The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1860-05-03

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Marshal could have kept Us from get
ting 0eome blossoms f,r him too" But
Marks held his coiors-wo mean by
that, he made II speech, short, but for
cibIo, and would have said much
more rthc reflection, about these bo'
qncts Of. Fitzhugh's hadn't interviewed
Plaugc take the reflection, But It was
Il little sad, And to make the matter
worse, Fitzhugh walked or aud stood
boldly in front Of Marks, displaying bis
boQucts in such n manner that Marks
must unavoidably observe them, and rs
he observed them his face bespoke the
ambition Of his soul, After Marks
"subsidcd," Gas the fellow said,) Rev.
Mr., Morris spoke awhile, tcndcringt the
thanks Of himself aud school Tor the
kind invitation extended them by tho
other schools. Aboubthis time we left,
our crowd Of women going too, On
course ifthcy hadn't gone we wouldn't
have gone, Whithcrso yer they went
we felt Ike following, and we do rock.
on our feelings were acted ont rs near,
y a3 anybody's that day, Bat vla>,
while ubscat the crowd called ioay and
Ioud for ~ to speak, We repeat that
the crowd called ioaga and iow for Vs.
We didn't hear, else wo should have
gotten up and spoke long and loud in
roturn. It's a mighty pity that we
didn't hcar--We N an its Il pity for
them, not forU,. They missed an able
discourse, It'sa good thing for Marks
and litzhugh that the longuc-tiod poe
try, love and ambition of oar jubiIant
soul didn't let loose on thalm mcntOuS
and acknowledgements day, We
hat been iXingup Il speech for the oc-
c%a~iou, and if Major Mckinney hadn't
been up when we got back, such anoth.
cr speech as we would have made
loneliness gracious. And to make it
the more praiscworthy, We had intcn-
Died to commence by saying that it WAS
all entirely unexpected on our part, OF
course. And then we'd have l0Omcd
out. And, for Mr., Fitahugh's benefit,
right here we would most respectfully
state that iorty.cight bouquets and ten
blue ribbons, bc,idcs Il bottle Of
shdmpaigne were actually kept back to
be thrown at us after We concluded
lhot is, if we had spoken. 1t was in.
tended for the yhompaignc to strike Us
right in the mouth, the most DANCE,
rVnS part Of our body and n that
| givcs ia more trouble and costs Us
more money than any other part, and
tmay be the death Of us yet, unless We
learn tito cat and drink less chan il does
Now, this speech that we intended tc
makc-it ought to be read, and ON
readers are anxious for il We know.
Therefore we have written it ont, and
forwarded to the .Mcssrs. Harper, at
New York, and will appear in THEN
monthiy-tho only magazine that
Douglas and oursclf write for. Harper
pays us Il large amount for the copy
right, consequently it will not appear
in the columns Of the Home Journal.
Well, we must close our rcmarIs, al
though we havn'l said halt as much
about the Picnic ~ we want to. We
would like to speak Of the bountriul
supply Nfgo0d +hingo 10 eat, but they
bcgNar description. We noticed a lot
n nice straw berries, but didn't get
any, lor We are such a modest young
man that we always let the good things
escape Us. Capt, McGrhcc's nicely
barbccu"d shoat didn't escape US by u
good deal. We laid in a good supply Of
that, certain. Neither did that bottle
Of wine escape u5--not by q Jug full,
bottle full. we meant to say, After
fcastine, the crowd Distressed into litlo
groups all owe the yo,d-hc merry
children romniuo r~rolicLinu ,hoi.
laughtcr ringina out on cyo,y side. We
wish them many such scenes-tbat
they may ever rcoIizo the word, oftLc
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