Carroll free press. [volume] (Carrollton [Ohio]) 1834-1861, 1853-11-11
E rIy COur,ship .n OhIs.
NEARLY AS IT WAS ToLD TO Us BY OUR OLD FRIEND
OVER GLASS OF CIDER.
Ah'Oi" POVh'o'
NAsHvrLLE, May lO,h. 1852.

'a. off you can't git them that you want, you
must take them that you can git" and that is
how came to marry Patcy. Love Will 60
where tits sent, any how and'we can't help it,
and the harder chap loves gal, the poorer
chance he stands to gt her :-the thing is just
here, the more he loves her. the more shy and
tremb, ing he is, and he can't half tell his feel
ins to her if he tries--while the careless and
unfeelin chap, that's got no more love in him
- than hoss, can have dozen gals after him at
once, have thought the heart was like !
turtles egg you dent the shell on one side
a'dent on The other side made in the same man
ii ner, will bring all smooth again. So with the
~ heart one girl makes dent--it remains bru-
"i sed, till some hergirl presses it, pushing out
the old bruise and eaving in a new one.
" w H. well, accident will happen folks ~il
laugh--he world is more fond of fun than logic
-and they might as well laugh at me as at any
.a body laa s .o.
5ca So Lagreed to tell you alb ut my first court
on ship. Itwan'tP Patsey. bntmy first sweetheart
s.a was proper handsome gal / W rked for her
father. Ohio was all in the woods then, and
every body lived in log hosses except dewn in
% Cleveland there was a store or two And my
three hundred acres, that is worth now one
hund. ed and fifty dollars an acre, wasn't worth
when bOughtit only three dollavs Psbaw
pshaw! how times is changed-Glad to git corr
bread ard bammon gravy then-hsd to g
I, thirty miles, down to Chagrin to mill. always
% used to go for boss instead OF himself, for on
90 ly ''heaftedP ninety pounds in weight an(
ge made lighter load over bag of corn on hos.
" back. Let me see, weigh eighty now. Well
was twenty-five years old, just about, and il
love with boss daughter but always tho't sh,
gfelt little above me, for was not any talle
no then than | am now, not quite as tall as sh
a was any how, and was working for eight dol
He Ts mo nth; had to dress in tow linen at that
~. You never see one Of them logging frocks
,dF made like a shirt out Of fax tow, did ye?-
sb Well. till i bought this blue coat when / maj
atd ried Patsey thirty and FIVE years.ago neve
wore any but tow--and il it want Sunday tc
day shouldn't had it on for despise' stray
gance and new tangled Aummeries and lngon
bob noodles round y'r big houses. g
q" aIwaa in love thirty-6ve years ago, hea
over heels and never dared TO say word abol
ba. it Her name was Jerusha. I onged to te
her how my heart swelled and burnt for ht
@o as 1t thumped agin its 'chist, but could ne,
a. er screw my courage up to the pint-but tho
would some day---or some other day. L
IA bcsn alone with her many time and had r,
solved and reresolved on popping il right o,
but the stiffness was as awful on them 'cai
ions as the roar If Niagara and my heart woul
feel all over like your little finger does whs
you bit your elbow gin thing accidental,
tarnal tingling fullness. E
.usy Cuss mp lack, said / to my myself, one Sui
day night, as Icum hum from mill after thrt
days ride. Jerusha had been--a chap fro
town, dressed as smart as a dancing MASTER
Ny heart jumped into my gullet the minute
]9 see him. felt down in the mouth, for know
ed was gone feller. He hadon broad clOt
Talk Of your new-fanged Gdssop and GreshC
houses, now, but folks in them DAYS ddn't ha,
but one room down stairs, and ladderto E
up stairs; punchecn floors was good enough b.
low, and oak shakes split out by hand kivere
the chamber floor. 1t was so in boss's hons
and slept up chamber. want you toimagl
two wooden hooks fixed up 10 hang gun o.