The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-08-21

presume, Will De cnrlSteneu ouflnS Money
moon; and am free to own, that the con-
temptation Of their future history fairly
makes me- nervous, but, as it would be
breach of good manners to follow them in
to the bridal chamber, and see them cover
up so much moonshine, and poetry, and bliss,
Twill respectfully stop at the door,, and
leave the rest for the Imagination of the
reader. My reporter says that two OF said
quilts were finished, and another put upon
the frame, and, after the needles were stack
in the spools, and the thimbles stood on the
window sill, or slowed away in coy
little pockets, the quilters and the 'felers.
who had been teazing them, "p'tched IN
! for a general romp. Lovely punches otfem'-
nifty, in spite of their kicking and scream
ing. were enveloped in the quilts and Rugged
till they were nearly smothered. But the
girls were not the only victims, an old Kuhn
was Garnered up Gas snug as bug in
rug" and, let him protest as he may against
such proceeding, strongly suspect that he
would have no objection to being Ganered'
for the rest of his life: and, if he is as
fond of the girls as think he is. | believe
that will be his fate.
After supper, the merry-makers ADJOURN
ed to the school house for dance, and the
pattering tread of hundred flying feet was
soon grinding away fancy ''pumps" and
pine planks by wholesale, and terribly
frightening the classical mice that board
and study in the attic. Cupid, with culver
full of arrows, was there; and thslittle
butcher, not content with now and then
shot, kept so busy, that scarcely had one
shaft sped on its moon-shine mission ere
his bow string twanged again, and another
heart quivered and throbbed in amOrous
anguish. 1t is said of the grim old
skeleton king, that he
Gloves shining mark
the same is true Of cupid, for very often his
shafts passed by the plain and SWING the
beautiful.
OF course, the married folks looked upon
the naked little god with supreme contempt,
as not year of welded life had passed Per
them, ere they had unanimously declared
him humbug, and though some of them
are growing gray, they have never since
changed their minds. But, if they tell the
young people so, it is breath spent in vain;
for cupid IS to them the veritable porter of
Paradise.
A number Of your city boys were out
some of whom, am sorry to say, were so
ungalant as to leave pretty girls unkissed,
and sip the nectar Of despair from the
scalding lips of dcmjohn. Poor fellows
how sadly their taste must be perverted
They seem to be unaware that one pure kiss
contains more bliss than whole barrel of
corn-juice. l am happy to add, however,
that the majority of them paid due atten-
ton to the fair, danced with them repeated
ly, and went home call right" to dream Of
shelves and counters piled with pretty girls
of day books and ledgers, whose pages,
instead of being blackened with grim fig
ures and nky braces, were covered all over
with sparkling eyes-and of printers cases,
where, in every box, nothing but lips, rich
pouting lips, met the fingers of the bewil-
dered typo. But, to return to the ball
room, as
THE wee sma' hours ayant the twa,''
which, anglicised, would read s'the wee
small hours beyond the twelve" began to
number three or four, the music was losing
much of its power to charm. The limbs,
which had bounded and sprung like whale
bone, were becoming languid, and old Nor
pheus, hanging his mantle over the crowd,
invited them to come to his arms.
The music ceased-the dance stopped
all hands went home-the mice went to
sleep-and the old school house was still
again. The next morning, Mrs. G. sent me
huge section of delicious cake, glistening
with frost, as if the ice-king's chief cook
had baked it, with the North Pole for oven
wood.
Well, Mr.. Editor, with all the attractions
that Ravendale possesses-with its fields,
and groves, and springs-with its cuttings,
and balls, and girls, you are hardly prepared
to believe that it is also ga land flowing
with milk and honey. lfyou are skeptical
on this point, just take your wife and boy
ina buggy, and drive out here. As you
enter the dale and approach that big brick
house, drive slowly, and your doubts will
vanish, when dozen bee gums, all in row,
loom up before you, and the tinklins of the
cow-bell near at hand, reminds you of the
time, when, a barefooted urchin, you chased
old brindle with club, and mauled her
wickedly as she jumped the little "runs''
and mud holes.
Drive up to the gate and hitch your team,
but before that operation is finished, the
lady of the house is at the door with
smile of welcome, and her husband soon
has you by the hand with grip that makes
your fingers ache.
| You are at home in moment. You fol-
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lessly as though you had been intimate
friends for twenty years. Then comes the
''milk and honey" with all the other good
things that make an editor forget his sane
tum, and in memory 60 back to the time
when he climbed the shelves in his mothers
buttery, skinned the milk, hooked the pre-
serves, fshed for the biggest lump in the
sugar-crock, and finally, got spanked for
his mischief.
But, with such profusion before YOU,
be careful not to get s'too full for utter
ance," for you must talk. politics a little
with Mr.. NJ. You will find him a genuine
"black Republican, s'dyed in the wool >,
and his next neighbor, Judge B., is of the
same stripe. If all Northern men who had
rather see the Union anti-slavery than nro.
slavery, will quit their senseless quibblipss
about triaes, and stand up, as these men do.
to the main issue, in 1860 with SEWARD for
a leader, we can unfurl the battle. aao w;,h