The Cambria freeman. [volume] (Ebensburg, Pa.) 1867-1938, 1874-02-20
NUMBER 5.
Going to Spelling School.

That fair young creature who went with
us 1t doesn't make any difference that
she went back on her word, grew up to DO
a hatchet- faced old maid, her voice like
file and her temper catsup-she was lovely
then. ''Would the fair and lovely Augusta
accept our company to a spelling school
out at Duck Lake, Thursday night?' Tie
fair Augusta would, she said, and she did.
Such moon and such an easy motion of
the sleigh! Such singing in chorus Every
girl had a front doc: key in her pocket,
aud every young man felt as if he could
climb a shed 40, coo feet high to get into
his own chamber window. That fair young
creature, how She pretended to shiTer with
| cold until an arm was gently and Affection
ately placed around her delicate waist
/ Then the weather suddenly grew warmer,
and she didn't shiver any more. 1t was a
beautiful night. We observed that Bill
Jones and Sarah Jones seemed very afTec-
! tiOnate. She said it seemed so to her, but
/ having stuck the end of a horse blanket in
her eye, size wasn't prepared to make an
affidavit. Somehow after that the conver-
sation began to grow more and more iute-
! resting, and with that fair young creatures
head on our shoulder, we'd have set out to
ride to Vermont and back without 4 stop.
she was so artl.ss and innocent so child
like and confding. She told all about
how her step-mother pounded her with tie
rolling pin, and when we thought Of a roll
1 ing 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 ges
married to escape further persecution. and
we were about TO lay our hand on our
/ heart, and offer to be hers forevermore,
when the sleigh stopped at the school
| house. Then came the spelling down. 1t
was Brighton against Bungtown. Such
words as ''catarrh, - turkey - parallel" -"
/ &c, soon reduced the sides 10 half q
| dozen, and at length we were left alone to
sustain the honor of Brighton. The school
master was determined that Buugtown
/ should win, and it did when We spelled
/ omnibus with a double So lie said
it wasn't right, and when Brighton insist
/ ed, he offered to uphold Bungtown with
. tllt liOl iIJEGI NOW tN CT "a was an .OlSeB
to be consolod and sympathized with by
''cur girl She positively shed tears Of
anger and sympathy, and she said of course
there was two IS on an omnibus, one on
each side, and wasn't positive but there
was one on the door behind. BY aud by
the conversation went back to stepmotli-
crs, rolling pins, aIabaster 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 dollar
! left ; just how the woodJine would trail
over the door; how we would make her
! stepmother die of broken heart and
/ but you all remember. 1t was a boys
/ dream. She discouraged us when sic
thought she could catch q dashing clerk,
and her father set the dog on me, and her
brothers threatened to shoot but, as I
said before, it doesn't make any difference
now. When I think over the past l feel
to exclaim with Walt Whitman: "Oh,
gimme back them other days