Wisconsin tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1847-1854, 1853-09-08
Popping The QHfSiinn

W hat a curious sensation that is.
Which troubles man upon such a mission
Why does the elegantly arranged sen.
tcnce, studied with so much care In ordcr
IL avoid iormality and familiarity hegin
to seem bald, and bold and bungling inst
as It is about to be wanted Why is il
finally revised upon the coarse mat in the
hall, and utterly rejected upon the silky
mat on the landing Why do vou feel
choking, as with thirst. and yet could not
drink the elixir of life if it were present.
ed to you2 Why would YOU pay a hun
dred guIneas q step to have the staircase
twice as long as it Is. and yet go up as
hastily as II you were escaping from 4
poor relation Why does that pleasing
bow with which YOU have so often stopped
TO couquer-you know it-seem to You at
once great deal too slight and altogeth-
er abominable2 2 Why do you wish you
had put on that other cravat2 In short,
why Is your sense so keenly awakened to
the outward man, and to the outside
phrase, and why do you forget that YOU
have hitherto looked like a gentleman.
and spoken Ike a philosopher. aud aener-
ally done your duty in that state of life
IN which 1t has pleased Providence to place
you, and that there is no particular reason
why, at one o'clock this fine day. Won
should make a failure 1t is satisfacto-
ry answer to say that all this IS because
there sits in the low chair near the win
dow, IN the drawingroom, a bright-eyed
young person Of the other sex. who. if
you could only sec it, can hardly hold her
crotchet work for her tremor, who knows
intensely well what YOU mean, and what
you have come for. and who designs to
make YOU the kiudest possible answer,
poor thing If she should be able to fiud
proper words, and who. in the meantime.
IS IN about as fit condition to criticise you,
as am to correct the Juniper sympho-
ny or the Nautical Almanac Let me
appeal TO some of my friends whether l
have ovcrstated the case. There Is Cap
tain Pounder-that big, handsome man
with the black whiskers. who. in one Of
these dreadful Punjaub fights, rode slow
ly up slope Of three quarters of a mile
towards fort from which our dear orien-
ta! brethren were blazing upon us with
seventy cannons and remarked to his
comrades as he dashed siuglv into the
narrow breach. that he would wait inside
Just ask that dauntless person how he
felt when going TO propose to Laura Green,
of the Engineers. Or speak to the Sec.
retary of State for the unhesitating De
partmcut, who thinks nothing of tackling
a roaring and excited Commons at mid
night, dragging 4 comrade out of mess,
and, like Tydidcs, tearing the strongest
battle Of his antagonists, amid shouts that
would dismay a statue. Only ask how
1t was that he went three times to make
personal offer to Lady Asphrodel Wing
: lIngton. ana at last was obliged TO do it in
a beautiful despatch letter. | mean Do
not talk TO NE about faint hearts and fair
ladies-of course we know that many an
estimable female is very good naturcd,
and would give you her hand Just as she
would give you the salt or the nutcrack-
ers, because you seem to be looking for it,
and will in no degree appreciate your max
Ing such sentimental fuss about the mat
ter. land a remarkably good partner such
a woman will make, too, mind that.) but
our discourse at present is less of part
ncrship than of marriage"