The day book. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 1857-1867, 1857-10-26
Going Home with a Girl.

"Jeems," of the Baldwinsville On. W
Gazette, thus describes an event in the life
of a country boy:
We were between sixteen and seven
teen years of age when the event about to
be related transpired, and as a description
of our personal appearance at that time is
absolutely essential to the point of our sto-
ry, we will give itas conciscly as the sub
jcct will allow.
In reference then. to that period, to
say that we were green in the usual &C
ceptation of the term, would give the rea-
der but poor idea of the figure we dis
played. Rather imagine a tall, lean, cad
averous, swarthy looking chap, with legs
like a pair of tongs, a countenance about
as expressive as a plate ofpSDutch cheese, a
mouth that came very near making an
Island of all the head above it, face, COW
cred with furze that looked very much
like the down on newly-hatched goslin
with gait that would lead the beholtler
to conclude that we designed to travel
down both sides of the street at the same
time, and you have a correct daguerreo-
type of Jeems iu the seventeenth year of
his age.
One dark gloomy night in the mouth
of December, we Glanced to be at a "spel-
ling school, not a thousand miles from
Ballwinsville, where our eyes fell ON a
fairy form" that Immediately set our sus-
ceptible heart in blaze. She was six
teen, or thereabouts, with bright eyes, red
checks, and cherry lips, while the auburn
ringlets clustered in wealth of prOfu-
sion around her beautiful head, and her
person, to our ravished imagination, was
more perfect in form and outline, than the
most faultless statue ever chi! eed by the
sculptor's art. AS we gazcd, our feel
ings, which never before had aspired girl
wart We're fully aroused. and we deter
mined to go home with her that night or
perish in the, attempt. As soon, there
fore, as school was dismissed, and our
''lady love" suitably bonctted and cloak
ed, we approached to offer our services as
contemplated, and we then learned an
important lesson, viz: the difference be-
tween resolving and doing. As we near
ed her, we were seized with partial
blindness-red, green, blue, and yellow
lights flashed upon our vision, and APP
pearel and disappeared like witches in a
phantasmagoria-our knees smote to-
gcthcr like Belshazzar's when he discover
ed the handwriting on the wall, while
our heart thumped with apparently as
much force as lift were driving ten-pen-
nv nails into our ribs. We, in the mean
time, managed to humble over some
thing known to the Recording Angel, but
certainly not to us, at the same time po-
king out our elbow as nearly at right an
giles with our body as our physical con-
formation would admit.
The night air blew keenly. which served
in some sort to revive us, and as our SEN
scs returned what were our emotions on
finding the cherished Object of our first
love, clinging to our arm with all the te-
nacity drowning man is said to clutch
at straw.-Talk of Elysium, or sliding
down creased rainbows, or feeding on
German flutes, what are SIGH 'phelinks"
in comparison to those mighty ones that
swelled our bosom nigh to the bursting
of our waistcoat buttons Our happiness
was sublime, sublimity, sublimely, subl-
mated, and every person who has ever
felt the divine throbbing of hedged love
principle, fully understands the world of
bliss couched in the fourth. fifth, sixth
and seventh words at the commencement
of this sentence.
Well, we passed on pleasantly towards
our Sally's home, talking of Glove and
dove, and dart and part" until so coura-
geous had we become, that we actually
proposed "te so in and sit awhile" to