Litchfield enquirer., 1835-01-15
A RAcHELOR's REVERIE.

snv having WIte aOO mousse tuu " "NS rpsponsibiiites," as Fanny Wright calls them HeighO! I'n getting to be--nO, not m'od'e svpd reptleman, for I've been that, any time Ihe Iast ten years; no, Im gentleman dechn- ing io years and may advertise for house keeper N withOut giving handle to scandal to make free with my character. Twenty-nVe wears agO.a and should have aIfrOnted the man who fOretold this 1; that should be sitting thus dav in an arm chair, newspaper tn han0' hreakfa before me, one foot On cushion, l and Only one cup and two eggs on tab!e'- Newspapers are stupid things; I'd much ra- finer chat over my mUrniHg meal. Why the deuce am not married? Nobody makes lea At to drink DOW and the toast never comes up hot. What capital tea Lucy Smith used to make. Poor Lucy wonder what made me think Ofher People said Lucy and | would certainly make match, and SD we should, | suspect, if it hadn't been Tor tna! cursed cousin of hers. I'm sure sne wou'9 kept putting it of, and putting it Of day alter dav. and he-cut me out. and be hanged to him. was gentleman then, and thought could marry whenever I liked. They went away ,o the west and got rich; he's mem Der of Congress, and she's got fat, and rides about in her carriage, with two or three grown up daughters; pretty girls too, as am told. but they'll never be like their u1Other.-- l,ve a riband of hers that she used to wear Pound her slender waist, that bribed her It. tle brother to steal for me, with the loan ofmy fowling niece and sometimes, when tt rains and 1 feel sentimental, take 1t out ot my writing desk, and look at 1t awhile, and thlnk m throw it into the fre-but don't, though, and it is yet in the secret drawer with my mo- iher's picture, and the last lock of my own 'eRNl- seu1G way: nobody seems to suspect that my curls are not the natural crop. Lucy used to say that my hair was beautiful, and Tm almost sure she cut oft lock once, when was asleep on the sofa. wonder if she has lost any of her splendid teeth; mine have stood 1t out pretty well, bat they are going. Parmtey said hers would last long time, and he ought to know. must go to him. and get him to make \ couple of new ones. What shall d." with myself today? I've given up business and made money enough to last me my time. I've m one 10 leave it to when I'm gone.--. Where's the use of adding dollar to doiiar,a ,and acre tO acre, unless one has children to set up ! Nine marriages in the papers to-day! Nine husbands aud nine wives created since yester' day morning. dare say they'll have young sprouts--say four piece on an average
 ikat's thirty.six little mouths to be stuffed
 
 feet to buy shoes for, and two hundred and eighty eight little fingers to wash and keep clean! No fool of job that for nine papas and mammas! ! was always remarkably fond of children.
 There is a new married couple moved into the house over the way. on purpose to plague me, I do believe; they seem very fond ol mi @aa as5 8FfaA1,4 al paReyu ullse HeeFss 5n that I'm almost tempted to wish they migh, break their necks before they come back.- That's nice little girl that has come to stay with them, during the honey moon she's the hride's sister or something, dare say; the prettiest foot aud the most roguish eyes I've ever seen--except Lucy Smiths. wonder sf she's engaged to be- married don't see any very suspicious young man at the door, and -. But what the deuce is 1t to me whether she is or not? rm an old bachelor, and must go down to the grave without leav- ing any body to cry for me. should like though 10 see the girl nearer; it's easy en- Ough tO get introduced into the house, and though I'm too old to marry. there's no req. son that know of why an old fellow like me. shouldn't do the polite thing to new conner into the nsighborhood. l'vea new coat com. ing home. that my artist says. will make me IOOA httseu years y"unger-rather imperti. nent by the way. And rm not SO amazingly old. after all. When sat down to break ast, ! felt rather blueish, and thought myself quite Methusaieh. P0h, no such thing; | can walk as briskly as ever--almost-I can ride, sing. dan-nO. had better leave out the dancing; but what of that? I'm a gOnd look. ing middle aged man. tired Of Ewing alone, and hang me but I'll make ONe more try for the ring, if ! die for it. There's pretty girl over the way, and I'll send over basket of grapes with my complimentary. r. Mir.
 Lost Children found. Some of our readers will remember the account published some two or three years ago, of the loss of three children in Upper Canada, one the grand. child of Augustus Bates, Esq, formerly of Darien. We have just received a letter from MT. Bates. giving US the pleasing intelligence, that after an absence of three years, one of the little wanderers, now ten years old, has found hts way back tO his psrents. and told where the other two are yet alive Aud in good l health. Our correspondent gives a brief ac. l count ofthe lads adventure as related by him. | selE
 Seen atter the children had lost their way. | they were seized by party of Indians and l conveyed adistance in the wilderness to their camp. The I0dians kept them SO close, tha, not finding them aiter many weeks of diligent search. their parents supposed they must have l perished with hungep. or become prey to l wild beasts. The lad states that some time | last summer, party of the Indians took hin |