Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1874-02-09
Going TO Spelling school.

PTeSS.l
That fair young creature who went with us
1t doesn't make any difference that she went
back on her word, and grew up to be a Ratchet
tsCea oid an maid, her voice like file and her
"Would the fair and gentle Augusta accent
OF our company to spelling school out at Duck
Lake next Thursday night?" The fair Angus
ia would, she said; and she did. Such a moon,
Such an easy motion Of the sleighl Every girl
had q front door key in her pocket, and every
young man felt as If he could climb q shed forty
thousand feet high to get into his own chamber
window. That fair young creature-how she
pretended to shiver with cold until an arm was
gently and affectionatcly placed around her
ly warmer, and she didn't SILVER any more IL
was q beautiful night, We observed. She said
she had noticed the same thing, and she seemed
graph poles on Michigan avenue. Emboldened,
we observed that Bill Jones and Sarah Smith
seemed very afectionate. She said Ii seem so
10 her, but having stuck the end of a horse
blanket In her eye, was not prepared to make
the AFFIDAVIT. Somehow after that the CONVEX
sation seemed to grow more and more interest
ing, 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
go artess and innocent; 30 childlike and confd-
Ing. She told us all about how her stepmother
thought of hard rolling pin whacking against
her fragile form and bounding over her alabsster
shoulders, our hair stood on end with mad
frenzy. She said she sometimes thought she'd
get married to escape further persecution, 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. Then came the
spelling down. 1t was Brighton against Bung-
town with the schoolmaster in favor of Bung-
town. Such words as "catarrh," "turkey"
"parallel," etc., soon reduced the "sides" to
half dozen, and at length we were left alone
to sustain the honor of Brig on. The school
master was determined that Bungtown should
win, and 1t did when we spelled omnibus with
a double .s." He said it wasn't right, and
when Brighton insisted, he offered to uphold
Bungtown with the iron poker. However, ii
was an Offset to be consoled and sympataizei
with by sour girl" She positively shed tears
of angera nd 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
one on the door behind. BY and by the con-
versation went to stepmothers, rolling pins,
alabaster 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 q
dollar left; just how the w0odbine would trail
over the door; how we'd make her stepmother
die Of broken heart: and-,but you all remem-
Der. 1t was boys dream. She discouraged
me when she thought she could catch q dashfng
clerk and her father set the dog on me, and her
brothers threatened to shoot; but as I said be-
fore, IT doesn't make any difference now.
When think over the past I feel to exclaim
with Walt Whitman: ooh, gimme back them
other days"