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El VOLUME XVL-NIIBEBER 43. .." -1- THE , POTTER: JOURNAL - PBBLISIIBD BY 11. , DicAlarney, Pioprietor4 PB. 1 E:0 Devoted to the c:auee of :Ftesenblimism, tie Interests of Agrienlture,.the advancement iit Education, and: the best good of Potter county. CicAing . - gnide except that of Piinciple. it will endenver to aid'in the work of more fully Fleedomizing our Coantry. , - Anlipirtsmforrs inserted at the following ratia,exceptwhere-special bargains are made. 1 Sqnard:ll-0 lines) 1 insertion $1 00 1: , 3 - 2.00 Bach imbsequent insertioniess th'lrt 13, 440 0 1 Square three Months, ' • 4 00 1• " six • " '7 00 1 " nine ""' - - -10 00 1 ' " one year.----------------12_ 00 1 Column sir.- months;. •ap 00 it 7 1 00 . 4 • ct _ 00 I_. u per year. -------- 50 80 ' " " - - -- - - 30 00 Administrator's :or Etecator's Notice, 300 'l3ttsinets Cards,.B lines or less, per year 5 00 Special and. Editorial Notices, per line, 20 ' * *ILII transient advertisements meet be paid in std - ance, and no notice, will be, taken of advertisements from a. distance, unlesS they are accompanied by ,the money or satisfactory 'reference. . • -* *Blank , : and Job Work of all kinds, ail "tended to promptly itacl BUSINESS CARDS. FY ee and . Accepted Ancient York hlasent , 'E ULALIA LODGE, .No. 342, V. A; M. STATED Meetings on the 2nd and .IthWednes days of each month. Also Masonic gatlier iozs on" every Wednesday Evening. for %Cock . • and practice, at their Dail in Coudersport. D. C. LIIIRIBEE, it. --fit. W•3lcAtAnsnv, Sec'y. , JOEIN S. MANN, •• - ATTORNEY AND COPNSELLOR AT LAW. Coudersport, Pit.. will !attend' the several tourM in Potter and M'Kean Counties. ' Ali Itistness entrusted in his, care will receive prompt attention.. Office corner of West find Third streets. G. OL3ISTED, ATTOR\S Sc ! COV! . ;SELLOft AT LAW, Coudersport, Pa., will attend-to all business tsktrusted to 1119 care, with prcoaptues and . Office on Soth-west corner of Main and Fourth streets. . ISAAC BENSON. ' :aTToiniti' AT LAW', Coudersport. Pa., Will attend to all buthriess entrusted to him, with care and promptness. Office on Second near the Allegheny Bridge. . F: W. KNOX, ' ATTORNEY AT LAW, Coudersport. regularly attend the Courts in Potter and the adjoining Counties. • O. T. ELLISOT, *IIACTICING Coudernort. Pr.., respectfully informs i the citizens of the ril - Inge and vicinity that he will prom ply re spend to all balls for professional services. Office om Main st., is building formerly oc • •capied by C. W. Ellis, Esq.. C. S. & E. A. JONES, ritmAßs LV DRUGS, MEDIC ES. PAINTS Oils, raney Articles, Stationery, Dry Good:, Groceri , Min st., Coudersport, Pa. - 1 ' \ D. E. OLMSTED, DEALER 1.); \ DRY GOODS, READY-MADE Clothing, Crockery, Groceries, Ice., Main st., Conderport,Ta. - COLLINS' SMITE, DVALER , in Dry G&ods,Groceries, Provisions, Harilware, Queenstrare, 'Cutlery, and all •••• , Goods usually found , in it country Store.= Nutlersport, Nov. =I 1861. COLDERSPORT\IIOTEL; 0.- V. GLASSJIIRE, Proprietor, Corner llain.trid Second Streets, COuders,port, Pot ter Co., Pa_ - • \ A Liviery Stable is also kept in connect 4tion - with this Hotel. 1 EL. sT.. OLIASTED, -DEALER T STOVES, TL' SHEET IRON GfrlRE, Main st., nearly opposite the Court Rouse, .Coudersport, Pa. Tin, and Sheet . • Iron Ware made to order, in good style, lon short, notice. WM. H. MILLER. . ... ..i. C. 11'11.LAP.24 CT. MILLES 8 % IicALARNEY, ATTORNEYS—AT — LAW , • A--GENTS for the Collgetion of blait, !IL 'against the United States and State Go - . - ernments, sneh,as Pension, Bounty, Arreai of Pay 4tc. Addresr Box 95; Harrisburg, Pa. 'Tension. Bounty aiul War Claim Agency. -MIEN:MONS =permed for soldiers of the present war who are disabled by reason of wounds receiv,etlor disease contractracted 'while in the service of the United States ; and `'pensions, 'bounty: and arrears of papobtai ned for widows at...heirs of those who have died :'cir been kiPed while is service. All lette. of -inquiry-promtly answered; and on receipt. "ty tzkail of a statement df the ease of claimant. I will forward-the necessary, papers for their .- - AignAture. Fees in . Pension cases as fixed by law. gwrsitzscr.s.—aon. /Slat BENSON, Hon. A. Fisq.:. F. W. Ksox, - , DAN B KER, Claim Agent Conderport Pa. Aunt tt; - - • IlcoNffAm).l.Bs_pm f rioN , . . • , PA.. DISEASES of the NeiConi, Seminal, Drina fy• amtpFnals34tems—new treatment-.=in report.A; of - the HOWARD-AS SOCIATION .-.-sent,-15y mailja sealed let er envelopes, free, a o w e, ~Address, Dr. T. MULLIN 1210110EITON„.14olvarg Assoeuttiox , 2Sontb Ninth Street, 13.1/1864. ~~,,~ : MEM 4. • MISSING. t ! boom I bonm 1 7 T,Wsts the,sallentsignal-gun ; And through, the early•morning gloom It pealed likethe tramp of a dreadful doom, I And the tired sleeper wolm-with a start, I And wondered whit should be his part In the tragedy . that,must Soon begin ; Whether the Righishould lose'or win,[done. . And where he should be . when the aY was/ tut his reveile‘e - ould not last : "Fall in ! fall in I" was !the cry And iwith "one theright of the happy plat,. (Inc. glance thit was suddenly,lovingly east At alpicturelthat nestled Close to his heart, A glance that made the warm tears start,.; One breathing of prayer, one cheery word To the mustering. rap' ied his sword And sprung :o Vac or die. • • t Then a hundred can: And a hundiLetl tit And over the ramps._ acmes poured With bayonet.sred and flashing sword; And acrl - ss theplain,where the storm of death Came sweeping down -with its fiery !math, And up the hill. where the surly foe Like an ambustied lion was crouchibg low, They marched, the' they .knew it was death ' 1 I • they dared. //is voice was steady and clear His heart was cheerful andstrong Tribis face them lingered no line of feat, The fire in his leye had dried the tear, And cheerily riing his word of As he shobted back to his gallant band. They were falling fast, but he did :tot quail, Andsiendily np, through the leaden hail, He led his entiddent braves along.. Right up to ttierampart grim ' Where the Rebel flag was floating; Right up to the,tiwful crater's rim The sturdy veterans followed him. 4ortiard.! boyd.forWardli they heard him 6ry.; Ted a blast otdeath-went howling by, And when it had passed he was lying still, Arid his braves Were staggeiing down the hill, And the air was rent with the rebel Shouting. Oh, who can tell the rest? Is he lying silentfr " voce • With the frbzen clods above his breast? Alas . ! Godilmowetb i w4at is best; Bht better, far 'better, our poor hearts say, Th pour out hL life in the fiery fray! Than slowly to die in thelloathsorne cell. Of .a terribic Southern prison hell: i . IGod knoWeth the best—to His wiH we bow TEE MASON'S WIFE. 1 1 , --- i• I Paring the date , Mexican wara lad.of !, sixteen, a Lien young Virg,ir•iaO, leaped a fence and elimed a parapet some hund' tbed yards ahead of his cora pany,and was taken prisoner, hat not before' he had I killed three t".%lexicans,andmortally woun- 1 ded a Colonel I, His mother a Door widow, { but though poor, a lady, (and why not ?)I heard of 'his fate, and as he was an onl} i son, her.heart yearned for his release -- i She wept at the thought, bat while the 1 tears were streaming down her cheeks! suddenly she recollected that she was al Mason's widow. Here lighted up her' bosom at the thought—:she dried her tears and exclaimed,: 1 . ',II will go and test the talismanic power of the order my hasband loved and rever ed II ed So much." ! , , I !! Shesold romelarticles of furniture, and' with the money reached tae city of Wash- I iogton, on 1, fot. i 1 , In her dos y tare she itntered the de- 1 1 partrnent of 0 Secretary of War, and l with some dffieulty obtained an interview: As she entered the apartment in which he was seated, and hesaw hew dusty she I appeared, "Well; ma'am," was the nig- , tam hegave her; but when she! removed I her veil,and he saw the visage of the lady 1 in her face, lie half raised himself in his I chair and pointed her to a seat. She told him of her son's capture, and wished to go to him.:: .1 "I can't help Tot ma'ani he replied, "a very expenaive journey to the city of Mexico. 'Your son' will be released by and by on exchange of prisoners." . \\ "Sir," •• sai "Sir d t .widow, he as the: tearsof u ,. woe rolled down her cheek, "can you not help me to a passport. "Of course,' he replied, "that will be granted tii lyou by the Secretary of the State office, but you are poor, how do you expect to pay the expences of such a jour ney 7 It!ts a! visionary scheme. Good morn ug, ma'am" ! 1 1 "Sir," said , the 'lady, !"will yon be so kind as-toy recommend 'me to the officer in cotumaiid of the regiment that will sail from 'Baltimore in a few ! days 7" "Impossible, Ma'am, limposiible," he replied. Then turning to the pane, be said," who did yousay was waiting for an audience _?, - Tell them Lam at leisure, note.": :! • , ! "Sir,"said the lady, "I have one more question to Or before I leave your office, and pray you answer .it—are you. a Ma son ?" • , ! • •; ' ' 1 "Yes, rna'ain, 3 jte . replied. 1 - liThen, Sir," ebb said, "permit me 'to' say I am all3l.4son'B widow—with this de claration 'leave your office." , i D ay attiment . the Secretary's manner) I was changed t to :that of more courteous linterest,f, Be eukreatitt her to be seated utail he, could write a few lines to the Secretary or State. Si a row inoments he. preseotedi hew with a l linoti tothe•Secretary, recolv• menditif hex to his a vmpathyi and friend COUDEILSPORT, POTTER , COUNTY, WEDNESDAY ,FEBBUARY:ISI.IB6S. ship. _The Secretary ,of State recei her most iindly, and' gave her a lett the temmandant at New Orleans direc him to procure - her k free pass, to Cruz by, the first steamer. Through 10: 1 agency of the l two Secretaries the- - placed in her hand s three hundred,dol with a talismanic, card from the Gr Master at - Washington, and the with:lw the city , ' • • ' , When ehe reached Pittsburg, the el agent seeing the letter she bore front diand'Masttir, would redeive nothikt her 'passage—the Captain of the steal on which she embarkedfor - Keit OH ne sooner deciphered.it than hil gave the best state-room he had,l and'whin [ "reached the - CrescentOity, - she' had hundred and ninety dollars. left .of three hundred:_ She there waited on General in command of the station, s i the letter of the Secretary of State,whe mediately instructed the Calonelin open , mend of the for Warding troops to seet.bat she had a free paseage to Vera Criii by the first steamer. By'all the officersi she I was treated with the greatest 'politeuess and delicacy, for they were all Ma s ons and felt bound to; her Joy ties as €3900 g and delicate as these which bind a broth er to a sister and rejoiced in the opportn pity offered them of evincing the benign aed noble principles of the craft. I, 'After a passa ,, e e of five days she reached Vera Cruz, andhaving a letter from the commandant, at Yew Orleans to the AMerican Governer she sent' it to him, enelosing, the talisManic card she received from the Grand Master at Washingtan. The Governor immediately waited o si pix.. tat the hotel and offered her a trap La tino to the city of Mexico by a train hat would start the next morning. The C to wel who commanded the' train, ki y took her in charge and offered her e cry tacilto and comfort , on her journey, ro sided her with a carriage wnere the country is level,.and with mules and tangoing over the Mountains. , Within ninety Miles ot the city, t were overtaken by a detachment of goons- escorting a government officia the General in command. ' Anxicu get, on fasterohe; asked pertnissicM the Colotiel, to join the detechment, though informed of the' danger' and tigue of ridinu all day on horseback, was frilling to-bra.'ve all ' that she m sooner see her son The -Colonel prOolded her with' a fleet and gentle li 'kart-pony acid she assumed her p with the troops,Tescorted by ,the offit and never fatigued till the towers of ico, were in sight. She reached the city on the sec day's' battle, and in the heat .of thej:e attempted to enter the gates. An - of instantly seized the bridle nba told she must wait until the city :was takc "Oh : sir," she exclaimed q ca exclaimed, 'I 1 city 1 one hour in sight of the city holds my son a prism:tel.-4 mast see air," 'The city must first be taken, Mad. he: again replied with much emph becoming excited. I !=l - cannot wait, sir,",she replied, son may be ill—dying=in chains dungeon—one boar's 'delay may re !1 himfrom me. Oh'! I Must go to hi. I will enter, the city." "Maohm," Said the officer, "you ca, reach it but by croesing the battlefi • i you will surely be killed." "Sir," said the lady, have not eled from Vitginii to' the gates of thel to fear to enter them==thanks for kiudness—ithonsand heartfelt thae you and the officers who have beetkso to late: I shall always remember I officers with the most grateful feelin! my heart—but,don,t •detain me: 10. Yonder is a gate that leads to the. I wiil enter it in search of my boy. 'And on she sped, but 'ere she rea the gate another officer rode up by side and admonished her, of danger imprudence. • "Sir," she replied, "this is no ti talk of prudence and fear—my son, only son, is a prisoner chains. told that Sante Anna is in the m id • per glittering group. I will seek and •in his hand place the talismanic which I bear— r he is a Mason and wil tainly 'heed me." 1 ' "War destroys all brotherhood?' an officer who was not a: Masmi. mode ino reply, but , watchingher ma struck her pony and darted across field pf , death. At that moment masked battery that mowed down on , 1 of:the-Palmetto regiment, opened ' right acress.the gory field she , was galloping on her wbite Pcmj;avoidin„ , retreating 'platoon's - by "a, semi-A arfiutid their 'flank-4the next . trtoirien seen coursing over the ground I.! ieir,lhe - battery full play." Aland seeing her, Stopped, fergetfalOftbe of iron balls that howled-arouia the! apparition. - All expected herto'fall I Moment, bat on she:went- Whir lea. "That woman's love for her tea made her wad i mud- the officer wh - - iethited to arrest her flight: ' • - "She i ll surely be killed?" exclaimed - nether. ' ( "A mother's love is stronger - than the pains of death,fl'eiclaimed a soldier. _ "The ;God of battles will protect her," said a. Tenneiseeau. "She will reach Santa Anna safe and sound as a roach.' l The soldiertiras right- - she' went over the' field-of death anitreached Santa An nem:aunt. "He received her politely,and when sbe told Itim her errand presented her talisman 1 4'Mailam" said be, "I am_ a mason, and' kneW inrobligations et the Orderin pease and in" war. `When your son was taken prisoner he mortally wounded my nephew, who 6 now dead. but he shall be restored,for I will not refuse your request in the face of !tin letters you bear. He immediately- - gave her 5n escort ;to the city, with au order to restore her son to her arms. The order Was- promptly obeyed, and that veep day, as he .promis ed, she embraced her long lost sop.' So much for a mother's love,'and so much - for the protecting arm -and noble e,ympathetio heart which Mason's ever ex tend to lovely, helpless women ; Oh !.if widowhood he the doom, of , wo man; who woaldaot be a, mason's Widow? Who would not ibe m Mason's wife, mother, daughter or fester in the hoar of peril and need. TUE CAT AGF: t - The palmy days for 'Cats cadre in the time of Egypt's power as a -nation, some four' hundred years B. C. Tliey were held as sacred as dogs or crocodiles, and ~, . them , z-- - th Was the penaltyfor killing thein.l Fro M.-their nocturnal' habits •atill.,gloSsY I for, the Egyptians•dteraed - them - symbolic, al of the -moon, - and' a , - goli:leo - -. cat was worshipped . at • Syens. ,• .. Herodctns tells , , us some' Marvels abOut them. - -"The Toms,"-it - seems; in hiS . - time, harl ape- eriliar liking , for makig way- with kit l tens-atery fortunatel thing too,`Or •the land#Ould have been overrun with ca.ta. • CrowbinWonder of all,When , a fire breaks oat, {the sole 7 cdre Of the natives is to .• - , keep the cats froth it; Ito do which they I•pbst . ,themselves as gnardls .. , around- the burning hOttse, and - take na' - thought for iputting, out the -genies. A divine impulse I bia*ever ' says the chrOnicler,i' , seizes the - cats.; they dart tinder•the men, •or . leap over them, and .fling: themselves 'into the flames; 'then - grert mourning takes -poses aiOn -of the land: If a oat was found dead -in-any one's house, the itlthateS, had to shave off their- eSebroirs. . -The:deftinct animals were carried I o nto: the temples, !Where they were embalmed- , and solemnly I deposited in the city otc , Rnaris. Speoi,. ruens,may be seen is the Br tish Musetim. Very. different is. their - . •fa a at . modern Rome. A.'reeent traveler: to Is us they are there as highly estemed 'for culinary put poses as puppy , dogs. in C ina: •If you have a roast hare for dinner yon. bad: bet ter not make too many inquiies as to what kind of ‘pussef•it- was before it cameinto the chdefsliands.• ••• .: , :,.• _. . , . ere, I ex- and the .cer her m" 16, EMPTY BOTTLES NAVIGATING UE OCEAN.—Captain Beecher, an English shipmaster, compiled, within the last ten years, the followina b curious voyages of bottles thrown into the sea by unfortunate naviczators. A good many bottles cast into the sea neit to the African coast, found their Wry to Europa. One - bottle seems, to have anticipated the, Panama route, _having traveled from the Panama' -Isthmus to the Irish , coast. Another crossed the Atlantic from the Canary to IsTi2via Scotia. Three or four bottles thrown into theina by dreenland mariners off Davis' Straits, landed on the' north- , west coast of Ireland. . Another madea ou rions trip—swam from the South Atlantic Ocean to themest coastof Africa, passing Gibralter, went along the Portuguese coast of France; , and was finally picked ,np on Jersey Island. One bottle was found after sixteen years' swimming, one after fourteen years, and .two after ten years. A few only traveled more than one year, and .one only. five days. : This was rent off by the captain 'of the Racehorse on the on.l7th of April, in the eatribbean Sea,' and, was found on the' 2Td, after haying, I gone. through three degrees of longitude,! (210 mileS,) western direction. Captain) :Velure, Of the Investigator, threw a I bottle into ithe sea in 1850, on his Voyage to Behring's Straits. It swam 3,500 ones in 200 days, and was picked up on the Honduras coast • 'my Ina = .not d--- tied her and SoOtnononEn..- 7 4. western puper the followiog 4 "We knew au old man Who belieied . ifthat what !was! to be would be." He lived in a regioninfesied by very satr47e Indians. Hg always took his - gun with him2trhed cuing into the wo'ods ; but this time he found that some Or his' family had' filed it. As he not go without It, his , ffietids tantalized him by saying tbat theistwas no danger of the Indians; that' he would not die till hie time came, anYhovi.' - • ”Yes, yes," said' the old fe ow; "but suppose I"was to meet an Indian, and his time had come, itmouldn't do not Lohave ni; bu at- iil2lll tiN SKATES: BY CLZW GARNET, Y. B. N. Everywhere, in all sorts of neWspapers, I had read of glorious - skating fun—Cen tral Park skatingH.sclarylkill and Sohnyl.„ kill Park—Diamond,,dittoprivate ditto —the grand fun—inen on skates, boys on skates ; splendid sylphidas ja, scant skirts, steel shod and skirring away over the ice—thet-the+Thttuder ! the very reading .gavUrne theice fever, and in the delirium couseqnsat Mpon the sudden attaok,' I resolved riPen. taking an" ice cruise myselfd : , Why uer? - 1 1 * What- 4 ,e n s. to header? had never nadigatect that sort of craft; . 'tis true. Bat then I'd' been on the water, and under water all lif6—and on ice, too, some. Hadn't T: killed seals and chased white 'bears, for weekilegether, on, ice ?' ' Women could skate—so the papers said. So, did everybody else, when. I in quired of 'em. eould , skate !.- What was the reason, I couldn't ? This only thing - T'd' ever, ietip a roman do that couldn't; was-to hook her, own dress aft, and carrying six feet breadth of crinoline, sail througha twenty inch deer way. Yes sir—l could skate; and I was bound on an ice cruise. • There was nothing Ito prevent the ex-i! pedition from tieing fitted out at once. was lotinclog about -the: Navy Yard, de-' tached from' everything—all acquaint ances ineladed—waiting orders. Dis gusted with Par rodins,'detesting theatres, what wasl to do for amusement 7 Why, strafe, of course! . Ah, yes !---the very 1 thing, by J(1170 ! > Why hadn't I thoughtl of that befoie 71 I'd have a cruise directly; I or sooner if possible. No—l must have / the tools first, and then started up Wive to find 'em. - I brau s ght up in front of a big v;ind.ow on the starboard side of Chestnut street, I going towards Schuylkill, - where they had more different rigs of slidio'g machines than you ean see national flags in Gibral-1 ter. Knowing about ss much of the I qualifications of the , different pattern& as I a cow does of chronometer time, I went inside, and asked for a pair of skates. "Vi l hat kind do you prefer, sir r, - •7 1 "Oh, I have no preference. Give me! the best article you've got:" "Yes, sir;" and the clerk passed -out for inspection a pair of brass clad, steel clippers, with. p mare gilgies and running rigging to 'em than there is to - a Frenthl sloop of war. "These are the best, "are they ?" "Yes, sir, decidedly I Just get Onto them, sir, and you'll go evelywhere and I anywhere, like patent lightnin.• ; If you' don't find it so, bring !eat back, e sir, and return.your money." "What's the price 7" "Fourteendollars ! terygeheap, sir." Didn't believe that, of course ; bat in vested the amount, and made sail forl Fairmount. I Found superb skating. Everybody said so—only those Who called it elegant I splendid ! magnificent I There was a reg- I I invent of; men; a battalion of dimity, and I a whole brigade of small craft, ori skates skivering, I scooting, and cutting . all sorts of fancies on the ice.; everybody laughing chattering, whooping, skylark ing and ;flittering in all &maims! and ri didn't wonder: newspapers, and 'every , body else, called' skating glorious fun. '"Have yer Skater 4 strapped, sir 7" said an itinerant . bootblack about the height I of a walking Ock. • "Do you understand it, _Bob t'" "Ob, yes, sir. I strap all - "the ladiee skates for 'em." "Ab, ha I. Do, sh Must hare a jolly time of itl Would like the berth There you area., • Go ahead, boy I" and .I sat dawn on.Blackie's box, about a couple of fathoms out oa.the ice. • Whiz—like al rocket, went by a great strapping, long legged clap, with a cigar flying. jib. boom, and•swinging his arms like a frigate's headyards - in a hurricane, with the braces all adrift., . • "Oh, ho 1 So they can smoke on skates - eh, boy ?" •• • "Lard I 'yes sir.- -- Everybody smokes on the ice." ' "Exactly" Bd -I fired- up-on a Prin. cipp, and shipped it for. the ernbo. - - Urchin anno u nced skates :Ali ataunto, and took a - fifty eeits."fractional l i fee. :.. "Here, boy !--here's anot er fifty. Just allow me to sit on your box a few minutes till I get the 'run of the .naviga tion."' "Yet - sit—you can set thern git semePody else to strap. So .I sat there Studying ice navigation Iby dead reckoning, till directly a little iietticoatraft, in yellow trousers, skirts to her knees,_red belt, Ragan cap, and arms akimbo, swctoped doWa, and checked, right in front of me. Thar& she hung j fora minute, qUiyering t like, and balanc ingAinit is a fish.baWk does over hisprer, and ail the time !eyeing me with a JallY twinkle tither dancing black:ayes. ".A. chillenge,ifor a , races. air 11 Catch me - if you earl" ow E r r . 4 • fs/4 111 ~..,.,,,,-:",:., .:.,.1...,,......,, : -.,: . ~7..1:1'1.....-:,.•:-,:,:.2.:.. EMI r ; TERms.-:S4SO . PER-Ommtix Little di'lifted. ir t y,irleit foot a trifle bent right' ti4e - ilightly iisitif a graceful in curve, the (Atom of liefskirs just hitish , ing my -nose ;t,' and ' off ' tilitil st . Olt:, - Pkif,ii . flying fish -r-, se.-e e -e.e4it f 7 --striiii, , ,ing,tidirt aide to sidd,het tartan Skirt airaying hither and.thither, like' the folds:Of Vilma:diet broiled in _ with theshif head to tbd trihd• "5o ho 1 That's _a thilltnge;,lslo And that's the waYlo 'skate? Thtindoo Itinikatel ‘ Anybody tan skatel":,,l., 'l3tit l aly to eonif4i't though, whatever - - - hOdg A eleg tonibio. ' laddepted lihnitylf chitieno,:liciyievet,iinkher"piiictic,e6l3 ice: — So rlio - liidid'ifii frith that , - box, lifted left. foot a little;, lied i iiiht • r knee. and stunk my arms Akimbo .- .:`But I diidn' t i curve. I. ,M tifit:'4:lext, best' "thug 2_ tiimevek, and ,mit 4 "Sprisid eagle' ' Fort foot slid ' due7aolii,h-i o w at, and ahoard - bile Iriciriest; 011 realized those spread-out pictorial impos. sibilities on circus bills. I, wonderedlr my hoots" and Skates, would ever beiome shipmates nail'. - . '' ': - _' l' "Hullo ! mister, stop. mustn't :t4.Tto , Ante all over both sidei of this 'ere'pond at once 1" - grdwled ail old tonuntroial looking thap;l as he checked up long enoughlo put in the remonstrance agaluSt , 1 , Uty ice-monopely, ' -: ' • ..-1: "I say,, Mister Saltwater, , couldn't 'Yet lift yerself anildship a bit, so we can sail 'tweed yer legs r' piped a young scamp, file-leader to a string i d twenty juveqo ' sheets. -; 1 1 - - - -_ • ( flbon'b try ,to Itatti eh' tett feet`lb once, my,deaf. , ,sir!" advised 'a t sensible. Christian looking map, who Caine to 4 3 i, iassistance, and set ine *on ail even - kel p I, once more. "When you lift one foot, sp', i you mast throw all yonr vigor and muscle i into the other limb. i And then; retn'env I bar to sway yon,i•bodylso thaflyotit weight will always be Upon tlint. foot Which - Las - the ice. 'Tis 'yery easyi sir jest this I Way , 1 1 —and away Went my 1, ' . • , . ~ - cl r riso 4n mentor, with a lon c i striding, gad ifo l smog ; • "Oh, es—llit.t's very easy, All the , , v:gor in the other limb. Yes -HT can do lit." So j . made a prodigious scoot, Magi i -7—did it., I .-- 1 I sttick out !left leg, lure a:mosquito i Whin he's bleodsuckftig. Pet' all my 1 vigor - and . rnutile itito tight, - limb, and couldn't 'get it out ai;ain. Went nit tin one foot, like ashe O t crooklnt , fall, ktie!o la little twice a minnteAnst as little . DiM. I ity did. Saw a crinoline . craft - crossino I my course, under convoy' of a big,doubte , 'banked chap, both skating a streak., Tried to sheer to pot and go clear'Of !CM: • .Missed stays, and Went foul of Crinoline, i The toe of my ilport skate hooked 1111 . ;1 fSothebody's skirt, W me hich gave a broad, sheer .to starbo a rd, and I' rammed bfg convoy, butting him square on hilent water, and drove.the fire end of my Prip cipe slap down his throat:: There was ed i everlasting - tactile; and all hands treat 1 1 sprawling on the r.te,, like a nest of lii- I cartga land crab's. ' , 1 "Look here, sir I What do yon m eant' ' !yelled the big convoy, scrambling' to lip feet, and manMUvering for a broadside. .: "Beg pardon; sir. I gouldn't help it'!" I replied meekly, stni sitting op' the lie, .covidn't ltet_li it g • Whig didn't rots 1 stop ?" - : i •z , l "Didn't huge how.", r' 'I l'Oh, ho 1.;: 'Green on skates., it I "Yes, green's 'n a cabba.te I" . 1 That:ca mollified the bigp ,and settig, MO on my pincagain, he volunteered '44) ecliniate me in checking up. "Turn your oes - ,up, and dig the . . 441 of your skates into thti_ice----this waY;r l And 11 , c; illuitrated. - . , ~.., "0, yes; I bad do that." -- And I directly. Off•_l shot again _on one Tei4; 1 steering this time for•the shore--for I'd 'skated enough.; .. - - r 1 Halfway in, and there slid rialit dow„it 1 in my course a Crowd of forty Gr to—gi , and :men, wonien and boys. I. tri "down br4hes,"ia2tording to instructions , —and broke too much: '-' Up i,66, and digging my heels into the ice ; I sag,...Ted Iback like - , and - doubl6d amidship, as if 'L 1 was g0:11,9; to take a seat—an I did 1 , i I I went down stern fore Most, withd IN, mai ' t !that broke the ice -like a pane erwindaw- , 'glass' shivered by a pehble : liiirliiif threugh ' it. I bad an idea just, thentlatTsitch U bump as that-,,,wonid. iiiict-- itart4dthe ar= mor of any ironcleii aßoat. '. , , , ~;-'•; . I sold thoie infernal tiliat'ea; jitSts:',-,:as EL sat, for four dolfireT :under a2.strour;- , ,cori. - victim that there'i Ina fun in. - skating. It', s all a - humbug I car(C,Skalit---1 don't want to. : ' I . ' ,-.. ''-' ; 1. :newcomer` blows aload trrimpet,and mikes Ta great, dish,<;_heiA mire to be ihalrow; - and rnn•a ifibit fac i eg Receive him ttMtionsli. •' receipt for gobd - lniith Apsy given in the following siordsi good - feelings, and a clear e,anse - ataiAi,l +ow , SOColeman‘, the dramatist.,was.4xll if ho knew.theodore Hook} :" ibi*it;,:. - kloo)Caildt - E i ye Ate old - ---t: RM.= - 4. `,. . . . , - - F.., p.t.... , ,,,,-.)-,..-.:'..- -.. :. . ' ~. HMI EMI ES <,y~,.
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