The Georgetown news., 1856-01-10
From Ballou's Pictorial.
JUST OVER THE BAY.
BY JOHN THORNBERRY.

A great many men get over the bay, in
their lives. The voyage is more common
than people generally are inclined to ina
CINE. Some, we know, are moved with a
more vaulting ambition and think it hardly
worth their pains unless they can send their
ships round to San Francisco, or by the
other road round to Calcutta, but these are
few indeed, in comparison with that vast
multitude, countless host almost, who are
in the habit of statedly weighing anchor for
short trip lust over the bay"
But let me not anticipate our story. Be
fore we come to that part of it which par
ticularly relates to harbor navigation, there
is little preliminary to be attended to, in
reference to the character-or habits, OF our
mutual friend, Frosty.
Mr.. Andrew Frosty Glanced to reside in
one ofa long, straight, smooth row Of hou-
ses, no one of which bore any special mark
on its front by which it could be distin-
guished from another. Such a block of
buildings it would be q very hard matter to
find anywhere else in the world so even; so
like; all with granite steps; all with projec-
ting stoops, or porches; every one as like
every one as it could possibly be.
Tack on another item. Mr.. Frosty was
as jealous man of his wife as any husband
need be. He was terribly jealous and that
is quite enough for the happiness and COM
fort Of any family. Now we think it an
awful thing for man to be jealous Of his
wife at all; if he have reason for it, it most
certainly is; and if without cause then it is
vastly more so. When either man or wife
falls into such wretched habit as that,
they may as well draw their cotton caps
over their eyes, and say goodnight to the
world. Living is no sort Of object to them.
But whether Mr. Frosty had any reason
to be jealous of his wife, is what we are not
going to settle. And yet we never thought
he could have, for kinder, gentler, sweet
er, more amiable and devoted wife than she
made him, it would be difficult to put your
finger upon anywhere IN the house or the
street. But Mrs. Frosty was young; and
had great deal of beauty, too; and was re-
markably attractive in her manners. 1t
would not be at all strange if these were
reasons sufficient to excite Mr.. Frosty a.
gainst her, though, if they were, he ought
to have been heartily ashamed Of himself,
and gone and got a palmer wife to begin
with
Not many doors off, in the same block of
undistinguishable dwellings, lived Col. Saw
yer. Now the Colonel rather prided him
self on being esteemed a gentleman. With
out assuming to be what is popularity term
ed ladies man." he nevertheless was ex-
tremely particular in his carriage towards
them, aiming always to impress them with
sense of his perfect purity, and chivalry
and truth. No one in the neighborhood-
or IN the wide world, either that [ know
of-ever suspected him of being capable OF
insulting any one-least of AL, a ladv.-
Mothers along the street ever held him up
before the eyes Of their sprouting sons. as
an example Of the lofty, and the true. And
fathers spoke Of him now and then to their
eldest daughters, and hoped that if they ev-
er thought Of marriage,-and it is lust Dos
sible that some of them did,-they would
be satisfied with nothing less than char
acter like him. This certainly would seem
to be praise enough.
Coming home musingly and with his
HGdu uOh IL, OnO OfOHIuS, IuC COIOHel Thought
no such accident was possible as that he
should mistake his own house, especially as
he had been in and out that way so many
times. Perhaps the very fact that he felt
such a confidence, was the greater reason
why he should make a mistake at all. But
as he was very much occupied with a new
commercial project that was just then on
the carpet, he abandoned himself entirely to
what he knew Of the way home, and thought
of course he should reach that pleasant spot
all in proper time.
The consequence was, on this particular