Fremont journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County [Ohio]) 1853-1866, 1853-05-28

men must take the offensive. | for my part, |
have made in the course of my life, at least
score of chivalrous attacks upon several
strongly fortified hearts. Sometimes began
my works too late 10 the season, and winter
suddenly came and rendered further labors
impossible sometimes | have attacked the
breach madly, sword in hand, and have been
| plunged violently from the scaling ladder into
| the ditch sometimes have made decent
Judgement in the place, when-bang! blows
up mine, and | am scatterd to the duce
and sometimes when have been in the very
heart of the citadel-ah, that should say il
"a sudden panic has struck me, and have
run like the British out of Car,hagenal One
grows tired after while of such perpetual
activity. Is it not time that the ladies should
take an innings? Let us widowers and ba-
chelors form an association TO declare that for
the next hundred years we will make love no
longer. Let the young women come and
make love to US; let them write us verses; let
them ask us to dance, get US ices and cups of
tea, and help us on with our cloaks at the
hall-door; and if they are eligible, we may
perhaps be induced to yield and say "La,
Miss Hopkins-I really never-I am SO agi-
tated-ask papa!,
My day is over, however, my race is run,
and the above hin. is only thrown out for
those who shall come after me. But in the
matter of love | showed my genius early; and
if in after times | achieved, AS shall be shown,
vast and signal victories over the fair sex, this
fact only proves my merit and courage the
more; for in my first affair | was wofully
unsuccessful
All that first affair, how we'll one remem-
bers it What noble discovery it is that
the boy makes when he finds himself actual
ly and tr1ly in love with some one What
delicious, magnificent secret it is that he car
ries about with him My first love was like
my first gold watch IAN elegant French gold
contemplate and goat over my treasure to
take it to bed with me, and lay it under my
pillow of nights, and wake OF mornings with
the happy consciousness tina; it was there
What change does that blessed first love
make in lad You fall in love, say Of a
Sunday; young woman at church modestly
hands you the psam.book, and bushes and
drops down her eyes, as she tremulously sings
the Old Hundredth. BY the time the music
is done, you have passed over into new state
of existence, and your childhood lies far
away from you. 1t was only on Saturday
that you had made party for cricket and
were longing for Monday to be fine day
1t was but last Friday, Heaven bless US
that you and Harry Hunter had been exam
ining curiously a certain appletree in Farm
, er Smiths orchard, and had settled (afler
It knocking down one of the fruits with stone.
e and trying each Of you slice ofiD that the
e apples would be ripe in about a fortnight and
S the tree in fit state for robbing. Pshaw !
0 is it possible that only three days since you
/; had an ambition for robbing orchards. and
!, looked forward to the pleasure of hiding a
e store Of the stolen pippins under your bed !?
e Is it possible that the setting up of three yel-
y low stumps upon meadow, and the dexter
Fl Gus knocking down of them, should have been
s. the chief ambition of your life There lies
S. the cricket-ball. which you creased carefully
m over night before going to church even, you
Of looked at it to examine its condition, and
t; believe spent the best part of the haf-houl
1t during sermon in the morning in cutting q
pair of bales for the wickets. Evening ser
y vice is over. Fanny Edwards and her moth
Of er have slowly strolled home over the field,
ut to tea; and as you pass by Smiths apple
n tree, you blush to think that you could evei
Is have had longing for the silly green codns
Or shining among the leaves, and put away youl
OF wicket sticks in rage. And what is the
cause of all this :? You and Fanny have beer
to holding on by one hymn-book you havs
III done it any time these six years but wha
re made her blush and you tremble SO thi
A. time : She is eight years older than yor
is THAT follows, of course) ; and if there was
is humiliation for you in the world some few
n, months back, it was to be obliged to wall
ne with her
til What change now !--ab, gods, what
b. royal change How different is Fanny Ed
n, wards What has happened to her that sh
MS has become an angel since yesterday ? o.
81 what strange enchantment has fallen upol
le you, that she should seem like one Shal
es VIC 20 on in this strain, and discourse through
of this entire chapter upon the nature and pc
er culiarties of love, and its influence upon th
youthful bosom No, no such things hat
It. best be thought about, not spoken Of LIE
"a any man who has mind to do so fall bacl
70 in his chair, dropping the book OF. of hi
a. hand and call back the sleeping sweet remi
as nscences of his early love-days, long befor
N he ever saw Mrs. Jones. She, good woman
10 has sent down half-a-dozen times already t.
g. say that tea is waiting, Never mind sit still
al Jones, and dream on. Call back again tina
a. early, brilliant, immortal first love. Wha
~ matters what the object of it was Per
IN haps butchers daughter down the village
,e perhaps great skinny, ogling French COVER
10 ness perhaps a fat, meek, fair haired clergy
te mans daughter that was ten years olde
w than yourself, as a matter of course.
" Never mind who it was it is not of tn
at least consequence. AS general rule, moth
la inu Games of n first love and n wise AM
IT. lucky chance it is, loo for ten to one tn
er object of it is unworthy, and the gratidcatio
.al of it would make a poor lad miserable 70
a life. And it has always appeared to me tina
", the tender passion in due season gushes in
is stnctively out of mans heart and that h
er loves as bird sings or a rose blows, from ma
sir ture, and because he cannot help it, AS
TO have read in a Persian song boob /:
cd "The nightingale sings in the garden
by perhaps it is princess who hears his music