The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1854-10-11
From the Yankee Privatesr1
a COURTIN' OF A GAL.

by Jlngo !! II L donit think Betsy Da
Wis are some kin to a yeller birds fol
she's about the snuggest little baggage
at ever gin corn to a hen Drat it
how oderiferous she does look-meek.
er'n a lam. She got me fowler, nor 4
pickeled rooster an / expect I shall
have to take a reef in the tale of my
cote putty quick, for I'm engaged
Ever since she slapped me in the barre
of brine, an I got my %clozesr EFT off me
I've bin sorter feared on her AM thinks
L, I'll never shin up to that criter again
but 1 did,
I hilt back putty lite, till one intel
seed a 'cademy boy a making turky traz
in the direction of old Mrs. Davis house
n'he had on grasshopper boots. When
I seed that in course / couldn't stan't il
could you2 jim Burrazy's babyl il
I didn't shoot hum ant git on my satti-
net trowserss quicker'n four taps Of a
woodpecker's bill. Then I had on d
shurt-with ruHes, an a pair, of spurs
what Uncle Ben had fetched from Mex
leo, an boots. L didn't have much
whiskers to be sure, not more'n 5 or 10,
but I had my hair chuck full. of COOS
greese, an l. looked jist like a BRIDE
felt middiin' pert, too an the way I did
1een for Betsey's were delicious. When
I got up to the fence, an unmerciful dog
come a kitin' at me, an if I hadn't ha'
got on the gatepost pretty mill-da quick
he'd ave bit a beef-stak out o. myI1eg,
.shure's q min. - cid /.
Git out ! you 'bomnible Gus, seq I, an
he run into a barrel, an hollered. In
onder the impulse of the moment, Ishot
in the house. The old woman an Bet
sy were there. 1 tho't they were gwine
to bed, for I seed Betsy's nightgoWnl an
nightcap q hangin' on a ehearT back, an
their old tom cat cum and smelt of my
boots, he tho't they was meat. Bat /
didn't see no cademy boy around, an I
felt uncommon slick. The oldlady look
ed dreadful wild at me, an sed-" How
are the babies ?" an groaned shockin',
aud Betsy turned redder'n a rooster's
gills. That made me. kinder fancy, SO
| ups an sets on the cheer where Bet
sy's nightgown were a hangin'-and
went to whistlin.' SEE the old woman.
do you know the news?"
See T." Old Mrs, Fairbanks house
got afre last mite, an she's monstrous fat
an she run out doors with nothin' on her
but a-but a-nightgown, and --she
fetched up amongst afock of geese am
they went at her, the geese did, an peck
ed her like the ID tssi
Like what ?n a.
Like a little cat With the creeps,n
SEE T., mitey perlite: -
SEX the old woman-Grate laws of
massy poor creeter, reckon she's knit
her last pair NV socks. Oh! me,"- am
she shut her eyes up,--I swap't a
buss along ov Betsy. Thunder how it
cracked an the old woman hollered-
"Mercy ME! the cats a lappin' the
milk. Shew ! skat I you varmint," on
she flung her shoe towards the Hubbard.
Betsy LATED and snickered, an, struck
her little hand out an pinched my
trowsers, and then seq She : 10
"What does that ere truck cost you
yard z" '' 5Fss
SEE I, sorter soft" Git out !" and
stuck my lounge out. oEs
Sez the old woman-"I It's monstrous
nice goods, an she put on her speeks am
commenced to look, like a skeart coal5
does over a white fence. I didn't like
such doings as them ere, SO seq E to-
the gad- 5a
That cats q howlin,' p'raps she's
II b81Ep257 ayzd as ~ "a
"No she amt" says Betsy au'ishe
nodded her little drab-eoiored head like
One ov these limpy bobberlinks7 Jest
thenfI wanted to blow my nose, and in.
out my handkerchief, slap1 come
a chunk of candyo out on the floor, what
bro't to Betsy, but I stuck out my
footzalEfred quick zanIhEered it oyer
otheyIowoufen's see ii; but lord how
my knees knoekedi Then Betsy went
down sellar arter some nutcakes, an I
piled the ticks at the old woman
she were mightysnear astracted, AM
Hebrew to her, an Injin an,
French al 1eetle Hottentot. TelIiyou
she tho't were a synagogue. for %sartan,
IN, by the time Betsy had cum back;
she'd most got the hoopin' colt. a
Betcey she sot down in o chears .as
an as stiff as a young hyckyry,,
She sorter gin her, cheek a hitch, then
[ gin mine a hitch an a half, just like
carpet rags then cilence cum
IN like a lame hoos to his fodder. SCI
Betsy-D 10 let me be- f Z
SEE 1, / amt a tuchen, ye." qs
SEE she, "Ain't you going too !"
I" Lord !" SEE [ to myself, /" amt that
nice. | = 2
So I told the old lady to look 1upthe
,himney, for I smelt fire. When she
lid Iook-by gosh what'a smack that
yall got, an my chear tilted, an / hap:
oened to look down to'ards the floor to
letch myself like from falling, when
lush IL were struck plum in heap.
f there want a hole in my trowsers, an
great piece of a shirt a hanging out
ike a play. Be darn'edi if I didn't drap
ny hand quicker, am then took t'other
land an, sorter shoves it in, like a cat a
into pice of stove pipe
sampa an Molassus but were nightly
keered, an the SWEET drapt off 0 me for,
Betsy was kinder shyin' her eye, ana
niggerin, awful when I were q tuekiniof
he shirt in, it made me feel like I were
setten' on a pin. The old woman won
Tered what pom earth allied her darter,
Vhen Betsy up an, wooped like a stunned
/ swan to man if I could bear that,
o I hoped up like a bed wrench, an
ez T. so IseaziisA i
II guess III go now, for there's an
Id COW out doors a hollerin' for me.rl
Good nite,n es9ar sseg sd
Good mite, ~ seq Betsy a giglin' an I
out of that door quicker than a
waller bird can dodge a stone, an then l
issened to the winder to hear what they'd
ay. Pootty soon the old woman SEX
Betsy, what is you snickerin' at