Fayetteville observer. [volume] (Fayetteville, Tenn.) 1850-1966, 1858-04-01

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ful daughter kissed him, bid bin
X COED bye. and before be had gone
: hundred rods, took a sent in Bol
5 styles light wagon, which he hat
) driven up to the door as old Lee'l
) Icarriage. drove away from the lront
! and the old story of headstroag low
/ and prejudiced old age was enactet
f over again. saf - q .sgE. tie
AS Cor us, of the picnic excur
sion, we had q sail down to the Grove
but somehow ! could not enjoy it a.
much as / ought TO have done.-
j When / walked on hoard felt awk.
ward, as IL everybody was looking
lat me. d / found Mr. Bimby, as
had suspected. a young and rising
/ lawyer, mighty in Blackstone and in
his ewn opinions. He insisted on
paying for my ticket, (the boat was
a regular excursion packet,) and
purchasing enough oranges, pears
tnnd candies, to set up. siand.--
-Four or five times WIS on the point
tof swearing at bis oflimousness, but
3bitl my tongue just at a time to
save exposure. But it was not with
him | found my role the hardest 20
play. aas 0g baa nf
No; The young ladies were the
difficult ones TO deceive. For in
stance, there was among them a,
beautiful girl Of seventeen, just re-
turning from bOarding-school, who
bad not seen Maggie for three years
0fcourse she was delighted to SEQ me,
when she found out that / was Mag
gle, which by the way, did not occur
until we had started. She threw
herself into my arms pulled my veil
aside, and kissed me half a dozen
/ times, in a manner that made my
finger ends tugle for half an hour.
1t was all very nice, but If had
ibeen sroppia persona, ] would have
liked j. better. As it was, | felt as
lie 1 was obtaining goods under false
preiepces." and that lawyer Bimby
might issue a warrant for my arrest
on that ground at any moment.
A whole knot Of crinoline then
surrounded me on the upper deck Of
the boat, to the utter exclusion and
consequent disgust Of Mr., Bimby and
| the other gentlemen. / kept very
quiet, only speaking monosyllables
in a false voice; but the others
Lord blessyou hew they gabblsdl-
Under strict promise of secrecy,
the little boarding. .shool maid. who
had kissed me so aflectionately, re.
yeaIed all ber love affairs, and also
became very unpleasantly confiden.
tial about other matters : innocent
enough in themselves, but not GUS
tommily talked about between ladies
and gentlemen. I"
I-was terribly embarrassed, but it
would not do to give it up then, =
As soon as my trick should become
known, Bob Syles' trick would al
so come out, anil as news of that kind
Travelled fast in the country, he and
his lady lcye would be telegraphed
and followed before they could reach
Philadelphia where the Styles family
lived, aud where the knot was to be
tied.s ssa n6
| The river breeze was very fresh
where we sat, and ! noticed that sew
eral Of the ladies were glancing un-
easily at me-. | couldn't divine the
reason, until Jennie, my little friend
from boarding-school, laid her face
dangerously close to mino and whis-
pered, "My dear Maggie, your dress
is blowing up terribly high Your an-
kles will be town talk with the gen.
tleman." aa . r
Now, I was conscious Of having a
very small foot for man, and ! had
donned alpair Of open worked stock
ings, which came nearly to my waist,
with a pair Of CATERS, borrowed from
the servant girl, all Of which. together
with my "running gear" looked quite
feminine and respectable, but the idea
Of the gentlemen talking about my
ankles, and Of being cautioned thus
by "a yo.irg girl, who would have been
heightened to death, If / had told her
the same thing yesterday, was too
much for me. burst into a sort Of
strangled laugh. which | could only
check by swallowing half Of my little
filagree handkerchief The young Ia
dies all'looked at we in apparent as.
tonishment, at such a voice, and I
waniad Ia laurh all the mnre.. For