Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1885-01-09
slatutinai Soliloquies ola Young Man.
.sOLmOQUY THE FIRST.

4seIuluuS lue VI yCuub OimphlHs, u
our class, who undertook to write an
apostrophe to the ocean, Ia Byron
and completed one line: ooh, thou pro-
digious sdampuess Simpkins stuck
there and couldn't get any farther; but
there is no snch limit to London damp
ness.
BY the great ponds Of Michigan, the
air here seems to mold water in solu-
tion One runs risk of being drowned
in breathing!
I suppose this is what Mr.. Guppy
called "London particular" but with
all due respect, I don't think London is
particular, or she wouldn't have such
an atmosphere.
Fine showing, this, for an April
morning! Ho, hum: ! really must get
up and comm tnce nv pilgrimage.
can't understand why I should have
started On this European tour, and con-
de1nned myself to wandering about
looking at things don't want to see,
climbing mountains 1 don't want to
climb, rummaging around through
nasty streets where I don't want to
rummage, and inhaing oders that [
decidedly object to. What is tho use
bow of my doing" London, and sub
jncting myself to fatigue, olors, and
'ackney oatlles. when ] accomplish it
all so much more pleasantly with one
Of Dickens novels at home in a ham
mock, Or drifting down le Chesapeake?
cant understand why l should want
to see the Tower lecause the princes
were murdered there, nor tho Avon be
cause Shakespeare YVES born there, nor
hundred and one other places because
something was done or wasn't done
there! If man tells me that his ia
Their was hanged. am quite satisfied to
believe him without rushing off i'm
ue1iately to sec the place and bring
ing away a piece OF the gallows or q
shred of the rope.
Thank lenvrn, when Pm through
with London my occupation gone and
J. can 60 home in peace. ConstaNtino
pie, Venice Rome, Switzerland, Paris
I've done them all, and pretty thor
ouyhly, hope. though my people at
homo will be sure to think of some con
founded place that ought to have seen
but dltln'5 see. Something that [ have
omitted which they have been dying to
see for goodness knows how long.
Think ia better coach up on the
guide book, and THAT reminds mt
gave mino to tho pretty girl whom 1
rescued in Venice from. the gondolirrs
those fellows are as bad as London
'ackney-coacllmon and who was SO
charmingl1- grateful Said she hoped
we might meet again, AMI she was ever
and ever so much obliged to me- and it
was so nice to meet q cOnrtryman, for
she was American. l would lave
known that if she had stopped alter
"nice"- and great deal more to the
same effect, all in the sweetest voice and
with the cordial, contiding way which
belongs alone TO our girls. Bless EN-
Shook hands with ne, smiled more in
her soft gray eyes than with her lips,
and left NE standing there with my hat
Off, spectacle for those rascally boat
men!
Made Il memorandum on blank leaf
Of my guide book to this effect:
Prettest picture in Venice. Stutlv
1ntgray. Gray eyes, grey robe, name
Gray. Worth a fortune, but by the
right person to be had for the asalg.
n B. Would that dared to ask.
Then gave the nearest gonclolier a
twenty frame piece to oyeTtake her and
retrieve to Madcmoiselle the book she
lid neglect and that's all.
By Jove, must get up!
sOLILoQUY THE SECOND.
Three weeks in Londou! Well,
London isn't SO bad after all, and am
really interested in hunting up queer
places.
I'd give Il farm just to find Mrs.
Todgers' lodging house, and Miss Gray
is constantly looking for a Curiosity
Shop. That [ should meet her again,
and especially III this human labyrinth,
is piece OF good fortune little short of
fatality Her mother and 14year- old
brother constituted the party, and the
old lady snys she really doesn't know
how they would have managed to sec
50 much of London but for my valu-
able aid. I'm a disinterestel party I am
Hanged if I dop't believe Tn getting
too much absorbed in the flesh tints and
the perspective, and the foreshortening,
and the coloring Of my study in Gray.
She has not SAID s. word about my
g11ide book, not even whether she re-
eeived it or not; but she seemed glad to
see me. and I--pshnw! I'm too old to
lie abed and day dream like a school
boy! 1 think I'll go home. I've seen
enough yellow fog and black smoke.
Mrs. Gray says they are going to Scot
land, and the Hebrides, and all those
moist demd unpleasant places that
William Black rejoices in-and, indeed,
when one can sit by a warm fire and
read about rain and wind, leaden sky
and dewy heather, it isn't bad; but ex-
cuse from participating, as the man
said when he was going to be hanged
Yet 1 can be with her by going. She
said her mamma wanted me to 20 so
much. wonder whether she speaks to
me with mammals lips? Girls do, ]
know, particularly when they are afraid
to let fellow see that they take any
interest. For example, if her mother
wanted me to so as an escort, and she
herself didn't care straw whether l
went or not, she would have said: II
want you to go so much" It's a good
sign when mother comes to the front
bah! I'm trying to construe nothing
into something's practice thought I
had abandoned ever since the days
when I persuaded myself that certain
|, aabhool- girl returned my youthful pas
sion, because she permitted me to carry
: her bookstrap TO school, dream that