Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1877-06-30
Ny First Love.

in my life. ! fell in love. Il had been
in love several times before-chie6y with
the elder pupils at the Miss Andrews es,
Establishment, and once (but that was when
I was very young, indeed) with the cook
This, however, was much more roman.
tic and desperate affair. The lady was q
columbine by profession, and rs beauti-
full as an angel. She came down to oul
neighborhood with strolling company,
and performed every evening in a tenn.
porary theatre on the green for nearly
three weeks. l used to steal out after
dinner, when my father was taking his
nap, and run the whole way, that / might
be in time to see the object of my adora-
ton walking up and down the platform
outside the booth before the performance
commenced. This Incompatible creature
wore blue petticoat, spangled with tin.
foil, and wreath of faded peoples. Hei
age might have been about forty.
thoughther the loveliest of created beings
wrote sonnets to her-dozens of them
intending to leave them at the theatre
door, but never finding the courage to do
it. I made up boquets for her over and
over again, chosen from the best flowers
in our neglected garden, but invariably
with the same result. hated the harle-
quin, who presumed oput his arm about
her waist. I envied the clown whom she
condescended to address as Mr.. Merri-
man. In short, I was so desperately in
love that even tried to lie awake at
night and lose my appetite; but, I am
ashamed to own, failed signally in both
endeavors.
At length wrote to her. can even
now recall passages out of that passion
ate epistle. 1 we'll remember how it took
me whole morning to write it; how ]
crammed it with quotations from Horace
and how I fondly compared her to most
of the NEUROLOGICAL divinities. I then
copied it out on pale pink paper. folded
it in the form of heart, directed It to
Miss Angelina Lsscelles, and left it,
about dusk. with the money taker at the
pit door. I signed myself, if I remember
rightly, Pyramus. What would I no,
have given that evening to pay my six
pence like the rest of the audience, and
feast my eyes upon her from some OBJ
scure corneri What would I not have
given to add my quota to the applause
could hardly sleep that night;
could hardly read or write, or eat my
breakfast the next morning, for thinking
Of my letter and its probable effect. Il
never once occurred to me that my An.
gelina might possibly find it difficult r.
construe Horace. Toward evening e.
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