The Middlebury register. [volume] (Middlebury, Vt.) 1850-1882, 1850-01-22

THE FIRST KISS,
BY AN AMATEUR.

When speak of kissing, | don't include
kissing mother, or sister, aunt, grandma, or
the little people; that's in a family and a
matter of course. lmean ones wife, sweet
heart and other iemnines, that are not kin
or blood cor nccton. That's the sort to
call kissing and that is the sort | AIN going
10 describe.
There is beautiful village about twenty
four miles north Of New Haven, called in
the Indian tongue Pomperalg. What il
means in Indian, don't know. 1t was not
taught us in the district school up there
where we learned our a b C's, and after
wards progressed as far as I-A ia, K-r-R
KEE, BAKER, when | was allowed 10 gradu-
ate and enter the " Youths Seminary" un-
der the charge OF the Rev MIR. Fuller. One
Of my schooImates in the latter place was Il
bright, intelligent boy, Of the name Of Wal
ter Marshall, loved him so did every body
else in the old village love him. lie grew
up to manhood, but not hcrc. No. New
England boys don't grow up at home he
fore they reach manhood they are transplant
ed, and are lourishing mall parts and ports
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 New England boys
that is TO say, he had only the usual accom-
paniments OF those uniledged chips, who af-
terwards make the merchants and great men
Of the country, and not unirequenty of 9TH
er lands. lie had little wooden trunk
pretty well stocked with hunnddes," six
ty-eeht cent Bible his mother packed in ion
him, fearful he might forget it, a three dol
lar 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 Ills honesty, activity and industry
won him many friends. Among them wa,
an English merchant who had large COM
mercal establishment in Calcutta, and q
branch at Bombay. He was in this country
'op business connected with his commercial
firm N Calcutta, and did his business with
the firm Walter clerked it with, and here
lhe latter attracted his notice. lie was six.
teen years of age only yet the Bombay gen
ileman fancied him, made him liberal offer
TO 90 TO India with him which. after yer,
little palavcr among his friends, Walter ac.
cepted. New England boys don't often start
OF on the unusually long, wandering excur.
sions, without first getting leave of absence
Tor few days preparatory exercise, which
they spend in going where they original,
came from, and then having a few good look,
at the weather-beaten old village church
the high old steeple, which was wonderfully
reduced in size and elevation since they frs
saw il, to notice it, in school-boy days ther
they must hear the bell ring once more, G.
ven if they have to take a pull at the rope
then take a turn among the white grave
siones,see ifthere arc any very green mounds
fresh made, and if so, TO ask who, among old
friends has gone 10 his last res.ing-place
then 10 kiss mother and sister, shake hands
with father-and the stage is at the door ol
the tavern, and they are ready for a start to
go dny uhere.'
Walter went to do, anddid do all this; but