Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1874-03-12
WHOLE NO. 1916.
Going to Spelling School.
From the Detroit Free Pres. ]

The fair young creature who went
with US !? 1t doesn't maze any differ
ence that she went back on her word
and grew up to be Ratchet faced old
maid, her voice like file and her tenn
per like eatsup--she was lovely there.
"Would the fair and gentle Augusts
accept of our company to o spelling
school out at Duck Lake next Thurs
day night ?" The fair Augusta would,
she said; and she did. Such moon
Such an easy motion of the sleigh
Every girl had front door key in her
pocket. and every young man felt as
if he could climb q shed 10000 feet
high to get into his own chamber win
dow. That fair young creature-how
she pretended to shiver with cold un-
til an arm was gently and affection
stely placed around her delicate
waist ! Then the weather grew sud
denly warmer, and she didn't SILVER
any more. 1t was beautiful night,
we observed. She said she had mott
ced the same thing, and she seemed to
lean over little more, like some of
the telegraph poles on Michigan ave-
nue.. Emboldened, we observed that
Bill Jones and Sarah Smith seemed
very afiectionate. She said it seemed
so to her, but having stuck the end of
horse blanket in her eye, was not
prepared to make an affidavit. Some
how after that the conversation SEEM
ed to grow more and more interesting,
and with that fair young lady's head
on our shoulder we would have set out
to ride to Vermont and back without
stopping. She was so artless and in.
nocent so childlike and contiding.
She told us all about her stepmother
pounding her with a rolling pin, and
when we thought OF hard rolling pin
whacking against her fragile form and
bounding over her alabaster shoulders,
our hair stood on end with mad frenzy.
She said she sometimes thought she'd
get married 30 escape further persecu
ton, and we were about to lay our
hand on our heart and offer to be hers
for evermore when the sleigh stopped
at the school house:A Then came the
spelling down. 1t was Brighton
against Bungtown with the school
master in favor of Bungtown. Such
words as "catarrh," turkey" ''parall-
els" dc. soon reduced the "sides" to
half dozen, and at length we were
left alone to sustain the honor of
Brighton. The schoolmsster was de.
termined that Bungtown should win,
and it did when we spelled omnibus
with double 49," He said it wasn't
right, and when Brighton insisted, he
offered to uphold Bungten with the
iron poker. However, it was an off
set to be consoled and sympathized
with by sour girl" She positively
shed tears of anger and sympathy, and
she said, OF course, there were two SIS
on an omnibus, one on each side, and
she wasn't positive but that there was
on the door behind. By aud by the
conversation went back to stepmoth.
ers, rolling pins, alabsster shoulders
and getting married, and she said
she'd be ours. We figured up how we
could keep house on $3.50 per week
and have a dollar left just how the
woodbine would trail over the door;
how we'd make her stepmother die of
a broken heart |; and--but you all re-
member. 1t was a boys dream.
She discouraged nae when she thought
she could catch dashing clerk, and
her father set the dog on me and her
brother threatened to shoot; but as
! said before, it doesen't make any
difference now. When | think over
the past | feel to exclaim with Walt
Whitman "Oh, GIMME back them
other days !"