The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1869-11-25
Mary Moore.

All my life long | had known Mary
More. ALI my life had loved her.
Our mothers were did playmates and
arst cousins. My first reccollections are
of boy, IN q red frock and morocco
shoes, rocking cradle, in which reposed
. sunny haired. blue-eyed baby, not quite
year old. That boy was myseIf-Har.
~ church; that blessed baby Was Mary
Moore. =
Later still. see myself at little
school house, drawing my little chair up
to the door that Mary Ia light ride home
Macy beating have / gaii ed on such
occasions. for other b ,ys besides me liked
her, and she, fear WAS something of q
Airt, even in her plnsf,re How elegant
ly she came tripping down the steps
when called hep name. How sWeetly
her blue eyes looked at nue., How gayly
rang out her merry laugh. No one but
Mary could bring her heart so s.,on to
her lips | followed that laugh from my
DAYS OF Gu lihood till | grew an awk.
ward, blusinng youth followed ,f 1t
through the heated noon Of manhood
AMI now, when the frosts of age are rs,l
vering my hair, and Tany children climb
upon my knee and call ME father" find
the memories of youth are vet strong AMI
oven in my gray hair l am following the
music still tt4H. Ill F.... II
When was fifteen the first great .eor-
row of my life came upon my heart. |
was Sent to scheel, and was Obliged to
part with Mary. We were net to y e ca cb
other for three long years. Tins, to me.
was like sentence of DEATH for Mary
was like lite itself to me. But hearts are
l left college in all the flush aud vinor
of my 10th year. hsi grown into atall
slender stripping, with very good opin,
ION OF myself, both in general and III par
tleular. If thought of Mary Moore il
was to imagine how | could dazzle and
bewllder her with my good looks and
wonderful mental attainments, and never
thinking she might dazzle me still more
was coxcomb, knew, but as youth
and good looks have fled, trust | NAV
De believed when | say that self love has
left me also. a s, ...s,',..., "a .-,.-.-
9" An advantageous proposal was made
me at hat time, and accepting it. / gave
up all idea of & profession, and prenar,d
to go India. In my hurried visit home OF
two days, saw nothing of Mary Moore
She had gone to a boarding school st !
distance, and Was not expected home un
gill the following May. i uttered bat d
slgh for my little blue-eyed PLAYMATE. ARD
then called myself a man again.
In year l thought, as the vehicle
Whiried away from our door, in year
or three at the very most, / will return
ana II Mary Is as pretty as she used tC
De- wny' then perhaps may marry her
And thus | settled the future Ola Young
1ady whom l had not seen for four wears
never thought of the possibility of hel
refusing me--never dreamed that she
would not condescend to accept nv offer
But now know that, had Mary met m.
then, she would have disposed me. Per
maps IN the scented student she 4niglt
nave found plenty OF sport; but as 10,
loving ne, / should have found myselI
mlsta ken. India was my salvation, moi
merely because of my success, but becaust
my iaborious industry counteracted tn,
eVll In my nature, and has made me
better man. When at the end of tbre,
Years prepared TO return, l said NOTHING