Catoctin clarion. [volume] (Mechanicstown, Md.) 1871-1940, 1898-04-07
No 5 |

ma done give out supper wen she give
out dinner? An you question her jedg-
ment.
Eyes, but did she order watfles?"
"Waffulsl Nosa. Nur I ain gwins
mex any"
PLEASE, Aunt Tempy."
"Nosa"
Aunt Tempy, will make your new
apron on the machine if you will"
IAN my coat too?"
"Your dress too"
"W'at fur you so stirred up bout
supper so all of sudden?"
Amy buried her hot cheeks in the
cool white blossoms
Observation-Disclosures like waff1es,
and-and-good hot strong coffee, and
ounce preserves, and-and things y
"Go way, chile. You ain pull the
wool over ole Tempy's eyes yit Go
long You mout es we'll give up tryin
to-"
She went "along," Tempy's fat
chuckle pursuing her. Went up stairs
to her bedroom, where she supplement.
ed her OWL personal adornment by pin.
ming some of the prettiest Of the quill.
ed white blossoms against the dark blue
bosom of her silk dress, and by the time
Thunderer had plunged fairly into the
dusty corporate limits Of the nebulous
town of Sessumsport poor little Amy
was in fiuttering condition of over
readiness for Randall S return with
Adrien Strong, whose material tastes
were all prepared for She was looking
at life through the narrow slot Of
wooden environment and saw very
many insignificant objects through the
magnifying medium Of all ill nourish-
ed imagination.
The postal service for the sparsely
settled neighborhood about Sessumsport
did not warrant building of it's own.
A flour by four" wooden box, with
26 pigeonholes alphabetically arranged,
furnished ample accommodation for the
local mail. The possession of this hon.
eycombed box excited the competitive
spirit in Sessumsport commercial cir
cles periodically as nothing else had
power to do. 1t was drawing card, so
to speak.
Wherever that box was located there
would be the grand rally on packet
day. There would be hitched to the
long, much nibbled horse rack under
the sycamore trees every grade of sad
die beast, from the rope bridled mule,
with its folded gunny sack saddle and
its barefoot rider, sent ten miles by old
man Harvey, on the other side Of the
creek, for the regular weekly letter
from the theological seminary where
his boy Hal was being made into
preacher up to the shining coated
English saddled thoroughbred high
steppers that fetched in Chambliss or
a Strong or Cathcart hungering for
news from the outer world. There
would be congregated on the time pol
ished gallery benches when the weather
permitted, or about the rusty cylindric-
al redhot stove inside when the wealth
or would not permit, q patient, leisure
", philosophical set of men, who found
no fault with the mail packet for being
10 or 10 hours behind time, but i'm
proved the compulsory probation by
posting themselves in local gossip.
There would be the briskest demand for
whisky toddics and cigars, and if "a
little game helped to shorten the
wait what was to hinder?
Mr.. Samuel Mcclure, dealer in whole
sale plantation supplies, dry goods,
shoes, tinware, hardware, plows, fine
liquors, cigars and few other neces-
saries of life, had secured five years
lease Of the "four by four" box, and it
was to McGuire's horse rack that Ran
dal Chambliss hitched Thunderer.
When Randall reached home, he found
that compromise plan had been hit
upon in his absence.
Amy and his mother were to call the
next day on old Eben Martin S daugh-