Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1881-03-24

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4Iy6nih. followed Il through. tho heated
: noon Of manhood ---apd, now, when ihe
sSffosh Of age afs' isilveripe ny hair. and
e;nsny chtldsoS climb NY knee and call h,e
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hllosing its music ssill. IN mn :.
fSI When was fifteen, the first great sorrow
S,of my lifo came dpon my heart. X was
tsedt II to SCHOOL and was ! obliged 'o III
spart with Mary. We were not to see each
tECsi. a. r.. Ss,s -l~f!g
Yves like sentence Of death, fot Mary y wss 4
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a.. Ileft college In ali tho fluSh and viUor 81
Sasybinetseut6 wear. L / wa % nolonser @ ~ ~ \.
wsfd and embarrassed. j hadr crown into
70 tsll, slender stripling, with 4 verv pood
ticular. II [. thought OF Msry Moore. 'it
was to Imagine how / would daszIa anS
Sbewilderher witfr.my good looks and won.
derfal attainnentsl-never thinking that
Abe might daxzte and bewiidcr mo stiii more.
u was q ooxsomb, L know: but "a youth and
rood looks Fave fied !, /, ,trnst T NAV he he
,hSted-whon say that self copceit has left
,ne also. ,.8,..
An advantag geous proposal D was made to
tme at this timb, and accepting Il. I gave nm
isilideas of profession, and prepared 20 eo
ttotke Indies. In my hurried visit homo I
osax nothing of Mary Moore. SHE had
Y;gons to boarding SCHOOL Of soms distauoe.
and WAS not expected home until the fol3
CRYiug May. y.auI uttered one Sigh to the
upsmory of my little blue Dyed playmate.
ahd then called. myself man again"
90 "Io q year." Thought, al the vehicle
whirled away from our dcor--s.iu year, or
three years at mosS / Will return, and il
Mary is as pretty as she used to be, why
them psrfaps ] my marry herr u !
Aud thus'I settled tho future of young
lady. whom L badipot sesn for four years.
1 never thought Of The possibility Of
hsr rsf9sing' ,me---never dreamed that
she Iwonld not oondescend to accept my
Offer. to7rq, T.. r
but now know that had Mary met me
theht she would have despised mo
Perhaps iu tho .scent ian. affected, student,
shasmighk have found plenty, of sport; but
as for loving me, or feeling. the sliehtest
interest in me, Lshould: have perhaps found
lTas mistaken o'n",. l.7.,..l
Eudia was my salvation, NOT merely be.
& nature, and, made me a better man.