Sunbury American. [volume] (Sunbury, Pa.) 1848-1879, 1851-04-19
STORY OF A FIRST KISS.

lived young student-a lonely youth,
with great love for studies, but without
means for pursuing them. He was poor
and without connections. Still he studied,
living in great poverty, but keeping a
cheerful heart, and trying not TO look at
the future, which looked so grimly at him.
His good humor and good qualities made
him beloved by his young comrades. Once
he was standing with some of them in the
great square of Upsala, passing away an
hour of leisure, when the attention OF the
young men became arrested by very
young and elegant lady, who, at the side
of an elderly one, walked slowly over the
place. 1t was the daughter OF the Cover
nor Of Upland, living in the city, and the
lady with her was her governess. She
was generally known for her beauty and
for her goodness of character, and was
looked upon with great admiration by the
students. As the young men now stood
silently gazing at her, as she passed on like
a graceful vision, one of them exclaimed: !:
"Well, it would be worth something to
have kiss from such mouth :" The
poor student, the hero of our story, who
was looking intentiy on that pure and an
gelIc face, exclaimed, as if by inspiration,
"Well, l think l could have.it." "What!"
cried his friends in chorus, ''are you era
| zy! Do you know her?" etc. "Not at
ALL" he answered: "but think she would
kiss me, just now, ii l asked her." "What
in this place, before oil our eyes?" "In
|
''Freely." "Well, if she will give you
kiss in that manner, will give you a thou
sand dollars" exclaimed one of the party.
"And t." "And l." cried three or four
others, for it SO happened that several rich
young men Were in the group, and bets
ran high on so improbable an event, and
the challenge was made, and received in
less time than we take to relate it.
Our hero-my authority tells not whe-
ther he was handsome or plain,-1 have
my peculiar reasons for believing that he
was rather plain, but singularly cookbook
| ing at the same tIme-our hero Immediately
walked of TO meet the young lady. He
bowed TO her, and said, My lady (mein frau
lein,) my fortune is in your hand. She
looked at him in astonishment, but arrested
her steps. He proceeded to state his name
and condition, his aspirations, and related
simply and truly what had just passed be-
tween him and his companions. The
young lady listened attentively, and when
he had ceased to speak, she SAID, buShing,
but with great sweetness, ''If by so little a
thing so much good can be effected, it
would be foolish in me to refuse your re-
quest"-and she kissed the young man pub
licly in the open square.
Next day the young student was sent for
by the Governor. He wanted to see the
man who had dared to ask a kiss OF his
daughter in that way, and whom she had
consented to kiss so. He received him
with a severe and scrutinizing brow, but,
after an hours conversation, was so pleased
with him that he offered him to dine at his
table during his studies in Upsala.
Our young friend now pursued his stu
dies in a manner which soon made him re-
garded as the most promising scholar at the
University. Three years were not passed
after the day Of the first kiss, when the
young man was allowed to give second
one to the lovely daughter of the Cover
nor, as to his intended bride.
He became later, one of the greatest
scholars in Sweden, as much respected for
his learning as for his character. His
works will endure for ever among the
works OF science, and from his happy union
sprung family well known in Sweden in
the present day, and whose wealth OF for
tune and high position in society are re-
garded as smal! things, compared with it:
wealth of goodness and love.
REMARKABLE REGARD OF a DOC FOR !
HoRsE.-A correspondent recently Informed
us of the following curious and affecting
, circumstance ;-Happening to pass the house
of a neiahbor short time since, who occu
, pies large estate near me, saw one of tht
!, servants taking dead dog away in wheel
!, barrow 10 bury, and upon my remarking Il
S him, "What is the poor old dog dead 2
o for had known the dog for years, he nara
d ted TO me the following little incident:
> appears that the dog had contracted an eX
!, lraordinary affection for one of the wagon
- horses bnt the horse being an old one an