Nashville patriot. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1858-1860, 1858-02-20
Going Home with a EGfrI the First
Time.

We were between sixteen and seventeen
years of age when the event about to be rela-
ted transpired, and as a description of our
personal appearance at that time is absolute
ly essential to the point of our story, we will
give it cOncisely as the subject will allow.
In reference then to the period, to say that we
were green in the usual acceptance of that
term. would give the reader but poor idea of
the figure we displayed. Rather imagine a
tail, lean, cadaverOus, sWarthy-looking chap,
with legs like a pair of tongs, countenance
about as expressive as plate OF Dutch
cheese, mouth that came very near making
an island of all the head above it. a face COW
cred with furze that looked very much like
the down on newly Matched gosling. with q
gait that would lead bachelor to suppose
that we designed to travel down both sides of
the street at the same time, and you have
correct daguerreotype of Jeems in the seven
teenth year of his age.
One dark gloomy night in the month of
December. we CHANGED TO be at n spelling
SCHOOL, not thousand miles from Baldwins-
vile, while our eyes fell on - fairy form"
that Immediately set our susceptible heart in
blaze. She was sixteen, or thcreabouts,
with bright eyes, red checks and cherry lips,
while the auburn Tinglets clustered in Il wealth
Of profnsiOn around her beautiful head, and
her person, to our ravished Imagination, was
more perfect in form and outline than the
most taultless statue ever chiselled by
the sculptor's art. As we gazed. our feelings.
which had never before aspired girlward,
were fully aroused, and we determined to go
home with her that night, or perish in the at
tempt
As soon as school was dismissed. and our
"lady love- suitably bOnneted and cloaked
we approached to offer our service as coutem-
plated, and we then learned an important les
son, viz: the difference between resoly-
ing and doing. As we neared her. we
were seized with partial blindness-red
green, blue and yellow lights flashed upon our
vision. and appeared and disappeared like
witches i'll phantasmagoria-Ou knees smote
together like BelshaZZar's when he discovered
the handwriting upon the wall. while our
heart thumped with apparently as much
force as if it were driving ten-penny nails in
to our ribs. We, in the meantime, managed
to humble over something. which is perhaps
known to the Recording Angel, but certainly
is not TO us, at the same time pOking out our
elbow as nearly at right angles with our
body as our physical conformation would adj
nit
The night air blew keenly, which served in
some sort to revive US, and as our senses return
ed what were our emotions on finding the cher
ished object of our first love clinging To our
arm with all the tenacity drowning man is
said to clutch a straw. Talk of elysium or
SliulilB uoWu RTtdScu TdlllDONS, OF leGulnG
German flutes, what are such ''pheelinks' in
comparison TO those mighty ones that swelled
our bosom nigh unto the bursting ofour waist
coat buttons! Our happiness sublime sublim-
ity, sublimely sublmated, and every person
who has ever felt the divine throbbing of a
fiedged love principle, fully understands the
word of bliss cOuched in the fourth, fifth sixth
and seventh words ut the commencement of
this sentence.
Well, we passed on pleasantly towards our
Sally home, talking of Glove and dove and
dart and part" until 30 courageous had we
become, that we actually proposed to go in
and sit awhile, to which Dulcinea very
graciously assented. Alas for us-how soon
were we To he reminded that 1.-The course of
true love never did run smooth"
Sally had brother of some ten summers,
who accompanied us along the way, and who
was in wonderful high spirits at the idea of
his sisters having beau, and Would walk
around Hs frequently, giggling in the heighth
of his glee, and cycling us closely as if our
self aud Sally We're the wOrld-renowned Siam
ese twins, and he was taking his first look
Bill by the way, Il stubbed, chuckle-
headed boy, whose habilimcnts would have
made the fortune of any two dealers in mop
rags.
At length we reached the bars, and while
we were letting them down, Bill shot past us
and tore for the house as if pursued by a
thousand bulls of Basham. He swung open
the door with bang, and exclaimed at the
top of his voice:
Mother mother Jim Clark is comm hum
with our Sal ~
'.Is he - screamed the old woman in reply;
''wall, | declare didn't think the sap-head
knew enough "-[Jeem Of the Baldwinsville
GdzeAe.