The Tiffin tribune. (Tiffin, Ohio) 1868-1887, 1874-03-19
VOLUME 26-NUMBER q
Going to Spelling School.

That fair young creature who went
with US lt doesn't make any differ
ence that she went back on her word
and grew up to be hatchet faced old
maid, her voice like u file and her
temper like eatsup--she WIS Ioysiy
then.
Would the fair and gentle Augusta
accept Of our company 10 "a spelling
school out at Duck Lake txt Thurs
day night ," The fair Augusta would,
she said and she did. such Neon /!
such an easy motion of The s;siSh I.
every girl had front door key IN her
pocket, and every young mzu fslt rs
II ne could climb u shed forty thous-
and feet high to get into his own
chamber window. That fair young
ereature-hoT she pretended 70 shiver
with cold until au arm was gently
and atfsctiOnAtely placed around her
delicate waist Then the weather
grew suddenly warmer, and she didn't
snlVer Sny more. 1t was q beautiful
night, We Observed. She said she had
noticed The same thing, and she
seemed 70 lean over little more, like
some OF the telegraph poles on Miehi-
gan avenue; embOldened, We observed
that Bill Jones and Sarah smith
seemed very affeetlOnate. She said il
seemed so u her, but having stuck the
end OF horse blanket In her eye, was
not prepared to make the affidavit.
somehow after that the conversation
seemed to grow more and more in
teresting, 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 50
artless and innoceht; so childlike and
cOnfiding. She told Us all about how
her stepmOther pounded her with a
rolling pin, and when we thought ofa
hard rolling pin Whacking against
her fragile form and bounding against
her alabaster shoulders, our hair stood
on one 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 ever
more when the sleigh stopped
st the schOOl-hOuse. Then came
the spelling down. It was BriRh-
ton against BungtOWn with the
schoolmaster in favor OF BuuR-
town. Such words as ''estarrh,u
turkey, ''S' S''parallel," ETC., soon re-
duced the 'sides" To half n dozen, and
at length We were left alone to sustain
the honor of Brighton. The school,
master was determined that Bung--
town should win, and it did when We
spelled omnibus with q double ''s."
be said 1t wasn't right, and when
Brighton insisted, he offered to up
hold BuDgtOWn with the iron poker.
However it was an offset to be eOnsol-
ed and sympathized with by "our
girl" She positively shed tears of
anger and sympathy, and she said Of
course there were two "s's'i on an
on nibus, one on each side, and she
wasn't positive but that there was
one on the door behind. By and by
the conversation went back TO step
mothers, rOlling-pins, alabaster shOul-
ders and getting married, and she said
she'd be ours. We figured up how we
could keep house on So so per week
and have n dollar left; Just how the
vOUdbiOe would trail oyer the door;
how we'd make her stepmOther die of
q broken heart;-and-but you all re-
member. It was a boys dream. She
discouraged me when she thought she
could catch dashing clerk and her
father set the dog on me, and her
brothers threatened to shoot; but as /
said before, IL doesn't make any diff
ferenee now. When / think over the
past feel To exclaim with Walt
Whitman: "Oh gimmee back them
other daysW-A. Quad in the Detroit
Free Press.