Year: 1866

FROM Tue LOUISVILLE courier, ZSth.I


Yesterday at noon while at dinner, we


were told of an adventure that befel an


amorous swain the other night, which we


consider decidedly too good too keep,
and not possessing grain of selfishness


in our nature, we have concluded TO make
our readers as wise as ourself in the mat
tern all things save the real names of
the parties, who are of the highest res
pectability. 1t would be well, perhaps,
to preface our COMEDY of Errors" be-
fore ringing up the curtain for the first
act, with a


PROLOGUE,


Containing an explanation that will
make all that follows perfectly intelligl-
BILE. The hero of our little nocturnal
drama is young man who is compelled
to earn the wherewith to supply himself
with the necessaries and luxnries of life
by clerking in one of our frst-class
Fourth street mercantile establishments.
Being most excellent salesman, steady
in his habits and at entive TO his business,
he commands good, big salary, In order
not to be too lavish with pronouns, and
for the purpose of Identification as the
plot thickens, we will call him Mr.
Smith which is about as far from his
real name as we can well get, A bloom
ing young lady of-there is no use in
our giving the number of her summers,
for who has ever met one that would
acknowledge to more than eighteen p
well she is the sole daughter of" the
"house and home of wealthy and aris-
tocratic Chestnut street family Many
business visits to the Fourth street store,
where she was politely and gallantly
waited upon by Mr.. Smith, made her ac-
quainted with that gentleman She is
young, beautiful-of fcourse-and wears be-
meath her what-you-call-' EN- tender and
susceptible heart, She became interested
in the polite and gentemanly clerk, and
soon began to pay the store visits that
were not strictly business, as she would
examine bolts offabrics without purchas-
ing, and detained Smith in conversations
that smacked of everything but the
shop Smith in turn began to be inte-
rested in his pretty visitor. The more
he saw of her the more that interest in
creased He would watch for her coming
as the thirsty flower watches for the
draught of dew. At night she sat beside
him in his dreams, and his sleep was lul-
labied by the music of her voice. Her
sweet face was his heaven, and he wanted
no other sun or moon or stars to orb it
than her love e-beaming eyes, 1t was his
first dream of love, and bitter experience
had not yet told him that


Sweet may be the lovers dream,


Happy may be his waking;


The god so lure the fond hearts on


That they have doomed to breaking.
At length one evening she came into
the store at later hour than usual She
had been spending the evening with a
friend, and, in passing, thought of some
article she needed. The sun was sinking
into his ocean bed, and the Indiana hills
had lifted themselves a-tiptoe to hide his |
eouching from the coy and virgin moon,
who was peeping from the star-latticed |
east She dwelt some distance from the |
store. He boarded upon the same street |
that held her home What more natural |
than that he should accompany her for
the purpose of carrying her purchase,
and wasn't it equally as natural for her
to accept his escort and serviceP oh
We dwellers in brick, and smoke, and
dust, and heat, and noise of the great
town; We need not seek sylvan groves,
howery meadows, vine-covered cots, and
summer brooks TO find romance. Your
streets are full of it every hour Of the
day and late into the night Our young
couple we're lost in the labryrinths Of
love, and forgot everything save that
they were together How an explana-
ton came about between them is beyond
our ken, yet certainly one must have oc-
CURED, for when they parted at the door
her eye beamed with strange, humid
light, and rosy bushes o'erspread her
cheek until it resembled morning cloud
upon which Aurora had rested her hand.
And he, as their palms separated at part
ing, stepped away with the high, proud,
axultant step aud bearing of young
warrior who has won his first battle.
They met again, and she explained that
she could not invite him to visit her at
her home, because she knew the unrea-
;onable nature of her parents They
would insult him, drive him with con-
umely from fhe house They must meet
md love in secret. Affairs progressed IN
his manner until the ardent lover could
10 longer restrain his yearning for her
IS his bride Il was long before he
,ould induce her to consent to an elope- '