Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1862-05-02

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% shoes, rocking a cradle, in which
reposed sunny haired, blue-eyed baby.
not quite year old. That young gen
tleman was l. myself, Harry Church and
that blue-eyed baby was Mary Moore,
Later still. saw myself at the little
red school house, drawing my painted sled
up to the door and arranging my overcoat
upon it, that Mary might ride home
Many black eye have I gained on such
occasions, for other boys liked her besides
me. and she, am afraid, was something
of frt, even in her pinafore. How dain-
tily she came tripping down the steps when
I called her name how sweetly her blue
eyes looked at me from the euyious folds
Of her winter hood How gaily her mer-
ry laugh rang out when by dint of super
human exertion l kept her sled before the
rest. and let her stand upon the steps ex-
ultingly to see them all go by. The fairy
laugh ! No one but Mary could let her
heart lie up so on her lips :! followed that
laugh up from my days of childhood, till
grew an awkward, blushing youth I fol-
lowed it through the heated noon of man
hood and now. when the frosts of age are
silvering my hair, and many chillren climb
to my knee and call me father" | find
that the memories of youth are strong, and
that grey hairs and all, I am following that
music STILL
When I was fifteen, the first great sor-
row of my life came upon me. l was sent
away to western school, and was obliged
to part with Mary. We were not to see
each other for three long years =
This, to me, was like sentence of death.
for Mary was ike life itself to me. But
hearts are tough things after all. l left
college in all the flush and vigor of my
nineteenth year. l was no longer awk-
ward and embarrassed. / had grown into
a tall. slender STRIPPING, with very good
opinion of myself in general and particular,
If thought Of Mary Moore, it was to i'm
agne how I would dazzle and be wilder her
with my good looks and wonderful attain
ments, never thinking that she might daz-
zle and bewilder me still more. l was a
sad puppy, / know, but as youth and good
looks have left me, l trust l may be be-
lieved when l say that selfconceit has left
me also.
An advantageous proposal was made to
me at this time, and, accepting it, gave
up all idea of a profession, and prepared to
go to the Indies. In my hurried visit
home of two days. l saw nothing Of Mary
Moore. She had gone to a boarding
school in Massachusetts, and was net ex-
pected home till the next fall. | gave one
sIgh to the memory of my little blue eyed
playmate, and then called myself a man
again.
"In year." I thought, as the stage
rolled away from our door, . In year, or
three years at the most | Will return, and
if Mary is as pretty as she used to be
why, then. perhaps l may marry her,
I strOked back nay budding moustache
with eomplaeency, while settled the fu-
ture of young lady l had not seen for
fo,,r ,-oa-c poro- .bourbt af tho rocci
billty of her refusing me-never dreamed
that she would not stoop to pick up the
handkerchief whenever I chose to throw it
at her feet
But now know that had Mary met NE
then she would have despised me. She
was as far above ne as the heavens
above the earth, Perhaps, in tie scented