Martinsburgh gazette. [volume] (Martinsburgh, Va. [W. Va.]) 1810-1825, 1824-03-18
BACITELoR,s PLUMBERS.

Printers, that have been always in the |
right. On the contrary, | do not be-
ieve there is single bit of irifallability
about me- Ihaye aimed through life
OF no incohsiderable length, and mark
ed By not 4 few vicissituds, TO do the
best I could for myself and others, and
i'll have failed, the error has been of
the head not the heart 1t can scarcely
, be called singularity not to have been
married; at all events, in that respect,
| am like Timothy,
My Looking Glass tells me, as far as
| am competentto judge, | posssss a
goDd regular set offeatures, moder-
ately delicate form, and my mother
| used TO say, / had quite as much wit
as any Of the Pinch family; all these
| matters have kept as articles Of most
| religious faith, and in reviewing my
past life; in their light | can never
| bring myself to allow that any thing but
my own individual heart and the sober
agency Of my judgment, caused the
| final issue Of al my social tits with the
gentlemen, which for number, equal
those which the oldest bachelor Id the
country can boast OF. 1865
Ia our town of Harfowlch, we had
a fashion when was girl, of counting
by moonlight to the sound of jinging
sleigh bells, and behind pair of spirit
ed bays. I loved sprightiy jockey of
a little fellow once, but he spoiled all
by driving me to the crossroads one
evening with the horses all>the way on
a gallop, something whispered in my ear
| a couplet of the old ballad.
| A man that drives his horses hard
May chance to drive his wife
| I was moi al homer the next time he
called, and as he saw me at the window
he took the hirt.
chose never to keep man in sus-
pense an hour after had determined
not to have him for a husband, if he Of
fered himself. / made my calculations
according to my own ideas Of propriety
/ in their general behaviout. One came
to see me seven months constantly, and
| said nothing about love. concluded
not to wait any longer; though | had
no real objection to him. smother
offered himself, hand and heart, after
an acquaintance of s weeks, told him
| tor goabo6tShis business, he had neither
common prudence nor common judg-
| ment. And third wa, forever telling
me how many conguests he had made.
| told him at last that l had sufficien-
cy of his company, and desired him to
be particular to mention III his future
variations to others, that my heart was
not among the number Of those which
had fallen victims to his seductive pow
ers.
To pass over at least as many affairs
as your correspondent does, in which ]
was engaged, with all the variety of
beaux from the starched mincing dandy
of the holiday ball room to the solemn
and tongueless, and half shaved dud-
geon of the farm house,, came to an adj
venture of no common occurrence.
was engaged to be married to a young
merchant; my wedding clothes were
ready; he vas gentleman who set a
high value on his taste; be wanted me
to wear blue sasIisI preferred white
one; he got in petabout it, and con-
Guided had at last got sight of a c,oven
foot proposed that instead of pumps
he should ware boots, he did not like the
interference. Sdre'y thought It's a
bad rule that don't work both ways. I
put off the tir1e-took second thought
about the matter, and broke off the
match. A man that sets himself up as
lord at the threshold will be tyrant
IL the house. Inever blamed myself for
the step.
Once | listenedto fop of fellow,
who wore ruffies and blue broad cloth;
he spent dollars where he should
have only paid cents. l left him off. A
mother used to come to my fathers
house with his dog and gun, they wanted
me to listen to him, but told them that
one who bestowed SO large portion of
his affection ON dogs had not enough
left Tor a wife-I rejected him. A third
suitor was in the habit Of swearing, po-
litely to be sure; could not but think
such a one bad no business to be a IA
Their le got his walking papers.
In hne, with tolerable fortune, and
some beauty, through inability to find
one tolerabIe unobjectionable man for
husband, remain in single life. Hap
pv IN the recollection that If to be single
is to err, my error grew out of misfor-
tune,