Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-01-08
THE TUSCALOOSA GIRL.

- "Ha, amt they, though? amt they good
looking should rather think they are, ,"
said Tom 81 tell you what 'tis, can just
show you as pretty girls in the South and
West as you can 6ud anywhere on dry land.
One met at ball in Tuscaloosa was good
enough for anybody, and if any white man
says she warn't, just let him say it loud
enough for me to hear him."
eTell us about her, Tom," suggested l.
"Well, gentlemen, she was about five feet
high and eighteen years old, black hair and
eyes, and dressed as tasty as any woman in
the States. Awful good on dancing, too. |
kind of froze to her first off, and got no bet
ter very fast, after getting an introduce. Tell
you what it was-she was mighty stunning
piece-waltzed with her nigh half an hour,
and then we sauntered out on the piazza to
get cool. Got to talking about the moon,
and stars, and all that sort of thing, (queer
how fond of astronomy young folks are), told
her that | knew one star-one bright parti-
cular STAR Shakespeare, you know, that
would Just take down all the rest of them
put together She asked what star twas; |
hemmed and hawed, and did a little bit of
the difident-nothing like little bit Of diff
dent with girls like her-fually hiuted in
a mild way, that she was the star, and squcez-
ed her hand gently at the same time.
"Lord O mercy, what pretty hand she
had just as soft as jolly little white rose
leaf, and no bigger than three Of my fingers.
Well, when I squeezed it, she gave little
bit of a pressure back again, that ran ting
ling all the way up my brachial artery, and
turned the blood to pure nectar; then she
rolled her eyes up so that the moon shone
on them, and could look away down into
them about quarter of mile. That made
me feel kind ofqueer, you know, and some
how, without exactly knowing much about it.,
found my arm around her taper waist, and
could feel her blessed little heart jumping,
like rat in steel-trap. Directly she laid
her head over on my shoulder, so that her
warm, sweet breath swept over my cheek,
and kind of rustled up the end of my NOUS
tache, at the same time letting the full food
of tenderness pour up from her eyes into
mine.
"Don't laugh, boys, if 1 do get little
highfalutin'; you don't know how you'd have
felt if you'd been in my boots just then. 1t
took my breath away; but l mustered up all
my courage, and turned around little, put
ny left hand under the back of her head,
raised itup Cfraid mussed her hair slight
iy-it was done up mighty nice, tell youJ
and bending down, gave her ringing kiss
right on her mouth.
"Now, boys, by jinso, I tell you what it
is; I've tasted sweet things afore now-talk
about honey aud sugar-.alk about your
Charlotte Russes--yonr Neringues a Ia Creme
they are nowhere. | felt as if | had died
in candy-shop, and had gone to the forty
ninth heaven, where was eating sweetened
ambrosia, with whole crowd of she-angels
playing on golden hsrps all inside Of my
head. 1 swow, if my heart didn't swell up
as big as q two.bushel basket, and it ham,
mered away, thump-thump-thump, so you
might have heard it mile off. She didn't
say anything when done it, and l was just
going to do some more, when Jim Sawyer
came along with his girl and interrupted
I bate Jim Sawyer"
'sToo bad by half" said Joe, who had
been very quiet during Toms narration,
"did you follow it up?'
"No; I was only travelling through there
left next day and never saw her again, nor
any other girl equal to her. l tell you what,
I'd rather have lost the best paying patient
lever had, than to have lost sight Of that
girl. But you know what we used to say at
college. 'Nutatismutandur-Tempus fright
Sic transit gloria mundi.' That's all the
Latin I remember; let's 60 and have some
thing, I'm as thirsty as craven image"