Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1857-11-19
Going Home with n Girl.

Going Home with a Girl.
'Jeems'' of the Baldwinsville (N. "
Gazette, thus describes an event IN the life
Of a country boy:
! We were between sixteen and seventeen
years of age when the event about to be
related transpired, and as description of
our personal appearance at that time is alb
solutely essential in the point Of our story.
we will give it as concisely as the subject
will allow.
| In reference then, to that period, TO say
that green in the usual acceptation
Of the term, would give the reader but
| poor idea Of the figure we displayed
Rather imagine tall, lean, cadaverous,
swarthy looking chap, with legs like pair
of tongs, countenance about as ex-
prcssive as plate Of Dutch cheese, q
mouth that came very near making an
Island of all the head above it, a face, COW
cred with furzc that looked very much like
the down an a ncwly-hatchcd goslin,
with a gait that would lead the beholder
to conclude that we designed to travel
down both sides Of the street at the same
time and you have correct daguerreo'ype
of Jcems in the seventeenth year of his
age.
One dark gloomy night in the month Of
December, we CHANGED to be at spelling
school not a thousand miles from Bald
winsvilIe, where our eyes fell on fairy
form that Immediately set our susceptible
: heart in blaze She was sixteen or there
abouts, with bright eyes, red checks, and
I cherry lips, while the auburn ringlets cluss
tered in wealth of profusion around her
beautiful head. and her person, to our raw
ished imagination, WAS more perfect IN form
, and outline, than the most faultless statute
ever chiseled by the sculptor's art AS we
gazcd, our feelings, which never before had
aspired girlward, were fully aroused, and
we dctirnined to go home with her that
night or perish in the attempt. As soon.
therefore, as school was dismissed, and our
lady love suitably bonnetted and closkesi
!; we approached to offer our services as con-
! templated, and we then learned an impor-
: tant lesson. viz: the difference between re-
solving and doing. AS we neared her. We
were seized with partial blindness-red.
green, blue, and yellow lights flashed up.
on our vision, and appeared and disap-
!, our knees smote together like Belshazzar' s
q when he discovered the hand writing on
the wall, while our heart thumped with
apparently as much force as If it were dri
wing two-penny nails into our ribs. We
in the meantime, managed TO mumbl'
! over something known to the Recording
> Angel, but certainly not to as, at the same
time poking out our elbow as nearly al
/, right angles with our body as our phys
sical conformation would admit.
- = The night air blew keenly which serves
= in some sort to revive us, and as our sen
&c :, ses returned what were our emotions oI
" finding the cherished object Of our frs
love, cIinging to our arm with all the te
: nacity drowning man is said to clutcl
4 :, at straw! Talk Of Elysium, or slidint
:" down creased rainbows, or feeding on Ger
:, man flutes, what are sich 'pbelinks' il
\ ! comparison to those mighty ones tha
!. swclled our bosom nigh to the bursting o
- :. our waistcoat buttons! Our happiness wa
!. sublime, sublimity sublimely sublimated
:" and every person who has felt the divin
throbbing Of Acdged love principle, full
r. understands the world Of bliss couche
= in. the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh
80 words at the commencement of this sen
Ne tonce. ,,,s y, l...... tt ~ .,-.
be Well. we passed on pleasantly towsrd
as our Sally home, talking Of love anal dove
r. and dart and part. until so courageous ha'
i we become. that we actually proposed e
.rt 60 in and sit awhile, to which our Dulci
RI ma very graciously asscntcd. Alas, for ui
VI how soon were we to be reminded that tn
= course Of true love never did run smooth
.s, Sally had a brother of some ten sum
~ =, mers who accompanied us along the way
=. :, and who was in wonderful high spirits Z
=, the idea Of his sisters having beau, an
- - he would walk around us frequently. GIG
h mbs Cling in the height Of his glee, and eycin
as as closely as If ourself and Sally WEI
g the world renowned Siamcse twins, and !
RI was taking his first look. Billy, by Il
way. was stubbed. chuckle beaded DO,
n, whose habilinents would have made 4
Cd fortune Of any two dealers in mop rags.
nd At length we reached the bars and VIII
Tvs we. were letting them down. Bill 81
= past us and tore for the kouss as ;fps,rsus
m, by thousand bulls of Bashan. he hu1
he open the door with bang and exclaimed
les the top, of his voice
W. Mother! Mother! Jim CLARK IS conf
.,e Soe ''i j. hes a. serss;ssd the old woman ii
ply wal / declare! ! didn't think the .
or head knew enough