Green-Mountain freeman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1844-1884, 1857-10-15
Going Home with Girl the First
Time.

Golng Home with Girl the First
Time.
| we were between sixteen and seventeen years
OF age when the event about to be related trans
pred, and as description of one personal ap-
pearance at that time is absolutely essential
10 Inc point of our story, we will give it as
conclsely as The subject will allow. In refer
ehce then to that period, to say that we were
green In the usual accepta,ion of that term,
would give the reader bu, poor idea of the
heure we displayed. Rather imagine tall
ean' cadaverous, swarthy looking chap with
'egs' like pair Of tongs, countenance about
as expressive as plate of Dutch cheese, a
mouth that came very near making an Island
oil all the head above it,a face. covered with
turze that looked very much like the down on
a newly hached gosling, with gait that would
lead beholder 10 suppose that we designed
10 travel down both sides of the street at the
same time, and you have a correct doguerreo-
type of Jeems in the seventeenth year of his
age.
One dark gloomy night in the month of De-
cember, we chanced to be at spelling
school not thousand miles from Baldw ins,
vile, where our eyes fell on a d" fairy form "
that Immediately set our susceptible heart in
blaze. She was sixteen, or there abouts,
will. bright eyes, red cheeks, and cherry lips,
while the auburn ringlets clustered in wealth
OF profusion around her beautiful head, and
her person to our ravished imagination. was
more perfect in form and outline, than the most
faulless statue ever chsed by the scul ptor's art
AS We gazed, our feelings, which had never be-
fore aspred girlward, were fully aroused, and
we determined to 60 home with her that night,
or perish in the attempt.
As soon as school was dism ssed, and our
" lady love suitable bonnetted and cl'aked
we approached to offer our service as contem-
plated, and we then learned an important lesson,
viz the difference between resolving and doing
AS we neared her we were seized with a partial
bindness-red, green, blue and yellow lights
flashed upon our vision, and appeared and dis.
appeared like witches in q phantasmagoria- -
our knees smote together like Belshazzar wher
he discovered the hand writing on the wall
while our heart thumped with apparently at
much force as if we're driving tenpenny nails
into our ribs We in the mean time managed
to munble 'over something, which is perhaps
known to the Recording Angel, but certa in ly
is not to us, at the same time pokins out ou
elbows as nearly at right ang les with our body
as our physical conformation would admit.
The night air blew keenly, which served il
4 esorio sori ioresTe US, aud as S.ute svnses re-
turned, what v ere our emotions on finding the
cherished object of our first love, cliGging tt
our arm with 1.-THE tenacity drowning NAL
is said to clutch straw Talk Of elysium, o
sliding down creased rainbows, or feeding OF
German flutes, what are sich phelnks
in comparison TO those mighty ones that swe let
our bosom nigh unto the bursting of our waist
coat buttons Our happiness was sublime
submty, sublimely sublimated and evrey
pelson who has ever felt the divine throbbin!
of hedged love principle, fully understand tht
world of bliss couched in the fourth fifth, six Il
and seventh words at the commencement of thi
sentence.
"Well we pass on pleasantly towards ou
Sally s home, talking Of q" love and dove an
dart and part" until so courageous had W
become that we actually proposed " to 60 i
and sit awhile" to which our Ducinca yer
gracously assented A las for US how 500
were we 10 be reminded that the course q
true love never did run smooth"
Sally had brother somc ten summers, witt
accompanied us along the way, and who wa
in wonderful high spirits at the idea of his sis
ters having beau. and would walk around u
frequently, giggIing in the height of his glee
and eyeing us as closely as if ourself and Sail
were the world-renowned Siamese iw ins, an
he was taking his fist look
Bill, by the way, was a stubbed, chuck
headed boy. whose habments would hav
made the fortune of any two dealers in NOR
rags.
AT length we reached the bars, and while W
were letting them down. Bill shot past us, an
tore for the house as if pursued by tkousan
bulls of Bashan, He flung open the door W it
a bang, and exclaimed at the top of h
voice
Mother mother Jim Clark is comi
hum with Sal -
A" Is he !" screamed the old woman in reply
t. wal, declare diddn't think the saphea
knew enough !"