Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1872-07-11
ADMIRABLE.
How They Fell in Love.

They had grown up together, in the
full sense Of the term, and that was the
matter. They had eaten each others
mud pies, taken the crOupin each others
snow forts, cried out the sums OF each
others states, tipped over each others
ink with their mutual handkerchiefs,
"tOldo of each other in about equal pro.
portions, and "made upn in a common
eXuberance Of sobs and sassafras. They
had played at lovers behind the wood
pile, been married by the piece speaker,
been divorced by the first base" been
reunited by the minister's daughter, and
gone to housekeeping in the peat swamp
at regular intervals, as far back as their
memory extended. She had blue eyes,
and never understood vulgar fractions.
He use to miss, so that she might get to
the head of the class. One day she
braided her hair in two little braids be-
hind, tied it with pink lutestring ribbon
at three cents a yard. When they walk
ed home together, he touched it gently,
to signify appreciation, and she blushed
like a May flower. 1t could not have
been long after that before she grew shy
at singing-school, and was apt to be GO
ing home with her brother. In another
year, when he went to st. David's col
'lege, she cried herself to sleep, forgot to
crtmp her hair and said nothing was the
matter. So of course, when he came
home on the first vacation, it all hap
pened as it could not very well help hap
pening to the end of all young things
dreaming or old ones warning. She sat
in the choir in a blue dress with white
spots, with a pink bonnet and pink
cheeks, and sang in a very sweet little
country voice that quivered and eurled
about the pillars of the sunny white
meetinghouse like incense in an open
field on a May day, you might have
thought, and you might not. He, grown
rather tall, rather quiet, with long hair,
and the unmistakable st. Davidis shawl,
sat below in his fathers new boX-and
listened. One Sunday it CHANGED that
Rev. Mr.. Love, the recently settled and
very popular shepherd Of the Injecting
house, /" feltmOved in the spirit to preach
to his flock a sermon upon Christian am
ity, and to suggest as its most fitting
musical accompaniment, hymn eight
hundred and fifty-seven of the "Sweet
Singer of Israeli Just introdueed). Alb,
you excellent mothers with washing
days on your minds, and We excellent
fathers, struggling to keep your faith
under the discovery of Toms tIrst cigar,
do you never suspect in your stupid,
good hearts, the tears of solid comfort
rolling into your spectaeles as you sing,
and your soul aglOw with all the hidden
meanings of fellowship in the one Master
whom they who love not never know
do you eve suspect the hirtations con-
Quoted ove that admirable hymn? 1t
may be very much too bad, but it is very
much the case. 1t is quite as bad in me
to suggest the sacrilege to yeur young
people. Bless your indignant souls, they
stand in need of no suggestion. Ask
them. do not deny that it is atroeious
in me to spoil the hymn for you;
but hat is another matter. She then in
her blue and white dress, with a sum
beam struggling through a little ground
glass gallery window upon her pink
bonnet, sang;