Connecticut western news., 1881-11-02

"Sh0 turned as req as 8 turkey -COCK, but she spoke up as bold as ion:-
 "'We're going to Flatbush Common. Prof. Preston wishes to show me new plant he found growing there.'
 ''Now that was the first I'd heard of going to the Common, or of the plant, or that the professor was to meet us, and was provoked. It was gettin' a ride under false pretences, and that l don't like. Besides, many time I've most broke my neck jumpin' out of the parlor window to keep from bein' tack led by the old Professor, and Miss Sue knows it. Now I'd got to meet him any way. I tell you was angry. It was wrong, of course, but Sue ought not to have deceived me. So when we'd got far enough from the house to be out of hearing, I turned to her and asked what she meant by cheatin' me into bringin' her out to meet that old professor, when I'd as soon meet rattlesnake.
 "O, Neddy, dear, knew if I told you Prof. Preston was to be there, you wouldn't have brought me, and l do want to see that strange new plant. I can't understand why you dislike him so much; he's good and noble.'
 "'He ain't,' I said. He's so cross to Phlly the chambermaid, at the Seminary, that she told me with her own mouth she hated him.
 "What wicked, low boy you must be- she said, getting red, talking to servants and hearing their tales. I've great mind to tell pa what company you keep
 "Tell, if you please, I sung out. T don't care.'
 "Sue was very angry by this time, and she scoaded so much I just said to her :-
 "Well, Iain't goin' to drive anybody who is ready to eat me up. I'll get out of this buggy, and you can go on by yourself
 CT knew she didn't know more about drivin' than baby, and she knew, too, she'd catch it if she went on alone to meet him, though pa and ma did think he was the greatest man in the world. So she quieted down, and then we made up.
 "Now Sue just worships intellect and that's how she took to thinkin about the professor. She couldn't un' derstand him, and she thought he must be somethin' toploftical and grand anc ugly as he is, she fell in love with him
 "But bless you, it just depends upo1 who it is she worships because she can't understand 'em. tried that game on her once, and I never tried il again. One of the teachers, was tellin us about how ignorant people are i'm pressed by what they can't understand and that some great man, Shelley h. called him, quieted whole mob tha was after him, by just saying tw' Greek words solemn-like, 'Kon, Ompax.'
 "Now Sue don't know the first Greel word; neither do I, except these two and I don't know what they mean an, more than the mob did, but though I'd try lem. So the next time she cam ragin' at me, looked her straight il the face and says l, 'Konx Ompax maxim my voice as hollow as could be
 "She stopped and stared at me, an then said, 'Konx Ompax again, an she boxed my ears, and told pa I'd in suited her, and was packed off to be before anybody asked what I had said
 "After thinking long time, Su looked up and said: 'Neddy, seems t me we're goin' very slow. Why, we'r only at Rocky Spring, and we've gc more'n two miles to go before we reac the Common
 "'I thought you liked to go slow,'
 said.
 "'But, indeed, I don't ? Sue cried;
 like to go like the wind.' "Now, you see what followed ws forced upon me. If she'd have bee willin' to go slow, I don't think I'd hay l ventured to put that bit in Firefy mouth.
 ) "'Whip up, Ned r Sue cried. "'No, I'll fix things so he'll go witt
 out whippin', I said.
 . ''I jumped out of the buggy, ar slipped the bit out. Not that s, t would have known what it was, for 3 never did see such an ignoramus abo 8 horse-fxin's. We'll, I put the bit ( ] the bridle and got back in the buge s and took up the reins. I give you n
 word didn't pull bit, but that hor r knew right off what was comin', and @ reared up straight on his hind legs, a,
 danced about as though he was craze @ "'What in the world is the matt e with Firefy? ? Sue said, gettin' pret o white. 1s he scared 2 e "'Oh, he's only playin', but t d words weren't out of my mouth wh
 he gave jump, and the whip I W l, holdin' struck him on the back, a l. then we went whizzin' down the roa
 She screamed and caught at the reir 't and then got hold of my arm. IT IT minute Firefy had the bit between l. teeth, and giant couldn't have he u him.
 d ''The road was straight, and I t Il you hghtnin' couldn't have caught o and Sue screamin' in my ears all t
 way.
 "Just before the road turned into { r. Common, I saw the professor in fro
 of us with his nose buried in a bu! y When he heard the chatter he looks | i'd and Sue she hollers:
 n "'Oh, save me, save me, Hiram r s, eff you'll believe it, the old COWS a- fook tO his hea1s eriobfopod ont oe