The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1871-05-02
Going Home With Sally.

nNE bright moonlight winters night,
~ in the days of {" lang syne" when
the school houses, cheap schoolmasters
and blue beach rods were the only in
strumentalties used for teaching the
young idea how to shoot" we CHANGED
to attend spelling school! in a certain
rural district, the geographical location of
which is not now necessary to mention.-
Twas there, however, where our eyes
first fell on " fairy form" that immedi-
ately set our susceptible heart in II blaze.
She was sixteen or thereabout, with
bright eyes, red cheeks and cherry lips,
while the auburn ringlets clustered in
wealth of profusion around her beautiful
head, and her person, to our ravished i'm
agnation, was more perfect in form and
outline than the most faultless statue ever
chiseled by the sculptor's art. As we
gazed our feelings, which never before
had aspired girlward 1--WE were scarcely
eighteen, were fully aroused and we de-
termined to 90 home with her that night
or perish in the attempt. AS soon, there
fore, as school was dismissed, and our
"lady love" suitably bonnetted and cloak
ed, we approached to offer our service as
| contemplated, and we then learned an I'M
portant lesson, viz, the difference between
resolving and doing. As we neared her
! to put our resolution into execution, we
seemed to be stricken with a sudden
blindness then red, green and yellow
! lights flashed upon our vision, and ap-
peared and disappeared like witches in a
phantasmagoria. Our knees smote to-
gether like Belshazzar's and our heart
thumped with apparently as much force
as if it were driving ten-penny nails into
our ribs We, in the meantime, having
reached Sally's side, managed to muble
over something which, is, perhaps, known
to the Recording Angel, but, surely, is
not to us, at the same time poking out
our elbows as nearly at right angles with
our body as our physical conformation
would admit
The night wind blew keenly, which
served in some sort, to revive us, and as
our senses returned, what we're our emo
tions on finding the cherished object OF
our primal love clinging to our arm with
all the tenacity drowning man is said ia
clutch a straw Talk of elysian, or sliding
down CREASED rainbows, or feeding on
German flutes, what are such "phelings'
in comparison with those mighty ones
that swelled our bosom nigh unto burst
ing off waistcoat buttons Our happiness
was simply ecstatic, and every young lady
or gentleman who has ever felt the mighty
throbbings of newly pledged love viii
! completely understand the world of blis
hidden under that common word.ui ila.
t4 Well VIC walked on pleasantly towarc
Sally's home oonycrsing very costly anC
sweetly as we passed along, until so cou
! rageous did we become that we actual,
proposed " to 80 in and sit awhile i
. which our dulcipea very graciously as
) sented Alas for us how soon were ",
? to be reminded that the 2 course of tru
!. love never did run smooth .,.,,.,
= Sally had brother Of some ten sum
. mers, who accompanied US along the way
Q and who was in wonderful high spirit
e at the idea of his sister having a beau
d aud he would circle around US every nol
f, and then gigglng in the height of hi