The Davenport gazette. [volume] (Davenport, Scott Co., Iowa) 1841-185?, 1851-08-07
CoURTING.

CoURTING.
There is nothing to be gained dan0liN
for a twelyemonth after sensible womal
talking unmeaning stuf-words wIthna
wisdom. Tell her your wish like mar
and n,t like blubbering school boy; and
If there are 3 grains of common sense Y
your mucklc carcass she will be your own
before month has elapsed. See the bisso
ry Of Rebecca, in Gencsis, gath chaptefY
5Sth verse. When Abrahsm's scTysn
had concluded The preliminary contFac
with Mrs. Laban, on the part Of her dauEl
ter 10 become the wife Of Isaac, the old nss1
was anxious to get home 70 show bis youul
master tho bonny lass he had brought him
tho mother wished him 10 remain lev
days 10 recruit himself and his cameIs.~
He persisted and il was finally referred 40
the daughter ',vo will call tho damset
and inquire at ber mouth, said the mother
When Rebecca appeared, her mother ask
ed, AviIt thou 90 with this sDaHv kebeccs
replied, i will CO.
There was noble girl for you! NO3
tears starting from her black eyes; no WHIT
ming or smpering, make believe nor mock
fDodesiy, but what her heart wished her
mouth uttered. Like an honest muidens
she replied, Il will GO
By the by, ladies', when you wish 10 resd
a true, simple and unsophiscated love story,3
just read over tho 9th chapter of Genesis.
A PHILADELPHIA QUAKER.-A certain
Friend whom we very well know, was 70 !
Gently a. distant place Of summer resort.
llo stepped into tho post Office one morn
ing. and while there the Postmaster asked
him il he knew Of any English people stay
ing nt the hotel. why does thee ask
said The Quaker. Because said the Post
master, here are half dozen letters d.
rcc,ed 10 England BY the next steamer,
and as the postage to Boston IS not pns0 81
cannot send them. lf l csi1t,ot find the
writer's of them, they will be forwarded e
the dead letter office at Washington Our
Friend looked at the letters They were
all double and he remarked, sthcy appear
to be family letters, and no doubt will bs
most welcome if received, or may csuse
great anxiety if they should not be- 4
cannot help IT, said the Postmaster. sWelIs
can, If thee cannot; what is the postaGef
For six double letters, three dollars
We'll, hero is the money; thee will please
mark the letters paid and send them 70
Boston, And with this injunction the
Philadelphia Quaker left the post oftice,
his pockets not quite so heavy rs when he
entered, but his heart, We are sure, great
deal lighter.--N. y. GaS.
Some thirty years ago young man,
gardener, who worked for lbs. week, q
garden near the Duke Of Devonshires
villa at Chiswick, five miles west Of Hyde
Park, said or did something which offended
the master gardener, and was turned Of
lie was standing unemployed one day
near tho dukes garden gate. His Grace.
in passing, spoke TO him, entered into fam
liar conversation, asccrtained that ho was
Ia iourneyman gardener out Of work, and,
walking into the garden. the young nan
with him, was pleased with his intelligence
and manners--not the manners Of syco-
phant sneaking up to the side Of noble-
man with sycophant words, but the man
ners Of an intelligent man who know his
profession, and could speak about il, unem-
barrassed TO another, no matter whom
The Duke asked him to call at Devonshire
house the next day, and tho young man
did, and the call resulted in his being sont
down to Chatsworth, in Derbyshire.--
There he soon mado why, and reached. a.
a practical and scientific gardener, tho very
head Of his profession, which position be
bad long maintained before be was known
to the world as MIR. Paxton, the designer Of
the Crystal Palace.