Martinsburg gazette. [volume] (Martinsburg, Va. [W. Va.]) 1833-1855, 1839-08-22

1 ~ NA>-t &a6 utaeA COUSINS htk3fn. AnA kaSSt0. ana
| that too until II got quite common-bat it wasn't
| the fate Of such q poor, predeslinatcd, upkissed
sinner as |. IL drove me well nigh mad. l tried
art, plot, bribe. persuasion, every thing-but il
would mt do. Kiss me--but your tumbler's out and
you meerschaum's dying-why, my dear sir, she'd
| talk with me, walk with me. sing for ae, and gath
er the sweetest roses for me--but she would ut Kiss
me. 1t WAS outrageous. 1 vowed to endure il no
longer. To be crossed in my wishes, sir got
up one frosty morning, ran OH 10 another uncle's
and vowed I'd never go back again till | was my
own master. They told me Ellen cried for days
alter I'd gone-but my blood up, ! was mt to be
made q mock Of. to have people sneer at me,
| was gone five years. The 6rst year l was at
college, and bore my absence passahiy; for though
could not help thinking Of my cousin, | always
put myself at once ia a passion, and SO got rid Of
pretty well. But after a while 1 began To feel
mighty d~esolate, and missed the walks, the sonss,
| and the sweet roses, and often wished 1 hadn't been
IN such a hurry--but it was to no use now-ld
vowed not to 60 back till l was my own man. and
always kept my word. So when | left college, /
| thought I'd SO to see the world, aud sci on, accor.
DINGHY for the West, and betwixt hunting and FISH,
ing, 1 managed to spend q year or two very weIl.--
| had not intended to have gone beyond ST. Louis,
but | heard so much about the good buffalo hunting
just up the river near the Rocky Mountains, that |
resolved to take a run up there for q day OF two, aud
have a little shooting by way Of sport. But when |
got there | liked it so much, that l concluded 10
stay a week or two longer.
"sn l hao Deen apssnt-say, three years or
more making tours on tae fiairies' and among the
plsek-leet Indians hun'ing ouiiaios on me bills, and
smoking my pipe with the chiefs, and kissing the
Indian girls, God bless EN- when il occurred to
| me 1 was nearly twenty-five, and that it would be
| about as we'll to be a Christian again, or OF any rate
TO see how that itiue cousin OF mine was coming
on. SO SET out with a party OF traders, aad be-
twixthghting and speechiiying, managed to get TO
the mouth OF Yellow Stone, and so TO ST. Louis
and civilization. | learned a good deal in thai
shooting Jaunt to the Rocky Mountains, and came
back, as you may well supnose-as shrewd a. a
SIOUX But that's neither here nor there, and !
only mentioned it TO show mat a man that's seen
the world, hunted buffalo, and been to the mouth
OF yellow Stone, isn't to be despiaed even in kissing
| a pretty cousin, as l will show by-and bye.
" Ii was a bright, sunny day wien | rose the hill
that overlooked tho village whore 4 was born, and
where my pretty little cousin d~elt. The clouds
lay piled in fieeces at the west, or were rolled away
like massey curtains to let the sun peep out, while
his mellow beams streamed forth, lining the dam
drapery with gold, and bathing a thousand hill.,ops
with their liquid light. just beneath me lay the
village, uncovered in dark green trees, with its
modest little church steeple shining in the sumner
sunset. Beside the white spire was the church
and not far OF The parsonage, fanked on one side by
the lawyers house, and on the ether by my good old
uncle's orissocratic residence. They we're, as in all
villages they are, the best houses in tho place for
i the advisers OF our birth, our lives, and our death,
don't deserve TO live well, I'd like to know, my dear
SIR, VINO docsl f1a Uphill up, egad, we'll toast
INC whoie tnree, SIR, ana give each a bumpss-As
stopped awhlieto look, but though q crowd OF SWEEP
memories rose to my throat, and though 1 had been
10 the BLACK Hl'ls, and shot buffalo, somehow or
o'hcr' 1 could think OF nothing butmy pretty cousin
ana ! caught myself running my eyes over the land
scape 70 trace her layofite waiks-nnd then again
wanderlng,and felt a little uneasy as though.
OH -"ne.aer sho nadns got married by this time,
or, puzzlng myself to guess IT ahe was as lovely
ana as saucy asever, and sun 80 proyokingly hostile
70 Kissing her good-ior-notning COUSIN ieit a
hut;erlhg az the heart, which ended, as | rode up
10 te gate IN aqueer Kind oiteeiing, as 1.-THE blood
IN thal region mad ceased TO how, and my whole
leit siae oeen nlied up WITH lead. But recoilected
! haa snot ouiaio, ana l thought 1t was no use to
DC AFRAID Oh my pretty cousin 80 threw my bride
. : strange servant, ana walking up TO the door,
renewed niyseh Dy giving a most laundering knock.
Is E'ien IN : SAID i.
les sir' sa'd the mad, as she held the door
sIar ana stared al me as though had been a per-
rect stranger, the nuzzy! ms was mt the KIND OF
reception iancied, so just lifted my hat, and ca
Vanef,y pushed oy ner to the hall.
:, "hat name shall give bliss Barton?' said
Inc astounded maid.
-~ sn"t "as :" '"Si anu
Oh ceremonies, ana highiy indignant at the conduct
OF the mad, none-tell herl want to see her, and
throwing open the parior door walked in, flung
myself on the sofa, leaving the maid perfectly ANA
2ed that a man almost as yellow asa Creole, should
NOT only ask to see her mistress, but refuse to send
MS caro- up 10 a beauty VINO was worth nifty thou
sana dsiiafs, ana to crown all, actually walked I'M
inVned mo me parior. l heard her slam The front
aoor, ana sa" ner go up the entry wringing her
nands, but only ran my myers through my curis,
ana began cumming p,ack'ioos tune which pref
" niue inaian gifi mad learned me.
directly the aoor opened l was troubled with
that conionnaed choak and iiutter again as my pref