Morning journal and courier., 1882-10-31
A Fortunate kiss.

In the University of Upsala, in Sweden,
lived young student--a lone youth, with
great love for studies, but without means for
pursuing them. He was poor and without
connections. Still he studied, living in great
poverty, but keeping cheerful heart, and
trying not to look at the future which look
ed so grimly at him. His good humor and
good qualities made him beloved by his
young comrades. Once he was standing with
some of them in the great square OF Upsala,
prating away an hour OF leisure, when the
attention of the young man became arrested
side of an elderly one, walked slowly over
the place. It was the daughter of the COVER
nor of Upsala, living in the city, and the lady
with her was her governess. She was gem
orally known for her beauty, and for her
goodness and gentleness of character, and
was looked upon with great admiration by
the students. AS the young men now stood
silently gazing at her az she passed on like
q graceful vision, one of them exclaimed:
9'Well, it would be worth something to have
a kiss from such a mouth"
The poor young student, the hero of our
story, who was looking intently on that pure
and angelic face, exclaimed, as If by inspira-
ton, s'Well think could have it !"
''What ?" cried his friends in a chorus,
s'are YOU crazy ?" do you know her." etc.
Not at all, !" he answered, 'but I think
she would kiss nae just now, If asked her"
I'm this place, before your eyes"
'Freely?"
"Freely"
"Well, if she will give you a kiss in that
manner, will give you thousand dollars !"
exclaimed one of the party.
"And Il And I!' cried three or four
others; for it so happened that several rich
young men were in the group, and bets ran
high on so improbable an event, and the
challenge was made and received in less time
than we take to relate it.
Our hero-my authority tells not whether
he was handsome or plain / have my pecul-
lar reasons for believing he was rather plain,
but singularly good looking at the time-im-
msdiately walked off to meet the young lady.
He bowed to her and said my lady, my
fortune is IN your hands. '%She looked at him
in establishment, but arrest ed her steps. He
proceeded to state his name and condition,
his aspirations, and related simply and truly
what had just passed between him and his
companions.
The young lady listened attentively, and
when he ceased to speak, she said, blushing,
but with great sweetness, eff by so little a
thing so much good can be effected it would
be foolish in me to refuse your request, and
square.
Next day the young student was sent for
| by the governor. He wanted to see the man
who had dared to ask kiss of his daughter
| in that way, and whom she had consented to
| kiss so. He received him with a severe and
scrutinizing brow, but after an hours con
versation, was so pleased with him that he
asked him to dine at his table during his
| studies at Upsala.
Our young friend now pursued his studies
in a manner which soon made him regarded
| as the most promising scholar in the Uni
versity. Three years were not passed after
the day of the first kiss, when the young ma,
was allowed to give a second one to thu
daughter of the governor as his intended
| bride.
| He became later one of the greatest schol
ars in Sweden, as much respected for learn
ing as for his character. His works will en-
dure forever among the works of science
and from this happy union sprang famil
we'll known in Sweden in the present day
and whose wealth of fortune and high posi-
ton in society are regarded as small thing
compared with its wealth of goodness an,
love- Frederika Bremen