The primitive Republican., 1851-06-05

For the Primitive Republican.
THREADS;
FROM TIE IIFR-FOOF or HlL HAWKINS. E8Q.l
CHAP. TX.
RIcHAnD RossER; oR, Hans SACRIFICE FOR AN
OLD cHuM
I have this day received letter from an
old playmate, Of whom I have not heard a
syllable for these but why be particular,
as to the number years? Time goes on rap
idly enough, as old bachelorism well knows,
without the additional quickening, which a
recurrence to the amount of it, which has
passed away, between this and any preceding
date, one may wot Of Besides, lam striv-
ing to adopt that very agreeable, and equally
common tenet in the canon Of public faith,
to-wit, that time runs slightly a head of me-
Enough then, that Thaanot, for an indefinite
number of years, not necessary to recall at
this moment, enjoyed the felicity of having
sight of, or sound from my friend, Richard
Rosser, OF as was in the habit then, of alb
breviating it, Dick Rosser.
On this the 18th of April, 18-but this
recorded date, might serve as a data from
which some future antiquarian, could ascer-
tain the exact time, between this, and some
future period connected with my beloved
self. 1t would in all probability read safer,
to say that on this coquettish April day, in
one of the years of the nineteenth century,
l was honored by letter, from my old friend
Dick, who it seems, has been, like myself,
drifting along on the sea of time, without
much profit to himself, or that interesting
race of animals, to which he belongs.
Dick was the son of a Dutch farmer, whose
great object on this mundane platform, was
to make handsome collection of the circu.
lating medium, and to be honest withal-a
measure requiring, something more of the
hair-splitting, by-the-bye, than falls to the
lot of common mortals. The result was, as
might have been expected. Farmer Rossel
finding he would have, either to sacrifice hii
integrity, or his visions of opulence, very con
siderately, and much to his praise, determin
ed on the latter. Dick, therefore, instead o
being the dashing heir of half million
sporting his Stanhope, and bIooded Arabians
} grew up, Injured to labor; etwith a-decidec
Hproclivity toward having lark" once an,
occasionally, in the society, which had tn
honor of an association with him.
We had become acquainted at Hig
School, some where in the latitude Of tn
+. tenth year Of our natural existence, an
from some cause, which I have never bee
= fully able to detect, mutual schoolboyis
friendship was generated between Master
Dick Rosser and Hal Hankins, much to th
uneasiness of my old grandmother, crest hC
soul) who in her discernment of characte
for which, she was remarkable, had detecte
- the germ as she thought, of promising spr
" of dissipation, in Master Dick Albeit 81
- never interdicted my intercourse with hir
whether from the confidence she placed
the principles of her grand son, or from Il
circumstance so well known through the ga
III rulousness of Dicks maiden aunt, that Fa
nd mer Rosser, was remotely allied, by blood,
of one of the noble houses of Fadcr-Land,
up was never fully satisfied. OF one thing
am sure; that is, that my venerable relatiy
1T had decided partiality for blood-oft
boasting herself, that she had in her veir
ay the noble blood of the Stuarts-a belief, t
to authorization of which, is not at this jur
he ton of her descendants historical lore,
matter, particularly desirable.
int Dick. and I, grew in mutual fondness,
a. we progressed in years, and were, at the til
i 70 of our separation at - High School, me
He NJ ern edition, of Damon and Pythias.
went his way in the higher walks ofeducatic
and mine-diferent institutions, havi
na n had the honor, of enforcing upon US, mum
Gus suspensions, beside some quarter Of
dozen expulsions.
It was on one of the sultriest days of
gust, during that hottest of Summers, will
your recollection juvenile reader, that a du
covered coach, dispossessed itself of bake
dozen (thirteen) drowsy looking individus
in front Of the Hotel at - Springs, a ia
ionable watering place, situated, to the
of my geographical knowledge, some VIII
between Portland and Pensacola. The da
ofy. skinned, yet accommodating porter, soon
ach us slowed away in neat snuggeries, eight
six feet, with the usual accomplishments
80 washstand, two-bit looking glass, towels,
ach &C., articles particularly in demand, at t
moment, by the newly arrived.
o,v Dinner served, in haitian hour, precisel
day observed the obsequious waiter, as with
twentieth genuHection, that just escape
'ey. bow, which would have done honor /
'i's' Boulevard exquisite, he retreated from
apartment, leaving me alone, with my liz
cologne-water, macassor oil, and other IN
ents, inseperablefrom watering-place dand
The bell rang, and brushed and anoiin
eo'y. within an inch Of my mortal being, I 81
tered on with an increasing crowd Of siI
49, gentlemen, . to theimmense hall. which !
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