The Planters' banner. [volume] (Franklin, Attakapas Co., Lou.) 1849-1872, 1850-07-04
A kissing Holyday.

n AISS1u6 0UAy yVoys
The English correspondent of the
New York Commercial Advertiser gives
the following description of one of the
Easter Holydays, which he passed at a
small town in the heart of Staffordshire
On descending to the little parlor
of the inn, on Monday morning, per-
ceived that all the household were In
their gayest attire, and that no one en-
tertained any serious notions of work or
business. Ihad dispatched my solitary
breakfast of ham and eggs, and other
country dainties, and was looking out.
with mixed feelings of delight and
envy, upon the prospects before me,
when the door of my room was sud-
denly flung open, and six rosy-cheeked,
ringletted- young women entered, litter
ing very much. and looking very fool
ish at each other, and then at me.
am not vain-but, to give the devil
his due, / am rather handsome fel-
low-my mother told me so thousand
times so, upon the whole. was rather
gratified by this piece of admiring at
tention. But to be left alone in little
room. with half dozed girls requires
some nerves, and | confess | began to
feel rather qualmish. lam rather BASH
full, too-very bashful and therefore
had a moral repugnance 10 being thus
exhibited gratis, and so, to put a. end
to the scene, said, in as careless tone
as could command, "What's the mat
ter, Maryp .Well sir" she answered,
al see you don't understand our ways !;
but YOU must sit in this chair, if you
please.n And she indicated chair
which had not perceived, in the back
slaves of which were entwined laurel,
ivy and flowers.
Anxious to conciliate them, I COM
Piled with her request, resigning N.Y.
self to my fate with desperate fortitude.
Scarcely had taken my seat when
they lifted ne up in the chair, as high
as they could, three or four times, laugh
ing most oltra geously at my looks of
bewildered horror. / gave myself up
for lost; an unfortunate young man,
who had strayed into a rustic wilder
ness, far from his home and his friends,
entrapped, ensnared, and forcibly car
ried away by six violently pretty girls.
n But if ] was horror-struck at this pro-
cecding, Judge what was my conster.
nation when the leader of the assail.
ants, that very Mary who had brought
} NV breakfast half an hour before, and
leered upon me as only charming
wicked waiting-woman, can leer, ad'
vanced,. seized me around the neck
and impressed, upon my halfparted
lips. a ferocious kiss! This was the
: climax. defied destiny from that in
, slant; and resolved to meet my fate
like martyr. "La, SIR" said Mary
"I declare you are quite alarmed
must have another, just to bring you II
your sensesn And she had another
and it did bring me to my senses
7 How soon one gets used to kissing! AL
f nv terror had vanished at the salute O
l the third damsel, and replied to tht
r clip servicen of the sixth with interes,
: I got so fond of the sport that ever
wanted to repeat the performance, ant
4 would not have cared to employ III,
. day in such pastime.
. aNow sir,a said Mary, "you mus
know that this is our sheaving-day;;' to
1 day the young girls heaves the youn.
d men whoever they can catch, gentle o
{ simple; and tomorrow the young me-
sheaves' we, as if they can catch US
and them as don't get kiss, man O
= woman, pays forfeit" / was also il
!. formed that it was customary to Civ
i some trifling gratuity to the ladies, a
o Keepsake practice to which / cor
$ formed by giving them trifie of money
i which they did not keep long, and the
1 left me well pleased with the success
/ of their exploit, while l was no less 81
s | rode in the mail coach, to With
n two miles of my friends house, an
f walked the remaining distance. M
y road laid through narrow lanes, an
l across fields, until came upon a sma
! village. Hitherto had not met a soul
n but was walking merrily on, whistlin
i or singing, in love with all the worlt
IS not emitting the most important item
y the aggregate-myself. But as l er
Q tered the Struggling village, coul
q perceive gowns and many-colored car
9 flirting backward and forward, and ha
= an intuitive consciousness of women re
}, solved on heaving achievements, lyin
s in ambush behind impervious hedge
Q that 6lled me with strange trepidatior
:. l proceeded. however, calling up a loo
d of magnificent stand-of-or-Pll-bite-yo
J. expression thinking, in the innocenc
o of my head, to check too familiar az
|. vances by an assumed hduteur.
It Twas miserably deceived, for stron
II built young lady, in a state Of mo'
b barbarous health, came forward to NEE
n me, with an artful carelessness of mar
) net, evidently wishing to persuade m
IS that was unnoticed, and that she wa
only going. to the spring for q pail {
water; but when she arrived With
!, graphing distance, she flung her pa
+ away, clasped me rudely around th
waist, and before could say alas sh
j lifted me from my feet and kissed m
y with violence. She offered no apolog
Q for thus asuanlting me on tho Queen
highway, but t'langhed in my face in
Q moderately, and called out @Sucke.
Ipve got himp Ohdear! scarcely ha
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