The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1871-01-12
An Elementary Lesson In CourtsbiN.

One BRIGHT moonlight winters night, iii tile
DAYS of Gang syne," when log school houses,
cheap schoolmastcrs, and blue rods Were
the only instrumentaiities used for teaching the
"young ideas how to shoot" we CHANGED tocat-
tend spelling school, in certain rural dis
trict, the geographical location OF which it Is
not now necessary to mention. Twas there,
however, where our eyes first fell OH "fairy
form that Immediately set our susceptible
hearts in blaze. She was sixteen there
abouts, with brigh eyes, red cheeks and cherry
li,s, while the auburn ringlets clustered in a
wealth of profuson around her beautiful head,
and her person, to our. ravished imagination,
was more perfect in form and outline than the
most faultless statue ever chiseled by esculp-
tors art. .! -
AS we gazed, our feelings, which never be-
fore had aspired girlward we were scarcely
eighteen) were fully aroused, and we deter
mined to go home with her that night or per-
ish in the attempt! AS soon, therefore, as
school was dismissed, and our "lady love" sui
tably bonneted and cloaked, We approached to
offer our services as contemplated, and we then
learned an important lesson, viz the difference
between resolving and doing. AS we neared
her to put our design into execution, we seemed
to be stricken with sudden blindness then
red, green, and yellow, lights flashed upon our
vision, and appeared and disappeared like a
phantasmagoria! Our knees smOte together
like Belshazzar's and our heart thumped with
apparently as much force as if it were driving
tenpenny nails into our ribs Vein the mean
time, having reached Sal]ay's side, managed to
humble outsomething which is, perhaps, known
to the Recording Angel, but surely is MOTTO us,
at the same time poking out our elbow IS near
ly at right angles with our body as our physl-
cal conformation would admit.
The night wind blew ,,keenly, which served,
in some sort, to revive US, and, az our sense re-
turned, what were our emotions on finding the
cherished object of our primal love clinging to
our arm with all the tenacity drowning man
is. said to clutch at straw! Talk of elysian,
or sliding down creased rainbows, or feeding on
German flutes, what are sich "phelinks" in COM
parison with those mighty ones that swelletl
our bosom nigh unto the bursting off of our
waistcoat buttonsl Our happiness was simply
ecstatac, and every young lady or gentleman
who has ever felt the mighty throbbing of q
newly-pledged love, will completely understand
the world of bliss hidden under that common
word
Well, we walked on pleasantly toward our
Sally's home, cunversing very costly and
sweetly as we passed along. until so courageous
did we become that We actually proposed "to
60 in and sit awhile" to which our dulcena
very graciously assented. Alas, for u.s. how
soon were we to be reminded that the course
of true love never did run smooth"
Sally had brother of ten summers, who ac-
companied us along the way, and who was in
wonderful high spirits at the idea Of his sister
having beau, and he would circle around us,
and every now and then, giggling in the height
of his gee and examing US as closely as if Sal
ly and ourself were the world renowned Siamese
twins, and he was taking his first look. Bill,
by the way, was stubbed, chuckle headed boy,
whose habilimcnts would have made the for
tune of an ordinary dealer in mop-rags.
At length VIC arrive at the bars, and while
we were letting them down, Bill shot past us
and tore for the house as if pursued by a thous-
and bulls of Bashan. He flung the door open
with.a bang, and shouted at the top of his
voice:
"Mother! mother! Jim Clark's coming hum
with Sal !"
"Is he?" screamed the old woman in reply.
"Wal 1 declar / didn't think the saphead
knew enough! %
Reader, VIC didn't go in.