack the firs for him and help him
down the river with them. Would
she fiy with him 4? She shook her
wealth of golden hair and told the
hunter he was away off hls bnae,
and she would see him fur-der be-
fore she'd go. Straightway the
Michilimachinac led her to her faith
er and told the umpire he had been
put out on a foul. The old man
bent his brOws upon the rebelllOuR
girl. "You'd otter have him." he
said. "What fur?" replied the
maiden. "Because Ii would be very
gratifying to me-" said her PAPA.
81 can not bear to think OF H." she
said. "But you are very deer 10
me-" put in her lover.
"That's where the gazelle comes
in" sighed the maiden. "Tm afraid
you're lion TO me-" "Mak 'erminc
the lover said. And the old man
said he would, and called for some
mink and paper to draw up settle
ment. But Pemigewasset simply
said: "Thou art so near and yet SO
fur" and left the room. Thnre was
another. A youthful sailor man.
with a straw hat and wide trows-
ers, and a broad collar with anchors
worked on IL in white thread, and
lovely yacht club buttons-George
Augustus Saskatchewan. He was
a daisy. He played on the mouth
organ aud danced the racket divine
ly; knew all the new songs Of the
street, got 5000 year, and spent
every cent OF II on his clothes. And
when the old man found out there
was a previous attachment there
was circus.
But the brave girl stuck TO George
y 4 a
George he needn't marry him, but
as for her, she was his hairpin (or
words to that effect), and that was
the kindof girl she was. And In
asmuch as IL was not pleasant for
George to visit Pemigewasset at the
house, as he didn't feel able to Iced
her fathers dogs three times week
out of his scanty salary and sensi-
tive legs, these devoted young peO-
pie used to wander clear out to the
lane and meet when the moon was
full, and when ii was half, and
1t was gibbous, and when 1t waned
into the last quarter, and when
there wasn't even enough moon to
excuse a Gas company. And 50,
one night, while he bent his head to
gaze into the happy face that was
nestled against his breast, there was
a moving shadow by the rock that
was not cast by the waving hem
locks, the cold, cruel glitter Of steel
in the starlight, and the heart
throbbing 50 warmly beneath the
cheek Of the girl was still, and she
held her lover in her arms only TO
see the love light in his dear eyes
die out in the CLASSY stare Of death.
A moeking laugh from voice she
knew and hated Jared on her soul.
1t appears that the rejected rival,
T. Michilimachinae, had
taken a bowie knife two inches wide
and foot and a half long aud tap
ped George for laudable pus, pene-
trating the perihelion at the base OF
the cardiac apothegm by a lateral
incision bearing sou'west half west,
through the metacarpal phalange9
In ap0gee with the base OF the fifth
rib.
The treacherous Michilimachinac
fled to the north wood, and In the
month ate himself up
with a wild bear, and the Indians
gObbled up all his skins. Pemige-
WdSnct kOA AACA " ~ nufANCAJ9 AhM
followed her lover 10 the summer
land in few months. The stern
parent, having bit or q little moro
stock than he could masticate, went
on Change to unload one day, and
got caught on q falling market and
skinned alive. And 10 this day,
when the bell in the castle tolls the
hour of midnight, two ghostly fig
lres wander down the lane with the
skating-rink glide affected by ghosts
and In the shadow Of this rock tho
lady ghost, on her bended knees,
lifts her clasped hands In the pas
,ionate eloquence Of a voiceIoss APP
peal to the glittering stars while her
figure bends above the
PROSTATE phantom stretched before
her, staining the crushed ferns with
the crimson current OF life.
THE Memphis Ledger OF the 9th
Says a fellow giving his name as j.
Clarksville, Tenn, ar
rived in the city yesterday and at
tempted to sell draft ON that city
% one of the banks. He also tried
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