Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1845-1854, 1853-12-21
Sci - G MISCELLANY.
EARLY courtship i'm Ohio.

YEARLY told old fricnd-over glass of cider
s ssIf you can't git them that you want, you must
take! them thatRyou can git, and that is how.
cate to marry Patsey. Love will go where tits
sent anyhow and we can't help it, and the harder
achap loves q gal, the poorer chance he stands to
git her;-the thing is just here, the more he loves
her,1 the more shyaand trembling he s, and he
can't fftelp his feeIins to her If he tries-whle
the careless and pnfceiin chap, that's got no more
love in him than a hoss, can have a dozen, gals
after him at once. I have thought the heart was
Ike mad turtles egg; you dent the shell on
one side-a dent on the other side in the same
manner will bring it smooth again. So with the
heart; one girl make "a dent---it remains bruised
unalsome other girl presses is, pushing out the
old brnise and leaving new one. lis= q s2A't
-~". Well, we'll, accidents WIFI happen; folks will
laugh--the world smore fond Of fun than logic
and they might as we'll laugh at me as anybody.
aseEe Iagreed.to tell yeu about my first courtshp
IT wssn't Patsey, but my FIRST :sweetheartwas
proper han some gal. T worked for her father
Ohio waasa1I in the woods then, and everybody
lived in log houses except down in Cleveland
there was d store or@tsxo.9 And my three hundred
acres that is s.orth now one hundred and fifty
Hollars an acre, wasn't worth when / bought only
three dollars. Pshaw, pshaw! how times has
scfianged. sGisd to git corn-bread and CANNON
gravy then-4had to go thirty miles, down to Cha
gfinto mill. always used to go for boss instead
OF hmseif, for only, "heafted" ninety pounds in
rmeight and made a lighter load,ov bag of corn
ehoss-back.sdL Let me gee, weigh eighty now
sWell,I was twenty five years old just about and
in love with boss's daughter, but always thought
she fcltleetle above me, for was not taller then
Il ana now,a nut quite as tall she was anyhow,
and was working for eight dollars month; had
III dress in tow linen at that. = You never seen
one Of them logging frocks,made like shirt out Of
.aaxstow, did ye! Well, till i bought this new
coat tsien Imarried Patsey, thirtyfive years ago,
i never wore any but and ifit want Sun
daly today I shouldn't had II on, for despise
-'strayaganees and new tangled fummeries and
Ythingumbob noodles round y'r5 big houses. s5ao
haI was in love thfty.6 years ago, head over
heels,and never dared to say aword about it. Her
name was Jerusha,.r I longed to tell her how my
heart swelled and burnt for. her as it thumped
ssckiss, ,sbut T5couidn't screw my courage
up toathe pint t-but Thought wonld some day-or
some otker day. I'D been alone with her many a
time and had resolved and resolved on popping il
right out---bnt the stiffness as awful on them
-scastas6 a. asi1e5 roar of Niagara and my heart
would feel all over like your little finger does
when you hit your elbow gin q thing accidental
"A tarnaf tinglin fullness. 8oa 81 ..sslgfs ;.s .;
a, Cuss my luck, said Ito myself, one Sunday
night, as Iacum hum from mill after three days
ride! aJerusha had "a bow--a chap from town
dressed as smart as dancing master. My hear
Jumped into my gullet the minute saw him
r felt down in the mouth, for / knowed was
gone 0feiler. He had on broadcloth Talk o
your new-fangfed Gossop and greshun houses now
but folks in them days didn't have but one room
down stairs, and ladder to 60 up stars puncheol
floors was good enough below, and oak shake
split out by hand, kivered the chamber floor.
was SO in boss's house and / slept up chamber
L want you to imagine two wooden hooks fixed u
to hang a gun on, right over the hearth, on tn
chamber beam; want you to remember my toy
shirt, and want Eyou to imagin my feelings. tha
night after Invent to bed, for Jurusha and tn
dandy chaphad the hull room below to themselve
with roaring bright fire to spark by. / couldn
stand the teiAptation to want to hear what the
had to say t9 themselves. Whisper, whisper
whisper. You may laugh at it, but it's the make
truth that ana going to tell. I have laughed my
self at the same SINCE When heard sonethin
Poplke kiss, by thunder could stand my gres
heart -thumps no longer. Curiosity and jealous
sRot' the upper end of me: wanted to see for my
.self;so slid out o. bed, sitting fiat like taiIt
on the Aoor, determined to hitch up just 90 1 80