The Cairo bulletin., 1909-11-11
The YANKEE PASS.

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
one should travel on that day. More
| over, there was as much anlipathy
| between Dutehmen and Yankees as
there Is between eats and mice. How
the Dutch ever left Holland TO make
homes in new country beyond the
| sea no historian has ever explained,
for when Dutchman was once sea-
1 tied anywhere he never moved. Not
| SO the Yankee. He would take up
| piece of land. improve it. sell il and
| go somewhere else.
''Mein Colt" exclaimed one of the
deacons of the Dutch church. see
| that Yankee travelling on the Lords
! day! Was ever such blasphemy? Let
us take him before Justice Van der
Donk, who will doubtless mete out
! his punishment"
! So they took Aaron before the JUS
tice. He was sitting under an apple
tree near his house, with a glass of
schnapps beside him and long clay
I pipe in his month This is not mem
toned as an unusual position for the
! great man. for all the long day he
sat in no other A
What you's travel Sunday for?'
asked Van der Donk, taking his pipe
out of his mouth and looking sternly
at the peddler. n.
I'm goin' to Albany and from
| there down east. | have sold my
wares and want to get home
Him." said the Dutchman, you
stay here till tomorrow. | don't
want you to bring the wrath OF the
Lord down on u.s.
The peddler threw off his pack,
making virtue of necessity. At
least that was the appearance of 1t.
| 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 DESTROYS of see
ing more of the engaging peddler.
why 1t is no man has ever told us,
but peddlers are proverbially fasci-
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 a moment
doubling that. she would do 20.
And she did She had been long
desisous 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
fde in the Yankee. She told HIN
that her father compelled her to Dc
all the work. while he smoked ant
drank schnapps; that she mad
thousand dollars in bank at Al
bany left her by her mother TO
which her father was trustee ant
Mat he would not let her have 1t. Tn
peddler told her that she needed
husband TO work for her, ana sh
would find II much easier and pleas
anter than working for some on
else.
Now, the justice. thinking the ped
dler in a hurry to go on, when th'
shades of night came down intimate'
that for a consideration he woul'
pass him. The Yankee declared tina
Sunday ended at sunset. The Dutch
man secuted such theology, main
tanning that Ii lasted till sunrise TN
next day The Yankee finally con
sented to pay. The justice, VINE
either could not write or was too ia
Z or too lazy tn write or could no
| write in English as we'll as in Dutch
tod the Yankee to write pass
= Aaron took up the quill aud wrote II
an illegible hand on bit of paper
The Dutchman ran his sleepy eye
over it, grunted "Goot!' signed /
and handed II back to him. Aarol
folded it. put it in his pocket. tool
! up his pack and departed. The jus
t tice got up from his chair and by tn
o aid of two canes got himself into III
= house. where supper was served hlf
by his daughter Then after a cou
pie Of hours smoke he went to bee
The next morning when he wok
: up and called Katrina, as usual, Their
was no response. The old man rous
/ ed his neighbors, who hunted hig
d and low for the damsel, but she wa
not to be found, That she had gon
@ with the pedder never occurred !
the Justice or any OF the stupl
, Dutchmen. If they connected her dl'
, appearance with him 1t was that /
might have murdered her.
: Two days passed, and Katrina d
not appear Then one morning thel
G. came q letter to old Van der Don
d Since he was not used to receivir
e letters he felt sure that il eontaint
&c information of his lost daughter. /
- helped himself with his canes to Il
apple tree and got one OF his neisl
bors to bring him his pope and b
schnapps After he had taken a pu