The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1881-05-10

that's that Uncle Nathan over yonder
in the fleldY If don't skip right out
there and ride home on a load of hay,
1t will be because / faint and fall by the
wayside before 1 reach the goal of my
wild ambition ~
And off ran the versatile, sprightly
Deb, followed by the barking Bruno,
the pair causing great CONSERVATION
among the barn-yard fowls, by rushing
into their midst with whoop and halloo,
thereby causing the feathered bipeds to
fly squawking in every direction, the
most astonished lot of biddles ever heard
of.
Uncle Nathan sees the pair coming,
and mentally wonders who is with his
dog. He knows it is not his sister
Nancy, for never in all her life had that
good woman been known, under the
most urgent circumstances, to deviate
In the least from her usual slow pace,
and the lady with Bruno is coming at
the remarkable rate of at least mile in
ten minutes; but as soon as she gets
near enough to be heard, and cries
OUT
"Clear the track for the fast train ~
He knows at once who is coming, and
being a remarkably Jolly old bachelor,
he takes out his huge, red silk handker-
chief, and, wildly waving it around his
head, runs toward the pair with loud
cries of Stop stop! danger ahead !"
receives Miss Deb in his arms, she cry
ing OUT
"Shocking accidentl The engines
collide Both mashed !"
Debby Barlow was Aunt Nancy's and
Nathan Barlow's brothers. daughter,
who lived in the city, and paid yearly
visits to the farm, where she was always
received with extravagant expressions
of delight by her aunt and uncle and
aged grandmother, Notwithstanding the
fact that she always set at defiance all of
Aunt Nancy's rules of order and tidi-
ness, and would convert the sitting room
into an infirmary for any crippled gos-
ling or chicken she might find,' and
would play at hide and seek with Bruno
in every room of the house, not even
excepting that chamber of grandeur and
state, Miss Nancy's parlor, the very
atmosphere of which room was calcu-
lated to fill ordinary mortals with awe
and reverence, so stiff and solemn look
ing were the bigh.backed chairs, and
family portraits of whole generation
of deceased Barlows, that graced the
walls in huge walnut and gilt frames.
" Declare" said Miss Nancy, as Deb
disappeared in cloud of dust round the
barn, I" / must really be stricter on that
girl she is getting too old to carry ON so.
Why, lawsy me when was her age
I'D cut an pieced seven quilts with my
own hands, and when company come
I'd never think of openin' my mouth !;
an when Deb was here last fall end
Deacon Graves called she talked him
most to death, and would talk and laugh
with the Prince of Wales, / do believe,
if she got chance; but, then, all girls
are more forward than they used to be;
but, then, Deb is worse than the general
run of girls, SO awful full of mischief"
"Pshaw Nancy, let the child be, it
does me good to see and hear her, an
goodness knows the time I'll come soon
enough for her to be less gay and
thoughtless," said Grandmother Bar
low.
= reckon So" assented Miss Nancy.
There's none of us that don't run agin
the dividing line between the joys of
youth and the cares of age sooner or
later, an when once the line is passed
there's no stepping back. There comes
Nathan with load of hay across the
field, and Deb standing up on top of it;
if she don't tumble off and break her
neck, it will be miracle that shall be
thankful for"
But Deb did not fall off the load of
hay, and when the wagon stopped before
the great barn doors, she came sliding
and laughing down into Uncle Nathan's
arms, with her hair flying in sad disor-
der about her face and shoulders, and all
her dainty ruffles and bows terribly
crushed, which sad accident, she in
formed her horror-stricken aunt, should
not occur again, as she vowed she had
made an arrangement with her Uncle
Nathan, the terms of which were that
she was to wear suit of his old clothes
during the remainder of her stay in the
country, an arrangement that met with
decided veto from Miss Nancy, who