The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1856-04-17
Kissins Ia the Dark.
\ VERY IMPROBABLE STORY.

The lO:l5 train pided from PaddinQtou
Nav 7, 1887. 10 the left commandment OF =
certain first class carriage were four passengers;
Of these, singularly enough, two were worth q
Chscription The lady a smooth white delicate
brow, strongly marked eyebrows. long lashes
eyes that seemed TO change color. and a good
sized delicious mouth, with teeth as white n
milk. A man could not see her nose for her
ewes and mouth her own sex could and would
have told US some nonsense about it, She wore
an uppretendiug preyi,h dress buitoped T.
ne throat, with lozenge shaped buttons. and a
scotch shawl that aTr.eablv eyaded the re.
sponsiblitv OF color She was like n duck 90
tight her plain feathers fitted her. and there
she sat. smooth. snug and delicious. with a book
in her hand and her snowy wrist WAS inst yisi.
ble as she held il, Her opposite neip6bor was
what 1 call good style Of man--the more to
his credit since he belonged 10 a corporation
that freouently turns out the worst imaginable
style of Young men, He was n cavalry officer
aged TWENTY-FIVE. He had mu,tache' but MOI,
a very rcpnlsiyc one: il was far from being
one Of those subnasal mig tails on which soup
IL snspcnJcI ike dew on n shrub. Il was short
thick and black As a coal His teeth hal NOT
been turned by tobacco iuice; his clothes did
not stick or hang 10 him. they sat on him: he
had an engaging smile and what I liked the
dog for. his vanity which was inor,liuate, was
in It's proper place his heart-not in his face,
iostns mine and other peoples. who have none.
In word be was what one oftcner hears Of
than mepts-a a Douac gentleman.
He was conycrsiny IN an animated whisper
with a compaBion. a fellow ofIicer--thcv we're
talking about. what il is far better not TO do,
women. Our friend clearly did not wish 10 bs
overheard. for he cast ever and anon q furtiye
glance at his fair rtsa-ris and lowered his voice.
She seemed completely absorbed in her book,
and that rcassurei him. At last the two soldiers
came down 10 n whisper ard in that whisper
the truth must h. told the one who got down
at Slough, and wa, lost TO postcrity, bet ten
pounds 10 three, that be- who was going down
with ~ to Bath nDd immortality would not
kiss either Of the ladies opposite on the road.
Done, Now am sorry a man have hth-
erto praised. shoud have lent himself even in
u whisper 10 such n speculation. hut nobody
!, wise at al hours not even when the clock
ia striking five and twenty and yo, are to con
.alr his profession. his good look.. and the
.enp,a,ior-irn to three.
tNo- Slonrh tho party wss r..lacea 10 ,hree;
Mt Twyiord one lady dropped her handkerchief
Can't. Dolicnan fell on it ike q tiger, and re-
turned il like lamb: two or three words were
in,erchance,l on tha, occasion Al Reading.
the Marlboro Of our tale made one of the sale
Investments of ths, dav, he bought Times
and Pnnch. the latter was fall of s,eci zen
,brus,s and wood cuts valor and hauty
dcirnod TO augh at some inflated humbug OF
other nnnctur,d by Punch Now laughing
,o-etbar ,baws onr human ice. long before
SwinAon !, was talking match-at swin,loo
who 81 davo,e,i a. Captain Dolignan--on their
return to the carriage one lady pa,sel into the
inner compartmept 10 insuect a certain gentle.
man. ara, on tina, aide Il he lioe.
R,a,lcr had i, been you or I, the beau,y would