The Forest Republican. [volume] (Tionesta, Pa.) 1869-1952, 1874-03-04
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GOING TO SPELLING SCHOOL.

That fair young creature who went
with us 1t don't make any difference
that she went back on her word, grew
up to be Ratchet faced old maid, her
voice like file and her temper catsup
she was lovely then. "Would tho
fair and lovely Augusta accept our
company to spelling school out at
Duck Lane, Thursday night?" The
fair Augusta would, she said, and she
did. Such a moon, such an easy mo-
ton of the sleigh! Such singing in
chorusT Every glrl had a front door
key in her pocket, aud every young
man felt as if he could climb shed
10000 feet high to get into his own
chamber window. That fair young
creature how she pretended to SILVER
with cold until an arm was gently and
afectionately placed around her deli
cate waist. Then the weather sudden
ly grew warmer, and she didn't shiver
any more. 1t was beautiful night.
We observed that Bill Jones and Sarah
Smith seemed very afiectionate. She
said it seemed SO to her, but having
stuck the end of q horse blanket in
her eye, she wasn't prepared to make
an affidavit. Somehow after that the
conversation began to grow more and
more interesting, and with that fair
young creatures head on our shoulder
we'd have sat out to ride to Vermont
and back without stop. She was so
artless and innocent; so child like and
confding. She told all about how her
stepmother pounded her with the rOl l.
ing pin, and when we thought of a
rolling pin whacking againsther 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 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. q 1t
was Brighton against Bungtown, with
the schoolmaster in favor Of Bupg-
town. Such words as 'catarrh" "tur-
key" "parallel," ETC., soon reduced
| lHe slutS W ~ Abll uOLSu, anu ut
length we were left to sustain the hon
or of Brighton. The schoolmaster
was determined that Bungtown should
win, and it did when we spelled som
nibus" with a double 's". He said
it wasn't right, and when Brighton
insisted, he offered to uphold Bung-
town with the iron poker. However,
it was an object to be consoled and
sympathized with by "our girl" She
positively shed tears Of anger and sym =
pathy, and she said there were two SIS
in omnibus of course, one on each side,
and she wasn't positive but there was
one on the door behind. BY and by the
conversation went back TO stepmoth-
ers, rolling pins, alabas:er shoulders
and getting married, and she said
she'd be "ours." We figured up how
we could keep house on $3.50 per
week aud have a dollar left; just how
the woodbine would trail over our
door; how we'd make her stepmother
die os broken heart; how-but you
all remember 1t was boys dream.
She dicouraged us when she thought
she could marry dashing clerk, and
her father set the dog on me, and her
brothers threatened to shoot; but as
l said, it don't made any difference
now. When l think over the past, |
feel to exclaim like Walt Whitman,
ooh, GIN me back them other days !"
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