The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1856-09-11
. Lear Year lue,a... In Aurora, i,,,uo,.

wltnout any inutcAtion rs 10 WHO u ils soaHF
less authcr. Il was bad enough TO play thu
coquette, without publishing the story; AN,
then. too. think OF u married man boastins
how he missed pretty maiden.
The other evening, rs my friend Albert and
| sat in my study, with our heels elevated or
the backs OF two chairs, and two glorious liza
vanas elevated from our lips, looking around
through the cloud Of smoke, cspied the evening
paper lying on the table, which Tom, In hi.
usual quiet manner. had deposited there With
out in the leas, disturbing our dreamy cogita
tons | picked Il up, and began languidly to
doze over it, columns, when my eye lighted on
the following paragraph, which, old bachelor
like, felt quite enough interest in to rad
aloud to my companion
TAKE the Lor The young ladies of An.
rora. Illinois have resolved that IL they didn't
get married this ycar--lcap year--s somebody
would he 20 blame. The senior class in vii.
liams College, have sent communication ia
the Aurora paper offering to take the lot
They say that now, having been four years
under college discipline, exiled from almost all
intercourse with the fac similes of Adams rib
we thisk with shakespeare, that there Is "a i'oi
in the affairs Of men, AMI that the time for
t.aa, A"oa has conc to 'ss
No sooner had finished than Albert with
merry chuckle-- nobody can chucklc like him
when he chuckles. he chuckles all ovcr
tapped me on the shoulder aud exclaimed
by Jupiter! Seth thereby hangs tale 80
"Ah, ha :" said l.
| "Would you like "a hear il"
"of course, il there is any end 10 Il. and any
point TO the end"
well, there are both, according TO my way
Of thinking Anyhow, with permission, IN
tell the yarn or course you know where Au
rora is s-one Of the smartest towns in all the
West II lies Just below Geneva on the Fox
river, and IL in Kane county. Whether the
county was named after or for the North Pole
K anc, and the town called Aurora because the
| Aurora l}orcalls shines brighter nj said Pole
than any where else, is question that some
future nomenclators may discuss but one III
tie item you may bet your life on. they raisc
the prcttest girls that ever made fellows
mouth water.
How do you know
"How do | know Wasn't at Geneva
this last winter one whole month on business
and was ! not out al Aurora every other day,
10 see our old friend, Jack Spsuliing who hns
just hung out his shingle there and gone into
the practice Of the law or, rather, intends TO,
when he gets II Gaze OF course was and
as Jack is death among the women, BE- trotted
me all around All, Seth, you ought to 60 10
Aurora--you ought "
But the tale"
Why, you scc, one glorious afternoon. when
II was Just cold enough out doors Ia make II
comfortable by Jack old Franklin, while he
was doing away over somebody ! forget who
no inatter--on Contracts. and ] engaged In my
usual occupation, reading Dickens, Suddenly
there came tapping, as ol some gently rap
ping at the Office door Jack, while visions
Of a fair client who wanted to get divorce.
or get rid OF u testy guardian, cried come in
and in walked two special constabI,s Of CUPID.
| "One was a noblelooking girl-eyes ~ dark
as the future 10 fellow who doesn't know
where his next meal is coming from, aud cheeks
ss deeply red az Cambridge professor. All.
| Seth, she was perfect Goddess the other,
well, / won't say anything about the other for
she hasn't much to do with my story
But how came they theref'
why. up stairs and through the door, to he
sure but their object 80
"Yes, their objeci'
"Why, that was TO invite US yes. Jack and
me to "a leap year ride ball supper anil all
Of that
"Youy'
"Yes, me- anil she Of ,hc black eyea too,
was the identical one who would be- very hap
py 70 bave my company On little sleigh ride
To Geneva, 10 wind up with little warm Zip
hop at - ard "A .lihc home by star
light,
hid you 20,
Did go' Jack went and rould ! back
out? B,sldcs II isn every day man gets sneh
an ofIes AZ Jp. n. W. siartsd--one Of the
merrleSt cgeNs that ever went any where; thirty
Single sicgi,s they don 10 in ioi y"'if Gn5at
double arks tbcrc. With hip and II hurrah,
I'll We sped, aud over the road VI SKINNED,
like comet dashng along the milky way .-
The girl. we're excellent whips and my black
eyed X ate was Genesee Mills. cttrs super
fDe She had selected her ste,si wIth admira-
BILE taste"
As well a. ber Dan
Get ou, His neck nrcls- ike ih' Thames
| Tunnel and b,s broad breast marked bi- noble
strength while h,s slender ley~ told ysu vol
umes fDr bis swiftu,s, which were hacked up
by the very example We went by tberi all
We dd--hod Kate ei the grand proe'ssion.
/ proaider. darr spy, than any julius ever wa.
a any Roman triumph
Wha, did you talk Of "a the rpad' %
"Of th weather, the deIightini slrigbing, the
I difference in horse, 4c Af,u supper came
! the hop we'll nov II WAS bop none 81 yonr
tame rarlot dJbe'z, through shirh the parties
70 with thr same precision ,hs, tso old chess
players move, who have played draw game ior
the last Lalf cchtnfy no, az II was regu
lar Western hop but Il yoa " AIT 1t cI.seriisd
any further, yoa must do II yourself word'