The Council Bluffs nonpareil. [volume] (Council Bluffs [Iowa]) 1857-1867, 1858-06-05
IALEAP YEAR INCIDENT.

| A LEAP YEAR INCIDENT. ,
We hink it prudent to state that we find
the folbwing story in New York paper,
withoutany indication as to who is its shame
less author. 1t was bad enough to play the
coquet, without publishing the story; and
then, tso, think Of married man Boosting
how he kissed pretty maiden.
The cher evening, as my friend Albert
and ! sa in my study, with our heels ele-
waited q the backs 0f two chairs, and two
glorious HSvanas elevated from our lips,
looking sround through the cloud of smoke,
espiedthe evening paper lying on the ia
BILE, whi,h Tom, in his usual quiet manner
had deposited there. Without in the least
disturbing our dreamy cogitations, picked
it up, ald began languidly to doze over it's
columns, when my eyes lighted on the fol-
lowing Paragraph, which, old bachelor like,
l felt quite enough interest in, to read to
my comp,nion.
STAKE THE LoT.-The young ladies of
Aurora, Illinois, have resolved that if they
didn't ge married this year-somebody
would be to blame. The senior class in
Williams College have sent communion
ton to tie Aurora paper, offering to take
the lot. They say now, having been four
years under the college discipline, ,exiled from
almostall intercourse with the fac similes
Of Adams rib, we think with Shakespeare,
that ther is ga tied in the affairs of man,
and the tine for that knot has come to us.''
No sooler had l finished, than Albert
with merry chuckle-nobody can chuckle
like him-ae chuckles all over-tapped me
on the shoulder, and exclaimed:
"By jupiter Seth, thereby hangs tale.'
"Ah, ah?' said |.
tWould you like to hear it?''
"Of cour'e, if there is any end to it, and
any point to the end"
Swell, there are both, according to nv
way of thinling. Anyhow, with your per-
mission, Plltell you the yarn. OF course,
you know where Aurora is-one of the
smartest towns in the West? 1t lies Just
below Geneva on the Fox river, and in
Kane county. Whether the county was nam
ed after or fol the North Pole Kane, and the
town Of Aurora became the Aurora Boreal-
is shines brighter at tho North Pole than
anywhere else, Is question that some fu-
ture nomenclatsrs may discuss; but one lit
tie item you may bet your life on-they
raise the prettiest girls TX C 90 CT tina,
ever made fellows mouth water"
"How do you know?"
ssHow do know? Wasn't l ut Geneva
last winter one whole month on business:
wasn't out at Aurora every other day to
see our old friend, Jack Spaulding, who has
Just hung out his shingle there and gone in.
to the practiceof the law-or rather intends
to when he can get case? Of course
was; and as Jack is death among the wo.
mon, he trotted me all around. All, Seth
you ought to 60 to Aurora-you-ought."
s'But the tale"
"Why; you see, one glorious afternoon
when it was cod enough out Of doors, bu
comfortable enough by Jacks old Franklin
while he was doing gover-somebody, for.
get who, no matter-on contracts, and
engaged in my usual avocation, reading
Dickens. Suddenly there came tapping al
of some one gently rapping at the door,
Jack, while visions of q fair client who
wanted to get rid of a testy guardian, fillec
his mind, cried come in! and in walked two
special constables of Cupid.
"One was a noble looking girl-eyes al
dark as the future to fellow who doesn'
know where his next meal is coming from
and cheeks as deeply red as Cambridge
professor. All, Seth, she was perfec
goddess; the other-well wont say any
thing about the other, for she hasn't muci
to do with my story?"
"But how came she there?"
"Why, up stairs and through the door, tt
be sure-but their object"
"Yes, their object?"
"Why, that was to invite us-yes Jacl
and me, to leap year ride-ball, suppe1
and all of that.''
"You?"
eyes, me, and she of the black eyes, too
was the incidental one who would be yer,
happy to have my company on little sleigl
ride to Geneva, to wind up with littl
warm typ, hop, at --'s, and slid
home by star light"
"Did you go:''
"Did go? Jack went, and how could
back out? Besides, it isn't every day Il ma,
gets such an offer. At 5, p. NJ, we start
ed-one of the merriest crowds that eve
went anywhere, thirty single sleighs-the,
don't 60 in for your great arks there. Witt
ahip and a hurrah, off we sped, and owe
the road we skinned like commet dashin,
through the milky way. The girls were ex
celent whips, and my black-eyed Kate wa
a Genesse Mills, extra supertine. She Sc
lected her steed with admirable TASTE
Gas we'll as her beau"
acct cut! , His neck arched like tn
Thames Tunnel, and his broad chest marke
his noble strength, while his slender lee
told you volumes for swiftness which wa
backed up by the very example. We wen
by them alive did-and Kate led tn
grand procession, prouder, | dare say, thai
ever julius was Of any Roman triumph"
"What did you talk of on the road?"
ssOf the weather, the delightful sleighing
the difference in horses, &c. After suppe
the hop--none of your tame parlor dances
through which parties 90 with the same pre-
cision that two old chess players move, VIII
have played game law for the last half cen
tury-no, sir! 1t was a regular western
hop-but if you want it described any fur
ther, you must do it yourself; words cam
express it; it was faction, action, action
sublime, Godlike action'-that's what
was. But like everything else, it had a
end, and we were off on the road again"
"And here must confess that had bee
somewhat coquettish during the evening
| tiiu nau Will ~ ittie sdtlSluCtiou sceu tucs
black eyes on me wherever moved, an
with whomsoever danced, and on whomso
ever smiled. Was ! wrong to enjoy it?--
How often had l been served in the sam
way. And when came to 60, of course
couldn't find my overcoat, and my hat wa
missing; so l called to my aid half doze
misses, who half hunted for them, and hal
not; and under the shawl of whom at las
discovered the one, and that Of another, tn
other-Kate all the while standing by an
looking as demure as have q thousan