Rensselaer Republican, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1886 — Rapped at the Wrong Window. [ARTICLE]

Rapped at the Wrong Window.

One of the most ridiculous misadventures of this season of love for two and pistols for one ii reported from Barnett, Ga., that fruitful land of romance and poetry and elopement. A swain from Washington, Ga., had plotted to bear away in the dead hours of the night from her ancestral home a girl of 17. The scene of action was to be modeled after the Romeo and Juliet order of romance. The blushing and lovely Capulet was to jump from the balcony, or the veranda, as it is called over in Georgia, into the arms of Borneo, who, pistol in pocket, impersonated love among the roses in the garden, or rather the parterre, below. At a rap on the glass the lovely meteor was to shoot through the window and coalesce with the fluttering Lochinvar, who waited on the verge of distraction to catch the falling star. Alas! The course of true love never did run smooth. Lochinvar had two of the three unities, the time and circumstance, by heart, but the “place” was all wrong. He rapped gently, but it was at the wrong window. It was not a girl of 17, but a bread-and-butter miss of 10 years who awoke, and she immediately shrieked out, invok ng the presence of her “paw,” as that gentleman is called in Georgia. He came, he saw, he conquered, but not before Romeo, in his terrible agitation, pulled the trigger of the nuptial pistol and shot himself in the foot, inflicting a “painful but not serious wound.” The wounded youth fled bleeding through the moonlight or the starlignt, and so ended the first act of the serio-comedy. He “ran smooth,” it is true, but a man who can measure his sorrows by the foot is not apt to find sweet or any other solace in a strained construction of the philosophy of poetr y. ton News and Courier.