The Toledo chronicle. [volume] (Toledo, Tama County, Iowa) 1873-1924, 1876-06-29
Going Home With Girl the First
Time.

WE were between sixteen and seventeen
years of age when the event about to be
related TRANSFERRED, and us a description OF
our personal appearance at that time is
absolutely essential to the point OF our
story, we will give it as concisely as the
subject will allow. In reference, then, to
that period, to say that we were green, in
| the usual aCCeptation of that term, would
give the reader but poor idea of the fig
urc we displayed. Rather imagine a TALL
lean, cadaverous, swarthy looking chap,
with legs like pair of tongs, a counter
ance about as expressive as a plate of
Dutch cheese, month that came very
near making an island of all the head
above it, face covered with furzc that
looked very much like the down on a
a newl matched gosling, with a gait that
would lead beholder to suppose that we
designed to travel down both sides of the
| street at the same time, and you have a
correct daguerreotype Of Jeems in the sew
entecnth year of his age.
One dark, gloomy night in the month
| of December we CHANGED to be at a
"spelling school" not thousand miles
from Baldwinsvile, where our eyes fell
on fairy form" that Immediately set
our susceptible heart in a blaze She was
sixteen, or tbereabouts, with bright eyes,
red cheeks and cherry lips, while the au-
burn Tinglets clustered in a wealth of pro-
fusion around her beautiful head, and her
person, to our ravished Imagination, was
more perfect in form and outline than the
most faultless statue ever chseled by the
sculptor's art. As we gazcd, our feelings,
which had never before aspired girlward,
were fully aroused, and we determined to
go home with her that night or perish in
the attempt.
As soon as school was dismissed, and
our lady love" suitably bonneted and
cloaked we approached to offer our scrv-
ices as contemplated, and we then learned
an important lesson, viz: the difference
between resolving and doing. As we
neared her we were seized with a partial
blindness-red, green, blue and yellow
lights flashed upon our vision, and ap-
peared and disappeared like witches in a
phantasmagoria-our knees smote to-
gether like BelshazZar's when he discov-
cred the handwriting ON the wall, while
our heart thumped with apparently as
much force as if it were driving tenpenny
nails into our ribs. We in the meantime
managed to humble over something which
is perhaps known to the Recording An
gel, but certainly is not to us, at the same
time poking out our elbow as nearly at
right angles with our body as our physical
conformation would admit.
The night air blew keenly, which served
in some sort to revive US, and as our
senses returned what were our emotions
on finding the cherished object of our first
love cl;nging to our arm with all the
tenacity drowning man is said to clutch
a straw Talk of elysium, or sliding
down creased rainbows, or feeding on
German flutes, what are SIGH "phelinks"
in comparison to those mighty ones that
swelled our bosom nigh unto the bursting
of our waistcoat buttons Our happiness
was sublime sublimity, sublimely sub
limated, and every person who has ever
felt the divine throbbing of a t1edged love
principle fully understands the world of
bliss couched in the fourth, fifth, sixth
and seventh words at the commencement
of this sentence.
Well, we passed on pleasantly toward
our Sally's home, talking of g love and
dove, and dart and part" until so cour.
ageous had we become, that we actually
proposed &C to go in and sit awhile" to.
which our Dulcinea very graciously as
sented. Alas, for us how soon were we
to be reminded that the "course of true
love never did run smooth"
Sally had brother of some ten sum-
mcrs, who accompanied us along the
way, and who was in wonderful high
spirits at the idea Of his sisters having q