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A strperlbr article of Sods Ash on hand tad for rude by R. From street trch 24; IBC!! ton sat whistling upon the stvle, Por a wonder,-idle a Mlle while; idle and Ostlers as 0 man could be Under the blue sprlng Ay sat he. Vaguely voamipai of clouds sod breeze And the crimson hods no the maple trrer— "Let her do as she pleuse,..ith other-," said he, ••rlta shall make no Ap,ll Fool Dime!" DE3 Proudly he lifted his handsoma head While the blood to In' cheeks burnt hot and rod; the feathery snow of yesterday From th e peepi ng grass had melted away; The air and sunshine were warM'and sweet, A violin gravy ',math his dangling feet; Solar. one was stealing close op to Jim she Fhoitld makeup April Vool alum Oat of the forest and over the She come with that heppy, bewitching Mile; Never stopping a word to nay, Nodding to him in a careless way; Dainty tind swift hsr fooitops pass. Ther light dress the loving grass,— It in plain she thinks not, meeting Jim, Of making. an April Fool of him. Nodding and smilin;,abe pines by, Pre,. an the fthii,th ,loads attic tiky,— But a, naughty wind uproieJu-t there Fleitering her dre4a.and tniigiing her hair, Toning her Lai with a cuucy grawe And Wowing ii struialit into Jima proud face, Smothering him in crown and brim. Making an April Fool of him. Guttering radmict thrilled himthrodcli,, Like the laugh in it, owner's eyes of blue; A lid Imalre it drripp el from ita ehoging place lie II Its .r it Were use rave. liar chnrrn•im face. ihrough its goSten hair, litnithieg and Atrolphigi".fore him There, Worming hi= Itrnrt sviih a sadden glow; Bat mak m.T.111 April Roof—oh, : On. nn:—though it thrilled him through end !bran sit Willi the le•mltltuz roue') or it= ribbon 4 blue, and D •1111 /Old demure. 11'111,0 In •k. Irk r a wild ro-r, Ira 41 and pure. Two pot, orphork. gr r IVO tu th- h u Wn• re-toetd to the p-our brad; Ts" pare of on•ler the brim— Site ba.l to Ide an Ann! Vuol tat-bur:l Tom Pidger and I are old associates. lie was one of my earliest school companions, and 1 loved him like a brother. lily heart became so full of love for Tom that it could not contain it all, so I disposed of the surplus by falling violently in love with his sister—a very nice young lady, about a head and shoulders taller than myself. I recollect sending her a valen tine, in which a tall, military looking man was depicted kneeling, in a green lawn, before a lady, to whom he was making a passionate declaration of love in a fat balloon which is sued from his mouth—in which balloon I took the precaution of inserting my initials to pre vent the possibility of mistake as to the iden tity of the party. In return, Miss Pidger pre sented me with a large pink heart made of sugar, (which Tom and I ate that same after noon,) but her own heart she retie: red for one Baines, a banker, to whom she was married long before I left school. H. PFAIMER, Loeu.o otreet When Tom and I grew up we removed to Edinburgh—he to college and I to a bank— and we took rooms together in Queen street.— Tom had always been a rather slovenly fellow, but now he became intolerably so. His bat gradually became limp and napless, and though threw otit very brdad hints, and at length openly remonstrated with Min, the same hat remained in constant use. lo tried to shame him out of it by assuring him that he would be taken for an Irishman; and once I bribed the milk-boy with a penny to cry after him, "Who's your hatter?" but all in vain. His old great-coat, too, he wore till it became quite white along the seams, and glazed at the elbows. it was a very significant fact that, though I passed the College with him times without number, the seedy old gentleutan who used to step out from the corner of South Col lege street, and say in a mysterious under tone, "Any ole aloes, sir?" invariably addres sed himself to me. And really it would have been a very gratuitous assumption to have supposed that Tom had any clothes older than . those he wore. As for his linen, I doubt If he would ever have changed it, Lad our landlady, Mrs. Prit chard, not made a point of taking a clean shirt into his bed-room every Sunday morning be fore Tom was up, and carrying the dirty one off. Toffee hair, from sheer neglect, grew long and frenzy. One day, 1 remember, when he sat down id breakfast, it seemed so very dry and matted that 1 could not forbear remonstra ting. . . . . “Positively, Tom," I said, "you must pay some attention to your person:Ll appearance.— Wby your head is like a moo." "Is it?" said Tom. “Let it be so. It saves time and trouble." I would have urged that the ladies would never look at him if he Went so shabbily, but as I knew Tom to be a woman-hater—or rather a woman -scorner, for he didn't think them worth bating Waived that point. So things went an as before. I WAS net a woman-hater, for I t , Tad become enamored of Fanny Lowndes—such a dear little thing!—had wooed her, and, last Decem ber, proposed and was accepted. "Tom," said I, one night When we were having our usual pipe by the fireside, before going to bead, •Tom, you knew ninny Lown dos 7" ~E~~~. April fool Strangers Yet Stringers %el! A Iwr •rat+ ofb re lage , her. A her fa;r not: stormy weather, w.wel in far Inoa4. A eger roue: or wedded hancle,-- IVhy thus ? why ever met? li they amst be struner. yet. vet! AfterOalitoo winning way.. A ft..r care. norrl/1.1111,. nod prniw, Cotitt4,•l 4-1.0. stud wg•aton given, A fier inottril privet , to (leaven, 1`1,11,1 and p tronm twnrce roVot . t Who. run—are "it...tigers ye: Straimotrti After -ink Air caratrom end., Alter tile of old frotilq. Afotr patem fierce nod tender, After cheeriol aelf•=m re oder. I !cart. , may item and eccit be wet, And the :took be tilt...lmp rts yet. F-lroncert yet' St, uue,t.. ..1 Int her (110,101 tc .can All I he in ! NAture hp tn.aptetic lairs Circle. in.o Circle (I. lox.? Co ell, ottly touch when wet, Never nusiglo—s,raugero yep. Stra.ttter+ yet ! XVII II +•r , •rmnrc be 11)1,4 , --. Spllll. stillamp,viols.? Sim I we ever f nriv Ft:lnd Soul to anal. is It Iniltol.nd? Are the 1 , 031.4. eternal •et To rolatit itkAeri yet Stratteer. vet? Tel! not love it ta•l•t aerfire Cabo .nmelltiaz 011,..r—hiemftr; (lod loved tlt • ha-t. NVere to tkl . lt %ympallite. at 10•1 ; Pe-t above the •181111 l 11.1.1 l ret the world of -Panzer, yet ! Strantz..e• rel I tnackeray's Cornhill Mag,a.inc gitEgtions. A Leap-Year Wooing tIDGER AND I "NO ENTERTAMIENT IS SO CII'ESP AS READING, NOR ANY PLEASURE SO LASTING," COL - U.31E1 . A, "I've heard enough about ber," replied Torn. oWell, she and I are to be married next month." TOM gave a short laugh, as if he considered it rather a good joke. ..On my honor, Tom, we are." Tom's face became grave in an instant ; and alter looking steadily at me for a few moments, to assure himself that was serious, he slowly took his pipe from his mouth ancrlaid it on the mantle-piece. "Well, Dick," said he, in a tone of great solemnity, "1 did not expect this of you." He looked mournfully into the fire for a while, and then resumed—" Have you thought on this subject I Don't you know as well as I do, that once married you are done for—there's ncr backlitg out again. At your time of life, too, with the world all before you —why, its suicide—moral and intellectual sui cide. Ob, it cannot be t—you are joking." "I assure you, my dear fellow, I am quite serious." "Then you are demented," said Tom, hitch ing himself back in his chair. ((You think it is all poetry, I suppose. \Vait till the curtain lectures commence; you won't find much poetry in them. Children, too; why, my dear fellow, you'll have your house swarming with them before you know what you are about.— The rate at which children multiply is prodig ioub. Rave you read Mr. Malthus' book—his (Essay on'Pcpulation?' Read that book." "I have read it." "Read it again. and apply it to your own case. Poetry! you'll find precious little poetry about children. 11's bad enough to have these young Pritchards caterwauling night and day in the nursery there, but wail till you are in the midst of the Babel and can't escape.— Wait untill you have to wipe the children's nokes like that poor wretch Pritchard, and lie badgered out of bed in the frosty nights when ever a child so much as squeaks. You'll know what the poetry of lovers is, then, my 'Frojan!" Torn concluded with a prophetic jerk of his head, and proceeded to relight his pipe. "1 have always feared it might come to this," continued he, "since that time you tell its love with my sister Muggy. Iler marying Baines was clearly a providence in your be. half; it was another providence that we came here and saw the hie that poor wretch Pritch. and leads between his wile and children. For my sake, Dick, think again before you take this insane step." Torn smoked quietly for a minute or two. then proceeded to illustrate the mi'eries of wedded tie by passages from the lives or Mil ton, Shelley, Coleridge, Byron, and 1 know not how many more. He then began a brief ab. street of Mr. Malthus' book, in the middle of which I fell asleep and nearly tumbled tor. ward into the fire. So 1 got up and told him , it was no use talking, as •he thing was all set tled. Tom bade me good night with an air of profound compassion, and evidently gave me up fur a lost sheep. 11--A PROEMS'S/ WIC IS SATISPACTORILIt SOLVED It might be about a fortnight after that Tom had occasion to be in Glasgow for a day or two. On the evening of his return I observed that he looked very abstracted. I did not pay much attention to the circumstance, but it struck me that he was. He smoked by the fireside for an hour, I am sure, before retiring; yet all my efforts to get him to talk were Iruilless. When 1 turned, after telling him anything, and said, "Don't you'thirsk so?" or, "Strange, that, wasn't it I' 2 'loin would start and ejaculate, "Eli 7" as it' he had nut the remotest idea of what I had been speaking about, as I really believe he had not. When 'foal came home to dinner next day I was amazed to see that he had got his hair cut. 1 would hardly have known him in the street. "Halloo, Tom! Got your hair cut ?" "Yes," replied Tom, with E oinething of ir ritation in his tone, I thought. "Gni you never see a fellow with his haft cut before?" haven't seen yeti v'ety often, Torn." made no reply, and; as it seemed to an noy him, 1 said nothing more about it. But really it did astonish me; and my astonish ment was by no Means diminished when I found next morning that he had brushed at care fully—oiled it, too, I was convinced. In fact I found a bottle of hair oil in his drawer one day when I was hunting for a pocket handker. chief. What next shoold I find him doing but appearing in a clean shirt every seccnd day or so, a nd actually quarreling with Mrs. Pritchard once for not starching the wristbands I •I'ren came a fashionable hat, then a pair of new boots, so very small that I could have sworn Tom's feet would never get into them. I dis covered, too, (through Mrs. Pritchard,) that Tom had taken to shaving in secret, and was daily on the took-out for whiskers. My amaze ment was unbounded. I could not for tho life of me account for tI ; but, as the change was a good one, and, as I remembered the rebufl got when I spoke about his hair, I considered it best to keep quiet. "Dick," said Tom to me one day at dinner, "this is December, is it not?" "December? Yes." "Very cold weather for December'?" "Well, rather." "I think," said Tom, 4.1 would be the better of something warmer than that old great coat or mine." ;Of course you would. I've said so often. You should get one of those Highland cloaks; they look very comfortable; they are fashiona ble, ton," And Tom actually came home that evening in one, presenting, I must say a very imposing appearance. And now Tom, who formerly could not be coaxed out of the house except , in college hours, evinced a sudden propensity for after noon walks—a positive passion for them.— •Llick, put or: your hat, and let us have a stroll.' It was vain expostulating. "Con found it!' I used to say at las:, tossing aside the book: 't wish you had thought of walking in summer, This is most unseasonable weather for it' 'ThAt's a grace mistake, my de.tr lettow; you should read Hall on that point. Why, this is the man bracing season in the year. Come, let us have a stroll.' / went, but it was not a stroll. I was a regular unvaried walk to Royal Circus, twice around the circus, and back again. It was the coldest; and bleakest, and Mast dismal read which could possibly have been se/et:ed. Yet this walk Tom would take and no other.— Sam, however, he gave over askinfr MP to go —seemed aflame.", Pt fact, that I shouldn't go. One day, in particular, he Suddenly appeared, fully equipped, and said, 'Well, 1 am off for a aunt/.' g Wait dne Minute,' I said, 'and 1 shall be with you." Won't mind,' said he ; '1 sbac't be long.— It looks AS if it were going to rain,' and hurried out. The afternoon wore sway—tea time came, yet Tom had not returned. Ile didn't return till half past ten. 'Halloo, Tons, you have taken a tolerably long stroll to night ?' 'Ab; I walked up to see my aunt. She's not very well just now.' 'Your aunt 1' 'Aunt Patterson—mother's slater. 1 don't Oink you know her.' I certainly did not—had never heard Of her, to my knowledge. Next day when be had finished dinner, we drew our chairs to the fireside, and I proceeded to make some observation on the condition of Vey. ' tN A, A IT ' , DA 3110 ' NIN , ►IA 26', 1864. .oh, bang it !' cried Tom, chipping his hand to his coat pocket, 'I have forgotten to post that letter!' He threw on'his hat and cloak, and was off. Half past ten again before he returned. 'halloo, Tom,' I said, 'you have taken a tororably long time to post that tette?: , bro; I was up seeing my aunt.' 'Oh, yes! by the way, is she better to night?' 'Not decidedly so. Rather worse, r should say, if anything.' am sorry for that. Well, come and let us have a quiet pipe.' 'Not to-night, thank you.' 'What!' I exclaimed, in considerable aston. ishment, for Tom smoked every night with the regularity of clock-work. 'Not smoke be fore going to bed!' 'No; I find it's not agreeing with me. I see Dr. Prout shows that it ruins the constitu tion.' So Tom retired, and [sat and smoked alone, wondering whether Tom could be insane, and where this very extraordinary change might be expected to end. Next night I was up making some arrange ments with Fanny for our approaching mar riage. 'Oh, Dick!' she said, .what s merry fellow Tom Pidger is!' 'Tom Pidgeti where did you see him?' 'Why, he took tea with us at Mrs. Purdie's last night,' 'Mrs. Patterson's you mean.' 'Mrs, Purina's' Royal Circus. Jolla, you know, was a school companion of mine. ►Ve had such fun breaking up the pipes in Tom's pocket; and at last Julia made him go dbwn on his knees and promise that he would never smoke again.'