Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1849-11-24
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TIE FIRST KISS.
BY AN AMATEUR.

When l speak of kissing, don't include
kissing mother, or sister, aunt, or grandma,
or the little people that's all in the family,
and matter of course. mean ones wife,
sweet heart, and other feminnes, that are
not kin or blood connection. "That's the
sort to call kissing" and that is the sort l
am going to describe.
There is beautiful village about twenty
four miles north of New Haven, called in
the Indian tongue, Pomperany. What 1t
means in Indian don't know. 1t was not
taught us in the district school up there,
where we learned our c's and after
wards progressed as far as n-A, BA; kerr,
XER BAKER; when was allowed to grad
uate and enter the ssYouth's Seminary"
under the charge of the Reverend Mr.. Full
Ter. One of my schoolmates in the latter
place was bright, intelligent boy, of the
name of Walter Marshall. l loved him, so
did every body else in the cid village love
him. He grew up to manhood, but not
there. No; New England boys don't grow
up at home; before they reach manhood
they are transplanted, and are fourishing
in all parts and ports of the known world,
wherever Yankee craft has been, or the
stars and stripes.
Walter Marshall when he reached the
age of fourteen, arrived in New York from
his native village in the destitute situation
that is frequent among the New England
boys; that is to say, he had only the usual
accompaniments of these unfedged chips,
who afterwards make the merchants and
great men of this country, and not unfre-
quently of other lands. He had a little
wooden trunk, pretty well stocked with
'hum nudes" siSty-eight cent bible his
mother packed in for him, fearful that he
might forget it, three dollar New Haven
city bank bill, and any quantity of energy,
patience, perseverance and ambition. He
entered the counting room of large mcr-
camille house in South street. His honesty,
activity and industry won him many
friends. Among them was an English
merchant who had large commercial house
in Calcutta, and branch at Bombay. He
was in this country on business connected
with his commercial firm at Calcutta, and
did his business with the firm Walter clerk.
ed it with; and here the latter attracted hi
notice. He was sixteen years of age only
yet the Bombay gentleman fancied him
made him liberal offer to 60 to India with
him; which, after very little palavel
among his friends, Walter accepted. New
England boys don't often start off on thei
unusually long, wandering excursions, with
out first getting leave of absence for few
days preparatory exercise, which they spent
. in going where they originally came from
: aad then, having few good looks at tn
weather.beaten old village church, the higl
old steeple, which has wonderfully redu
ced in size and elevation since they frs
/ saw it, to notice it, in school-boy days
then they must hear the old bell ring ono
: more, even If they have to take spell o
= the rope; then take turn among the whit
grave stones see il there are any very gree
mounds, fresh made, and II so, to ask VIII
among old friends has gone TO his last rest
ing place; then to kiss mother and sister.
shake hands with iather-and the stage
at the door of the tavern, and they ar
# ready for start to go "any where"
II Walter went up to do and did do, a
this but he did not get into the stage {
!, the tavern. He walked down the roa
n ahead of the coach toward the old bridg,
c, and told the stage-driver TO stop and let hil
get in at the minister's house--at Parse
a. Fullers. Mary Fuller lived there too, 4
she happened to be the parsons only daugl
! ter. She was the mertiest, loveliest litt
witch that ever wore long loose tresses
: auburn hair, and had blue eyes. She WI
only twelve years old, and Walter w
by nearly seventeen. She did love hlr
though he was almost all in all TO her;