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' ..:.! •:,;,: KTr:% •: , ,..*.!•, , -,- •- - • • • • . 0 744 ~.:.,...:,,..,t,......„..... .2..... 4, ..... 4 , 4 1141 " / .. ._..,. ... ... -,- ._:._ .- __,....__.:_,.„„ „ _ ..... . . . _ __ _ . ___ _ ...,___ 1.- . _ . A FAMILY NEWSPAPER . . . FOR FARMER AND MECHANIC, Eieuoteb to politics, News, Literature, Poetru, Slecl)anics, 'Agriculture, tl)c Cliffusieh of Useful 3uforination, Gencral3ntelligence,'Aliusentent,MarKets , &c. VOLUME VIII THE LEHIGH REGISTER Is published in the Borough .of Allentown, Lehigh County, Pc.. every Wednesday, by A. L. 111111 E, Al $l5O per annum, payable in advance, and 4.2 bo it not paid until the end of the year. No :paper discontinued, until all arrearages are paid except at the option of the proprietor. rirOffice in Hamilton Street, one door East of Vile German Reformed Church, nearly opposite iHe "Friedensbote" Office. LiST, For Beet.libber Term, 1853. 1 William Fry vs Solomon Gangwer. . 2 H. & D. Peter vs John Treichler. 3 Jesse Weaver vs William Kuntzman. 4 Charles Loeser vs William Frantz. 5 D. & C. Peter . vs Daniel Boyer. 6 J. J. Turner vs Charles Loeser. 7 William J. Kaul . vs Solomon Fogel. 8 Waterman & Young vs Solomon Fogel. 9 Waterman & Young vs Jacob Erdman. 10 Henry Haberacker vs Nathan Whitely. 31 William Mink vs Reuben Mtnk. 12 Reuben Mink vs Nicholas & W. Mink. 13 Henry Raup vs Jonathan Dewald. 34 The Administrators of Durs Rudy, dec'd, vs Jonas Peter. 115 Samuel Steel vs School Directors of Hanover. 16 John Backensto vs Benjamin Fogel. 17 Christian Pretz and others vs William gm 18 Carolina Deibert vs Jesse llallman. 19 Daniel J. Smith vs Ephraim Bigony. 20 'Peter Stauffer vs John Kern. 21 Daniel Kohler vs Mlchael Kelchner. 22 Solomon Apple vs Nathan Lerch. 23 David Ileimbach vs David Heil. 24 David Heil vs David Heimbach. 25 John H. Rice vs Luckenbach and Ja coby. 26 Henry Dillinger vs Kemerer & Garis.. 27 Executors of Peter Cooper deceased vs Israel Rudy. 28 Jonas Heil vs Henry Schmidt. .29 Reuben Luclrenbach vs Geo. Wenner. 30 Jonathan Wenner vs George Wenner. '3l William Wenner Os George Wenner. 32 Abraham Rohn vs David A. Tombler. :33 Yohe & Schwartz vs John Wagner. ..34 David Erney vs William Kramer. FRAN. E. SAMUELS, Proth. Allentown, Nov. O. If—tc PROCLAMATION. WHEREAS, the Hon. Washington Mc - •Cartney, President of the several Courts of -•common pleas of the Third Judicial District, composed IA the counties of Northampton and Lehigh, State of Pennsylvania, and Justice, of the several Couto of Oyer and Terminer and general Jail delivery, and Peter Haas, and Jacob Dillinger, Esqrs., Judges of the Courts of Oyer and Terminer and generally Jail delivery, fur the trial of all capital of fenders in the said county of Lehigh. By their precepts to me directed have ordered the-court of Oyer and Terminer and Gen eral Jail Delivery, to be holden at Allentown, county of Lehigh, on the • • First Monthly in December, 1851, which is the sth day of said month, and Will continue two weeks. Ncrricu is therefore hereby given to the Justices of the Peace and Constables of the county of Lehigh, that they are by the said precepts commanded to be there at 10 o'clock an the forenoon, of said day, with their rolls, records, i nquisitions, . examinations, and all • other reatemberences,' to do these things • which to their offices appertain to be done, end all those who are bound by recognizan sesao prosecute against the prisoners that ore or then •shitil be in the jail of said coun ty of Lehiletorre to be then and there, to prosecute them shall be just. Given tindea my hand in Allentown, the nth dayof November in the year of our Lord, me thousand eight hundred and fifty three. God save the Commonwealth. NATHAN WEILER, Sheriff. Sheritrg Office Allentown, 2 . Nov. 12, 1853. -li—tc A chance to go into Business. The stibscriber would respectfully inform the . public, that he intends to relinquish buitness in Allentowni and therefore oilers his vokire stock of Store. Goods on the most reasonable Terms to any tibiSoh. or persons wishieg to go into ageddUnd safe business. J. W. GRUBB. 11-6 w S6tember . 2B • New Supply or Coal ! Fartnerq L ntebitriters 14001 E HERE. - This undeisigned have filo received, and bonstantly ke'ep on.hand, a large supply of all kinds of Coal, suitable for Farmers and Limeburners, and the coal consuming pub lic io general, whirl they will dispose of at the followin gg prides: .Chestnut Coat at $2 25 Extra Mit Coal, . $2 34' Egg, Steil/ and Lump at • $3 at 14DEINEr. 4 .•11ANSE & Co. Apia 20, 1853. • pocticctl Departincnt. The 'Voice of Autumn., Thou lonely man of grief and pain, By lawless power oppressed, Burst from thy prison—rend thy chain— I come to make thee blest; I have no springtide budt and flowers, I have no summer bees and bowers, But oh, I have some pleasant hours, To soothe thy soul to test. Plenty o'er all the quiet land Her varied vesture weaves, And flings her gifts, with liberal hand, To glad the heart that grieves; Along the southern mountain steps,. The vine its purple near weeps, While the bold peasant proudly reaps The wealth of golden sheaves. Forth, with the earliest march of morn, He bounds with footsteps tree; He plucks the fruit—he binds the corn, Till night steals o'er the lea; Beneath the broad, ascending moon, ' He carries home to welcome boon, And sings some old•remembered tune With loud and careless glee. Then come before my reign is passed, Ere darker hours prevail— Before the forest leaves are cast, And wildly strew the gale; There's splendor in the day spring yet.— There's glory when the sun is set— There's beauty when the stars are met Around Heaven's pilgrim pale. The lark at length path left the skies, The throstle sings alone; And far the vagrant cuckoo flies To seek a kinder zone ; But other music still is here, Though fields are bare and woods are sere— Where the lone robin warbles clear - His soft and plaintive note. While heaven is blue, and earth is green— Come at my earnest call„ Ere winter sadden all the scene Beneath his snowy pall ; This fitful wailing of the woods— The solemn roar of deepening floods, Sent forth from nature's solitudes, Proclaim my coming fall. . I;lll9ccitancou9 3fleCtiolls.3. The Journeyman's Secret. FROM TILE DAIRY or. ; :n JOURNEYMAN PRINTER "You can take this case," said the fore man ; "here - is a stick—here is some copy ; I and if you would like a quiet and steady partner, you will find this gentleman still enough in all conscience." The "partner" merely looked up and faintly ,smiled in acknowledgment of the foreman's complement, and kept on with his work, while the foreman turned away to at tend to something else. We worked on steadily until dinner, as we were in a hurry to get the paper out, without exchanging a word, or even a look. In the afternoon, I had more leisure to study the physiognomy of my neighbor. He was a young man of about three or four and i r twenty, with handsome features and a Toth et intellectual cast of countenance. His face was quite pale, and the raven darkness of his hair, aye-brows and eyes, made me imme diately come to the conclusion, after thor oughly studying his physiognomy, that he was a hard student during his leisure hours, or that. depriving himself of the recreation of books, or other sources of enjoyment,. he spent all his waking hours at the cop.— The latter supposition time proved comet. As day after day passed away, I became acquainted with him ; and I found him to be s singular character. Beneath his stand he 'had constructed a kind of a closet ; which contained a spirit lamp, a mattress, with bedding, a few cooking utensils, and a small stock of the plainest kind of food. When the hours for meals arrived, he would light his lamp, and putting some food over it to cook, would work until all the rest of the hands had left the office, when he would sit down to his frugal repast: He worked in cessantly during work hours, hardly leaving .he ofhce, unless to . purchase food, or upon some errand. of that kind, Morning, noon and night, when I returned from my meals, I invariably found him at-the case, working away with all his might as if some great is sue depended, upon the improvement of ev ery minute. I suppose he slept upon the cot which ho kept in his closet, but as he was always at work when 1 returned in the !horning, I could not positively assert that he did so. lam not very garrulous, especially when employed at the case, and as he would not first address me, I would not speak to him ; so while the fun and joke were pass ing round the other cases, we were silent as the grave. I was not long in diScovering that there wa s some mysteryconnected with him, and that his intense application to la ber was not prompted merely by a' esire to make money ; for if there is anything in • pbreuology, judging from the formation of ALLENTOWN, LEHIGH COUNTY, PA., NOVEMBER 24. 1853. his head, he was the very one whom I would have selected from a score for a spendthrift. Occasionally his cheek would flush, his eyes light up, and a happy smile overspread his features ; then the smile would go away, his eyes would fill with teers, while an expres sion of sadness—almost despair-..-would seat itself upon his countenance. I have been tempted athousand times toask him the cause of this, but as he appeared so cold and isola ted, 1 refrained from doing so, as it is not pleasant proffering sympathy unasked. "Well, how do you like your neighbor ?" asked one journeyman of me, as we were descending the stairs ono evening. "I can hardly make him out," said I ; he appears to be a strange sort of being. You are better acquainted with .him than I ; how do you like him ?" "For my part I hate him, and what is more, he has not a friend in the whole office. That fellow has been here for three months, and he has hardly spoken to any one, A man who makes such bills as he does. and hoards up his money like a miser, t have very little friendship for. We wouldn't any of, us care so much if he would be a little sociable, and spend a dollar, or even a dime occasionally ; but no--every five-cent piece he gets he hangs on to as if he was afraid the eagle on it would spread his wings and fly away with it, doing him out of a five-cent piece. But he can't stay here long. We have insulted him a dozen times ; and he has less spunk than I think he has, if he don't resent it some day. We'll get him into a quarrel then, and have him discharg ed." "But," said I, "do you know anything about his history ? He may have some all absorbing end to accomplish, which is the cause of his untiring assiduity. You should have a little charity for the fellow, and taking Crockett's motto, 'be sure you're right be fore you go ahead.' " "No, we know nothing of him ; and if cir cumstances are as you suppose, it will be his own fault if they are discovered too late, for we have tried often enotieli to scrape an acquaintance with him. You had better not take up on his side if you do not wish to incur the cusp teusuie of Lliv ofiloa Good night. I had sonic Charity for the fellow, and was r?solved to see him righted should he get into it difficulty. I soon saw that he uas very unpopular, and that I, as I felt rattier disposed to make allowances for him, was considered his friend. Many were the jokes cracked at our expense. Whenever the "Qualcer corner" (as the place occupied by us had been dubbed) was mentioned, a uni versal titter ran round' the office. These little things irritated me some, but as I was not the. principal object at whom these ar rows were aimed, I resolved to forbear and let him be the first to speak. "I say. fellows," ,said a rowdy• looking customer. who went by the name of Zelte, "do the Quakers ever have a camp meet ing?" "Yes," answered another, "they have a camp meeting over there in Quaker corner every night. That fellow camps out upon the floor every nap he takes." "Well," said another, "I've head of, boarding at the market house and sleeping on the bridge, but I never saw en illustra tion of it before.. "Wonder if they wouldn't take in board ers?" asked the first speaker. "I'll see if they don't want the rules and regulatiOns of of the house printed. If they do, 111-board out the bill." * I glanced at my neighbor to see hoed ho bore this ridicule. His face was flushed and his lips firmly compressed, as if to choke down the rising indignation. But he said not a word. I fancied, however,.that picked up the type faster than usual. Things could not go on this way much longer, for as God-like a quality as forbear- ance is, it cannot hold out against every thing. I saw that 'a storm was gathering, and prepared to act my part as a man when it burst forth. It was Saturday afternoon . ; the hands were ranged around the "stone," with their bills 'in 'their hands waiting to be paid off.— "Quaker" happened to be at one end of the "stone," and immediately opposite him stood "Zeke." As usualoQ.uaker" was the "ob served of all observers," and sly whispers, which were answered. by a titter or a nudge of the elbow, passed around the group. As the foreman paid "Quaker" the amount due him, he gave him a new ,quarter dollar to' make out change. This did not escape "Zeke's" eye, and ho said in a tone' loud enough to be heard by all— '"If that eagle on that quarter had life, and I were a State prison. convict, I woiald'nt swap places with it, for my confinement would be far preferable to being squeezed to death." This was the, hair that broke, the camel's back. With the 'exclamation, "You scoun drel !" he 'mode one bound, and with a stunning lifti r w„brcilight"Zolte" to the floor. 'Then jerking off his coat and placing him self in a fighting attitude, he turned to the astonished group witli"Corrni on, now, cow ardly riiffierts; if you cannot, let me alone peaceably; I will make you do it by force.— I lithe boThilur insults 10.4,0netki antii. if you have any more to oiler come on with thefn !". This: i challenge was . suf fi cient. Coats came dff and sleeves were rolled up in a minute. I saw that my friend would be apt to 4et the worst of the fight, and forcing him into a corner, I exclaimed Gentlemen, one word, if you please ! It would'le cowardly for you all to attack this man'; lijwill not see it done. And if you will attempt it, I have something here (tapp ing my breast significantly,) that will slop it. L-le• is not to blame ;he has only re sented an insult, which any of you would have done. You have insulted him because he has conducted himself strangely ; let him explain his conduct, and perhaps we can make up our quarrel. He owes you an ex planation—if not to you, he certainly does to me.. And now, sir, said I, turning to him, "I demand it of you as a right." He, hesitated a moment. "Come, my I friend t " said I, "let us have it, whatever it is, anil at once pit an end to this quarrel." gentlemen," said he, "I am not disposed to lay my private rtflairs open to public gaze, but I suppose I must do it ?or once. - You must know, then, that from my earnings I must not only support myself, but my mother, two sisters and three Small broth ers, Ivho reside in a distant State. I could earn enough at home to support them well, but my reason for coming here is this : One of my, sisters, who is now a beautiful girl of sixteen, and the pet of the family, has been blind from birth. We had no hope of her ever acquiring the faculty of sight, and were content to abide by what we thought a dis pensation of Providence. But .recently I have 'seen a case similar to hers—a young man—who was restored to sight by an .emi nent, physician of Paris. I have corres ponded with that physician, and he has high hopes that in my sister's case he can effect a cure. This, gentlemen, is what I have been laboring for since I have been here— to raise funds sufficient to ttrize her to Paris. I love that sister as I do my life ; I have la bored day and night—have deprived myself of many comforts, and borne your taunts and jeor for her sake. But I can bear it no longer. IF Llu atu meu , you do nut, I warn you of the consequen ces !" "Zeke," had risen to his feet and heard all my friend had said. As he listened to the "Quaker," I could see the, moisture coining to his eyes ; and when he had fin ished, he stepped forth, and grasping "Qua ker's" hand, while the tears trickled down his face, he said, in a voice quivering with emotion— "My noble fellow, we have wronged you deeply, and I, for one, ask your forgiveness. [lad you but told us what your object was, we would not have placed a single obstacle in your way." "I forgive you freely, sir—l forgive you all,"—:said "Quaker." "And how much have you to raise yet," I asked, "before you will have the requisite • sum ?" "About one hundred and fifty dollars. If I have my health and continue to make good bills, I shall be ready to start to Europe in about two months." "You wont have to wait that long," :said "Zeke" laying the money he held in his hand, upon the stone, "if my wesk's wages, every cent of which you're welcome to, will help you along any. Come boys," he ad ded, "how many of you will follow suit ?" "Well, there's mine," said Jim, laying an X upon the pile, "and mine," "and mine," said a dozen voices, as each had deposited an equal amount, until they had made quite a pile of bank bills. "There, stranger, take that, and may God prosper you," said "Zeke," tendering him the money. "No, gentlemen," answered the "Quaker," "I thank you for your liberality, but I can , not take your money. lam no beggar ;.all I ask is that I may be allowed to do. my work without being disturbed." . "But you must take it," urged "Zeke," growing warm, "we owe it to you, and you shall take it. We've done . you - a great wrong,—we've abused you, we have no oth er way of making amends. Besides, if you don't take it, it will be spent before Monday morning, and I know that for my part it will be - much - pleasanter to commence the week with the consciousness of having appropria ted my money in n sensible way, than with • the foggy head, aching limbs, and empty pocket, which always follow a "free and easy." Still the stranger hesitated. "Take it— take it for your sister's sake," said two or three voices. acceptit, gentlemen," said the "Qua ker," "as you say, 'for my sister's sake,' and I hope to be able some day to return it, principal and interest." "Quaker" left for Paris shortly after.; and in a few months we had the satisfaction , .of hearing that his sister was completely resto.; red to sight, and that they were on tlipir way home. I have heard from him several times since. His line's have been drawn in pleasant pla ces, and he is now a judicial functionary*ia neighboring State (liesiuieliy.)• • • A Visit to the Ugly Man, As we stepped over the low fence, I heard the hum of a spinning -wheel, and another moment, one of the sweetest, rosiest faces l ever beheld, looked out nt the door. It was Lucy Wallis, the pretty daughter of the Ugly Man ! Saluting us modestly, she asked us in—and to be seated—and resumed her work. There be few more lovely girls than Lucy. In her moist blua eye, was a blended expression of mirthfulness and something more tender, that went into your heart with out ever asking leave. Clad in n homespun frock, coarse but tasteful in its colors and adjustment—and oh ! how brilliantly sport less—her fingers tipped with the blue of the indigo tub—her little feet in buck skin moc casins—she plied her task industriously : now with an arch toss, shaking into p!ace her rich auburn hair, and now, with a bound forward garcefully catching the thread that had slipped from her fingers. Sweet-voiced too, was Lucy Wnllis, as she stood at her wheel, spinning two threads. One of cotton on her spindle and the other of gossip. with my excellent and loquacious friend Dick McCoy. . • Plague take the girl ! She has made me forget her ugly father I Mr. Wallis and his "woman" were from home when we got there—having been on ,a visit to the sick neighbor—but in• half an hour they return ed. "Thar they come !" said Dick, as he heard voices outside the cabin ; "seat yourself and don't be scared !" Then looking at Lucy. "You've never seen daddy, squire have you ?" she asked, slightly coloring and pout ing. "Never have—always had a curiosity ;" but the wounded expressions of the girl stop ped me, and in another moment the Ugly man was before me. Truly had McCoy said "nothing on the breathing yearth could match him." His face generally had the. appearance of a re cently healed blister-spot. His prominent eyes seemed ready to drop from oft his face and were almost guiltless of lids. Red, red, red, was the almost prevailing color of his countenance—even his eyes partook of it. t-rensneia-rube red, and looked as if it had been very lately Ricked oy n ov.sh ‘..ht.nl mule, after having been originally mnrin by gouging a hole in his face with a nail grab ! The lout ensemble was horribly, unspeaka bly ugly. "So you've come to see the Ugly Man, have yon, Squire ? I've heard of you be fore. You're the man as took the sensers of this country last. It was in Georgey then. Well, you're mighty welcome. Old 'omen, fly round, get somethin' for the, squire and Diolt to eat. Lucy, ain't you got no fresh aiggs ?" Lucy went out at his suggestion, and her father went on : 'They called me ugly,squire and I am. My father before me was the ug liest man that ever lived in I-Ircpck court ty. But I'll give you my elpertence after supper. I dikes you've hearn that I've been through the rufls. No ? Well, Mien we get somethin' to eat, I'tell you more about it; old 'Oman for heaven's sake, do fly around that I" The old lady did 'fly around; and' Lucy got the 'aiggs,' and between theta they got an excellent-supper. The purity of the table cloth, the excel lence of the coffee, and the freshness of the eggs, not to mention Litcy's good looks were more than n set-oft against the ugliness of Bill ; so that Dick and L continued to eat quite heartily, to the evident gratification of our hospitable though ugly entertainer. Supper over, Old Bill drem out his large soap-stone pipe, and filling and lighting it, he placed it in his mouth. After u whiff or two he began : "Its no no use argyfyin' the matter—l urn the ugliest man on top of dirt. Thar's narry nuther like me. I. an a crowd by myself. I alters Was. 'rite fiat I knowed of it, though, was when I was 'bout ten years old.. I went down to the spring branch. one mornin,' ;p wash my face, and us r look ed in th; water I seen the shadow of my face ! 'That's the last time I've seen my countenance—l darseiVt but slier my eyes when I go about water," "Don't you use a glass when you shave? I inquired. • • "Glass.! Thunder! What glass ould stand it—'would, burst • if it were an inch thick.. .Glass—piih ! Lucy told her father he was 'too bad ; and that he knew it was no such thing,' and tile . old man told her she was a "sassy wench," and to hold her tbilgtle. "Yes," he continued, "It's so, I hav'nt seen my face in forty years. butl know how it looks. Well, when I growed up 1 thort it would be hard to find''' woman thrit'd'be willing to' fake Me, ugly as I "Oh, you was not onCommon hard-favor ed whim yi: was a Young man," said old Mrs. Wallis. , •Oncommqn f I tell you when I was ten years old, u fly tvould'utA r ight on my face , and it con.'t be much wuss now. Shoup and let me tell the 'squire my experience." "It's no use put in Lucy, "to be runnin' one's own self down that way, daddy I' It ain't Tight." 411Unnin' dowal ThWder armoieit, NUMBER 8.. nin,' Lucy, you'll cave me as good looking as John Bozeman, your sweethart." As he said this, old Bill looked at me, and suc-. ceedad in covering the ball of his left eye, by way of a wink. Lucy said no more. The old man continued : • • "Well, hard as I thort . it'ud •be to get a wife, rust thing I knowed, I had Sally, here• and she is, or was as pretty as any of them." Old Mrs. Wallis knitted convulsively and coughed slightly. ' , However, she never kissed me afore we- was married, and it was a long time arter afore she did. The way of it was ;we had. an old one-horned cow' mighty ornery (or ' dinary) lookin,' old as the nord star, and, poor as a black snake. One day I went nat. to the lot—" "Daddy, I wouldn't tell that," said Lucy' in a persuasive tone. ' •Blamed ef 4 don't though—it's the, truth, and ef you don't keep still, I'll send for Bozeman, to hold you quiet in the cot- . ner." Lucy Feinted a little and was silent. • "Yes, I went out to the lot, and thar, sure , as life, was my old 'omen swung to the cow and the old thing round, and cutting up all sorts of shines. Sea I, what the duece are you up to, old 'oman ? And with that she let go, and told me she -was trying to practice kissin' on old Cherry, and shei thort, after teat, she could make up her mind• to kiss me I" "Old man; you made that—l've heard yeti tell it a ore—but you made it," said the old) lady. "Well, well ! I told her, 'squire, ses, come down to it now 1 shot your eyes ! hold , your breath !—and upon that she, bussed me, so you might heard it a quarter of a mile; and sence that, nobody's had better kissin' than me I Now, that was my first ixperi-, encE about being ugly, arter I was grown, and it warn't dad, neither ! , "The next time my ugly teeters came in.,- to play, was in Mobile. Was you ever therl, Greatest place on green yearth : steamboats.- oysters, free niggers, furriners, brick houses. --that's the place ! I went dawn on a flat', boat from Wetumpky, with old John Toed, We had lust rate time of it till we got most. a.+.l atra otocamhilatß would run so Close to us e that the sloshin' would , pretty. night cupsi. LIQ. Thmy dene.it ,for ment. How old John cussed—but it done no good. At last sea I, I'll try em ; efthars enny strength in cussing, I'll make 'elm' 'ashamed. So the next one came along, ca• vorting and snorting like it was gwine right into us, and did pass in twenty foot. , Isise up on a cotton bag, and ses to the,crowd- - and there was a most almighty one on the. guards of the boat- - Ses 1, you infernal rack• et-makieg, snorting sons of"— "Afore I could get any further in my cus. sin', the crowd gin the most tremendous. yearth-sholcin' howl that ever was hearn—, and one feller, as they Were broadside with'. us hollered out, .It's the old Ho ugly him-. self!, Jeminy I what is mouth V With that thar was somethin' rained arnct boat like hail, no. heavier; and direcifyilltr. and John Picked up a level peck of buck- . horn handled rives." Old Mrs. Wallace looked to Heaven. as: if appealing there for the forgiveness of some, great sin her ugly consort had committed. but said nothing. "So I. lost nothin' by bein' regly . thrtt time. Arter I got into Mobile, howevere.l was' bothered and pestered by the people stoppini: in the, street to look at me, all dirty and. light-wood smoked as I was from bein' ea the boat. 4 1 think I'd a cleaned up' a little," inter posed the tidy Lucy. "Old oinon ! ain't yet! 'got marrycold tater to choke t h at gal with ? Well theyYd look at me the hardest you ever seen. But I got ahead of my story.., A few days afore that.' han been a boat busted, and a heap of the people scalded and killed.; one way and an nether. So at last I went into a grocery. and a squad' of people followed me in; and one 'lowed, sea he, it's one of the.unfortu nate suflerers by. the„ burs in' of the Frank lin ; and upon thdt he axed me to drink with him, and as I had,rny• tumbler half way to my mouth, he stopped me . of a suildint—e-- . "Beg your pardon stranger,—but," seat he • “But—ivhat r sea T.: . “Just fix your month that way again I": ses he. .• I done it, just like I was gwine to drink. , and I thought Oh) whole of, em, would , go into fits !—they yelled and hoopod like at gang. of wolves Finally, • one of .'em , elesiv• don't make. fun of the unfortunatel hehnrdv ' ly got over bein' blowed up yet. Let's make up a puss for himl Then they•nllithrimed, in and' they made me' up five dOlfars, .Ate the spolteernan handed. me, the..chs,nge, axed me g . ‘Whprflid PM find yourself the 'splosion.• •• •• 4•ln a flat boat ses I. ,• • "How far from the Franklin r" see.te. "Why," sea never seen lieill•liutiet nigh as con guesai it must have what they tell the, nigh no to three hundred,' and seventy‘fivo miles I" •.• Yon ongittee, seen that gang scatter. As they lefrioseefi one it's him. We Tun Uouv PAN OP AiPe. --N I:, TholcOnmer
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