The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1857-02-25

WITHOUT gong into argument.
Thus we sat, Serena and 1, and parted
at ten O'Clock with kiss for friendships
sake, and hearts as innocent of anything
harmonious, as Mrs. Partington would
say, as the babe unborn"
I slept that night dreaming of flow
er garden of tulips, that took strangely
the form of Serena's lips, and I was
tranformed into big bee, and whizzed
around among them with a delighted
Wing, while the lovet of Serena, changed
into an immense owl, sat upon the limb
of an adjacent tree and looked stupidity
On the scene. What business had he
there at such time?
The next evening, for the third time
during the week. had called on Sere
ma. found her in tears, and it imme
diately suggested itself to NE, that in
all the love tales I had read, tears were
kissed from the cheek, and I applied this
remedy with a success that soon restor-
ed my fair sister to condition to make
an explanation of her grief, which lay
in offended pride. She recovered too
soon, I thought, and hoped she would
cry again, but she didn't. In fact she
laughed as she placed in my hand the
following epistle, which have faithfully
preserved:
FATHELEss GURL.-yure conduct is
inspeckable bad in DOOM what you did
on Wersday mite God nose I did luv
you but yure pyaty must bee week eff
you can slit still and let yung feller
with red hare kiss you as see last mite
l must ask you to Civ me back my hart
and pensel case that 1 Civ you and to
forgett that ever maid emmy moshun
to go alongst you. Falts gurl agew.
THOMAS w. LARRAPER.
" False girl ague" +" said I, "what
does that mean ?'
Serena told me that it was Thomas
way of spelling. She leaned her head
on my shoulder, and I thought she was
going to cry again, but when she looked
up, her eyes were beaming with fun.
Red hair" said she running her fu-
gers through my locks.
They are auburn" said I, Z" auburn;
and though 1 say it, that shouldn't say
it, perhaps, they are very pretty auburn,
toon
" They're red" said she again.
They're auburn" said I, waxing
warm, and before she had a chance to
repeat the red, I stopped her mouth so
effectually that she couldn't speak it.
Thomas had come round that evening,
and thought he would take last look
at Serena from the top of the pile of
dirt, expecting to find her plunged in
sorrow. He arrived at precisely the
stage when the last I" red" was suppress
ed, and fearful oath, for the meeting
man, trembled on his tongue, which he
was prevented from utteriDg by treach
erous brick which gave way under his
feet and brought him to the ground
This led to the detection, and as he saw
US looking at him through the window,
he came in, his face as white as
sheet
"Look here" said he to me, "you
interloafer you, amt you ashamed of
yourself, you vile seducer and catamount,
to come into family like beacon
structer anS take away my girl And
amt you ashamed of yourself, sister
Serena, to let him kiss you, when I nev
er dared to in my life ?''
Hence, bad man !' cried I, with a
semifrantic flourish, leave the abode
of innocence or by St. Paul I'll strike
thee to my feet and spurn upon thee,
beggar, for thy boldness. Away, nor
let thy greasy form offend our ehasten-
ed gaze. again p
"Really I'-began, evidently start
led.
No moreno more l' criedI, furi-
ously away, away to the mountains
brow. Herein your compact ceases, and
the vile one who'd dare the bond restore,
I'd plunge in the pool of lower Tartarus,
and rend the conca7e with protestatioRs
of his enormity."
Really I"--said he backing towards
the door,
" Hence, direful collsr p cried I,
" and to the infuriate winds below the
story of thy love- Bah -
He disappeared through the door,
and 1 saw him not again, as John Bun
yau writes. Serena laughed prOdigious-
ly. AS soon as he was gone, my first
impulse was to propose to take the place
of the departed, as a lover; my second
impulse was to do no such thing, and
didn't.
The rejected lover was a vengeful
man. He reported Serena's conduct to
church meeting, which was discussed,
and committee composed of the elder
members of the church appointed to
wait upon her and talk with her, which
they did. She protested that she was
guilty of nothing, for which she was
suspended for year.
Serena never married, and whenever
we meet We talk over the events of that
time, though they lost her stupid hus-
band. She lives in single blessedness
and laughs as heartily as ever. She has
very fine teeth. J