Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-02-18

one II your cute sort, still took : short
cut ID he question. I picked up from
among Vans pile Of grocery samples on
the table one Of the pieces Of mace. and
with the SCISSORS from Hiram's port-mop-
nave. i cut it into the shape Of q heart.
shall never forget how Amelia sat at
that instant; how she looked how the
ERE shone in her face how super-g lorious
thought her.
ADO YOU like mace p said | very gent
", most whispering.
81 think that mace is very generally
liked, answered Amelia, IN her quiet,
pleasant way.
aWell, said I, will you have the
hear: Of Mace? See-here it is s
II was mere chid's joke, knew
| poor pun, perhaps, some will think-not a
digni6ed one, some people will say, who
being smarter than ], can find better ways
to tell their thoughts. But as | put my
| hand over to Anclia,s little one, where It
/ lay on the great armchair, Thought very
little Of that, and when the little hand took
the Mice hart from mine, and | saw q
deep blush in the check; and tear in the
eve, it made very little difference to me
/ whether it was quibbling joke or not
/ which had put an end to long waitingg and
cares. and more vexing thoughts and
troubles, than ever gave any living man
/ an idea of.
Well, it's all right now; you may con.
graduate me-every body congratulating
me-all New York knows it. Hiram says
he knew what was going on all the time
up at Van Dysen's t'other night; but it's
part of Hiram set-up in business, to make
out he knows evey thing. Every body
that ever heard of us, and great many
that never did, have heard all about the
engagement, and have settled all the par.
ticulars Of the wedding, down to the nun
4 Der and price Of the brides stockings, and
up to the expense of the orange-fowers
though we don't know ourselves as YET
when it will come off All sorts Of mer
have given me in detail all sorts of partic
ulars as to Amelia's family, her GRANDPA
4 Their, and so on, up as high as you coult
shoot Minny riAe-ball. | have beer
told all about her father, old Captain Briar
den; her husband, who lost SO little time
in leaving her widow and some Cincin
natl lots, which have risen like fun; ano
her uncle, who has been put all right by
Hiram. On the other hand, all sorts o.
i Yankees have been forcing down on Anne
liza all sorts of particulars relative to Mace
Sloper even miserable old scamp of 9
school master, who did what he could K
disgust me as boy, having, as mos
4 think, really risen from his grave to 60 tt
Amelia and make donkey Of himself, BY
telling her all about my juvenile gimcrack
cries. Let EN- rip, it's all paid for
Rather!
| Reader, do hope, from the very bot
tom of my soul, that you may want some
thing as bad as wanted Amelia-and ge
it. hope that it will be fine girl, anc
one worthy of you, for | can't help wishing
that every man who has given me his at
tention, may fare as well in his way as
have done. And of course it must be /;
lady-love, for nothing else this side thu
grave is of much ofany real account, afte
all. As for the lady friends, I only hope
from my very soul, that they may all have
their own way in every thing, so long al
they can find a way to travel, and a pleas
ant companion to travel with them.
Knick erbocker Magazine for February.