Year: 1862

writer that every person born into TINS


world is subject more or less to the lndu-


ence of love; that, some time or other, IN


the course of life, they will be so situated


as to feel its powerful influence, and that


those who are attacked young the sooner


get through with it whereas, if they are


attacked later in life, it goes very hard


with them, and subjects the iodividual to


all kinds of queer, out-of-the-way, odd


doings, quite unlike themselves before


Cupid hurled his flaming dart, and made
the wound. Thus speaks the author


now for the case in point.


When I was very little boy $50 my
mother told me,) | used to hear a great


deal of talk, among the nursery maids,
about marriage; out, not having very


definite idea OF what il meant, [ imagined,


from scraps of information picked up from


said nurse-maids, that it consisted of a


woman dressed in fine clothes and man
, with top boots, going to church, and the


minister reading to them and further


more, nurse told me that | used daily to
say that when should be man, with
!, top boots up to my knees, [ would walk
/, the streets till | saw lady with red


cheeks, then I would get coach and
, invite the owner of the red cheeks to ride


with me, and l would take her to some


place with trees outside the city, and live
: there, letting no one see her but myself
Thus I used to have haven Of happiness
in small way,


i few years rolled on and had to


leave the nursery and ali its pleasant
"reminiscences, and attack the beginning
of my world in g Juvenile school, where


I pursued the alphabet study in concert
with some dozen others, under the super
: intendence Of stately elderly dame, with


a rod in one hand and book in the other.
:: II We didn't get enough out of the book
hand to please her ladyship, she would
help US with stroke from the rod-hand.
So things went on till was considered
too large and too impudent I'm sorry to
say to receive any more faTOrs from that
venerable rod, SO was honorably OF dis
honorably dismissed !; q forget which, but
it was either one or the other)


After feH days another school was


selected, and my future development was
confdad to the hands Of master. Z very
few days with this gentlemen suficed to
convince me of the superiority of his


whipping over the antiquated hand that
had welded the birch in the last estab-
lishment The contents of the school
was mized-half boys and half girls.
When nearing my tenth birthday q
girl came TO school about my own size,


age, and weight, wearing the reddest
CHEEKS that could be, (my beau ideal Of
beauty) The consequence was, [ felt
bound to ingratiate myself into the favor
of those red cheeks, blue eyes and faxen
curls, at al risks and all hazards.


used to assist her in examples. help


her to spell big words, and sometimes,


when she was standing up in class, would


write answers on my slate to questions
put to her, and hold the slate up for her
to read, til I got caught at it, and had to
experience something from his master
hand. Once I heard her say that she


was very fond Of oranges SO the next
. copper3 had took to the fruit dealers
and purchased the largest he had for the
money, and slowed it away II my pocket,


(Which, By the way, was rather difficult,


as the pocket was small and the orange
large) took my seat in school, waiting
foE 'cheeks" to stand I'd and recite her
lesson. She always stood with her hands
behind her. Occasionally I used to put
scraps Of paper IN her hand Eve should


have called them billet dour, if We had


been il a French school, but as it was.
they were scraps Of paper) with something


o1 them. This time had something


more weighty. After extricating the


orange from its hiding place, | put it into


her hand. She, not knowing what 1t was,
let it fall Down it vent, dub, dub, ub,


ub, uh, bib b, to the end of the room.
Never did the loaded clap of thunder have


such an effect upon me as the bump and
roll of that unfortunate orange. Fruit Of


every description was SO strictly prohib-
tied that | fancied at the time DY end


was certain.


The master, in his savage, steEtorian
voice, demanded "who is that who dares


to violate one Of my laws 2" No one


spoke. The whole school was silent as
death; but | was the suspected one, SO
was politely requested to stay after school


hours, and he would give me private
audience. And I did stay after school


hours, and he did give me g private au-


dience, and something else with it, which


made it exceedinly inconvenient for me


to sit down for two or three days.


After the school laws had been salts


fed I was dismissed for home. I had not


gone far before saw Madamoiselle Red