Rockland Gazette : February 18, 1875
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PORTER. he adjusted the domino under the rim of his her, and she stood, like Tantalus, unable to Don’t trouble yourself, m adam?” fired up his vision, he flew out of his chair and ran “ Ain’t a-goin’ to turn evidence? ” cried square house of heavy, hewed logs and cov To win back their own prestige, the Bc- this sweet-tempered young woman in to Lake h e r hands. hat. “ S’ppsin’ ther’ shud bo too many fur Cranks, grasping the pistol on the table. ering it with a strong roof. The door is of publican party must draw the line of prin I ? o c t r i h command them. Sometimes she slipped us£” into the free seats at St. Paul’s, and watched stantly. “ I know very well that feeding “ It is mine! I am now in a good posi “ I’m going to make a lead mine of you heavy logs also, and slides up and down in ciple closely, and fight it out on that linn *Stiddy, stiddy, Cranks!” remonstrated the pomp of religion. If the Rector ever people is not your forte; and be assured, I tion! I will teach my art and German ef you don’t take that back! ” roared the grooves. When it is up there is an open at whatever cost. The one sole issne is the colonel. “ Nobody ever gits along ef ItOCK OF A.OES. saw her after service, he gave her a pat shall Like all proper steps for finding her Letters to an Institution! Ach! you an* Colonel, with a bound, which caused entrance about 5 feet high and 4 feet wide. that of Federal or State supremacy. Noth glad!” he stopped aud studied her face, they ’low ’emselves to be skeered.” Cranks so drop the pistol and retire per- A sheep is killed and hungup inside of the “ Bock of A ges, cleft for me,” ronizing nod. There was nothin” for her, ow ners.” ing but well defined principle and courage go, too. So good—so true! I will take “ Fact,” chimed in the smallest and thin eipitately forward, apologizing as he went. pen attached to a rope, which is connected Thoughtlessly the maiden sung, she told herself again and again, hut to Airs. Stump opened her mouth like a win with tlie American people. Cowards such care of thee—and thou shalt have. nest man of the party. “ The Bible says “ I’m going to tend to my own bizness, an’ with a trigger, so that when the bear en Fell the words unconsciously stand in that store, pay her earnings to the howitzer, and was going to plump a tell sneaks and compromises the people detest. somethin’ mighty hot ’bout that. I disre- that’s enough to keep any man bizzy. ters and seizes the mutton, the door falls From her girlish, gleeful tongue; boarding-house keeper, and keep the tread ing ball, when the door bell startled her Louise! Thou wast my friend—canst They have always put their heel n|X)n any mill going till she died. b:ick into her “ respectable boarding-house tru st m e all ? ” member zacly how it goes; but I’ve lieerd Somebody lend me fifty till I see him and he is caged. attempt to back down from principle, and Sang a« little children sing; Parson Buzzy, down in Alaine, preach a hung as sing the birds in June; Often this unhelped child grew despe keeper” demeanor. She went down and “ Would another be a better husband tor agjin.” Way went to work and completed his any surrender of clear convictions for the rippin’ old sermon from that text many a trap to his satisfaction, and intended to bait Fell the words us light leaves down rate, and when she came home of nights, answered the call. Virginia's thread of thee?” continued tho Kaiser, blanching Perkins pressed the money into his Col hope of temporary gain. This is to he re she threw herself upon the floor, and beat bilk with Louise was broken; she listened at her hesitation. time. The old man never thort what a com onel’s hand, and within two minutes the it the same night. Having a curiosity to membered now.—A. F. Commercial A dver On the current of the tune— fort diem sermons wus a goin’ to be to a “ Rock of Ages, cleft for me, her tired, bursting head against the wall. apprehensively to the voice below. “ Oh no! ” replied Virginia, looking up Colonel was on Tipsie’s back, and galloping see how it would work, he went in and tiser. Let me hide myself in Thee.” It was foolishness, to he sure, but the fool “ Lost, madame!” exclaimed the man’s shyly, “ I like you!’’she admitted in her road agent, though. That time we stopped on in the direction the stage had Liken. pulled the rope slightly, when tlie door fell ishness of a human being in mental agony voice, deep and full of foreign gutterals, quiet, bashful way. Slim Alike’s stage, an’ he didn’t hev no He overtook it, he passed it, and still he down. He attempted to raise it, but was Another effort, says the Commercial Bul “ Let me hide myself in Thee,” was what drew out the tenderest compas “ a little child! while I have been gone. “ I low good that is!” cried the Kaiset, inoro manners than to draw on me, them galloped on. horror-stricken, and his hair stood on end letin. is to he made to rele;ise that noted Felt her soul no need to hide: Was gone two weeks. The nurse, she putting the betrothal kiss on her forehead. sermons wuz a perfect blessin’ to me—the The people at Mud Gulch knew the Col when he found that he was unable to budgte Sweet the soug as song could be— sion from One who once sojourned on the criminal, Spence Pettis, from the M?-sa- careless—she lets mine kind out of her eye “ Sweetheart, I am thine own!” thought of ’em cleared my head as quick as onel well, and made it a rule never to be it an inch. He worked and struggled, hut And she had no thought beside; earth. chusetts State Prison, it being hoped tnat —a man tell mo she vos on this sthree !” “ And now I will bring my youngling!’ a cocktail. An’ ------ ” astonished at anything he did; but they the heavy weight refused to move. The All the words uuheedingly “If I had some one!” cried Virginia, the new Governor and Council may be “just somebody! a friend!” “ Yes and she’s up stairs now! ” replied So he dashed out of the house to return in *“ I don’t want to disturb Logroller’s pious made an exception to the rule when the pen worked only too successfully, and he more easily worked upon by New York Fell from lips uutouclied by care, strain,” interrupted the colonel: “ but as Colonel canvassed the principal bar-rooms was caught in his own trap. He yelled, Dreamiug not they each might be It did not strike her to say lover. Mrs. Stump, triumphantly; “ Virginia a few moments with Louise under one arm lawyers than was Govenor" Talbot. A t’s old Black that’s a drivin’ to-day instill for men who wished to purchase a horse; shouted, called for help, but knowing that On some other lips a prayer— Lovers she might have found among the Real's got her—I know it’s the very young and violin-ease under the other. change of tactics is to be mad. which Virgin: through hours that evening >f Slim Alike, an’ as old Black allers makes and when a gambler who was flush ob he w:is miles from a human habitation and •* Rock of Ages, cleft lor me. youths who frequented Mi’s. Stump’s and one. Miss Real, come down and fetch that means probably, that the rascal’s money is hie time, hedn’t we better vamose?” tained Tipsie in exchange for twenty sings in a savage locality where few persons ever Let me hide myself in I'hee. looked upon Virginia with some favor. little girl.” (ah she n , j 1 them all her life) to be employed in some ney legal dodge. But in none of these could she lind her ••Rapa!” fluttered Louise, priekin; up 1 holding 1. upon her bosom, listening The door of the shanty was hastily closed —only -h.-Kind dollars, when the Col ventured, he sat down in blank despair, We honor Lieut.