The Tiffin tribune. [volume] (Tiffin, Ohio) 1848-1859, 1858-02-05
s. 6 eaA Stat4.
MY PRETTY COUSIN.

A COquvtte Caught In her own snare.
Ny Pretty Cousin is not like other
cousins. She Is the queen Of cousins.
being at once the most agreeable, cruel.
and unmanageable Of all: the preitiest
and most dangerous; liveliest and most
witty; and is, besides, such a con
ceited little prude as never lived before,
whose fanciful aud mischief-loving dispo-
siiion has inundated and subdued the
country beaux for many miles around
She is. moreover, capricious tyrant,
willful and obstinate, aud wields the
sceptre Of her power with an unsparing
hand. Her admirers--slaves ] would say
though their ribs have ached and
smarted with the shafts Of more than one
of Cupid's shafts through their hearts,
bristling with his barbed arrows, pierced
aud riddled in every direction, still flutter
around the light that soorohes them, at
traced, enchanted by eyes that melt by
gazing, and FIRE you with their FIRE.
See, how fond the saucy ELF is Of teaz-
ing, with such mellow lips, that hang like
golden fruit. TO be pluoked by the firsI
bold hand; pouting SO temptingly; WOO
ing, inviting; and Il you would haste 10
press them to your own. they arrest you
with such an offended delicacy, that you
dare 60 no further, lest the Puritan boxes
your ears.
All cousins are not so: While they
hang their heads in delicious confusion,
and suffer one to do what he will with
their lips, she will be Juggling al your
whiskers, or what is more dreadful still,
With one fell swoop, smash the spotless,
unwrinkled bosom, that l. so snugly ar
rayed behind the vest that gives it protec-
ton.
None of the devoted train yet had suf-
fcient audacity 10 steal kiss. Was il
that they feared they might disarrange
the hair they had spent so much time in
brushing and torturing into sleekness?-
Or were they content to plod along in
the same every day employment Of sigh
ing for paradise, and though they gazed
on it through their eyes, dared not reach
forth their hand and enter with the seal
upon her lips
So stood the beseiged and the beseiging.
when a city cousin arrived; aud thus
found Harry Hosmer tho pretty kingdom
my pretty cousin had founded.
He came, and she saw one more victim
to swell the tide Of triumphs. He was
worth winning; he was fine appearing
fellow; was true gentleman: could dance
ride, sing, and make love sonnets TO per.
lection; and was. all in all, what hand
some lady Of eighteen would love to SEE
at her feet Will we be justified in say
ing that the same motives that influenced
her action towards others, moved her L
the concentration of all her art, cunning
and power, to batter the heart Of the citI
cousin? No it, was not love, bus some
thing akin to it. for what country belle
can see such Harry-one so superior q
the rest Of the throng that surrounds
her-and not feel a greater emotion, q
more than common hutteT when he ap.
proaohes her?
Her plans were laid. His heart was
mined, assaulted, beseiged, and attacked
in every possible shape. He remained
unconquered, nor did any subsequent
movement dislodge him from his station
His deportment was always the same,
and not all her skill at mans subsection
could draw from him more than that ia.
miiar, gentlemanly carriage, which ac.
quanted her with the freedom of his
heart and the failure Of her plans. She
was piqued Whata cold, senseless thing
this cousin isl / won't trouble myself
more with the ill-mannered bearl He
isn't worth the pains ono takes to make
him like people,
She, however, did not adhere to this
wise conclusion. The next day another
attack. a general assault, was directed
agaiat the citadel, aud she erdeavored to
carry all before her by storm, but he tha
had so long been imprsgnable to so many
city warfares, led on, too, by the bright.
est eyes that flashed in our land, was the
same cousin Harry Hosmer from the city
And the only foil ho used, and that which
he played with surprising advantage, was
the name Of another city cousin, defense
that surprised, while it was a counter at
tack that disconnected her.
! My pretty cousin had failed. In hel
endeavors to subdue the heart Of hel
cousin she had forgot 10 guard her own
nor did she know that il was already in
tho possession Of another. She was cross
She could hardly bear that he should bC
in her presence, and was unhappy wher
he was out Of sight. IL he was pleasant
or laughed. he was ridiculiug her unhap
piness, and rejoicing over her disoomft
ure. If he was sad and sober, he was
thinking Of the hated cousin he left behind
in the city. Ha5r l
my dear cousin, you cannot imagine
with what feelings Of pleasure / shal
present your beautiful cousin 10 you
She is such divine creature.' exclaimed
he one day, after dwelling unusually long
upon her beauty and learning. "She is
perfectionl"
/ Clara pouted and picked the leaves Of
a rose he had just plucked for, and crush
ed them with her foot. ..
'fYou win be delighted 70 see her. sb,
Is 50 kind aud gentle. II win be impos
si6le 70 be near her and not like her"
"And do you ike her. cousin HarFys'
asked she in low. hesitating voice, Is i
afraid 10 ask what might be unpleasant :,