Show getting litsin fits in a clothing store lewiston falls mp ko is a place it is you cant exactly fin findig diton on the map for it has been located and incorporated since mitchells latest but its ita there a manufacturing city as large as lifes lafr with banks barber shops newspapers and all the usual fixtures and appurtenances of a locomotive go ahead a head yankee settlement just about the newest tiring thing in the new spity is a 4 new cheap clothing stare that up or trained rained down lately on the jonass gourd or gladdins Alad dinn dins palace principle and add which 0 by the 09 slime same dispensation he became eme endowed wed with a cutest yankee tales salesmen mT tb atthe D ogo state ever turned out r ony da an upriver up river young on an who is dp I 1 about to forsake father and mother and cleave unto wancy nancy aon ann came down to pet get Ws wedding suit and was of course I 1 jest pate paternally rally i bround to find his way into the new cl clothing store not that he sauntered in with mith the easy 11 swagger of the towo towa bred searcher after cheap clothing for the vernal tint was tolerably itress areiti op on him yet and he stopped to give a modest rap at thedoor the door he had effected an entrance at A the gristmill grist 7 t mill ill I 1 and n d at the journal office here he i fad nad an been d doing 0 ing business in the same unobtrusive sive I 1 manner and the boys boya all agreed that mr nehemiah niah B was from the gulley and was paying his virgin visit to pekin nehemiah was let in and he e was delighted at the cordial reception he met with the proprietors were ready to Ifor forward waid his suit at once if he saw fit or they would take measures and furnish him to order nehemiah drew a handbill from the top of his hat and spread it upon his knee for easy reference it was headed beaded in fat gothic letters winter clothing at cost and set forth that in consequence of the mildness of the season over five hundred thousand dollars worth of ready made clothing was to be closed up and sold out at I 1 enormous sacrifice A list of prices followed and nehemiah running his stumpy fingers down th column I 1 i ait lit with emphasis on a particular item say vye got enny of these blew cotes left at five dollars od nd five naf nd six dollars got I 1 ermy enny or em cm left smith smitha are there any of these cheap coats left enquired the mark of his partner we sold the lot last this morning did we not understood the cheap clothing business and answered promptly all gone sir jest Jes jesusi tsI s1 sa expected 2 murmured the disappoint ed candidate seize seiz etall t all I 1 told dad be all gone 1 1 we have a very lupei bior 0 r article for ten dollars scarcely Scar eely squire scarcely ten dollars is ia an all fired price for a coter cote WP can make younne you one to order yes Y es but I 1 want it kaow want it rite strut off on fact is squire I 1 must hey hev inn un you d find those cheap at ten dollars dun know babut it say vye got enny of these dew rahe doeskin trousers trow sers left at tew dollars sold them all tew lew faint ye faint none 0 0 them hev yel ye JF luckily theremese there ther were emere a few left and nehemiah was advised to secure it a pair at once nehemiah was open for a trade but acting up to the instincts of the New begins it must be a dicker I 1 dew yeou ever tek uce for your clothing take what i garden sass and sich don t dew it dew yeou I 1 well occasionally we do what have you to sell oh almost anything any thin a beetle of everything every thing from marrow arow fat peas down to rye straw got some new eider cider some hightop high top sweetings sweepings swee tings got some of the all dried punkin yeou ever so sot t eyes on geow like some of that dried punkin mark declined negotiating tor for the llie anea punkin if he had bad any good butter ag good G o o d butter kaow squire I 1 expect ive got some of the nicest and est yeou ever sot feour eyes on oneat got some out here kaow got some in a box bout in dads wa baggin agin I 1 brot it darwn for kurnal waldron but yeou ken hev it ill bring it right strut in here darned ef I 1 daon tand and with all the impetuosity of youth Nehei nehemiah niah shot forth to dad dads s wa wag 9 gin and brought in the butter on the strength of the butter a dicker was speedily contracted by which nehemiah was wak to be put in immediate and absolute possession ot of a coat ve stand pantaloons all of good material and fit I 1 I 1 I 1 now then said mark what kind of a coat will you have 11 1 I reckon ill hev a blew un squire I 1 yes but what kind a dress coati coat certainly squire certainly just what I 1 want a co coti ta for tew dress in ali ah exactly well ast look at those plates pointing to the fashion plates in the window land and ape what style you tancy fancy oh darn feour plates damont want any crockery s peat nance has got the all lot of arthen ware ever sot eaps ea on yes I 1 see well just step this way then and I 1 think I 1 can accommodate you nehemiah Nehe speedily selected a nicci nice blue aluf coat and vest of green but lie was more fastido fastidious IOUs I 1 in his choice of pants those crowning glories of his new suit he beeme seemed d to indulge a W weakness eak fo for r long pantaloons and complained that his last pair had troubled him exceed exceedingly angly or as he expressed it abla blam edly by hitching up over his boots and wrinkling about the knees nehemiah delved away impetuously amidst a a tack stack of two or three hundred pairs and finally his eyes rested upon a pair ot of lengthy ones real blazers and with wilh wide yellow stripes running each way nehemiah snaked them out in a twinkling he like them ahem they were long and yellow they were just the thing and lie he proceeded at once to try them on the new clothing store had hada a nook curtained for this purpose and nehemiah Nehei riah was wag speedily closeted tl irein I 1 i the pants had simps and the straps were buttoned now nehemiah had seen straps before hot the art of managing them was a mystery and like sir patricks dilemma required a mighty dale aale of nice consideration on deliberation he decided that the hoots boots must go on first he accordingly drew on his I 1 bluchers Blu chers mounted a chair elevated the pants at proper angle and endeavored to coax the legs into them he had a time of it his boots were none of the smallest and the pants I 1 though long were none of the widest the chair I 1 too tao was rit ketty and bothered him but bending I 1 his energies to the task he succeeded in inducing one leg into the pesky things he was straddled like the colossus of rhodes ana I 1 juskin busl in the act of raising the other foot when a whispering and abd giggling in his immediate vicinity made him alive to the appalling fact that nothing but a thin thia curtain of chintz separated him from twenty or thirty of the prettiest and wickedest wick edest girls that were everin ever in one shop ship I 1 I 1 Nelie nehamiah wasa was a bashful youth and would have made a of a mile tiny any day rat rather her than meet those girls even had he been in full dress as it was his bis mouth was ajar at the bare possibility of making his ap appearance arance amoni amongst them in his hiis present dishabille what if ihre ih re was a hole in the curtain cui curtain tain what if it should fall it bear thinking of and plunging his flop foo into the vacant leg with a sor aart t of f frantic antic asen looseness ss he brought on the ve very ry cafa catastrophe strophe henits he so go anxious s to avord avoid th the chair collapsed coHa with a sudden pitching in g nehemiah e cemiah lah head aver over heels through the curtain t and d he ma made dahis his grand entrance among the mit stitching ching divinities on an all fours like a fettered rhinoceros collier himself never exhibit eda more striking group of tableaux viv antes than was now displayed nehemial nehemiah was a 1 ri model iodel every inch of biro and though not exactly I 1 resolving on a pedestal he be was going through that move inove I 1 ment quite as effectually on his back kicking plunging in short personifying personify ing in an thirty seconds all the attitudes ever chi selled As ad for the I 1 gals they screamed of courar jumped camped upon u P on chairs ind and the board thre their ha hands rids over ahe ur fa faces s peeped through their fingers 1 screamed again and declared declai ed athe they should die they knew they should I 1 oh lordy blubbered the distressed dis frisse young I 1 un dont holler so gals dont I 1 didn dian t go gotee tew I 1 I 1 a swan W an lew mai I 1 its all owin tew those cussell cus every mite out i ask I 1 yer bo boss es hell ht tell ye how oh lordy wont me up ap with old cl clothes othas or turn tarn the wood box over me oh moses in in the I 1 bull rushes bancy syl I 1 he i managed to raise himself on his feet ani and made a bold boid sp 1 large toward howarda i the door but his I 1 1 1 I 1 I 1 I 1 1 gen entangling tangling alliances tripped him up again as he fell ell ker slap upon the hot goose of the pressman man this this was the unkindest kindest un cut of all the copse tad had belati heated expressly for thick olath seams andla and the way it sizzled in the seat sat of the new pans pants was afflicting to the wearer I 1 nehemiah bizup in an instant and seizing the source of all his troubles by the stack alack he tore himself hi in self lere e fr from rn all save the straps and some pant alet tike fragments that hung bung abent his an cles as he dashed through the door of the emporium at a two forty pace nehemiah niah seemed to yearn with the poet for aa a lodge in some vast wilderness and betrayed a settled purpose to flee from the th e busy haunts of men for the last seen of him he was capering up the railroad cutting like a seared scared rabbit the rays of the declining sun flickering and dancing upon a broad expanse of shirttail shirt tail that fluttered gaily in the breeze as he headed for the nearest wood boston bosto n yankee blade 11 |