Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1854-05-10

they were over. They had good friends too {.
that gave them cakes and new shoes, and
nice toys to play on the meadow and gilded 3
boats to row on the pond. =
Viator thought it almost as pleasant there ?
as It, WAS in the great garden, and resolved J"
again that he would stay there always; and +
he thought his companions now were wise :
fellows and would never leave that happy :
spot to find others that were new. Il
One time, and it was q great time too,- :,
they had a great many friends there to see !:
them and give them good presents and the :
incest boxes and themselves made speeches :
from a high stand hung with flowers, and 7
had q regular show and n little theatre, T
with funny dialogues at which all laughed, :.
even the tall man with q solemn face,' and /.
music on brass horns and fddles to which all !
listened and clapped their hands, and-take =
it all in all it was the greatest time that Via
tor had ever seen.
But the end of all that came, and they be /
gan to go out at the west gate with parch- .
ment rolls in their hands and Viator beg
ged them to stay, but they went on without
needing him, and ne loved them so we'll that
be went with them.
They vert out into a great road that was
beaten with many foot steps through a wood
on which the sun, that was higher than ever
was shining and, presently, they came to
where there was n great many folks in the
road, one leading this way and another
that. Now, there was melancholy scene
the boys loved one another, and Niator loved
them all. One said he was going to travel
this road, and another said that, until there
was scarcely two that could be companions.
One said he was going this way and learn
the human law another, that he was going
to study himself and heal the sick another,
that he was going to the great City and make
laws for the whole land another, that he
was going to make books for the people an
other, that he was going down to the great
sea in ships another, that he was going
into the fields and plough, and make golden
wheat and white corn another, that he was
going TO build q mill and sit it on the brook
side; and another, whom all loved, grew sud-
denly pale and said he was going to live with
Jesus in the star world, of whom the Good
Book and Good man spoke. At this they
all gathered together and wept, and begged
him not to 90 and leave the beautiful earth !;
but he said he was called and must 60, so
he went away, before the sun was much
higher, and he was laid under the daisy-sod
at the road side.
And the tears of his companions fell on
his little green grave!
Then Viator went on the way he had cho-
, sen alone until he came to a green and vel.
low grove, woven through with wood bines
and jcssamine, and beautiful with many flow
l ers and there were young and happy PEG
! pie therein, more by half than l have time tt
, reckon. l guess they were very happy, ant
| they walked through the grove plucking flow
, ers, always two and two together, mind ye
and sometimes sat on rustic seats and moss
banks among the trees and talked, sometime
, in whispers, too, one to the other. 1t was
b nice group there in the green and yellow
) grove; and about half Of the throng bein,
i girls, and said to be aceak, a stout arm wa
K sometimes placed around them for supper
4 and protection, | reckon! When Viator say
: the scene before him he was more amaze
! than he had ever been and called out:
why, what are you doing in there I?
J Making Love!! said they, come in: don
[, you never love p
r. So Viator went into the grove with his h;
IF in his hand, and it being theirst time he We
ever 50 caught, he looked and felt strangel
tie enough, as you Ggs may N wv well uf sHRRqSesi uu MsH
when it so happened and looked straigl
os down the grass at the daisy-buds Just as
Id they never looked up, or, what more, ev,
5, intended to Well! At last he saw a lit
~ girl springing up from a moss-mound al
trying to reach some wood-bine blossom
that hung overhead, but they were far t
:. high and out of the way for her. So Wat
=" went and plucked them for her and tire
them to her as she sat on the moss-bank.
Niator thought she was The ~prettiest girl
ed had ever seen, and l have no reason to S;
- she was not. Well He sat down by h
on the mos5-bank and helped her to pick t
Lo flowers, and he fell in love with her, just
naturally as One did with my little friel
.or Mary-she knows who!
or lie was seated by her, just like One W
se by my little friend Mary, in the springtin
er, when they rode together, and sang togeth
through woods and fields all the day lor
,ot and looked into each others eyes when tn
,~t thought they were lost and the night conf
' on. And Viator pressed a little warm ha
in his, just as one did my little friend Mary
and she smiled, and turned her head aw;
and hid her face, that was almost as red
the wood-bine blossoms at her feet, in q WI
apron, just as my little friend Mary col
,rn and hides hers with the paper she now hol
for she knows it is her | write about A
they sat there a long time on the moss-ba
just like One and my little friend Mary
me at had better not say where-and tt
: it talked, for what | know in whispers, &
vas tried to write poetry on slips of paper
he each other and did for what | know &
they looked at each other all the time &
didn't care Il woOd-bine bud how others w
"" getting along, though they tried hard to h
ere their love from others. And after a few
the tings, and q few sham q~uarrels, and as m;
ian more markings up they were engaged to
of married, just like One hopes to be some
led with my little friend Mary! Indeed, 1
30, inclined to say the two cases were one,
10 perhaps | had best not; for that would m
'nu my little friend Mary blush more and mt
ma and make her lock up from this line to Sc
u.s. some body was not peeping over her shc
der ;-beside-ah | remember now, one
the in a green and yellow grove, and the OF
20. was-notl
~ My little friend Mary knows where!
" So Viator was married, and he and
liS chosen, with eyes, and hair, and dimp
In and laugh, and sang, and carol all like
little friend Mary's, went out from the OF
Iers and yellow grove to continue the great d.
die. journey.
hov Unlike other pleasant places that Vii
had seen, the grove was not entirely fn
az ken for there were some prime and crt
Id fellows strayed behind, and joked with G
mat others vests, and | reckon had a right m,
time to themselves. And there were s
sourly disposed females stayed behind
bow and dressed amazingly starchy, and taI
ate. necessarily, and scolded, and-and-anG
but | don't know whether they renal
!, there with the crusty, ~unsocial fellows
mat choice or mott am inclined to think
and would rather have gone on the wav vi
and and the rest went for they said hard tn
rec, OF the fellows dubbed together, and poll
olo. their little fingers at them, and called til