The Wyandot pioneer. (Upper Sandusky, Ohio) 1853-1868, 1857-05-14

No one else thinks so, aunt Elsie
No one else understands me and mean
to tell you secret"
'Take one of these mullins while they
are warm. I'll promise to keep your Sc.
cret faithfully, Ned, and you know Hove
TO have you come to me for advice. Il
fatters the forlorn old maid.'"
The dear, blessed old maid! !" Ned
sprang from his seat and kissed her
:" Only how can you talk of love and muf
fms at one breath"
No one spoke of love-"
Then some one shall, for I'm in love
aunt Elsie, deep, deep and desperately
and forever in love; and if can't marry
her.
Whom 2"
"Why. Mary, Mary Marshall. Who
cares about the name? Isn't it enough
that she's sweet, and good, and beauti-
full? Oh, if you could see her little feet,
aunt Elsie. and that dimple in her cheek,
and that little curl on her forehead |"
/ What they call "a beau catcher ;"
49," Pshaw, no, a natural curl, little
airy"
Il didn't know that Judge Marshall
had daughter Mary
"Nor do I. Her father is no Judge
that ever I heard, except he be a judge
of tin-pans."
"Ned, you don't mean the tinker's
daughter 2"
" Aunt Elsie, / do!''
"Why, she used to trundle her fathers
little cart from door to door, while he
Itrudged on behind and shouted, tins to
mend
Dear girl, it was like her. She is
meek as violet, aunt Elsie and what's
more, I love her and would marry her, if
her ancestors had been tinkers away back
as far as Zubal- CAIN
Does she converse with propriety ?"
"Of course how could those lips say
any but sweet, true words 20
"Ned, you promised to confde in me
now what was your last conversation
with Mary Marshall ?"
F" I thought the servants were in haste
for their supper: why don't they clear
the tablet
Ned's summons was answered as usual
with alacrity aunt Elsie had rung the
bell six times without any effect, though
she was fayorite in the house, and her
nephew none. 1t was well understood
that to secure their own peace, the hum
bier members of the household must
yield obedience to Master Ned
sNow, Ned, the conversation
Did you read the news under the
telegraphic head, this evening, aunt Ell
sic ? It's extremely interesting"
&c But am more interested in Dan
Cupid's telegraph tonight. want news
under that head
my prim aunt Elsie Who'd sus,
pect you of knowing or caring about love
By the way. you promised your own sto-
ry after supper
"And you promised the conyersa-
tion."
'' The what :" !"
/" The conversation
"With whom }"
i" Mary Marshall, the young lady with
dimples.'
1.-The tinker's daughter, you mean"
"Ifyou like that epithet better. Ned
| begin to suspect that this is a love at
sight, that you never exchanged word
with Mary Marshall"
Inever did,"
Now heaven be praised /! .
For what? You need not think ]
shall let any obstacle separate us, aun
Elsie. True love is not to. be crushed
for idle reasons, and don't care rusl
for CASTE
-" Nor for eongeniality of taste. I sup
pose. for mind you can respect as vel
as cheek you can admire, for home t,
which you could invite your friends with
out blush. Oh, Ned, you may liy,
through ninety of these boyish passion
and never fall in love-"
I'm not boy. Love makes us pre-
maturely old. Byron says SO, Bulwel
says so, all the best poets and novelist
say SO. I'm old enough to suffer and t
love, and / am not boy, aunt Elsie !"
t "Wait till you hear my story. M
father was wealthy
"Yes, know it all by heart an
, your mother was refined and beautiful
, and the money went, and the famil
moved out Of town. and grand father los
! his energy, and wouldn't attempt to stal
afresh in business--now fnish."
The two devoted themselves to th
l education of their children, dancing, mu
sic languages, were abstruse branches {
science and philosophy, they taught u