The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1878-06-27
rrIyEMACHUS. KERSUS MENTOR.

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acn,t mind me, beg you old fellow, Pl do
very well here alone;
i a. ,aust not he kept from your German
0e because I've dropped in like stone;
,ssv.y All ceremony behind you, leave all
thought of aught butyourseH,
fyou like, the Madeira,and doz-
en- cigars on the shelf.
Tor me. YOU will say to our hostess ell
1 si 4 1scarcely need give you cue.
IfSant my praise! All will list to Apollo,
, = though Mercury pipe to a few;
Sv lust what you please, my dear boy:
: there's more eloquence lies IN youths
1 rash
loutspeken heart impulse that ever growled
under this grizzled mustache.
IA don the dress-coat of our tyrant-youth's
panopIied armor for fight
and tis the white neckcloth that rumples,
like Measure, and lasts but night,
ard pray the Nine Gods to avert you what
time the Three Sisters shall frown,
Tr,d YOU II lose your high comedy figure, and
sit more at ease i'll your gown.
IJe,s off There's his foot on the staircase.
BY Jove, what a bound! Really now
hid ever leap like this spr1ngald, with
s. Loves chaplet green on my brow!
HAS such an ass? No, fancy. Indeed, L
B remember quite plain:
gravity mixed with my transports, cneef-
fitness softened my pain.
E,s gone! There's the slam of his cab door.
There's the clatter of hoofs and the
wheels,
md while the light toe he is tripping, in this
: arm chair I'll tilt up my heels.
he's gone, and for what? For tremOr from
waist like a teetotum spun;
: IWa rose. bud that's crumpled by many be-
81 fore it is gathered by one.
lItthere naught in the halo of youth but the
glow of a passionate race
Edst the cheers and applause of crowd
to the goal of beautiful face?
trace that is not to the swift, a prize that no
+ 3 merits enforce,
! but is won by some fdineant youth who shall
sirnplYyalk over the course?
POOR boy! ishallI shock his conceit? When
he talks OF her cheeks lovelineSS,
hall say twas the air of the room, and was
due to carbonic excess?
That when waltzing she dropped on his
breast, and the veins of her eyelids grew
Txas oxygen's absence she felt, but never
II the presence of him? .-
Z har Iteli him First Love is a fraud, weak
z ling that's strangled in birth,
Eleealed with pertunctory tears, but lost in
: s4unsanctified miIth?
n shall bid him believe in ali womankind's S
nj Echa,ln, and forget
nthe light ringing laugh OF the world the
rattlesnake's gay castinet!
- sAall Itear out a leaf from my heart, from
N that book that forever is shut
D. % the past? Shall speak of my first love
Augusta-Iny Lalage? But
lirget. VAST really Augusta? No. Twas
4 !. Lacyi No. Mary! No. Dill
never mind, they were all first, and faithless,
and yet-f've forgotten just why.
no. no. Let him dream on and ever. Alas
he will waken too soon;
AAa 1t doesn't look well for October to al
- ways be preaching at June. So
b rver boyi All his fond foolish trophies pin
nedyonder-a bow, from her hair,
lew biHets- dour, invitations, and-whats
B this. My name declare.
" Humph! "You'n tcome, for I've got you a
prlze-with beauty and money no end
: 'en Know her, think: twas on dit she once
was engaged to your friend;
Z Ht sne says that's all over" All, is it? Sweet
r. asasE thet Incompatible maid
"-Mnat ii The thing were a trick?-this let.
II Gai ier sotfeelys displayed
yT Gnpgrtnne presence, No nonsense
Znsr III nobody answer the bell?
r lan Gao! Halt past ten Not too Iatei Oh
IN. Etheii Why don't You go? Well?
Aastef said you would watt Hang youl
7 ma@ef' @"H Have I ever q message tc
II sendg'
eytsH him Pve gone to the German tC
eanee nc with the friend of his friend.
f@e ~ '-[Bset Hsirge, in Harper's for June.