Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1847-11-10

= RAVENNA OHIO VHHpNISDA AY, NOV. TO- 1sH

neighborhood quarrels, and the last sermon
till he fell asleep; and then talked, laugh
ed, pulled candy,Ssand played Fox and
Geese with sLizzy, while =-''
sOh! Tom, you played the Fox in an
other game while old Temple was snoring
and bIoaved, eh:'
Med, you're insuferable! By the inr-
mortal Jove! you interrupt me again, Pm
off to our club, and you may fill up the sto-
ry at your leisure
sI'm dumb!'
4 was in sad pickle, Ned. My pas
sion for Lizzy, fed by daily sight of her
beauty and girlish grace, swelled like a
creek in January thaw, but it had no out
let. It would not do to be known as Teach
er and lover. had nothing to do but to
look and love, and long, and keep my
mouth shut. O Tantalus! said l, with
tolerably accurate apprehension of his
doom. o Tantales, born of eternal thirst!
looking forever, with parched mouth, and
burning eye-ball, upon water-cool, invit-
ing, bubbling up to thy very lips, which
thou must not taste, here's fellow to match
thee! Thou art miserable, ,unquestionably;
but just let the gods take away the water,
and put Lizzy Temple in its place, with
like restrictions, and reckon you wouldn't
made much by the change! Hang me,
Ned, if don't think he would have lost by
it. Love is a troublesome thing, when it
gets into fellow and can't get out. If
those unfortunate swine into whom the dev-
lis entered of old, felt half as bad as l did,
l don't wonder they cut for the sea. be-
lieve the only thing that saved me from a
straight Jacket, was the certainty that few
months would close the Internal school and
give me chance to worship freely at the
shrine of this beautiful Temple
sThe time came at last said Tom, with
most lugubrious expression, in which the
pathetic. the dismal, and the reckless we're
curiously blended. sThe term closed, and
l was as happy, Ned, as French prison
er, breathing forth the old sunlight and lib
erty. No sooner had the last scholar dis
appeared through the door, with his green
satchel slung over his shoulder, than leap
ed to the middle of the floor, and broke into
hornpipe, that would have beaten the
witches in sAlloway's auld haunted Kirk.
The sweetest hope Of winning Lizzy, so
long repressed, acted upon me like a
draught of exhilerating- gas; and faith,
ksaid Ion; sadII y. n inclined to think II
was about the same thing!
two evenings afterwards took walk
with Lizzy. We sauntered through the
village, and into the park; and there, be-
meath the stars and the sweet moonlight,
told her my earnest-passionate love.
forget exactly what said, but it was ten
der, [ assure you,-and worse than that, ii
was truthful; for love her as warmly as Alb
erland his Heloise. At that time never
expected to smile again if she said mo.
Well, Ned, told her all-and then ventur
ed the ugly question:
Here TOMS voice grew husky, and bead:
of perspiration began to appear on his fore
head. There was a convulsive tWitch too
about his eyes and the corners ofhis mouth
when, after looking minute OF so, in pro
: found silence, at his boots, he turned to m
and asked,
sWhut do you think her reply was
Nedl
Couldn't guess, Tom: probably she in
timated that she was too young to marry
Or perhaps, she would like to examine
few more goods before she made a selec
tion!'
NO you could not guess it, Ned
piece of unwomanly cruelty! She'-Ton
was becoming very much excited-'sh
said, with heartless laugh that rings il
my ears yet, that she never liked Geometry
and thought it would be exceedingly du
, to be all ones ife-den,onstrating Iria'
, gzesp
The next morning found myself il
'. bed; but when | went, or how got there
I never knew. There was q pannel OF
Of the door, broken chair in the midd
, ofthe room, and my very best broadclot
;. coat was hanging on the candle as an e:
tinguisher. Three months afterwards ST
married that young scoundrel whom | hi
, fogged so soundly for loving her!'
'Ha! ha! ha! Forgive me, Tom for
: ha, ha, ha, hal
Ned said Tom, with a melancho
smile, e,-sNed, pass those cigars?'
= ~Col. Martin Scott, who was kill
"a in one of our sanguinary battles before tt
city Of Mexico, in Gen. Worth's divisio
g was native of Bennington, Vt. He w
4 educated at West Point, and from tn
y school entered the army some thirty yea
u ago He has since then seen much ha
y service, and conducted himself always wi
!, :, great caution, skill, and kindness. In h
y youth, he was famous among the shal
) shooters Of the Green Mountains, very fe
l. of whom could perform feats to be compar
10 with his. He never shot game in Il
body; but at whatever height or distanc
always struck the head. He would dri'
q nail into board part way with hamme
e and then taking the farthest distance
| which his eye could distinctly see it, dri'
a it home with his unerring bullet. He h
IS always been much respected and below
u bv his townsmen for his amiable al
d benevolent qualities associated with tt
e most exact integrity. With modera
9 income, he has so economised, in h
', personal expenses, as to support his o"
II family, and very essentially to aid tV
IS maiden sisters, several nephews, and 9TH
Is Is relatives, who, with his wife and immedia
u family, now at Milwaukee, are lett
II mourn his loss. How these hearts ble'
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