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A TflR'U.I.NQ FKETCH.
Tlie foliuviiiic iiiU'ictiiig storv, tps
peeling the condtujl afa young Polish offi
cer serving uiJi ihc trench jrmy in
Spain, s rcl.ittd hy the Duchess d'Abran
ip, in the 8(h or lnsi published volume
of her memoir-:
When Mitrnt. vs in Madrid, he had
occasion to send aonip dispatches to Junot
in Lisbon. These dctpntchrs were of
the utmost impor enc", -tnd all the road
leading from Madrid lo Poriugiifrip capi
tc were covered by guerillas, or by reg
uinr troops commanded by officera who
hud acted an important part n the Span
ish revolution, and who thus composed
the Briny of Contanoo. Mnrat mention
ed the difficulty to H-nn StrogonorT,
the Itussiiin Ambasfalnr at Hie Court of
ImiiI rioi iinf, i f.t M.idrid. It
is well known that at the period here re
ferred to, Uussia wa the "friend" rather
than the ally of Fiancf, Baron Strog
onoir told tlie Grand Duke of Berg, that
h't could suggest a plan I r the trunsmis
frinti of tho despatches.
" Admiral Siniiv;u," said Ihe Baron,
'isi.ithe port of lish.n. Send to me
our of your most intelligent of your Pol
ish lnnoers. Ho hh:ill put 'on Russian
uniform, and I will give him despatches
fur the Admiral ; you can give him your
instructions verha'ly, and l will answer
for it thiil oil will be right, even though
he should be taken twenty times, between
this and Lisbon, The insurgent army is
loo nnxiou to secure our neutrality to be
t ie first to create a ground of rupture1"
Murat was delighted with the scheme.
Jle requested the commander-in-chief of
th Polish tr .iopq, who 1 think was Kras
iuski, t select t: him a brave and intel
ligent youn officer. Two days after
wards the Polish commander cent to the
grand duke of a young man whom he
declared would answer with his head.
He wus named Lecliinski, and was only
riuhteen years ef age.
The Grand Duke of Berg was not a
Utile astonished to find the young officer
tuanifi'st i he utmost eagerness to under
Hike an enterprise of no ordinary peril,
I..- . ilm ot'pnt nf Hi hpinir fliwrnvrprt.
his frtte " as ueitain nad that was death.
t Mural, brave .ig he himself was, could
not refrain from pointing out to Leckins
k.i the danger he wns nhout lo encounter.
The young IV.e smiled and said, If your
imperial ', highness will give mo yrrur
orders, I will pledge myself to execute
the mission. I thank my General for
having selected me from my comrades,
every one of whom wus emulous for the
. favor."
The grand duke augured well for the
young man's courage and intelligence.
He gave him his instructions. Baron
lStrogonoff supplied him' with despniches
o Admiral Siniavin. The young Pole
was equipped in a Russian uniform, and
set out for rortugai.
During the first two days he pursued
his journey without molestation : but on
the afternoon of the third day he was at
tacked bj a;party of Spaniah troops,
who unhorsed and disarmed him. and con
ducted him before the general command
ing the milittiry 'force. -of the district
JjUCKliy ior ne auveniuruus young roic,
that General was Castonos himself.
Leckinski was perfectly awarq that he
was' lost if suspected to be a Frenchman.
Consequently, he immedia'ely resolved
, within himself not lo utter a syllable of
French,' and to speak only Russian and
German, which language ne conld speak
- with facility. The angry imprecations
nt thA troons who conducted him to Cas-
'tnnos. sufficiently conrinced him of the
inno. sufficiently conrinced him of
' fate that would await him, should he be
discovered The horrible death of Gen
Rene, who only a few weeks previously
' had perished in torture for no other ol
io ! .Vo' nt aUpmntine lo ioin Ju-
".1 fence nan - - -o f --- ,
; nit. mi 'ht well have shaken his fortitude..
Death itself may ba braved, bu to meeti
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it by a n-finment ,t torlurr, i more
'ilian the bravest mu can contemplate
'with indifference.
"Who y'0 !" said Castunos, ad
dres ing tht Polo in French, which he
poke wi'.h perfect fluency, having been
educated it Horrezn.
Ickiuaki linked steadfastly at his in-
! irmg tor, made a sign, and replied in
! German, " I do not understand."
C taianos himself understood and spoke
Gertiian ; but apparently not wisn'ng 10
take an active part in tba business, he
called one of htf "officers of his aulT, by
horn the ei urn in at ion was continued.
The young Pole gate his answers alter-
imtelv in Russian and in t ermar, ami
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kept himsell caunosiy on nil guaro
acainst dropping a single word of French.
He hd no easy part to p'sy, for in the
little apartment in which the examination
took place, he win pressed upon by a
rrowd of persons, all thirsting for his
blood, and manifesting a ferocious eager
ness that he might be found guilty that
js, declared to be a Frechm-m.
This furious excitement was increased
by n circumstance which threatened to
involve the unfortunate young mu in in-
exirictible difficulty. An aid-de-camp of
Casta nos, (ono of ihose fanatical patriots
ho numerous in ihe Spanish War) who
from the moment of Leckinski's arrest had
declared him to be a French spy, rushed
into the room in w hich ihe examination
was Eoine on. holding by Ihe arm a peas
nt. dressed in a brown jacket and high
crowned hat, surmounted hy a red feather,
Having worked his wsy through the
crow d, the officer placed the peasant be
fore the Polish officer.
Look at that man, "said he, "and
ihen inform us whether he is a German
or a Rus inn. Ho is a spy, 1 would swear
by my salvation," continued he, stamping
his feet furiously on the ground.
The peasant for i few moments gazed at
the young Pole steadfastly.
Then his dark eye kindled, and with a
bitter expression of fury and hatred, he
exclaimed, '-Ea un Vrunces! Es un Fran-
ec:
lie then related that a few weeks previ
ously he hod been to Madrid to convey
some hav, having, in common with all the
inhabitants of his village, been required
to carrv fbrage to the barracks. 4,1 know
this man." continued the peasant," he is
the same to whom 1 delivered the forage
and who gave me the receipt for r.
stood beside him for nenrW an hour, and
I know his face well. When I saw him
arrive, 1 ?uid to my comrades That is
ihe French officer to whom I delivered my
forage
Castanos probably faw the truth: hut
he was a noble and cenerous enemy. It
was not by wantonly shedding blood that
he wished to cement the edifice of fcpan
ish liberty. Castanos possibly perceived
that the prisoner was not a Russian,' bu!
he drended the cruel treatment to which
he would be exposed if he were discover
ed to be a Frenchman. He suggested
that he should be allowed to continue his
jouriioyj but at this a hundred menacing
voices weie raised.
" But " asked Castanos, 'would it be
prudent to expose ourselves to the risk of
a rupture with Kussia, wtiose neutanty we
we have so earnestly solicited f
" No," replied the officers ; "but let it
be proved that this man ie really a Rus
sian "
Leckinski heard all this, for he under
stood Spanish. He was led out and lock
ed up in a miserable chamber, which re
sembled a dungeon in the most fearful days
of the Inquisition.
At the moment of his nrrest, Leckinski
had not tasted food since the afternoon of
the proceeding day, and when the door
of his prison closed upon him, eighteen
hours had elapsed since ne nan pariaKen
ol nourishment. Add to this, the fatigue
and anxiety he had suffered in the inter
val, and it cannot be matter of surprise
that he threw himself in a state of utter
exhaustion on a mattrass which lay on
the ground, in one corner of his prison,
He had been about two hours asleep,
when his chamber door slowly opened,
and some one softly approached his couch.
A hand was held before the flame of
the lamp to shade the light from his eyes,
and when the band was withdrawn, Lee
kinski felt some one tap him on the shoul
der, and a sweet-'oned female voice utter
ed the words, " Voulez-vous souper?"
The vouncr Pole, who was suddenly
roused from his slumbers by the glare of
liMit. the contact of the hand, and the
words of the young female, raised himself
ou his couch, and wun nis eyes scarcely
open, exclaimed in German" What do
you say ?"
Send him his supper, " said Castanos,
on hearing the result of this first trial,
'and then saddle his horse and let him
continue his journey. He is no French
man. How could he have kept on the
mask when thus taken by surprise ?
The thing is impossible." '
But Castanos did hot exercise undivj-
ed authority. Leckinski's supper was
sent to him, it is true, but he continued in
bis duneeon till morning. He was then
conducted to a place, whence he could see
the mutilated remains ot ten r renenmen.
who had been brutally massacred by the
peasantry oCTruxillo., There, for the
space of a whole day, he was left to con
template death in its most horrible form,
: He was surrounded by snares-watched
by eyes and ears eager to catch at any
.unguarded word or gesture. At length,
at the expiration of several hours of cruel
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trin 1, he was reconducted to his prison, to
reflect at kisure on tbe horror of his
situation.
" Gent'eman," aid General Contanos
to his brother officera, "I am as fully sen
sible as you of ihe importance of pre
venting communication between tbe d r
ferent French commanders at present in
Spain, but in the position in which this
officer stands, we cannot treat him as a
spy on ihe mere insertion of a peasant.
I he man may be mistaken, lie may be
deceived by a reaemblance. and in that
case we should be murderers. That is
not the character In which we onght to
show ourselves."
It was a cheering relief lo Leckinski to
return to bis prison. For nearly twelve
hours he l?ad before his eyes gibbets and
mutilated bodies. Though his mind was
haunted by horrid images and gloomy
forebodings, he nevertheless fell into a
profound s'eep, for exhausted nature de
manded repose. Amidst the dead slum
ber in which all his senses were lulled
the door was'again softly opened, a female
form opproached his couch, and the same
sweet voice which addressed him on the
previous night, said in a half whisper-
Rise and follow me you are saved
your horse is waiting."
At ihe words" you are saved," Leck
inski started up, and immediately recov
ering his presence of mind, he replied,
as he had before done, in German by the
question, " What do you ray."
On being informed of the result of this
new temptation, Castanos ured his im
mediate liberation, but his wish was
again overruled.'
Leckinski parsed another miserable
night. At daybreik next morning he was
awnkened by lour men, one of whom was
the peasant who alledged he had encn
him nt Madrid. They hd come to con
duct him before a sort of court, composed
of the officers of Castanos' ttaff- They
addressed to him the most bitter menaces,
but, firm in his resolution, he appeared
not to understand a word they said.
When arraigned before his judges, he
inquired iu Gorman for his interpreter.
The latter was brought in and the exam
ination was commenced.
He was aeked what was the object of
his journey from Madrid to Lisbon T
He replied by showing his despatches
from tho Russian aml assador to Admiral
Siniavin and his passport; but for theun
fbrtunrle recounter with the peasant, who
had seen h'm at Madrid, these proofs
would doubtless have been satisfactory.
However, the young Pole adherred to the
account he had first given of himself, and
never prevaricated in his answers.
Ask him," said the president of the
committee whethe he is friendly to the
Spaniards, since he says he is not
Frenchman J"
Tee inteapreler translated the question
Yes, doubtless," replied Leckinski;
" I love and respect to noble charactej of
the Spaniards; but I wish your nation and
mine were both united,"
' Colonel," said the interpreter, the
prisoner says he hates us, because we car
ry on warlike banditti ; and he would
like to see the whole nation united as one
man, that he might annihilate it at a sin
gle blow"
Whilst these words words were uttered
the eyes of the whole assembly attentive
ly watched the expression of the prison
er's countenance, to see what effect would
be produced by the infidelity of his inter,
preter- He stood unmoved
Leckinski was prepared for every trial,
and was on his guard against the snare.
' Gentlemen," said Gen. Gastnnos,
who was present at the examination; "it
appears to me there is no ground of sus
picion against the young man, and there
fore he must be set at liberty, and allowed
to pursue his journey."
Accordingly, his arms and despatches
were restored to him ; and the brave
young Pole thus triumphantly passed
through a series of trials which required
almost superhuman fortitude and pres
ence of mind. He arrived safely in Lis
bon, fulfilled his mission, and wished to
return to Madrid, but Junot would not
suffer him again to expose himself to the
dangers he had so miraculously escaped.
The L.UUc Pauper.
The day was gloomy and chill. At a
freshly opened grave stood a delicate little
girl of five years, the only mourner for
the silent heart beneath. Friendless,
hopeless, homeless, she had wept till 6he
had no more tears to shed, and now she
stood with her scanty clothing fluttering in
the chill wind, pressing her little hands
tightly over her heart as if to still its
beating.
It's no use fretting," said the roHgh
man, as he, stamped the last shovel-full of
earth over nil the child had left to Jove,
fretting won't bring dead folks to life ;
pitty you hand'nt got some ship's cousins
somewheres to take you , it's a tough
jvorld, this ere, 1 tell ye ; I don't see how
you're going to weather it. Guess I'll
take ye round to Miss F,etherbee', she's
got a power of children and wants a hand
to help her, so come along. If you cry
ehough to float the ark it won't do any
good." Allie obeyed him mechanically,
turning her' head every few" minutes to
minutes to take ano'her, and yet another
look where her mother lay buried. '
''The morning sun shone in upon an un
derground kitchen in the crowded city.
Mrs. Fetherbee, attired in. a gray calico
dress, with any quantity okinsel jewelry,
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at sewing tome showy cotton lace on a
cheap pocket handkerchief.' A boy of
Are yean was- disputing with a little girl
of three, about an apple ; from big words
they lad come to hard blows ; and peace
wis finally declared at tbe price of an
orange a-piece, and a a tick of candy
each combattant " putting in" for the big
gest. Poor Allie, with pale cheeks and swol
en eyelids, was staggering up and down
the floor under the weight of a mammoth
baby, who was amusing himself, pulling
out at intervals, little handsful of hair.
" Quiet ihat child ! cant ye !" said Mrs.
Fetherbee, in no very gentle tone. . " I
don't wonder the darling is cross lo see
such a sole" n face. You must get a Utile
life into you somehow, or you won't
earn the salt to you porridge here. 1 here,
I declare you have put his eyes out with
those long curls dangling around : rome
here, come here and have em cut off,
ihey don't look proper for a charity child,"
(and sho glanced at the short, stubhy
crops on the heads of the little Fether
bee 8.)
Allie's lip quivered, as she said
" Mother used to love to brush them ev
ery morning : she said that they were like
little deud sister's ; p'ease don't," said
she beseechingly
But I tell you I do please to cut em, so
there's an end of that," said she, as the
severed ringlets fell in a shining heap on
the kitchen floor ; and do for creation
sake slop talking of deal folks," and
eat your broakfast, if you want it ; I had
forgot you hadn't any there's some of
the children's left ; if you are hungry., it
will go down, and if you ain't you can do
without."
Poor Allie! Tho daintiest morsel
wouldn't have gone down, her eyes filled
with tears that wouldn't be forced back,
and she sobbed out " I must cry if you
beat me for it my heart pains rac so
bad."
IJ-i t-y ti-t-y ! what's all this?" s:dd a
broad faced rosy milkman as ho sat his
shining can on the kitchen table ; "what's
all this, Mrs. Fetherbee ! I'd as lief eat
pins and needles as hear a child cry.
Who is she V pointing at Allie, " and
what's the matter with her?"
"Why, Ihe long and short of it is, she's
a poor pauper that we've taken in out
of charity, and she's a crying at her good
luck, that's all," said the lady with a
vexed toss of her head. "That's the
way benevolence is always rewarded ;
nothing on earth to do but to tend the
baby, and amuse the children, and run to
the door, and wash the dishes, and make
the bods, and tidy the kitchen, and go
on a few errands ; ungrateful little bag
gage!" Jimmy's heart was as big as his farm;
(and that covers considerable ground,)
glancing pitifully at the little weeper, he
said skilfully ' That child is going to be
sick, Mrs. Fetherbee, and then what are
you going, to with her ? Besides she s
too young to be of much use to you ;
you'd better let me take her.
" Well, I should'nt wonder if you was
half right," said the frightened woman
"she's been trouble enough already; I'll
give her a qiit claim."
" Will you go with me, little maid ?"
said Jimmy, with a bright good-natured
smile.
" If you please," said Allie, laying
her little hand confidingly in his rough
pulm.
" Sit up closer," said Jimmy, ns he
put one arm around her. to steady her
fragile figure, as they rattled over the
stony pavement. " We shall soon be out
of this smoky old city. (Consarn it !
I always feel as if I was poisoned every
time I come into town ;) and then we'll
tee what sweet hay fields, and new milk,
and clover blossoms, and kind hearts
will do for you you poor little plucked
chicken ! Where did you come from
when you come to live with old Jezebel ?"
' From my mother's grave," said Al
lie." .
" Poor thing ! poor thing !" said Jim
my, wiping away a tear with his coat
sleeve. " Well, never mind ; I wish 1
hadn't asked you ; I'm always running
my head agin a beam. Do you like to
feed chickens, hey ! Did- you ever milk
a cow ? or ride on top a hay cart ? or go
a berrying T Do you love bouncing red
apples ? and peaches as big as your fist ?
It shall go hard if you don't have 'em all.
What's come of your hair child ? have
you had your head shaved V .
".Mrs. Fetherbee cut it off," said Allie.
" The old sarpint ' I wish I'd come
a little quicker, Was it your curls them
young 'uns were playing with! Well
never mind," said he, looking admiringly
at the sweet face before him, " you don't
need 'em ; and they might get you to
looking in the glass more than is good for
you. ' '
"Well, here we are,, I declare ; and
there stands my o!d woman in the door
way, shading her eyes from the sun. I
guess she wonders where I raised you V
" Look here, Betsey ! do see this child !
The earth is fresh on her mother's grave.
She has neither kith nor kin. I've
brought her from that old skin-flint of
Fetherbee'n, and here she is; if you
like her it's well and good, and if you
don't she'll stay here just the same ; but
I know you will," said he coaxingly, as
he passed his brawny arm around her ca
pacious waist : ' and now get her some
thing that will bring the color to her
cheeks ; for mind you, I'll have no white
slaves on my farm !"
How sweetly Allie's tired limbs rested
in the iragrant lavencerej aneeu. a
tear lingered on her cheek, but its birth
was not of sorrow. . Jemmy pointed n
out to his wife, as they stood looking at
her before retiring lo rest.
Never forget it, h'elsey, said he,
" harsh words ain't for tho motherless.
May God forget me, if she ever hears
one from my lips. Cice Branch.
Lament of the Sacked In One.
-, it t a. slats a. -
. aaaaaaaa
I wedded hf Oh! erttbat kaot was tied,
Wby did Fancy paibt her scenes o brigh t
My bourn iwellfd with too much oartUy pridr,
The tint on tho future, were . eomewhat too
The we 1th 1 tbo't ahe bad, roao in my mind,
Like doiuh, when mixed ith Babbitl'i jeasl
Bank -stocks, and country-seats roe op behind
Big piles of brick, to first rate tenants leaed.
She told me of the farms that she poeteaaed,
The tall stone bouaee on a buey iUet ;
I deemed myself aa but too highly bint.
When ahe would deign to raise mo from her
feet. ,p.-.
My vaulting hope sprang, that lime, all too high,
Fancy, too bright, ton glorious pictures drew ;
All of har wealth I might put in my eye,
And seo as clear as now I do.
I heeded net Ihat she had more than twice
Ihe years that age had printed on my brow,
I cared not for the cAeek aa cold as ice,
That lacked the redness of a youthful glow.
I might, perhaps, endure her hideous eyes,
Dull as they are, exreaaionleas and cold,
i ut oil ! 'tis hard to dream ol' such a prize,
And wake to fii.djouisf If so sweetly sold !
Well, be it so tho' such a draught as this,
Tables somewhat bitter to my fallen lip
I'll dream, at least, that I've found wedded bliss,
And say, with Mose and Syksy, " let 'er rip."
Kosigned as a horee-post, I will u,ett my fate,
The' tied to a mummy, shrivelled-up and dry;
It will console me in my wretched slate,
To think that women sometim e deign to die.
A Visit to the Ugly Man.
BY SIMON SUOGS.
As we stepped over the low fence I
heard the hum of a spinning-wheel, atid
in another moment one of ihe sweetest,
rosiest faces I ever beheld looked out at
the door. It wbs Lucy Wallis, the pret
ty daughter of the Ugly Man ! Saluting
us modestly, she asked us in and to be
seated and resumed her work. There
be few more pretty cirls than Lucy. In
her moist blue eye, Was a blended ex
pression of mirthfulness and something
more tender, that went into your heart,
without ever asking leave. Clad in a
homespun frock, course, but tasteful in
its colors and adjustment and oh ! how
brilliantly spotless her fingers tipped
with tie blue of the indigo lub her lit
tle feet inbuckskin moccasins she plied
her task industriously ; now with an arch
toss, shaking into place her rich auburn
hair, and now, with a bound forward
gracefully catching the thread that had
slipped from her fingers. Sweet-voiced,
too, was Lucy Walls, as she stood at her
wheel, spinning two threads, one of cot
tcm on her spindle, and the other of gos
sip, with my excellent and loquacious
friend Dick McCoy.
Plague take the girl ! She has made me
forget her ugly father ! Mr. Wallis and
his " old woman" were from home when
we got there having been on a visit
to a sick neighbor but in half an hour
they returned.
" Thar they come," said Dick, as he
heard voices outside the cabin , " seat
yourself, and don't be scared !" Then
looked at Lucy.
4 You've never seen daddy, squire,
have you ?" she asked, slightly coloring
and pouting.
" Never have always had a curiosity"
hut tho wounded expression of the girl
stopped me, and in another moment the
Ugly Man was before me.
Truly had McCoy said "nothing on
the breathing year h can match him !"
His face had the appearance of a recent
ly healed blister spot, . His prominent
eyes seemed ready to drop from his face,
and were almost guiltless of iids. Red,
red, red was the all-prevailing color of his
countenance even his eyes partook of it.
His mouth ruby red, looked as if it had
been very lately kicked by a roughly shod
mule, after having been originally made
by gouging a hole in his face with a nail
grab. The tout ensemble was horribly,
unspeakably ugly !
" So you have come to seen the Ugly
Man, have you, Squire? I've hearn
of you before. You're the man who took
the cencers of this county last time. I
was in Georgey then. Well, you're
mighty welcome. Old 'oman, fly round,
get something for the squire and Dick to
eat. J Lucy, aint .you got no fresh eggs?"
Lucy went out at his suggestion, and
her father went on : " They call me ug
ly, squire, and I am. My father before
me was the ugliest man in Hancock coun
ty. But I'll give you my experience af
ler supper. Bel ikes you've hearn I've
been , through the ruffs". No T Well,
when we got something to eat, I'll tell you
all about it. Old -'oman, for Heavens'
sitke do fly round the r T" -
The old li-d did -fly round,' and Lucy
got the "egg",' and between them they got
an exce'lertt nipper The purity of the
table eloih, the excellence of the cott. e,
and the freshness of ihe rgi(8, not to men
liou Lucy's good looks, were rr.ore than
a set off against the ugliness of B lly ; so
that Dick and I continued to eat quits
heartily, to the evident gratification of our
hospitable, though ugly entertainer.
Supper over, old Billy drew out hi
large soap stone pipe, atid filling it, aj
lighting, he placed it in his mouih. Af
ter a whifT or two he began :
' h's no use argufying the matter I
im ihe ugliest man now on- top of dirt.
Thar's narry' nuther '.ike me! ' I'm a
crowd by myself- l alters was, Tbe
first I knew of it, tho', was when-1 was
about ten years old. I went down to tbe
spring branch one mornin', to wah mv
face, and as I looked in the water, sen
the shadow of my face ! -That's the last
time I've seen my countenance I daresn'i
but shet my eyes when 1 to bout water.
" Don t you use a giats when you
shave T 1 inquired.
"Glass! Thunder! What glass could
stand it? twould burst it if it were an
inch thick.- Glass! oi.-h!"
Lucy told her father he was too bad,'
and that he knew it wus no sich thing.'
and the old man told her she was a 'assy
wench, end to ' hold her tongue.
"Yev he continued, ' ii's so; I hav
en't seen my face in forty years, but I
know haw it looks. Well, when
growed up, I thort it would he hard to
find a woman lhat'd bewillin'to take
me, ugly as I was'
Oh, you was not uncommon hard fa
vored when you was a young1 man.'
" Uncommon ! I tell you when I wan
ten years oi l, a fly would ut light on my
lace and it can't be much wu-s now !
Shet up, and let me tell the squire my
experience. -
'It's no use, " put in Lucy, "to be
runnir.g one's own self down, that way
daddy ! Tain't right.
"Runnin down ! Thundor and l'ght
nin', Lncy, you'll have me as hartsome
as John Bozeman, your sweetheart.'
As he said this, old Bill looked at me
and succeeded in covering the ball of his
left eye, by way of a wink. Lucy said
no more.
"Well, hard as I thort it 'ud be to get
a wife, fust thing I knowed, I had Sally,
here,- and she is or wus as purty as any
on em.
Old Mrs. Wallis knit away, and cough
ed slightly.
'tlowaever, 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 lookin,' old a the North star, and
noor n a black stiake. One dav I went
out to the lot"
"Daddy, I wouMn't tell that," said Lu
cy in the most persuasive tones.
" Blamed ef I don't tho' ii's h e
truth, und ef you don't keep still, I'll
send for Bozeman to hold you quiet in
the corner.'
Lucy pouted a little and was silent.
" Yes, I went out to the lot and thar,
sure as life, was my old 'oman, swung to
the cow, and the old thing flyin' round
and cuttin' up all sorts o' shines ! Ses I
what the deuce are you up to, old 'oman?
And with that she let go and told me she
was tryin' to practice kissin' old Cherry,
and she thort arter that she could make
up her mind to kiss me ?' ,
" Old man, you made that ! I've
hearn you tell that afore but you made
it,' said the old lady.
" Well, well ! 1 told her, squsre, ses
I, come down to it now ! shet your eyes
hold your breath ! md upon that she
bussed me so, you might have heard it a
quarter, and sence thai, nobody I as had
better kissin' than me i Now, that was
my first ixperience about bein' ugly arter
I was grown, and twan't so bad either !'
"The next time my Ugly features came
into play was in Mobile; was you ever
thar? Greatest place n green yearth:
steamboats, oysters, free niggars, furri ti
ers, biick houses that's the place! 1
went down on a fiatboat from Wetumky,
with old John Todd. We had a first rate
time of it 'till we got most to Mobile, and
then the steamboats would run so close to
us, that tie slushin' would pr tty nigh
capsize us. They done it for devilment.
How old John cussed ! but it done no
good. At last, ses I, I'll try 'tm ef thar's
enny strength in cussin', I'll make 'em
ashamed ! So the next one came alone,
cavortin and snorttn like it was gwine
right into us, and did pass up in twenty
foot ! I ris up on a cotton bag, and sez
to the crowd which there was a almighty
one on the guards of the boat sea I, 'you
infernal racket makin'snortin' sous of'
' Afore I could get any further in my
cussin, the crowd gin the most tremen
jus yearth-shakin' howl that was ever
hearn and one feller, as they were broad
side with us, hollered out ' it's the old He
ugly himself!' Jeemymiiiy! What a
mouth !' With that, thar was somethin'
rained and rattled in our boat like hail,
only heavier, and directly me and old
John picked up a level peck of hone-han
died knives!' r-Atf
Via Mrs. Wallis looked to Heaven as
if appealing there for the forgiveness of
some great sin her ugly consort had com
mitted, but she said nothing. ; ! ;
"So I lost nothing by being ugly that
time ! Arter I got into Mobile, however,
I was bothered and pestered by the peo
ple stoppin' in the street to look at me
al! dirty and light-wood smoked as I was
froul bein' on Hi bust.
went into a g.,
pie fjiioared ans,!?, a
he, i 'a on of the tiafii.
the bufciio pf the FranL.
he aied tpe to drink wi h ,
bad my tumbler half way
! atopped of a " Idea
I your pardon, at.
sci be , .. . v
Jim JUour mntth that jcay t
sex hiv " ' '
I done it. lost like I was r wiu.
drhik, and I'll be cued if I didn't Oa
I. l.t. -I" Z...M
they yelled and, whooped like a fang of
wolves Finfly t one of 'em sex, 'don't
vi v ... '.u.ltl aula Ml .
make luu r the unfortunate; bee hard
ly got over beio' blowed up yet. Let's
make up a pus for , him f Thay ; all
ihrowd in and made up fire dollars ; aa s
ma spokesman nanded me the change, he
axed me, Whr did yotl find yourself af. '
k wo 'Hmua a ; .- r ji
; H It a -Hat aeatr' ae ,.., -..v
How far from the Franklia?' sez ha. -f
- Why, sex I, I never seen her, as I
can guess, it roust have been, nigh on In '
three hundred and tuxnty-Hce miles T :
You ought to seen tho gang scatter. Aa -
they left, sez one, Its him. ft'tthe ?
ugly man of all!" ' , . ' , '
Always Begin Right. - .
We once knew an old Friend who
had but one piece of advice to young bo '
ginners: it w "If thee'll only begin '
right, all will go well." We ha vs often
thought that there was more in the re- t
commendation than even the good Quaker
saw, for there is scarcely anv thing to be
done in life to which the adage, " begin
right," will not apply. Success is but a
synonym for beginning right. - - ,,
Who, for example, is the healthiest,
the early riser or the sluggard ? It is the '"'V
man who begins the day right, by leav
ing his bed with the sun, and inhaling the
fresh air of the morning, not the one who -temains
till eight or nine o'clock in a ,
close chamber, sleeping dull, stupifying
sleep. Who gets through his days' work
the easiest? The early riser. The man '
of business, who is at his store soonest, "
is always best prepared for the customers
of the day, and ofien, indeed, has sold
many a bill before his laggard neighbors
are about. Sir Walter Scott used to
have half his day's writing finished be-'
fore breakfast. A shtewd . observer has
said t1 at a Into riser consumes the day
in trying to recover the hours he lost in
the morning. Mind and body are both
fres'iest early in the day. The lawyer
should think, the minister study, the au
thor write, the valetudinarian walk or
ride, and the mechanic or farmer be at
work as early as possible. 4.
Nor is this all. The great bulk of en
terprises that fall owe their ruin in not
having been begun right. A business ta
undertaken without sufficient capital, con
nection or knowledge. It ends unfavora
bly. Why ? Because it was not begun
right. A young professional man, whose
probationary poiied of study has been
spent n pleasure rather than in hard
reading, complains that he cannot suc
ceed. Why,' again ? Because he las
not begun right either ! A stock compa
ny blows up. Still why ? Ten to one,
the means employed are not adequate to
the end, or else it was started ith ineffi
cient officers, and in either case it was
not begun right. Two young house
keepers break up in their gay establish
ment, the lady going home, perhaps, to 1
her tamer s, taking her husband with her,
Why? Ihey did not beein neat, for .',
they commenced on too larget,a scale, for-
get-ting that tho expenses of a family in
crease every year, and that in no rvent.
is it sate for a man to live up to his in
come. An inventor starts a maniliacto-
ry, in which his improvements in machin
ery are brought into play ; but after while
he finds himselt insolvent: his factory is
sold ; another reaps where he has sown.
W hy i Alas ! like too many others, he
has undertaken more than he has means
to carry through : he did not begin right ;
and his ruin was the consequence.
But above all things, life should be be
gun right. Young men rarely know how
much their conduct, during the first few
years,, affect thejir subsequent success. It .
is not only that, older persoas, in the same -
business, form their opinions of them at
this time, but that every beginner ac
quires, during these years, habits for good
or ill, which color his liii whole' future '
career. We have seen some of the
ablest young men, with every advantage
of for une and friends, sow the seeds of
ruin and early death, by indu'ging ,. toe
freely in the first year of manhood. We ;
have seen some others, with less capacij
ty, and without any backing but industry
and energy, rise gradually to fortune and
influence. Franklia is a familiar iHut
traiion of what a mas. can do who begin
right. If he- hedbeen too proud to eat
rolls in the street when he was a poor
boy, lie never would have been Minister
Plenipotentiary to the Court of France.
Always begin right L Survey the
whole ground before you cot.vjienee any
undertaking, and you will tU.n ba pre
pared to go forward successfully. ) Neg
lect this, however, and you are almost
sure to fail. In other words, begin right.
A gooi commencement is half tbe battle.
A false step is almost certain to defeat.
Begin Kioht ! 4 , - v a
: :;f.:v-;"S
; The Cl at Monument.--It is said that
there willbe a noble monument erected to
the memory of Henry Clay, in Kentucky
the State of his adoption. In Ohio there ,
has been subscribed by two citixen of
the State, 1,000 each, and 4500 by 'a
citizen r of Mississippi, who 'refused 1o
gne his name. ;? Fayette County, Ken- , .
tnky. ha subscribed 115,000, Bourbon
f.5,0&); Franklia mere than this turn.
and otben in proportion. Other State
have subscribed liberxlW, -