Washington telegraph., 1846-03-18
LOVE AND SLEIGHING.


and racy articles on ..love and sleighing," "
''sleigh- riding and courting," &c. &c, but
we don't know that we ever before came
across anything SO brilliant, SO luminous,
and so perfectly satisfactory, on any OF
these subjects, rs the following remarks
which we find in an old newspaper. We
know not who is the aulho4, but we appeal
10 ihe experience of every one 0f our read.
ers who has ever gone a sleighing with
some little witch of a gill on bright neon
light night, where the writer, be his name
what !, may. has not cut right into love and
sle.,,iing--faliy d ssectcd tic philosophy Of
Them things" lie says:
IL wouldn't give a sous for sleigh-ride
unless went like whirlwind. Give me
a frosty sky, blood horses, and plenty of
new laid snow, and III whistle Of my fifteen
miles an hour, making the old trees spin by
me as if they were running of reel.-
Sleighingl it is a blessing rarely vouchsa!ed
us in these degenerate times, and when i
does come I've enough Of the Old chip in me
10 make the most OF it, kick care 10 the
kennel, and 90 whizzing heller -skelter over
hill and dale, Ike the wizard horseman, or
a o'-the-wisp gone wild.
Wasn't those jolly times when You and 1
were young. when tie winters were like
winters, and pretty girls such a in these
days would set continent on fire? Ali
the world growing worse and worse, daily;
the horses don't trot as they use 10 do; and
as for getting up your tearing sleigh. rides
by moonlight, with dozen or more vehicles
in company, all the pretty girls of two
counties, ard jokes, songs, and soft words
and merry laughter by the bushels; why i
verify believe, sir yoI could as well raise
the dead, or go to bed at night without
smoking. Then, too, the young fellows!
there are not worth a marevedi. Instead
OF the bold, manly, open air G sercise oflheir
fathers, whirliag along their sweeihearts
in the frosty moonlight. making the dear
creatures eyes dance and their cheeks tin
gle with the delicious sport, they NOPE,
and firt, aud play the iop in some hot
crowded ball room, dressed out like dane
ing masters, ecod, skipping about more
dairtily than butterflies. and shivering at
breath of cold air, as il they had an ague
fit. Pshaw CT such punv anatomiesi Id
cut off my heir with a shilling, If he dared
to ape the scoundrels-
railn, SIR, there's nothing like your sleigh
ing 10 get up love scraPe, and I'D like to
know ifany one can resist il, when he sits
so closely by the side Of his partner that he
can feel her breath upon his cheek and hear
the lowest whisper Of her trembling voice.
Then. TOO, you mzst both lie under the same
b1iialo, and your feet ariN get together, and
your hands stray naturally into each others
and by the bye, even your lips get some
what closer TO hers, and you catch yourself
kissing before you are aware oI il. All!
my boy. there's many T. sweet beauty loses
her little heart at such times, and finds
herself engaged-she scarce knows how
at the end of some moonlight sleigh-ride.
If you don't wish your daughters to get
married yet, and any gay gallant asks them
to sleighing parry, take the imPudent
scoundrel by the collar, aad battery or
no battery, cane him within % inch Of his
liie."