The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1856-08-13
GALES an6 gketebes,
KISSING A STRANGE GIRL IN A
STAGE COACH.

: from his native village, in the destitut
situation that is frequent among Ne,
England boys; that is to say, he ha
only the usual accompaniments of thes
unfedged chips, who afterwards max
the merchants and great men of thi
country, and not unfrequently of othe
lands He had little wooden trunk
pretty we'll stocked with hummades,
t sixty-eight cent Bible, that his mothe
packed in for him, fearful that he nigh
forget it, three dollar New Haven Cit,
Bank bill, and quantity of energy, pa
tience, perseverance and ambition. HI
entered the counting room of large
mercantile house in South street. His
honesty, activity and industry won hin
many friends. Among them was al
English Merchant, who had large com
mercial house in Calcutta, and branch
at Bombay. He was in this country on
business connected with his commercial
firm in Calcutta, and did his business
with the firm Walter clerked for; and here
the latter attracted his notice. He was
sixteen years of age only; yet the Bonn
bay gentleman fancied him and made
him liberal effer to go to India with
him; which, after very little palaver
among his friends, Walter accepted
New England boys don't often start off
on their unusually long wandering ex-
cursions, without first getting leave of
absence for few days preparatory ex-
ercise, which they spend in going where
they originally came from; and then,
baving taken few good looks at the
weather beaten church, the high old
steeple, which has wonderfully reduced
in size and elevation since they first saw
it, to notice it, in school boy days; then
they must hear the old bell ring once
more, even if they have to take spell
at the ropej then take a turn among the
white grave stones, see if there are any
very green mounds, fresh made, and if
so, to ask who among old friends have
gone to their last resting place; then to
kiss mother and sisters, shake hands
with father-and tie stage is at the
door of the tavern, and they are ready
for start, to 60 anywhere"
Walter went up to dr, and did do all |
this; but he did not get into the stage
at the tavern. He walked down the
road, ahead of the coach, toward the old
bridge, and told the stage driver to stop
and let him get in at the ministers house
at Parson Fuller's. Mary Fuller
lived there, too, for she happened to be
the parsons only daughter. She was the
merriest, loveliest little witch that ever
wore loose tresses of auburn hair, and
had blue eyes. She was only twelve
years old, and Walter was nearly seven
teen. She did love him though-he
was almost all in all to her; he had
fought her battles all through her child
sh campaign; and she had no brother.
She was Walters cousin, too-a sort Of
lalf first cousin; for her mother had
been the half sister OF Walters mother
They were not too near related for pur-
roses hereinafter to be named.
Poor Molly She would have cried
er eyes out on this occasion, had it not
'een that Walters solemn phiz set her ,
deas of the ridiculous in motion; and {
he made a merry ten minutes as wind
p of their parting scene. II
Three days afterwards Walter was in J
Jew York, and just four months and
wenty days farther on in Times alma
ac, he was making out invoices and &C '
ing as corresponding clerk to "the firm" ]
q Bombay. l
1 shall not stop long enough to relate
ow many times he went to the exhibi-
ion of venomous looking cobra de ca C
ellos and biting Sepoys, just for fun,- =
nd show how innocent the beauties il
ere, and how easy their bite was cured; o
ow often he visited the far famed ele- f
hant's cave; how many times he dined "
ith good Sir Robert Grant, the Cover c
Or of Bombay, and how he was with
i'm and what he said, the very morning t,
the day the old scourge-the cholera tc
made the excellent Sir Robert his
ictim; all these things I shall leave to |,
mother time, and more appropriate a
sading, skip over all these, and six tt
ears of time beside, and land Master a,
Talter at Staten Island, bring him up o.
the city in steamboat, and leave C,
m at respectable hotel, and there let h
m sleep all night and take good tt
shore rest" after tedious voyage of h
ur months and more. 81
The next morning we awaken him i; h
axe him get up, pay his bill, take m
Ick, and ride down to4he New Haven st
eamboat, and go on board. 1t is seven m
clock, A. NJ At one P. NJ, the boat e'
Is reached the landing; his trunk and Ii
traps are on board the Litchfeld 81
age he has taken a seat inside; his B
,stination is an intermediate village al
e is alone in the stage mo, not alone ! "