-- - - . _ I \ill, f , , , I ; ; t KEY WEST INQUIRER.i I Iii .. . . ' - i forsake the; filth practice and he promised the'kitcben ,to make some arrangement , 53I d. v '" those .'vho have survivedthe'equinoctial ) )J c f !. \ line of Jifej' thirty yparaanJ have preserved that he -would not! She was vexed: with his wife about. the supper table the girl' I : From; the Cincinnati Mirror. heir single blessedness without a flaw.- and hastily declared she would never marry shortly returned< with her arms full of ale THE COMPROMISE. Did you never see an old bachelor, with a him, or suffer 'him to take any liberty with bottles, but without the candle. The few hairs lightly sprinkled over a silo her, until he had desisted from,the practiceof merchant immediately recollected that se\- 1 A TALE TOR THE TRUE LOWERS. gray ral barrels of gunpowder had been placed in and smoking. about moonshine talking j The cmirse of true love never did run per crown, his cellar .and that his Moore's melodies, sentiment and sonnets, Here then, they were at issue. Alas! during day, foreman smooth. [Midsummer Night's Dream. to a lady with withering blossom her says the poet- had opened one of the barrels to select. When persons have: arrived at certain pc cheek, while she sighed, and fidgelted, and Alas1 how slight a cause may move sample for a customer,' 'Where is your riods in life, it is astonishing with what blushed, as Iii words stole unconsciously Dissention betwixt hearts that love!' candle?he inquired in the utmost agitation. habit cling to them. You rec- 'I couldn't bring it up with me for may mjr grasp to her heart 7-Did. never see' thingof you any exhausted their of eloquence tify a crook in a sapling, but you can never this kind? Then lean tell that They powers hands were full,' said the girl. 'Where did you and the of on smoking. argument, question ' Cross leave it? Well I'd untwist a knot on A.grown-tip tree. have witnessed the most interesting you no candlestick you never Neither flinched from their grained it is, and do what you may, cross- exhibition ol romance, which is indic- party original ,so 1 stuck it into some black sand thaft grained it rill remain. Speaking of knots wsiiiou. Thus they courted, and quar there in one of the lub,,' The merchant : ated in human actions. : relied for One Will in. mind two years. night dashed down the cellar the j and cross-grained things, putsme steps; passagewas Will and Miss llaulhorn took their own well I of a knotty friend once had People are time to their affairs and the world whose patience was nigh exhausted, long and dark, and as he groped his arrange Miss llauthorn The I very much mistaken, by the way, when they wondered on. Public curiosity does not went to as usucl.: way his !knee threatened to give way undtr bachelors lady received him, as she always didrwitli! | him his breath choked and that old are crusty. They was his flesh say like these ancient folks. act a on They are not crusty-that is if you have a crust :are deliberate spur on the serious business of kindness For an hour,, they talked over seemed suddenly dry and parched,,as if ho ' of bread or crust of ice in your mind-for the affairs of the neighborhood, and then anleady f felt the suffocating blast of death. matrimony and they are not to !be forced Will told her that he had.made his mind they arc of a hardness or iceness from rib up At the extremity 06 the passage,in the front into it precipitately by amount of scandal - I to back bone, and' therefore no crust about any to one thing.V hile the lady listened with I cellar, under the very room where his children and small talk that a publiccan T admit generous great attention, Will deliberately drew from and their friends j them That they are knotty, ;- were revelling: infelicity then bear to bring unite who upon bis pocket match and paper,, placed a he discerend the barrel and if you have: ingenuity to one open powder , I Among those who wondered most at the in his mouth made fire and lit it. has been in the habit of consulting his wgac full almost to the top-the candle stuck dilatoriness of our J hero and heroine, was a * own will, you may as well not despair of lady by the name. of Mary Warland. It NuwblissSusanIwantvolt'said lightly in the grains,. what a long and red he with n puff at word _ I the every snufTof burnt-out wick the small findini philosopher's stone yet, as your her topping was upinion.tbat if they meant to marry - the of to give me a final answer. Will you accept and flame.. This sagacity is fully up to discovery any for the sake'of the happiness: which was' lam? gloomy sight seemed to me as wither all his . and the merry laugh powers to result from the connexion it was high thing.Well 'I will not,so long as arc so filthy aso I I had a knotty friend, named Will time they were about it. Miss Wai land you 'of the youngsters above struck upon h.s sniokc''Isthat but : heart the knell of He stood for death. Tompkins, who never perpetrated one as was a faded beauty of thirty-that is tlJ.sny, finalsaid Will I pun in his life, and that,was when a certain Rumor which lies puffing !some moments' gazing upon the light, unable twety-five. never as- I lady, told him once'that ho was the mostknotty serted thatabout Wiil 'Yes- and your impudence is most un to advance. The fiddler commenceda ten years previously, ' fellow she ever saw. Will, with a exampled.Farcwelly. lively jig and the feet of the dancers had. offered himself and , 'lo was rejectedby ' leer in his J left eye, replied that she was said Will, and offhe started' lesponded with increased vivacity; the floor Miss Warland, who at that time had an more notty by half as ho had been beseech naval'officer who with a volume of smoke wreathing about shook with their exertions, and the loose I: eye on a was flourishing his head. ing her to get re idy for the altar and bridal bottles- in the cellar jingling with the like a moth about the brilliancy of her beauty for the Jast six months,"and every time he Several: nights went and came, but Will million*. He fancied the candle movedwas - ,and at turn.. The singed getting asked her if she was, ready,.she replied she lieutenant, was suddenly called every to the came not. Miss Hauthorn scarcly knew Idling-.with! desperate energy he that continuedWill away whether U laugh or cry, at what she termed dashed he t was not-not-not. And after forward but how was to remove service and Alias Warland that thereare sobbingand his obstinacy. She was not a little alarmed ? The would the touch is evidence enough more il slightest cause about languishing for a week, turned her eye when tidings reached her,that Will, insteadof small live fall into the loose tots about you than there are me. with mollified Will, But coal of wiak to a on ' r for the bridal expression shooting a bullet through his heart, was of You want mo to get ready Will like had )yowdcr.; With unequalled presence a philosopher already begunto , I' engaged III the very silly business of shooting side of the/ Will mind Le each and the altar, do you Mr. Tompkins, another affections sand placed a hand ; besiege lady's ' replied the fair one;; I will let you know Hiss found out, too late, that she had;com- the flower darts faded at Miss from W.'s Miss heart.Ilathorn'schcekand Gradually candle, with the open palms upward, and that I am neither! a horse nor a culprit,and milled a sad blunder when her hopes of an distended fingers pointed towards the ' 1 will have bridle in the lustre forsook her eye, and a pain object his which his hands - I therefore not a my olucer induced her to consign Will wall gathered in her breast. She she of care. as gradually r mouth, nor halter, about my neck' the and penalties ot unrequited love. thought met was secured in the clasping or . I, I forgot,to describe this couple, and 1 Judgeof pains Miss Warland's surprise, then, the wouUl victim havo of the broken uu ump\ ont and become locking of the fingers, and safely removed therefore have gotor to do it: as the old, when Will after returned u heart. Never was frrom the head of the barrel. When !lie ten years again maiden in bad Should/ so a plight. she ballads phrase' 'it. Will,, was .thtcc-and-tjiir- to her, .with visits 1 Haltering for their ? iNo the give reached the head of the stairs, excitementwas corn-fed and cormlent-with tell-tale l way : mere thought ot'smoke was over he smiled at the danger he had , ty; frequency. She fancied she saw in his at- in&utferable SheV uItJ ; : discard \\ ill she ( mark of red on the extreme'end of his indications of cooqueicd; but Ihe reaction was too powerful . tentions, a genuine passionin she would noscfond of the sex, and, consequently, its incipiency. She forthwith made thought, so ; and then she sheda and he fell into fits of most violent up flood and a lover of jokes and of tears to> moisten and keep alive and dreadful laughter. lie was convecd of good living her mind that she was wiser than she had her rosol uticm. his of doing things. Will had a senseless to bed, and many weeks clap:cd own way been before, and that if Will, like the prodigal One she streak of waggishness in his flesh-his natural after of abroad day, as was lamenting her disconsolate are his nerves recovered sufficient tone to son, years wandering , condition Will I was all turned to good humor came upon her- allow him lo resume his habits of ' ; lymph l should return to her house, she would extend !he told cvcry- aI segarless tier Ins affections all for the were -al1lf unequalled iife.-Kn &kerboeker. was altogether i y both her. arms and give him the embrace ; lier's-with the heartiness of his laugh, which emotion exception of a moiety, which Her of a hearty welcome heart had ' I would cause lira cheeks to bo lifted up to belonged to segara-and if she was willing Arabian Anccdotc.- God gave a king e for expelled its love military gloryand re- the almost total eclipse of that bright little to take him with his infirmities, he was at son, who was extremely cunning. The ,4 his which would twin- newed the palpitations of its younger days, her disposal not, he would take her rival, king; placed him under a tutor, to learn gray luminary, eye, whenever Will favored her with ins presence. Miss VVarland. She told him her mind knowledge. Thechild said to his preceptor, kle in the shadow cast upon it, in a man- visited hen Our hero provocative of the most ludicrous glee. frequentlyandattended was fixed, irrevocably, and then burst into '.1\(y dear master, I see no end to study; ncr to.all her pleasures with wonderful tears. Will could brave the life itstflf is oil i How did Will manage to preserve his celibacy battery of her not long enongh to acquire for several month and the Ah! a tale which if I assiduity vocal eloquence, but there was a pathos in the sciences;;; teach me one that can be ? (hereby hangs I that tile think aJl between /}I will give me timcrl'll tell you. Bui, 1 town began to ar her tears, which unmanned him, and he speedily acqwredand which will afford me imiibeli'was outthatis you describe Miss Susan llauthorn first. Miss llaulhorn and left her. In an hour after,. she received a happiness in this- woild and in the next." must to say, that he had gut his walking papers billet. "Then silence The was single ladies never Junk[ practice said the tutor. She twenty-five- I, of -and that Miss Warland would, utter alit 'Dear Susan: : 1 will meet you. half youth from this moment became mute into the second a century- way. get quarter be the chosen ofVU' heart anti object , she had a ,black which Will told her I will compromise onr dilhcully. 1 now niB father was in great distress. Sup looked like Venus eye, because was: bright the depositary' of Ju -tnost sacred affections. smoke six per day-1 will come down to posing the taciturnity of his son to bo the Mis VVarland deserted and cold and ho used to worship it every Suddenly, Will three-one after each meal. 1 will die, or effect of disease, he had recourse to physicians - ; wheeled about .aiid resumed his attentions evening as they do the evening star in Per- right what is worse, marry-, if you do not and enchanters; all was in vain. towaids Miss H&uluorn, who hud evidently - s'ra.. Miss Hauthorn's cheek was like one agree to this proposition, The king one da'ent out hunting, and those which always in bloom pined. away as long as WiIIlU.1dcl Yours,ever, WILL took his son with him. A heathcock ut- of roses are his devoirs the shrine of rival. Tnere at net I -her brow was white like a lilly-her lip which This proposition wrought a miracle, and tered a cry, and was taken."if this bird this I was red) like a honeysuckle and thus much was a mystery iu ail IJeollelcould the quarrel ended in smoke. The chasm had been mute," observed the prince ; trot solve, and which yourlair wader: between the "he would lovers rot have been Some was Miss caught. which !iko bridged. fur the botany of her face, an ; cannot solve. Shall I do myself the pleasure : told the The eglantine blossom, was fair and delicate, Hauthorn'd visage amended hourly Miss one king his son had spoken. of solving the affair for tIk.aring wholesome to look upon. ; you Warland was len m the lurch, ami Will king sent for his son, but could not get award Miss Uawlborn't--agc in wind, itl putfcd away, and fancied the form o:his fromi him. The king was wroth and There wosimattachment subsisting between will not appear singular she was a little inamorata, in the smoke which wreathed beat his- son; whereupon the latter ex- Will and Miss Haulhom, of some just a little, squeamish, and quite fastidi- above him. claimed, "my master had good reason to- years standing. ,The pe'ple wondered ous. She had a few prejudices which For fear t of father difficulties,, they proceedcd -, inculcate silence;if I had held my pease why matrimony, or a squabble, or somesuch seemed to her to possess unconquerable/ to the issue with commendable: sould have escaped these blows. The !interesting issue, was not forthcoming. (wee. For instance, she would have died, expedition, and in a fortnight Will led the' prophet was right in saying, 'He that holds In; vain did they attack eitherof the parties rather than have dwell under the same rool blushing damsel to the altar. his tongue is: safe." -::there: was a crotchet some where,but what where a kitten inhaled the breath of life.- T. II. S. it .was, was ho question which none, Next to her hatred of kittens, was her hatred Our Nobility in England.There j is could answer. All tiC l girls thought it of tobacco-particularly of segaw.: A THR-ILKO ADV E\'TUBT-I a fellow named Jackson, at Hastings, in '" must be !Miss Haul!lhor '" fault, and all the She protested it would kill her to look upon head story somewhere of a merchant hc\'ei who: England, passing 'himself off as the son of men suspected \\III.. Thus vere the sexes the msutl of her husband smoking like a collected: party together to eclat to the President of the United States, and by the ear. Many' were the ingenious speculations foul chimney of a damp day. Now, Will, one of those !little family fe give tivab which I John Bull is almost worshipping bi