Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1850-1854, 1852-09-24
Tale of a Shirt Collar.

bashful Lorer and is thus told:
Among his many msfortunes-fOr he was
cock-eyed red haired and knock kneed, he num-
bered the inconvenient one of bashfulness nev-
ertheless, he was fond of the ladies', although
when in their presence he never opened his
mouth he could help it, and when he did speak.
he used both hands to help him to talk in fact,
he was yourg man of great actions
Jack, one warm day, fell in love; he had just
| graduated at college, and began to think he
must seek the ladies' society. lie was getting
| to be a man, and it looked manly to have pen.
chant
So Jack fell in love with the sweetest live
Hest, most hoydenish girl in the square, but
how to tell his love? There was the rub He
had heard great deal the language ofthe eyes,
and he accordingly tried that but when he
| looked particularly hard at the window where
| Miss Emily was in the habit of sitting, some per-
son on the other side Of the street would invar-
ably bow to him, thinking he was endeavoring
to catch their eye. lie has despised expressive
| eyes ever since.
| Atlength Jack obtained an introduction, thro'
| his sister, and with her called several times but
she was obliged to leave the city for a season,
ard as On interview had only increased his ar
dor, he finally determined upon going it alone
Long before the hour fixed upon by custom for
a visit, he found himself arrayed in his best-blue
coat, metal buttons, black Cashmere pants (Said
pants belT leetle tighter than the skim and a
spotless vest. The journals Of the day state, as
an item of intelligence, that the thermometer
ranged from rs to 80 degrees. Jack swears il
was hundred. As the hour drew near, Jack
! found his courage and perspiraton oozing oGt
together, and he almost determined to pull off
and stop at home. He concluded, however, he
would take walk past the house and see how
| he felt.
BY the time he reached the mansion he firmly
| concluded not TO 90 in, but on casting his eyes
| towards the parlor window, and percevng no
| signs of life there, he though it probable that no
one was at home, and since he had gone so far,
! he would proceed farther and leave his card
! No sooner determined than concluded. In a
reckless moment he pulled the bell the darned
thing needn't make such 'cussed noise The
door was opened as if by magic. and the servant
girl politely asked him in. Miss Emily was
alone in the parlor and she would be delighted
o see him.
o Lord! here was fix Go in a dark par
/ lor with pretty girl alone 1t was tool t. re-
treat the girl had closed the front door and was
/ pointing to the parlor where Miss Emily was
sitting alone Being perfectly convinced that
no choice was left him, into the dark room he
walked or rather sided.
All was perfect chaos to his eyes for mo-.
mont; then from the deepest gloom Cume forth
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ne young ia"y WIS a,,l'oS' sun, cl,eu WIN
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cr' ieH F"iy sorry LOT MN ana oScd all heF pow
crs OF fascination 70 drlVe II from ms mnd, ana
eventually succeeded so lar as 10 induce INN TO
make remark. On tins rock he SpIIt' tor Jnst
at that moment Sne discovered she mad lost her
was sure she had it when she came in 1t must
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