The Newberry herald. [volume] (Newberry, S.C.) 1865-1884, 1884-02-21
Snimes in Youth.
As . Lover.

Like most boys when Just budding
or when my mustache was inst putting
out an appearance, I felt my oats, and
was altogether an important character
had oodles of fancies, was a ladies
man, and 1 say right here I'd rather be
a ladies man than any other kind OF a
man. A man or rather a boy who
holds the ladies in such esteem that he
would rather spend his time III their
sweet society will rarely ever fall into
evil ways-the influence they exercise
over youth is wonderful. A boy who
is blessed with sisters is better boy
and makes better man than one who
has no sisters. He grows up refined,
but the other fellow becomes rough, he
is wild and ''fit for treasons, Stratagems
and spoils." 1 was blessed with sis
ters. l said l had fancies, all kinds OF
fancies. One OF these was that every
thing in my reach and some things
not in my reach but needed my reach
ing after them, and they would be
mine. Innocent fancy. How bright
and rose colored the prospect. How
sweet every thing looked aud smelled:
What a reacher was, like babe, l
ever reached. Most of nv reaching at
this period was to get Into the affec-
tions of the girls, oh how l loved them.
I fell in love with one. in my eyes she
was paragon, l don't know how she
looked to other eyes. She had a hitch
in her walk. and she had the advan-
tage of me in years. one OF her limbs
was little longer than the other,
which one was the shortest l cannot
now call to mind. but it was Just love-
ly to see her dot and 60 one, and every
step she took made me think she would
fall, and was ever on the reach to
catch her. She was freckled too, all
over freckle; when the blood would
suffuse her cheek it would impart an
additional charm to each freckle, and
then her hair was of that hue which Is
seen only or q carrot, in fact she had
a vegetable countenance, in which sat
4 turniD nose. She was lovely-sulfice
it to say, 1 loved her. But she loved
me not as the sequel will show-we
walked one evening, we frequently
did so. In our walk was 4 seller OF
pies and other things. Like most girls
She had an appetite and wanted me to
treat her, but alas I had no money,
and in the most sentimental manner,
"says my charming honey, I've lots
OF love as you may prove, but amt
got no money" This should have sat-
isfed her, and it did, but not in a way
satisfactory to me, for turning Oh ME
her radi$h eyes, she said
Young man, It's plain sir,
Ny love you cannot gain sir,
Unless you've cash to cut dash,
Your love indeed is vain sir.
At this like an unfecling Bohemian
she left me. It was cruel, and my
heart bled-but it stopped bleeding.
This was not my first, nor my last love
however. was filed with the thought
that there was a ''rose in the garden for
you young man." The sweetest period
in the life of man is the courting
period. Those periods were very fire.
quent with me. My heart was pccu-
liarly susceptible to love. The sight
of girl set me in flutter. 1 was al
ways fluttering. Hundreds OF times
have been on the mountain Of hope,
and as many times in the valley OF
despair, and 1 could now tell OF scores
of instances, in many of which my pas
sion was unrcquited, but have said
enough on this point for one time.
That ! survived all these affairs OF the
heart, and continued to reach is very
satisfying to me. I still reach and
have fancies, but they are tempered
with other thoughts, the principal OF
which is how to get bread and
meat and clothes for the children who
have successfully blessed my existence.