The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-10-06
THE YANKEE PASS.

Aaron Whitney, Yankee peddler,
passed through the Mohawk valley
ON his way TO Albany The day was
Sunday and there was law among
! the Dutchmen of those parts that no
ono should travel ON that day More
over there was as much antipathy
| between Dutchmen and Yankees as
there is between cats and mice. How
| the Dutch ever left Holland to make
homes In a new country beyond tho
sea no historian has ever explained.
for when Dutchman was once sea-
tied anywhere he never moveG Not
50 the Yankee. lie would take up a
| piece of land. improve it, sell II and
go somewhere else.
"Moin Gott," exclaimed one of the
dcacuus of the Dutch church. SEQ
that Yankee travelling on the Lords
day. Was ever such blasphcmy? Let
us take him before Justice Van der
Douh. who will doubtless mete ou.
his punishment"
ticc He was sitting under an apple
tree near his house with a glass of
schnapps beside him and q long clay
pipe in his mouth. This is not men
toned as an unusual position for the
great man, for all the long day he
sat in no other
What you travel Sunday for?"
asked Van der Donk, taking his pipe
out of his mouth and looking sternly
at the peddler
I'm goin' to Albany and from
there down east | have sold my
wares and want to get home
I'm said the Dutchman, you
stay here till tomorrow | don't
want you to bring the wrath of the
Lord down on us"
The peddler threw off his pack,
making virtue Of necessity At
least that was the appearance Of It.
Really he was quite willing to re-
main over awhile that he might look
upon the fair face of the Justices
daughter Katrina, who had looked
upon him out of her blue eyes. And
the girl was equally desirous Of see
ing more Of the engaging peddlcr.
Why it is no man has ever told us,
but peddcrs are proyerbially fdsci-
mating TO women. Perhaps II is the
same audacity that enables them TO
sell their wares. At any rate. the
peddler, leaving his pack for security,
went off TO the other end of the APP
pie orchard and waited for the girl
to come TO him, never for moment
doubuug that she would DO so.
And she did She had been long
desirous Of pouring out her dissatis-
faction at the life she led TO some
person in whom she had confidence
and she felt sure that she could con
hde in the Yankee. She told him
that her father compelled her to do
an the work, while he smoked and
drank schnapps that she had
thousand dollars IN bank at Al
bauy left her by her mother for
which her father was trustee and
that he would not let her have il. The
pcddler tuld her that she needed
husband TO work for her and she
would find # much easier and pleas
antcr than working for some ono
else
Now, the justice, thinking the ped
der in a hurry to so on, when The
shades Of night came down intimatcd
Jhnr for n consideration he wogid
pass him The Yankee declared that
sunday ended at sunset The Dutch
man secuted such theology main
tanning that II lasted till sunrise the
next day. The Yankee finally con-
s"utcd to pay, The Justice who
either could not write or was TOO fpl
or too lazy 10 write or could not
write IN English as well as in Dutch,
tod the Yankee TO write pass.
Aaron took MP The quill and wrote in
an illegiblc band on a bit OF paper.
TIE Dutchman ran his sleepy eyes
over it. gruntcd "Goot" signed it
and handed it back to him. Aaron
,cldcd IL, put II in his pocket. tool;
mp his pack and departed, The JUS
lice got UP from his chair and by the
aid Of two canes got himself into the
house, where supper was served him
BY his daughter Then after a cou-
pie Of hours smoke he went to bed
The next morning when he woke
gp and called Katrina, as usual, there
was no response The old man rous-
ed his neighbors, who hunted high
and low for The damsel, but she was
not TO be found That she had gone
with The peddler never occurred to
tho justice or any of the stupid |
Dmchmen. II they connected her dis .
appearance with him it was that he
might have murdered her.
Two days passed and Katrina did
not appear Then one morning thero
came a letter to old Van der Donk.
Since he was not used to receiving
letters he felt sure that It contained
Information of his lost daughter. He
helped himself with his canes to tie
apple tree and got one Of his neigh
bors to bring him his pope and his
schnupps After he had taken pull
al the one and slighted the other he
broke the letters seal. II contained