The miners' express. (Dubuque, Iowa) 1849-1854, 1850-02-27
POPULAR TALES.
From the Knckerbocker.
MEETING IN A COOHEcTICUT STAGE
COACH.
NJ AN AMATEUR.

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NJ AN AMATEUR.
When speak Of kissing, don't include kiss
ing mother or sister, aunt, grandma, or the little
people; that's all in the family, and matter Of
course. mean one s wife, sweetheart, and 9TH
cr feminines, that are not kin or blood connec.
ton That's the sort to call kissing, and that
is the sort am going to describe.
There is beautiful village about twenty -four
miles North Of New Haven. called in the Indian
tongue Pomperaug. What 1t means IN iho'nh'
don't know. 1t was not taught US in the dis
trict school uu there, where we learned our
c's, and afterwards progressed as far as B-A, BA;
K-E-R, KER; BAKER; when l was allowed to
graduate and enter the youths Seminary, I'M
der the charge of the Rev. Mr.. Fuller. One of
my schoolmates in the latter place was bright,
intelligent boy, of the name of Walter Marshall.
loved him; SO did every body else in the old
village love him. He grew up to manhood, but
not ticre. No: New England boys don't grow
up at home; before they reach manhood they
are transplantcd, and are Aourishing in all parts
and ports of the known world, wherever lani
kee craft has been, or the stars and stripes
Walter Marshall, when he reached the age OF
fourteen, arrived In New ork from his native
village, in the destitute situation that is frequent
among New England boys; that is to say, he
had only the usual accompaniments of these I'M
hedged chips, who afterward make the mer-
chants and great men Of this country, and not
unfreuuently Of other lands He had a little
wooden trunk pretty we'll stocked with shum-
madcs, sixty eight cent Bible his mother pack
ed 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 a
large mercantile house in South street. His no.
nesty, 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 coun,
try on business connected with his commercial
firm in Calcutta, and did his business with the
firm Walter clerked it with; and here the latter
attracted his notice. He was sixteen years of
age only; yet the Bombay gentleman fancied
him, made him liberal offer to go to India with
him, which, after very little palaver among his
friends, Walter accepted. New England boys
don't often start off on the unusually long, wan
dering excursions, without first getting leave OF
absence for few days preparatory exercise,
which they spend in going where they original
ly came from, and then having few good looks
at the weather beaten old village church, the
high old steeple, which was wonderfully rcdI
ced in size and elevation since they first saw it.
to notice it, in school-boy days. then they mus
hear the old bell ring once more, even if they
have to take spell at the rope; then take a turn
among the white grave stones, see if there are a
ny very green mounds, fresh made, and if so
to ask who among old friends has gone to hi
last resting-pl then to kiss mother and SISTER
shake hands with father-and the stage is at thu
door of the tavern, and they are ready for star
to go sanyeohere.'
Walter went up to do, and did do all this; bu
he did not enter the stage at the tavern. He walk
ed down the road ahead of the coach toward tn
old bridge, and told the stage driver to stop an
let him get in at the minister s houseA-at Parse
Fullers. Mary Fuller lived there too, for sf
~ ~, We NIL, dana Tor
was the merriest, lovelest little witch that ev
wore long, loose tresses of auburn hair, and ha
blue eyes. She was only twelve years old, an
Walter was nearly seventeen. She dtd loH
him, though; he was all in all to her; he ha
fought her battles all through her childish can
paign, and she had no brother. She was Wa
ters cousin, too, sort of half first cousin, f
her mother had been the half sister of Walter
mother They were not too near related, f
purposes hereafter to be named.
Poor Molly! she would have cried her ey
out this occasion, had it not boon that w;
ter's solemn phiz set her ideas of the ridiculo
in motion! and she made merry ten minut
as wind-up to their parting scene. Three da
afterwards Walter was in New York; and ju
four months and twenty days farther on in Time
almanac, he was making out invoices and actir
as corresponding clerk to the firm in Bombay
shall not stop long enough to relate how m
nv times he went to the exhibition OF venomol
looking cobra de capellos biting Sepoys, just f
fun, and to show how innocent the beauties wer
and how easy their bite was cured; how otte
he visited the far-famed Elephant Caves; no
many times he dined with good Sir Robt Gran
the Governor of Bombay, and how he was wi
him, and what he said, the very morning OF II
day the old scourge, the cholera, made the e
ceilent Sir Robert his victim-all these things
shall leave to another time, and more approp
ate heading / skip over all these, and slxyes
l., Walt ats
ten Island, bring him upto the city in stea
boat, and leave him at respectable hotel, a
there let him sleep all night, and take go
sshort rest after tedious voyage oftour mont
and more.
The next morning we awaken him, make h
get up, pay his bill, take hack, and ride do1
to the New Haven steamboat and 60 aboard
is seven o'clock, A. NJ. At one P. NJ. the b
has reached the landing; his trunk and "trar
arc on board the Litchtield stage; he has TAX
a seat inside; his destination is an intermcdi
village. He is alone in the stage; no, not ale
there is an old woman in the front seat, an
Presbyterian clergyman on the middle seat.
stage is up in the city and slowly meanderlns
bout New Haven town, picking up passeng
who have sent their names to the stage office
is still customary in that staid and sober city
rninerology, theology, and other 'ologies III
neral The stage Jehu pulls up at the door
neat little cottage in Chapel-street. pass
ger, young lady OF sweet seventeen or tne1
bout Before she had fairly got inside, Wa
has noticed her, and she has noticed him too
He gazes in establishment at the perfect vi:
Of loneliness before him; he hasn't seen anyth
of the kind for some years. There is not a
ticle Of copper about her. She, on her part,
laughing, has regarded him rsry attentivel
pushes back the golden ringets that almost s
in her face, and takes another look, as if t.
certain that she has made no mistake.
sHere is a seat, miss, beside me- says the
pel-preacher.
Thank you, sir, but prefer sitting on the b
seat with that gentleman, if he will let me,
the most electrical voice that Walter had lis
ed to in some time.
Certainly, miss, said the delighted Boml
tie; and when she seated herself by him, she
led into his face with such a queer kind
mixed-up delight and establishment that W.
actually took look down upon himself t.
certain what there was about his person that
pearcd to be SO pleasing to the fair maiden;
he discovered nothing unusual. The stage
ed on toward Derby, at its usual rapid rate OF