Litchfield enquirer., 1861-09-26
M AIRY FULLER;

OR THE MEETING IN A CONNECTICUT sTAGE-COACH.
 BY AN AMATEUR.
 When speak of kissing don't include kiss ing mother, sister, aunt, grandma, or the little people that's all in the family, and matter of course. 1 means ones wife, sweetheart, and other feminines that are not kin or blood con- nection. That's the sort to call ksslng,' and that's the sort am going to describe.
 There is beautiful village about twenty-four miles north of New Haven, called in the Indian tongue Pomperaug. What it means in Indian don't know It was not taught us in the district school up there where we learned ourA C's and afterwards progressed as far as B-A, BA, K-E-R, KER, BAKER when I was allowed to graduate and enter the " ! ouths Seminary, under charge of the Rev. Mir. Fuller. One of my schoolmates in the latter place was q bright intelligent boy of the name of Walter Marshall. l loved him. so did everybody else in the o! village love him. He grew up to manhood but not there. No, New Engiand boys don't grow up at home be- fore they reach manhood they are transplanted, and are fourisiing in all palts of tic known world, wherever a Yankee craft has been, or the stars and stripes.
 Walter Marshall, when he reaqhel the age of fourteen, arrived in New York from his native village fin the destitute situation that is frequent among New England boys; that is to say, he had only the usual accompaniments of the un- fedged chick, who afterwalsl make the merchants and the great men of this country, and not un- frequently in other lands. He had a little wooden trunk pretty well stocked with "Auna- mades," sxty-cight cent Bible his mother packed in for him, fearful that he might forget it, a three-dollar New Haven City Bank bill, and any quantity of energy, patience persever ance and ambition.
 He entered the counting room ofa large mer- cantile house in South Street. His honesty, ac- tivity and industry won for him many friends. Among them was an English merchant who had a large commercial house in Calcutta, and q branch at Bombay. He was in this country on business connected with his commercial firm in Calcutta, and did his business with the firm Wal ter clerked t with and here the latter attract ed his notice. He was sixteen years ofage only, yet the Bombay gentleman fancied him, made him liberal offer to go to India with him, which after very little palaver among his friends, Wal ter accepted.
 New England boys don't often start off on unusually long, wandering excursions without first getting leave of absence for few days pre- paratory exercise, which they spend in going where they originally came from, and then hay ing few good looks at the weather-beaten old church, the high old steeple, which was wonder fully reduced in size and elevation since they first saw it, to notice it, in school-days then they must hear the old bell ring once more, even if they have to take a spell at the rope then take a turn among the white grave-stones, to see if there are any green mounds, fresh made. and if so, to ask who, among old friends, has gone to his last resting-place; then to kiss moth- CT and sister, shake hands with iather-and the stage is at the door of the tavern, and they are ready for a start to go anyarhere."
 Walter went up to do, and did do all this; but he did not go into the stage at the tavern. He walked down the road ahead of the coach to ward the old bridge, and told the stage-driver to stop and let him in at the minister's house-at Parson Fuller's Mary Fuller lived there too, for she happened to be the parsons only daugh- ter. She was the merriest, loveest little witch that ever wore long, loose tresses of auburn hair and had blue eyes. She was only twelve years old, and Walter was nearly seventeen. She did love hem, though he was all in all to her he had fought all her battles through her childish campaign, and she had no brother. She was Walters cousin, too, sort of half first cousin for her mother had been the half-sister of Wal ters mother. They were not too near related for purposes hereafter to be named.
 Poor Molly she would have erred her eyes out on this occasion, had it not been that Wal ter's solemn phz set her ideas of the ridiculous in motion; and she made a merry ten minutes as wind-up to their parting scene.
 Three days afterwards Walter was in New York, and in just four months and twenty day farther on in Times almanac, he was makn out invoices and acting as corresponding cle1l to the firm in Bombay.
 shall not stop long enough to relate ho, ) many times he went to the exhibition of vene
 nous looking cobra de capellos biting sepoy r. just for fun, and to show how innocent tn
 beauties were, and easy their bite was cured 0 how often he visited the far-famed Elephan
 Caves how many times he dined with good S
 Robert Grant, the Governor of Bombay, and ho he was with him, and what he said, the yer oo morning of the day the old scourge, the choler U made the excellent Sir Robert its victim-a
 these things I shall leave to another time, aud
 more appropriate heading: l skip over all thes
 and six years of time besides, and land Mast
 Walter at Staten Island, bring him up to u city in steamboat, and leave him at respect
 ble hotel and there let him sleep all night, ar