The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1867-10-31
A Love AfTilfr I'm The Language
Of the Ring.

"Jean Paul. contributes the follow
ing in his New York letter to the
Springfield Republican:
"Optics," ''peepers,' "spectacular
organs" 'smelling boxes" "bugles,' ~
''claret jars" ''probOscises," "horns,"
''snifters," !" "pOtatO traps" "kissers,"
"cheese bOxes'' these phrases to
become Incorporated into our litera-
ture, through their damable iteration
in the pailies? Fancy a love scene
written up as follows:
Twas night, and the aromatic Ara
bella and the fuliginOus FitzfOOdle, in
accordance with a previous arrange
ment-play or pay being the word
were seated in thegarden. Both were
in excellent condition, and showed
the benefit of good training.
Arabella was a little too much in
flesh perhaps, but FitzfOOdle didn't
carry an ounce of spare weight, and
stepped smilingly into the ring, look
ing confident Of winning. r. .--.....
The moon in the far heavens lay
smiling and serene Ikea bOttle-holder,
while the stars looked down with their
mild spectacular organs, seemingly
ready to act as referees.
A clock in the neighbOrlng Kitchen
called time.
Little was lost in preliminary spar
ring; side by side sat the amative
amateurs grasping each others maw-
/ leys. Indeed, it was a beautiful scene,
calling back memories Of the haleyon
I day when the COhees Chicken had
mill with the SkeneateIes SOekdOllager.
A counter or two, and FitzfOOdle
nearly got his left fin around Ara
bella's ribs, his right still gTasping her
small and delicate bunch of fivPs.
s'Is your money mine ?" asked Fitz-
fOOdle in tender accents.
No reply was heard ; it was evident
that this side-winder had knocked the
breach out Of Arabella.
But the demOralizatiOn was but mo-
.mentary. "I don't see it, she said,
getting her left fin out of chancery.
This was one on Fi,zfOOdle's mob
He went down on his knees to avoid
further punishment. At this there
were cries of "fowl." "fowl," in a
restaurant near by, and the victory
was claimed for ArabeIla. -'
But FitzfOOdle refused to give it up,
and both retired to their corners.
Arabella came up looking game to
the backbone; FitzfoOdIe, notwith-
standing his late punishment, still
smiling and confident. -#
rMy parents are wealthy" he muir
INJURED, and again got his left duke in
on Arabella's ribs, and fbbing away
until there was danger of row outside
the ropes. ... ~
'The figure she gasped.
ga peach orchard in New Jersey, 5"
he returned, and with that put one in
on her pOtatO-trap, which she returned
with interest on his kisser. Here fol-
lowed lively round of sounding cx-
changes, and it was plain that from
that forth FitzfOodle had the fight his
own way.
Finding it useless to longer hold
out, Arabella now threw up the sponge,
closed her love peppers, and repoSe
her curly knOwledge-bOx peacefully
upon FitzfOOdle's manly breakfast; ut
terly regardless of the fact that a huy
musquitO had tapped her bugle and
was drawing the claret at a fearful
rate. ESQ. ..
/ / object to having love scenes dOre
up like that, but such will be the re-
suit if prize fighting be permitted to
engrOss columns that claim to be re-
/ spectacle, forcing its technicalities and
sickening details upon the notice of a
susceptible generation. -.....