Alpena weekly argus. [volume] (Alpena, Mich.) 1871-1893, 1884-08-20
BRUIN IN TIE WAY.
An Old stage-Driver's Story,


Swell, the is another yarn / thought
on last night, after you'd ben a-pester-
inc of me for stories; it's curious mat
ter, and I've larfed over il more times!
"Up to Pcddle's he KEEP tavern over
by the Falls, and generally made out
to stop there over Sundays, because
that Emrlinc, she that's Mis- Tinker
now. WIS hired he there then.
"Well, rs was sayin', up to Peddle's
there was II houseful of comp'ny one
wear. Not tha real rich folks, such as
STAYED to the Glen and Crawford's, but
middlin' folks IS TO money; respectable
and learn'd most of 'em. and rs ticklcd
about the mo intings and bushes and
things as though they was in forrin
parts, oras mig ht be in Boston or York,
Of ever was TO go To them places.
.'Onc that made il home there for the
hull SUNNI r was a young woman from
the Fast, Salem, guess, or down to salt
somcwhercs in that reg on; an odd piece
a ever NoI see, she was.
There's more of 'cm now; | see EN-
every year II strammin' round the lots
an ioals with short gowns, big thick
boots. flappin bunnetS. and long sticks
some folks call 'cm, but they act more
as though they was strong-boiicd tony
mind.
But she, this Throdoshy Wickes, she
was the first ever come into tn 81 parts,
and | tell y0u folks stared at her n
sight They done more gawpin' nj
her over TO Monroe thrn eff she was a
gEost.
''Shc us d to set Off of mornin' be-
70 q breakfast, with that there blue
gown comm TO her boot-tops, not n
mite further. and scch boots!
~ could have wore 'cm, as fur as
thickness went, the hull of New
Hampshire winter; but they would have
leen considerable of a pinch for me; her
bunnct fetched across with n blue rib
bin, and a peeled saplin', full an inch
thro Igh for n cane; and she'd be atop
of Bear Hill and back before Pcddlc'd
ring the bell for wakin' his boarders
up.
I'm bound to say she was real
good-lookin' girl; big eyes, as blue as
them gentian-blows we have up here
long in the fall, and the crinkliest kind
of ,allcr- brown hair, and real smooth
skinned. with the pink a-comin' and
go'n' in her faco like everything; ana
She did have the best soundn' voice
and larf ever heerd i'm my life.
"Why, twas like pebbly brook and
n OBJ link mixed in ckal Parts, rs the
do tors say. Folks did speak disrc-
src .tful of her nose an mouth some
times, said t one turned up an t'other
was big. but tony mind noses amt of
-, nd
hers Just give u sort of Independent
look To her, same as the turn-up of a
snappcr-b' ossom makes it sassy-lOokin';
and don't know as u mouth is too big
that has fresh red lips n opcnin' to show
teeth just like rows OF young com on n
cob, white and shinin'.
"a thought she was han some, and so
did some other folks to Peddle's. There
was one Young Teller there, Off and on,
all that summer: he came from down to
York, and they said he was rs rich as
mud, and | guess he was, though Inc
didn't put on no graces on account of
it, He come first with couple of girls
and an old lady; aunt and cousins to
him they was real city folks, rugged of
in silks an satins an thin clothes, that
left samples onto every bush they come
nigh, and TIE sort that had to have n
man hip EN- over every stone and lift
'em acrost two-rail fences, and scare the
oldest COW out of sight before they'd
stop scrtamin'. Talk about turn-up
noses! tell you, their n Almost went
over backward when they see Miss
Nickcs gon' on rs she used to-
THAT dreadful girl!' Miss Bell al
ways called lrr; and madam, she
SAID >
"'t harlcs, dear, who is that en-
trcnely oil. .cct enable young person."
Old mixer gave such an exact
fashionable drawl rs he initiated the
New York lady that | laid down
my knitting to laugh. lie looked at
me with his keen eyes. and fairly
grinncd from ear TO ear.
well, w, she did! | like to have
laughed out myself when hccrd her.
But twas fun to hear 'cm all 90 on.
The young Teller didn't say word
he saw them blue eyes an crinkly hair
an red lips. now tell We! and he didn't
see nothin else.
"But it kind o. give him flip
nevertheless, 10 have them scOrnin' of
her, there's nothn' to n young man
nor to n young woman, for that matter
like leetlc hullSomc opposition.
"Human natur' Is contrary, how
ever, you count. for it; an the more
they faulted her, why, the more no.
ticc no took of her. She was alone, We
see; and if mans got any right
spunk into him, he feels as though
he had n call to defend any woman,
old or young, that haint got nobody
| TO look out for EN-.
"3ut she was the quecresi! She
never seemed TO know the was a
man round, onless twas some hobblin'
old Teller that nobody else would look
n p, or some of them poor ministers
VT sick wives tat used to come round
in 40 c-horsc shay and get took in at
half. rice.
" % sech folks, and to tn old wo-
IN n that was widders or maiden
| ladies, she was rs sweet as maple
su ar a-fctchin in wild-blows to 'em,
and l,etle punches of berries and scch.
nj she Il dn't seem TO n @ no more
To- young fe'lcr, tn n Il they was
| ba' m sprouts; she'd go over n fence
| { @ spr, ever SIC; ard cows. why,
sh was friends with the biggest part OF
EN- n the l. Is around
"She was awful indc endcnt; 'twa'n' I
no use for Young man to step up an
y: ALLOW me to help you over them
stOnc,' shc'd b, over 'em before he
got throng Oh So akin. and turn round
with n Thank your cold enough to
freeze CT, am
81 hey didn't Ike il; faint natur for
W man TO be so th'st,y and never need
no lelp from mn.
But she d dn'l care; they was all
alike to her, APP aricutly. | mistrustcd
from Whist see sun lays at sh, had q
| better opinion of harley Norton, the