M'arthur Democrat. (McArthur, Vinton County, Ohio) 1853-1865, 1857-06-18

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ing my call, and was sitting in little
back sitting room enjoying delight.
| full tete.a-tete with my sweet sister, as
| | called her. She looked charmingly.
| It was in the warmest part ofsummer,
and her low necked dress revealed a
roundness OF beautiful shoulders that
might have awakened the admiration
Of an anchor or an anchorite, and her
bright eyes sparkled with excitement
and pleasure.
aWe've had visitors this after
lnoon, said che. a whole family Of
them from New York; and such a
kissing time they made oft when they
met with ours! Twas enough to
sicken one to see it. don't see any
Propriety in women's kissing when
they meet, do you3"
| assured her that it seemed to me
decidedly wrong; and deemed that
kissing was a performance that should
be religiously observed by sexes joint
ly, and suggested experiments illustra-
ting this, enforcing tho suggestion
with a practical demonstration. One
such prompted another, until a very
pleasant pantomine had been gone
through with, Of tho most harmless
character, decidedly proving to our
own satisfaction the soundncss OF our
opinions.
How sweet she did look as she sat
there with the "blush on her cheek and
the smile in her eye" She was the
most bowitching piece Of Meth0di9m
thought Ihad ever seen, and fully
understood Tom Moore where he
sings;
"Had such swcotlituo saint Of my own" sc.
: deemed by those notversed in Platon-
les as slightly freelovical in its scope.
Fate owed MS particular spite, and
that evening determined on liquida-
ting the debt. We sat slipping the
nectar of enjoyment from a loving cup,
more appropriately named than Mr.
Peabody's, ignorant Of the storm that
was eliminating and ready to break
upon our heads.
Why was it that love or mischief
prompted him to pass by the house il
= which che liycd9 Why had villain
Gus scayengers allowed tho pile o
, rubbish to accumulate by the wal
over against the Window How coulc
, he, so dull usually, have thought by
getting upon that rubbish, he could
command q view of the room in which
Serena sat? These questions are cas-
ier asked than answered. The fact is
, all have to do with, without going in
to argument.
Thus We sat, Serena and l, and
parted at ten o'clock, with a kiss fol
friendships sake, aud hearts as limo
centa8 anything harmonious, as Mrs
Partington would say, las the babe
, unborn"
| slept that night dreaming Of 9
hower-garden Of tulips, that took
strangely the form of Serena's lips
and / was transformed into u big bee
| and whizzcd around among them Will
, a delighted wing, while the lover oI
, Serena, changed into an immense
, owl, sat upon the limbs ofan adjacent
, tree and looked stupidity on the scene
2 What business had he there at such
time!
The next evening, for the third time
t during the week, | called upon Sere
ma. found her in tears, and it i'm
, mediately suggested itself to me
that in all the love tales had reaC
! tears were kissed from the cheek, aRC
: l applied this remedy with q success
that soon restored my fair sister to
| condition to make an explanation o
S her grief, which lay in offended pride
!. She recovered too soon, | thought, an'
t hoped she would cry again, but sh
n didn't. In fact she laughed as sh
placed in my hands the following
d epistle, which have faithfully pre-
e served:
|. EaitAleSs Gwl-yure conduck j
:, inspeckable bad in doin what you di
r on Wednesday mite God nose | di
d luv YOU but yuro piety must be wee
d efyou can sott still and let a feller wit
, red hair kiss you as seen last mite
II must ask you to Civ me back my hal
and pensei case that Civ you and t
o forget that / made emmy moshun to
At alongst you. Faults gurl agew.
le "False girl agew," said |, "wh'
.e docs that mean"
!. Serena told me that it was Thomas
h way of spelling adieu, and he was 4
d great shakes at spelling. She leane
IT her head on my shoulder, and
" thought she was going to cry agail
n but when she looked up, her eye
n were beaming with fun.
u i cred hair" said she, running hi
"a "a fingers through my locks.
- @They are auburn" said l, "ar
10 burn; and though l say it thu
W W shouldn't say it, perhaps they are yel
n. pretty auburn, too"
. s.Thnv,ro red" she said again.