The Westerly echo, & Pawcatuck advertiser. [volume] (Westerly, R.I.) 1854-1858, 1856-02-07

thinking OF making some sort of q
change, if only for the worse.
And likewise the blooming widow
Golden was looking around for hus-
band, as only capt. atiug willows, with
some little funds in the stocks, know
how to look around. She, too, had
enough Of loneliness, and wanted to en-
ter upon some sort Of a change, even if
it should turn out for the worse.
Strangely, too, Mr.. Tugs had his
widower's eye rather sharply on Mrs.
Golden /; and strangely enough, again,
the widow Golden had her bright, sharp
eye rather a'tentively upon him. The
widower iancied the widow, and rice
rersa. That was the exact state of the
case.
Now such fanciful feeling as this
not unirequently entices party along
to something more-to regard, to es-
TEEN, to affection nay, to matrimony
1t had Mr. Tugs in its leading strings
already, and away he was going, as fast
as he could bound, in the direction of
the final goal 1t likewise took the
widow Golden by one of her waving
curls, and offered to give her ehace as
far forward as she thought she should
any ways dsrs to 60
Before long, therefore, Mr.. Tuggs
was put in communication regularly
with the widow, whom he visited every
few evenings at her own house, sitting
very near to her while she pretended to
busy herself about her embroidery -
Sometimes those showering curls shook
and waved quite trsmblingly, too a,
if she might become trife nervous, OF
by accident have felt an odd sense Of
unquist from having so dangerous a
visitor at her side.
And thus beginning, DR.. Tuggs
went on with the courtship of the widow
Golden, like the perfect man of busi-
ness that he was. Things finally came
to sort of a crisis, or Culmination, -
Mr.. Tuggs offered his haud to the widow
and got her heart, fortune and all with
it, in exchange. And a pretty good
bargain, considered as mere matter Of
business, it was, too.
But within this charmed circle, round
which this worthy couple were sailing SO
smoothly, there was described still an
other circle--perbaps a smaller one in
relation to the outer one, but for all
that, not the less perfect in itself.
The inner circle may thus be descrb-
cd, to speak mathematically: Young
John Golden and Betsy Tuggs, or
Bouncing Bets were lovers them
selves and accepted lovers, too Here
was certainly pickle the parents
engaged very lndustrious y in furthering
their own matrimonial projects, and the
children engaged not a whit the less
earnestly in futhering theirs. An in
termarriago, indeed, would that be -
The sister would become the wife, and
the brother the husband The father
would marry bis sister-in-law, and the
mother become the wife of her brother
in-law! Matters would mix up SO as to
puzzle the acutest wits to unravel them.
Especially, too, would it make untold
trouble about the disposition of the
thing, we are rejoiced to
learn, that, in these little affairs Of mar
riage aud the like, is never forgotten.
While the parents passed the evening
hours in the untold pleasure of court
ship, the children were in nowise un-
mindful Of the blessed privileges thus
thrown in their way. John,
Of course, was out when his mother re-
ceived Mr.. r.,Tuggs, and Bouncing Bets
was pretty likely to be in. Between
the two statements the attentive reader
will find the exact truth, therefore, to
lie.
John, Of course, visited Betsy as
much as hs liked Whether the parents
always knew of these occasions, or
whether they were not rather pleased
than otherwise, if they did, may be a
pleasant object Of inquiry. We will
say this much about it that Mrs. Gold
en- favored the idea of their bocomiug
acquainted as fast as they could, mas
much as It would not be a rcry long