The South western news. (Dawson, GA.) 188?-1889, 1888-02-22

handsome boy, with black, glossy
hair, and he had plenty of it then
The girls used to cast sleeps eye at
him then, but l dident, for I was
too young to be a sweetheart then,
but he had them. Yes, he was
smart and good-looking too, and
ne knew it. Yes, he knew it. He
had fight once at school about his
sweetheart. Her name is Pene>
lope McAlpin, ard another boy
called her Penny-lope just to tease
your pa, and he hit him right
straight and they fought like wild
cats for awhile. When he was a
young man and | was in my teens,
he was thee dressiest youth in the
town, aud wore the tightest boots.
Oh, my! | had no idea he would
ever notice me, and | don't know
yet what made him do it,
Well, you see the like of that
called for response, and so l had
to put in and tell what beautiful
hazleseye4 creole she was-what
long raven hair that fell over her
shoulders in waving tresses, and
what beautiful hands and feet, and
how fawn~like she locomoted about
and-about, and how startled she
was when l began to address her,
and what juicy lips that seemed
pouting out for a lover, and then
her teeth her pearly teeth-that
were almost as pretty as those she
has now. told them how hard
it was to WIN her until she found
out ! was in earnest, and then how
suddenly she surrendered with tu.,
multuous affection, and recited
with tender pathos those beautiful
lines Of Coleridge:
She wept with pity and delight,
She blushed with love and virgin
shame.
And like the murmdr Of 3 dream
| heard her breathe my naeie.
She half enclosed me in her arms;
She pressed me with meek en-.
b,ace,
And bending back her head lookeS
up
And gazed upon my face"
Just then Mrs. Arp stopped sew
ing and gazed at me sure enough,
as she sand: "Was there ever such
a storySteller? Why, you know
didn't do any such thing, You
ought to be ashamed of yourself
81 was just telling how Genes
vive' did," said |, land how Cole
ridge won his bright and beaute-
Gus bride. She had hazel eyes,
too.
Young man, you had better not
try to firt with a pair OF hazel eyes.
1t Is waste of time and dangerous.
They are less susceptible than the
blue, and when once deceived do
not pine away in grief, but rally
for revenge and take it out in
scorn. lfyou tackle them you had
better go in to win or leave the
country. And while think OF it,
III make another remark: When
you WOO and win and wed, you had
better keep on wooing and win
mig afterwards or leave the coung
try. 1t takes a power of love to
do them.
We little chaps usedto go to school
tofemale teachers-to Yankee school
marms, who were well educated
and smart. But they never taught
school very long, for our widowers
married thefa as fast as they came.
1ou see our highsstrung blooded
girls wouldn't marry widowers for
they could always get young men
TO their liking, but a well>to-do
widower had fancy for a settled
woman, who was raised to econo.
my, and would be grateful for
having bettered her condition in
life, OF course they did not all
marry widowers, but they married,
ard they made good wives and
good mothers, and their desGendr
ents are all over the sunny land,
and have proved a good cross from
southern blood and noftheu ener.
gy.
The first teacher l ever went to
was Yankee woman, and she had
a Ounce block set up in the midS
Gle of the room for the lazy schoI-
airs to sit on. The mischievous
ones were made to stand on the ia
bic or in the corner with face to
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