Du Buque visitor. [volume] (Dubuque, Lead Mines, Wisconsin Territory) 1836-1837, 1836-05-25

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"A CHAPTER ON SHARKING.
WHEREIN THE AUTHOR SETS FORTH HOW HI
PATED, AND RETURNED SAFELY, NoTwITH
STANDING.
Of all the bright sands in Times
changing kaleidoscope, the brightestare
those, which mark the school-boy's va.
cation. These are your true diamonds
evanescent indeed, yet rife with the
lightof ,joyousness, and when they have
passed away forever, the memory Of
their loneliness fingers like heavenly
twilight upon the mind, gliding the OBJ.
scurations of after years, and fading at
last only with our sublunary being.
These are the golden sands, to which
in the school-boy's valuation, the trea-
eures Of Ophir are as the dust of the ba-
ancc. How doth he gloat upon their
pleasant sheen, as it CLEANS out from
The nebulous horoscope! How doth his
Sfull heart sink within him, as he sur
ssveys the mass of leaden and drossy mo-
sments which must be numbered ere the
Transit of these brighter hours! How
iInpatiently doth he chide their lingcr-
ing fall, which realize to his shope de-
Tered the chronicling Of an eternity!
With what an 'itching palm doth he
long to shake the sluggish glass, and
hasten the snail-paced advent of his en-
ancipation! And when at last the a.
req afas has dawned upon his expec-
fancy, how sparkle his champagne spi-
I1ts, as he springs away, exultinglv, as
IN uncaged bird, from the task and task
master Of his clustered youth! Dust
sAhall gather for a season upon his for
Alscn onlcssf .s.. u 1..-....,.
Edeserted chamber with her flmy tapes
Stry-the voice of the cricket shall echo
Smournfully from the cherries hearth
md loneliness inhabit the haunts of the
gcparted. Farewell, unerring Euclid!
Far different lines and angles are now
Traced by thy unwilling disciple,-not
on the dog-eared margent, nor on the
Ainted blackboard, but on the sunny
waters of brook or bay, where he mu-
les pleasantly by messy rock or green
wood tree, or hcaves passivcly to the
kSentie motion of the rocking skiff. His
tangent now is the lithesome bamboo,
is sine the buyant dobbcr, that taketh
he gauge of bite or nibble. Farewell,
daonian bard, and Mantuan, farc-thee-
yell! Your recreant worshipper now
zoos fairer Helens and Lavinias than
hose embalmed in your gorgeous cere-
hents. Farewell, star-scaling Newton!
With thy reluctant votary, other orbs
With their softer attractions, are in the
scendant, which perchance were new
T rocked of in thy baccalaureate phi
psophy. The levity of vacation doth
vag the head at thy sublimer gravity.
acation!-charm Of all charms the
hicf! Sweet poesie Of time!- word
rom some blessed sphere to care UNI
nown! vacation!-bright cynosure
boyhood's laughing eye and Ell Do
(ado of its eager hopes-the Mecca of
tspilgrim dreams-the term-time theme
every truant thought, -thesynonym
all 1t prizes most, unbounded free
ON and unfettered mirth!
But to my story, which, however
nscatory, is nevertheless substantially
ue, and well worthy better narrator.
1t was during the last vacation Of my
llrd college year, that l found myself
ustlc;ating at the paternal residence Of
y cnum and class-matc, Ned Ashton.
We We, We're accustomed to spend these
.engntiul holidays alternately at our
espsc,lve homes. Though Ned was
se ~ years my senior, there existed
ne closest intimacy between us; and
we were always as inseparable as
ubstance and its contiguity of shade. ;
ve had acquired the appropriate so,15s;;
pet Of the Siamese. But aside from
lr dimidial COMPROMISING, we were
er from being countcrparts, since Ned /
gas six-feet-two, without stretching
4hllc could hardly raise perpendi-
selar offve-feet-four, withatal crown
nat, and tiptoe to boot. Like the
'n NJ in the old cpigram,
.'e looked just like mile in length;
And like mile stone,
NOR did we differ more in altitude.
y, . ~ person and complexion. WAS {,
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