Spirit of the age. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1849-1865, 1863-10-12
A Pretty Little Love Story.

Like a pleasant harvest breeze from
over sunny field of new mown hay,
comes pretty little love story from
Ireland. Travellers know that Cupid is
forever fplaying' his tricks" with the
rosy colcens and broths of boys appeI
tanning to the Gem of the Sea; but it is
seldom his doings there INVOLVE enough
complications to make good newspaper
romances.
When your bould lad of Killarney"
falls in love with bit of girl, be asks
her will she have him, without a sigh or
blush and if she says she will, the
affair is decided, French sounds nice in
an Irish story, you know) Should her
ould man" see fit to interfere, Paddy
just tips him over the head with the shil-
lslshsnd marrieS the gis before be can
suicide with the wedding engagement,
but sings from the time of her betroth-
al:
MY heart is as light as feather,
| hope that it may never be sad;
! am going to get married to- morrow,
: And won't you have me pretty lad
Hurrar'
So that our readers will perceive that
/ Irish courtship does rot present many
attractions for the sensation reporter,
save when some English adyenthrer tries
to carry off some pretty heiress, when
there is apt to be row and grand dra-
matte jig, At last, however, Old Ireland
has produced quite nice little hymeni-
al romance, in which all the fragments
are racy as the turf and we hasten to
lay it before our readers:
Now, in the ancient and scrupulously
respectable town of Nenagh, dwelt fair
and frolicsome young hypothesis of
eighteen summers, whose natural beauty
was materially enhanced by the very be-
coming mellow light reflected from hun
'dreds Of golden accessories. Her par
si,nonious but pious parents had saved
up this tempting assortment of lucre for
her marriage dover; and so distictly did
it's auriferous jingle find an echo in pub
lie sentiment, that the heiress had al
! least one tempting suitor for every pound
she possessed. TO all she was amiable
{ and expensive but there was one
amongst them whose superior qualifca :
. ton in the way of good family and bank
account gave him decided advantage in
i the grand scrub race for her hand. Thi:
: lucky individual lost no time in gaining
!, the consent Of the 'ould ones" to his suit
y and such Bstrong influences were brough
!, to bear upon the pretty lass, that sh
Q. finally consented to become Mrs. O.
t We need not inform onr readers tina
q the triumphant swain nearly swooned il
= the fullness. of his joy. and forthwith
) drove his family to the verge of distrac
y ton by ordering some of the "loudest
vests and inexpressibles that ever electri
l. fed the eve cooperative Of peaceful Ne
D nagh.
le The happy day was appointed, "in
:, vites" distributed, bridal robe purchased
i the ring procured, and everything mad
le ready for that interesting cersmony b
| which woman's pewer OF deluding mar
~ kind is made to appear positively sui
&c lime. Friday was to he the day. @
rs Thursday evening the bride elect left tt
D; patcrnal dome for the ostensible puI
q pose of purchasing trosseau in town
" sshe went like the light of even tide,
re When the days white beard is shorn;
Id And when the day was a child again.
She came back in a horn.n
u. In fact, 6 it may be as well to obser
G. in this connection" as the papers say,th
tn the pretty heiress did not come back
ry all Instead Of buying trousseau, 81
IL "sold" her accepted suitor, and hear
pm llessly cloped with "bould sojer boy