The Portsmouth inquirer. [volume] (Portsmouth, O. [Ohio]) 1849-1855, 1850-08-19
Notice i'm Partition.
MisfeIlaneons.
A Kissing Holiday.

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I The English correspondent of the Neu
York Commercial Ad1eriiser, gives the fol
lowing description of one of the Easter hol
idays which he passed at a small-town in thu
heart Of Stafordshire,:
4 On descending toihe little parlor of the
inn, on Monday morning, perceived thai
all the household were in their gayest attire
aud that no one entertained any serious no
tions Of work or Business. i had dispatched
my solitary breakfast of ham and eggs, ant
other country dainties, and WIS looking ou
with mixed feelings of delight and envy
upon the prospect before me, when the doc
of my room was suddenly flung open, ant
six rosy checked, ringletted young women
entered, tittering very much and looking
very foolish at each other, and then at me.
| am not vain-but 10 give the devil hi
due, am rather handsome fellow-my
mother told me SO thousand times; so
upon the whole, i was rather gratified by this
piece of .admiring attention. But 10 be left
alone ina little room, with hall dozer
girls, requires some nerve; and / began. tc
feel.rather squsmish, Fam rather bashful
besides-very bashful. and, therefore, had a
mortal repugnance to being thus exhibited
gratis, and so, to put an end to the scene,
said, mas careless tone as j could COM
mand: "What is !. The matter, Mary?'
/" Well, sir" she answered, al see you don't
understand our WAYS; out you must sit in
this chairif you pleasew And she indicat.
eda chair which | had not perceived, the
back slaves which were entwined with lau-
raj, ivy, and flowers. ~ 4.
Anxious to conciliate them, / complied
with desperate fonitude,l, Scarcely had
taken my seat, when they lifted me up in
the chair, as high as they could, three orfouI
times, laughing most oulrageously at my
looks Of bewildered horror. / gave myself
up for lost; an unfortunate young man, who
had strayed into rustic wilderness, far from
his home and his friends, entrapped, ensnar-
ed and forcibly carried away by six violently
pretty girls. But if was horror-struck at
this proceeding, Judge what was my conster-
nationwhen the leader of the assailants, that
very Mary who brought my breakfast haitian
hour before, and leered upon MEAS only a
charming, wicked waiting woman can leer,
advanced, seized me round the neck, and inn
pressed upon my half parted lips ferocious
kiss! This was the climax, dsfed desti-
ny from that instant, and resolved to meet
my fate like martyr. La, SIR said Mary,
Il declare you are quite alarmai: I must
have another just to bring you TO your SEN
ses.' And she had another, and it did bring
me TO my senses. How soon one gels used
to kissing! All my terror had vanished at
the salute of the third demsel, and | replied
to, the " lip service of the six with interest.
! got so fond of The sport that even want
ed to repeat the performance, and would
not have cared to employ the day in such
pastime. o'
'Now sir, said Mary, you must know that
this is our 'heaving day 7 to day the young
girls heaves The young men, whoever they
can catch, gentle or simple and 5to-mopow
the young men .heayes' we, il they can
cetchus; and them as don't get kiss, man
or woman, pays Forfeit was also inform
ed that il was customary togive some trifiing
gtatuity TO the ladies', 'as a keep sake : q
practice 10 which Iconlormed; giving them
q tride Of money which theyIdid not keep
long, and they left me well pleased with the
success Of their exploit while wss no less
So. 81 ~, Y. ,stss
I,rode, in The mail coach, to within two
mites Of my friends house, and walked the
remaining distances. My road laid through
narrow lanes, and across fields, until Tea me
upon small viIlsgeie Hitherto l had not
meta soul but was walking merrily on,
whislling or singing. in love with all the