The Dawson journal., 1884-02-07
KIT WARREN.
He Aban{lOns the Thought of
Suicide and Goes to Picking
pQuepins.

I was pedantic, tallow-faced, gawk-
ish and just admitted to the bar,
with no money, no disposition to
work and great anxiety to marry a
female who was able to furnish me a
home and nourishment. Ina county,
not TO be named, a two weeks term
OF Superior Court was in session and
was thele-caseless and briedess
but there. The landlord had a
grown daughter and he hal her
thus: Her thinking faculties were a
very short distance above the dust
from which she was formed, for she
was = plqmp,, Fodpd duck footed
fnubbin OF n gil, nearly as wide as
she was long, and altogether as sym
metrical as saddle blanket. When
she laughed her face broke into fur
rows which made it resemble field
that has been plowed with scuter
end when she didn's laugh she look
ed yet r7ore unprepossessiug. nat
urally believed the old man expected
to have troable in getting her off Of
his hands; I never liked to see an
old man have trouble and so l decid-
ed to marry Gincy and thus become
free boarder at the tavern, and a
happy man.
Size didn't have any leisure to sit
down. and Therefore my only chance
was to court her on the wing and I
could only do that constructively.
I would appear at the table in my
best trim and manners, look fondly
when she handed me the batter-cakes
and speak tenderly in asking for an
other cnp of coffee.
Occasionally [ would meet her,
passing about, whirl off reel or so
OF smiles and a hark or two of words.
But the smiles and words and
glances had no effect she Just exact
ly wouldn't suspect my designs. l
grew more anl moro i'm earnest and
positively, by the third day of the
second week, / was as deeply in love
With her as it was possible for me to
be. I felt that if married to her [
could be coutented with any lot.
With Gincy by my side a hollow
stump would be a palace and Branch
water and terrapins more pala.able
than the nectar and ambrozia of the
gods. Each day, each hour, each
moment my love grew bigger; ex}~n-
ell, ma8niied. multiplied, intensified.
l ceased TO attend the Court, whore |
had no business, and began to nope
dejsctedIy about the hotel. Life be-
came intolerable, and to relieve my
most painful suspense, l went to my
room and wrote her the following
better, every word of which came
yelling up from the depths Of my
heart.
by DEAR Mss Gixcr: have tried
earnestly, anziously tried, to quen,
suppress and subdue the greatrebel-
lion which my heart has raised
against lie of ceibacy alAd isola-
ton. Go tell the thunder to close
It's awful lips, BID the volcano to
chain It's prurient and eternal fires,
ask the ocean to stillits everlasting
tumult, but think not, oh think not,
that death caninvade the sacred pre-
cincts Of the immortal and imperish-
able passion cherish for you, OF
silence the tumuls Of this anxious,
yearl'iug, throbbiag heart. 1 am as
poweress to control il as the feather
Is to buffet the gale that whirls it 70
the sky. | fell that further silence
on my part would cause the very
stones to move.
Oh, should you reject me. should
you refuse to be mine, what iGex-
pressiblo tortures await me What a
dungeon, with its darkness and soil
tude, will my futlre life become
How sorely will he tempted, like
the hero ol the novelist, to Grid nv.
self Of all my cares upon the friendly
point Of my own faleful sword? On
Iy ten days ago was free-free as
Itle mopntain air, free as the Joyous
sanheht; how, how can l get free
dom from these fetters, where can
find refuge from my miserable aut
unhappy SELF in the event that you
refuse the offer Of my heart ant
hand? Death viii then be the onl,
friend to whom l can flee for safety
Oh, @iss Ginoy, spare me, On spar,
me the terrors that oyersha low m,
like ghas'ly nightmare. Be mine
only mine, altogether mine, and al
that a lie Of tender love and earnes