Year: 1864

last, from indications quite unmlStakaDle,
we were made confident that he had deter
mined to carry out his resolution, which was
to be the Sunday evening following. Early
Saturday afternoon he stopped his labors
and commenced preparing himself for it by
washing and drying one Of the white, shirts
with which the presence of the lady on the
bar had induced him to provide himself, and
putting the remainder of wardrobe in re-
pair, and the next morning saw him arrayed
in the very choicest suit that had probably
ever been his lot to appear in, He walked
round quite abstractedly during the day,
apparently unnamed at the thought of the
trial to which he was about subtecting him
self. .-


The boys winked at each other, but said
nothing. Evening came, and at length
eight clock, and Logwood was still in his
cabin; but in fifteen minutes after, the ne
cessary courage was summoned, and he
sauntered slowly towards the cabin of the
| widow. How matters would have termina-.
ted | am unable to say, had not an accident
| stepped to the aid of the bashful lover. As
he was passing the door for the tenth time,
the father of the lady in question an old
man Of about sixty, happened to to discover
him, and invited him in. He at first refus
ed, but subsequently, agreed to ''step in for
| moment, =, and the next. minute he was in
| the presence of his ehanner. The cabin
! was divided in two apartments, one of
which was occupied as a sleeping room or
rooms, and the other answered for the pur-
! poses Of dining and sitting room. lie found
the lody and her mother at home, and, with
the aid of the presence Of the old gentle


man, Logwood managed to make himself
quite easy for the time being. In the course
OF an hour the old lady retired to bed in the
| adjoining room, and in few minutes after
| without giving him moment s reflection,
| the old man bid Logwood good night and
! followed suit. 1t was then that the hor-
rors Of his situation began forcing them
| selves upon the mind Of the timid lover, as
he saw himself alone in the presence of the
widow He would have snatched his hat
and departed, but a kind of facnation fixed
hinto his seat, and there the poor fellow
sat until the sweat started from every pore
| in his huge body. The lady was very agree
| able, telt.very much at home, and sympa-
| thlsing with her timid admirer, did every
| thing in her power to relieve his emharass


ment lie attempted to converse, with his
companion; but he, scarcely knew what he
said. or how to act The widow pitied him
and finding that there was no hope of his
moving in proximity nearer her than ten
feet. took occasion, while applying little
more fuel to the fire, to lessen that uncom-
Portable distance by taking seat within
three feet Of him. This was indeed trying
to thecoutage Of unfortunate Logwood, and
| now the combined warmth of blazing fire,
from the heat Of which he had not the cour-
age to move, and the excitement of his sit
uatinn otherwise, huge drops of perspira-
ton began to gather upon his forehead and
course down his face. He pulled his hand
kerchief from his pocket and commenced
moppiug the sweat from his eyes; but the
mustard with which it had been busted by
the boys was not calculated to give much re-
lief to his watery optics by the application,
and two of the rogues who were watching
the Operations within through displaced
chnking saw that all things worked as de-
sired.


OF course, the. more his eyes became af-
fected by the mustard, the more he rubbed
them; and the more they were rubbed, the
more mustard he. forced into them. There
could be but one result; he became blind as
bat; the pain was perfectly maddening. He
snached his hat from the bench b side him,
and relying solely on chance in making it
made rush for the door, But he was sad,
| ly in error regarding its point Of compass
! from the spot where he was standing for in
stead of jumping out of the door he he
iamped into the arms of the widow, who,
unable to account for his strange conduct,
had risen to her feet, and was standing in
front Of the bench upon which she had been
sitting. Widow, IIogwood and bench were
in ninstant piled upon the floor. The lady
screamed, and Logwood made another
plunge for the door, which he succeeded in
reaching and getting through in some way
iustastfeold man made his appearance. But
his troubles were not ended the boys had


placed barrel in front of the door, and


over it he rolled just in time to receive a


bucket of cold water in his face and and eyes


completely drenching him. Now enabled


to see little better, he raised to his feet


perfectly boiling with wrath, and the first


object which met his imperfect vision was


the old man, who was completely bewildered


Logwood without knowing or caring who he


was, but believing him in some way connec-


ted with the trick played upon him, knock


ed him spTawling, and then started for the


river to bathe his eyes rs. Nr
In about an hour Logwood returned home
land finding all the boysin bed and not car
Ting about discovering to them his situation,


turned in without light. The next


morning he attributed the infamed appear


ance to a bad cold, nor did any one deem it


advisable to let him understand that he


knew to the contrary, The, lady and her
family wisely kept the circumstance to them


selves, although they never could explain it,


and it was not until after Logwood left the


bar, that the mystery was solved to the


widow. He always believed the lady was


concerned in the plot in some wayand his


opinion of the fair sex, and OF widows in


particular underwent great change in con-


sequence. He never called upon her again,
I-bat the Aex4 day Of the evening of his last


visit, he gaEehis white shirts to an Indian,


and from that day to this has never troubled


himself about matrimony. - Golden Era.


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