GLUE AND THE EMOTIONS.
We shall never forget, relates Mcx Adeler, tha,t evening we spent at M»gruder'a yenra ago. We admired Mies Magmder, and we went around to see her. It was cummer lime and moonlight, and she aat upon the piazza. The ; carpenters had been there (hat day, glurog up (he. rustic ohairs on the porch, bo we took our seat on the step in /rone of Miss M^grader, where we could gnzo into her eyes and drink her smiles. It seems probable that the carpenter must have upset the glue-pot on the spot where we sat, tor, alter enjoying Miss Magruder'a remarks for j a couple of hours, and drinking in ■ several of her smiles, we tried to rise for thepurppsa of going home, but foan^we.were immovably 6xed tp the step/ 'Then MW Magruder said, '•Don't be in a harry," and we eaid we wouldn't. The conversation had a sadder tone after that, and we sat there, thinking whether it would be better to ask Mies Magruder to withdraw while we disrobed and went borne in Highland costume, or whether we should give one terrific wrench and then ramble down the yard backwards. About- midnight mj 88 Magruder yairoed, a,ad said she believed she *£ ?. 80t0 bed - TheQ we suddenly aiked her if her father would have any objection tfl. pending, hi* Yroat *<epft for a lew daye, because we wanted to take them horns for a pattern. We tbiok jMiw Magroder must 'htve entertained doabia of oar W oit 7 , /or c! iQ raehgd in,
called her fatf-er, and screnrned. Magruder curae down with a doable-barreled pan. Then we explained Jheshuation in a wbisper, and I c produced a saw and cut out the piece ol the step to which we were attached. Then we went home wearing the patch* and before two o'clock crushed out our young love for Miss Magruder, We never called fIJTBio, and she ihew herself away on a dry-goods man. There is a melancholy satisfaction in recallirg these memories of youth, ard ftfl-ctiog upon rhe infiupnee of gjuo upon tie emotions of the human hearf.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume XIV, Issue 64, 15 March 1879, Page 4
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