, 1876-10-14
GOimG 10 Spelling school.

1t. 1t makes the pulses jump like Por-
ter street goat to think of a spelling
'hool in the county with "a big sleigh
tull of hay, and boys, and girls, II pair of
slow horses, Il bright moon and foot of
snow in the road
That tai" young creature who went
with us. 1t doesn't make any difference
t'at she went back on her word, grew
up to be Il hltchcd.iuccd old maid, her
voice Ike a file, and her temper like cat
sup--ahc WAS lovely then. Would the
fair and lovely August" accept Of our
company to spellingss chool out at Duck
| kc, Thursday night! The lair Au-
uustn would she s. 81 and she did. Such
moon Such an easy motion to the
sleigh Such singipg in chorus! Every
girl had { ont door key in her pocket,
end every young man felt as if he could
climb n she'd to.ry thousand feet high to
get into his own chamber window.
That fair young creIturc-how she
pretended to Ahiyer with cold until an
p,m was gently and eilCc.'onatcly placed
a"ound her delicate waist! Then the
we cher suddenly grew warmer and she
didn't shivcr any mo :. 1t was a be uti-
fat night, we oh crved. She said she'd
noticed the same thing, and she seemed
TO lean over little more, like some of
the telegraph pole on Michigan avenue.
Emboldcncd, we OBJ 'erved that ELL Jones
and Sarah Jonel seemed very atfectionatc.
She lid 1t .eemcG 50 to h., but having
suck the end of 4 hor.c blanket in her
eye she wasn't prep,;2d to make an
affidavit. Somehow, alter that, the con-
vers.tion be, AN to grow mole and more
interestin :, and with that fair young
ere. .tule's head on our shoulder we'd
have .et out to ride to Vermont and b.cb
without stop. She waH 20 art.ess and
innocent-So child like and contiding.
she told all about how her stepmother
pounded her with the rolling pin, and
when we thought Of a rolling pin whack
ing against her IA lie form, and bound
ing over her olab. Ster shoulders our
hair stood on end with mad frenzy. She
said she sometime thought she'd set
married to escdpc further persecution,
end we were about to lay our hGnd on
our heat and oiler to be hers folevermOrc,
when the sleigh stopped at the -chool-
house door.
Then c,.me the spelling down. 1t was
Eiighton against Dungtown, with the
schoolmaster IN favor Of Bungtown.
Such words as "Catarrh," turkey
parallel, )" etc, soon reduced the sides
to half dozen, and at length we were
LETT alone to sust,in the honor of brighton
The ,hoolmas,er was determined that
Bungtown should win, and it did when
we spelled omnibus with double "s."
lie said it won't right, and when
Brighton insisted he offered to uphold
Bungtown with the iron poker. How
ever it was an Offset to be nloled and
symp thizcd with by "our girl" She.
po lively shed tears of ansel and sym
pathy, and she said OF coulgc there was
two SIS on an omnibus, one on each side,
and she wasn't positive but that there
wrs one OH the door behind.
By and by the conversation went back
to step mothers, rolliny.pips, alab@ster
shoulders, and getting married, and she
said she'd be ours. We figured up how
we could keep house on $3.50 week
and have dollar left; just how the
woodbine would trail over the door; how
we'd make her step-mother die Of u
broken he.rt, and-but you all remem-
Der.
1t was boys dream. She di. courag.
edme when she thought she could catch Il
dashing clerk, and her father set the dog
on ne, and her brothers threatened to
shoot; but as | said before it doe"nt
make any difference now. When | think
over the past, f.el to eXclaim with
Walt Whitman; "Oh, gimme back them
other days" NJ QUAD.
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st. Patrick had no politics; his sympa-
thies lay with the light; that was poll