Spirit of Jefferson. [volume] (Charles Town, Va. [W. Va.]) 1844-1948, 1867-06-04
Love Without Nonsense.
NOT A EFT LIKE 4 Sovr1

dark-eyed maiden, with clear. tranSnaran,
skin, aud lips like CherriRs, and cheeks sat.
fused with bushes. She did MT have .,lossv
black hair, sweeping bafk in wavy ,TesSes
from her queenly brow, abl her form Was'I t
bit like aebe's- No,fthere was none er
those things; on the cOEtzary, she was short
and thin, and had red hair and treeklas. and
she also sported snaggled teeth aud wore mas
but still she was right nice Girl. and tbers
was young man who ftli in love with ber
and his name was Bill, although his friends
sometimes called him lNilianl when thev
wanted to hurt his fesiiReh f,is he didn't Ike
II much. lie vas nj Hs5saaking, and had
Not much. Bill laid himScIT 6uJ On Soap
locks. and wore a gOatce that he had dved
twice week
Now this Bill, he was in love with Mary.
but did he 20 and make deliberate as. OF
himself! Did he say. 60 into u grove with
her. and in the soft moonlight, by the stream
let that murWured sweetiy by, and with the
tender zePhyrs sighing through the foliage.
fall down on his knees, seize her jeweled
hand, and breathe his deep affection in the
tender accents Of fond attachment, and swear
by yon bright orb above, always to be thine?
Did he, say? You can just bet he didn't
You can lay out your whole revenue safely on
that. William knew too much about the prIce
OF pants to 20 Hopping around the wet grass
with his best clothes on besides. he never
cared anything about sireamIets or any kind
ct cold water, except to mix with his gin
No sir; 1t was exceedingly strange, but this
infatuated William met her at the alley gate.
and he stood right up on his old legs and
hitched 2"
But how did Mary behave? Did she go
dropping to sleep over ON the bricks in 4 Gead
faint, or did she hide her gentle head on his
shirt bosom to conceal her blushes? No. she
did MT, and she didn't say, q am ever thine.
my own love, dear William y Oh, my. no
She looked right in his yellow eyes and SAYS.
L" I'm iG, Billy; I'm the gai for thee sort ot
things. Go in !" And instead of referring
him to her iather, she only said, &" Won't the
old man bust right out when you tell him
Ha! ha y aud she laughed. But SHE did not
ask William to n'oilIty her fond father. M.
10. Size very wickedly advised him to poke
the old man in the nose, if be lave huI any
OF his lip" She was funny girl, this Mary
Now the old man wasn't wcalthv. for he
sold soap fat tor living, aud s. he didn't
think Bill was nosing around after his star,rrs
so, when Bill asked him. he neither ordered
him fercoly away. nor did the dewy moisture
gather III his eagIr eye he passed his hem
stitched up there and said =. b less YOU. NV
bless you :" oh 10. nothing Of the
sort. lie just blew his old red nose on his
bondanua and told Bill to take her along, for
he was glad to get rid Of her, he was, aud
Whhnm would be the same way soon for she
was awful rough on victuals, aud always broke
pia'es when she got mad
So. you see, there really was no necessity
Tor William to come at miduight's solemn
hour, in cab, aud throw a rope ladder up to
her window, and whistle three times IN his
fingers, aud then 20 up, hand over hand. and
bring her down in one hand. and her trunk
i'll the other, and baud box aud umbrella
under each arm, and IL whole lot Of bundles
ard then get into cab, and fly to some dis
tamt shore. That's the way 1t would have
been in u novel but B.II said he wasL on
THAI lay, So he just went ont in the yard, aud
out of pure joy, lie skinned the cat three or
four times on the grapevine arbor, and then
went aud got his butcher cart, and drove Mary
right down to the magistrate, to get the Job
done for quarter-tUr he said he was some
on the low price.
But the queerest thing Of all was, that Bill
had no tall, dark, rufiauly rival, with a scow-
ling vsage and black whiskers, who few at
him with drawn dagger and horse pistol
in each hand. and a muttered curse upon his
lips and cried wildly for :. Revenge Ha!
hal and said e Sdeth :" aud ''ViIlian. thou
diest y Not any. There was another fellow
in love with Noiie. to be sure, but he was
weak-eyed young man. who had sandy har
and wore spectaces and u chOkcr collar. and
always looked scared when you hoilcred at
him. So, when he saw that Bill had the best
of the girls affections. he looked all serene.
and said, Go IN Billy. if you hauker for
her." and as Billy was trfe GU the hauker
he sai.ed right in.
So William, you sec had no troublc at all
aud you could get up an agonizjng novel
about him, if you had tried. lie did Mt ha &c
any urgent business that called him to 4 for
eign land, so he had to bid her fond good
bye, aud swear always to he true. aud then 90
away aud forget her aud fall in love with j
dark-eyed Italian girl, picking grapes in
vineyard, with a square towel folded on her
head, while his forgotten and forsaken Mary
gradually faded and pImed away, and bafied
the physician S skill, and grew paler, and at
last when the June roses were in bloom. living
gently down to die, while through the omen
window foa:ed in the balnIy odor Of jessamine
and honey suckle. And William did Mt come
home at last, and filled with deathless re-
morse, 20 daily to the cemetery and sfrcy
HUwcTs on her grave. and teach his children
to lisp her name. Not at all That j. the
way Mrs. T.. d. L. n. Sou,hworth would have
done it. but she was'n mt around Billy wsz 4
butcher who wore a white shirt and a shiny
hat. and he stayed at home and killed beef
and sold it at big price, and lie stuck to
Mary, and she kept healthy and was u : much
on the pine. or the fade. while if any fellcrs
got to lurking around, William went rite out
and battered them in the eye. lie did.
And then, at last. when all was over. Mary
did'nt sit in the room while they dressed he,
IN white, and mixed orange blossoms in her
waterfall. and then gently went down stair.
with SIX bridesmaids at her heels to s'an.i ur
with her and William. and wcen .cnrIr rhirl