Wheeling times and advertiser. [volume] (Wheeling, Va. [W. Va.]) 1839-1849, 1845-11-11

partial showers. that we must naturally have
rakcda large quantity Of Salt, but no-when
TIE pans were in II state, and ON the very eve
oi pillg rdksd, down comes u shower and de
Stroys 1t. This has happened -four tunes this
year.
a KISSING HOLLlDAY.-The English
correspondent of the Commercial Advertiser
gives the following description OF one of the
Custer Holidays, which he passed ut Il small
town in the heart of Stsflordshirc:
ION descending to the little parlor of tile
inn, ON Monday morning, | perceived that all
the household were in their gayest attire, and
that no one entertained any serious notions of
work or business. | had despatched my sol
itary breakfast of ham and eggs and other
country daiuiies, and was looking out
with mixed feelings Of delight and en-
Wy upon the prospect before me, when the
door OF my room was suddenly flung open.
and six rosy-cheeked, ringletted Young women
entered, uttering very much; and looking very
foolish at each other, and then at me.
81 am not vain-but, To give the devil his
due, j am a rather handsome iellow-my mo-
tller has told me so thousand times-so. up
on the whole. j was rather gratiied by this
piece oi admiring attention. But to be left
alone ma little parlor, with half a dozen girls,
requires some nerve, and | confess | began to
leel rather quaintish. | am rather bashful.
bcsides-very bashful-and therefore had a
mortal r~epugnance to being thus exhibited
gratis, and So. 10 put AN end TO this scene, |
said, in as careless a tone as ] could command,
"What's the matter, Mary?'
"'Weli, sir, she answered, II see Won don't
understand Our ways, but YOU must Sit i'm this
chat" II you please" And she indicated a
chair which | had not perceived in the back
slaves OF which We're cntwined laurel, ivy
and flowers.
anxious to conciliatc them, | complied
with her request, resigning myself TO my fate
with desperate fortitude. Scarcely had | IA
ken my seat, when they held me up in the
chair, as high as they could, three or four times,
laughing most outragcously at my look of be-
wildered horror. ! gave myself up for lost, an
unfortunate young man who had strayed into
a rustic wilderness, far from his home and his
friends, entrapped and forcibly carried away
by six violently pretty girls. But i'll was hor-
ror struck at this proceeding, judge what was
my CONSERVATION when the leader of the assail-
ants, that very Mary who had brought my
breakfast hall an hour before and leered upon
me only asa charmingly wicked young woman
can leer, advanced, seized me around the neck
and Impressed upon my half parted lips a
i%erocious kiss. This was the climax. Idefied
destiny from that instant, and resolved TO
meet my fate like a martyr. LA, SIR said
Mary, you are quite alarmed, | must have
another 10 bring you TO your senses" And
she had another, and il did bring me to nv
senses. How soon one gets used to kissing!
All my terror had vanished at the salute of the
third damsel, and repaid the lip service of the
sixth with interest. l got so fond of the sport
that even wanted TO repeat the performances,
and would not have cared to employ the whole
day in such pastimc.
"Now, sir" said Mary, 'you must know
that II is our 'heaying day to-day the young
girls heaves the young men, whoever they
can catch, gentle or simple; and o-morrow
the young men heaves we, If they can catch
us, and them AZ dom get a kiss, man or wo-
mau, avs forfeit" / was also informed that
IT was customary TO give some trifing gratuity
TO the ladies asa keepsake; a practice to which
l coniorIned, by giving them a trile Of money
which they did not keep long, and they left
me we'll pleased with the success of their cx-
plot, while | was no less so.
i rode on the mail coach to within about
two miles of my friends house, and walked
the remaining distance. My road lay through
narrow lanes, and across fields, until | came
upona small village. Hitherto | had not met
a soul; but was walking merrily on, whistling
or singing, in love with all the world, not O.
uniting that most important item in the az
gregate-myself. But as | entered the strag-
Cling village, | could perceive gowns, and
many colored caps, fitting backwards and
forward, and had an intuitive consciousness of
women, resolved on heaying achievements, "
lnSin ambush behind mperyious c 'ges; which
hlled me with strange trepidation. Ipro-
ceeded, however, calling up a look of magnif-
iccnt stand-oll-or-Ill-bite-you express
slon,-thinking i'll the innocence of my head.
10 check too familiar advances by AN assumed
hdUteUr.
81 was miscrably deceived, for a strongly
built young lady, i'll "A state of most barbarous
health, came forward to meet me, with an aw-
iul carelessness of manner, evidently wishing
to persuade me that | was unnoticed, and that
she was only going to the spring for a pail of
water; but when she arrived within graphing
distance, she flung her pail away, clasped me
Tudcly around the waist, and before | could
say alas, she lifted me from my feet, and
kissed me with violence. She offered 10 a.
pology for this assaulting me, on the Queen.
highway, but laughed i'll my face immoderate.
~, and called out, 'Sukey, Eve got him.
Oh dear! oh dear! scarcely had she spoken,
before Sukey, and Bet, and Polly, and a dozen
others, sPrang into being from invisible pla.
ces, and / was surrounded by a laughing.
shouting group of unfeeling, robustious fe-
males.
81 expostulatcd and entreated i'm vain:
was pulledabout, lifted up, and kissed without
mercy, till, making "A desperate rally. / bursts
from their embraces, and fed along the land
at the top of my speed. followed by derisiye
cheers from my baffled prosecutors, and shout
OF laughter from their husbands. fathers and
brothers, who lad left the Red Lion to see the
sport"
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From Hoods Hand Book of SDain.
ROBBERS IN SPAIN.
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