Plymouth banner. (Plymouth, Marshall County, Ind.) 1852-1855, 1854-03-02
EARLY CguRTyHIP In OHIO.
Nearly as it was told us By our cid tr'sne
-ouer glass Of cider.

OUR glass Of cider.
If you can't get them that you want.
you mus, take them that you can get, and
shat is how I came to marry Patsy Love
will go wacre 'iis sent. any how. and we
can, help it. su.. the harder chap loves
a gal, the poorer chance he has TO git her
the thing is just here, the more he
loves her. the more shy aud trem bling he
is. and he can't half tell his feelings to
her If he tries-while the careless and
unfeeling chap that's got no more love
in him than h. 's. can have dozen gals
after him al once. | have thought that
the heart was like mud turtles eggs;
you dent the she'll on one side. dent on
the other side male la the sime manner
will bring il all smooth again. So with
the heart. one girl mikrs dent. it re-
mains bruised till soms o:her presses IT
pushing out the cid bruise. and leaves in
a new one.
Well, well accidents will happen;
folks viii laugh. the world is more fond
of fun than logic; aud they might as we'll
laugh at m. ANYBODY.
So agreed to tell YOU about my first
courtsh;p. |, want Petsey; but my first
sesta.art was proper handsome girl.
worked for her father. OHIO was all in
the woods then. aud everybody lived in
lo3housis. except down in Cleveland there
was store or two. AMI my three hun
dred acres, that il worth now one hun
dred and fifty dollars an acre, wasn't
worth when bought it only three dol
lars. PShaw. pshsw! how times have
changed GIaI TO get corn bread and gam
mon gravy then; had to go thirty miles
down TO Chagrin to mill. | always used
10 go for boss. instead Of himself, for
only ''heaftel" ninety pounds in weigh,
and male lighter load over d bag of corn
on hoss5ack. Let me see. | weigh eighty
now.
We'll. | was twenty five years old. just
about. and ia love with bos5es gal. but
always thought she felt lee;le above
me, for | was not any taller then than |
am nonv; not quite tall as she was any
how. AMI was working for eight dollars
a month. aud had to dress in tow linen at
that. You never one of the IN logging
frocks, made like shirt out Of fax tow,
did va? Well. till | boush. this blue
coat. when married Patsey, thirty and
FIVE years ago. ] never wore any but tow.
and if it want Sunday to day, ] should
not had it on. for despise 'strsvagence
and tangled flummeries and thing
ombob noodles round yer big houses.
was in love thirty.fve years ago.
head over heels in love, and never dared
to say a word abou! it. Her name was
Jerusha. / longed TO tell her how my
heart swelIeI aud burned for her as il
thumped agin his chist. but could nev-
Ell screw my courage up to the pin,--but
| though, could some day--or some 9TH
er day. I'd been alone with her many a
time, and had resolved and re. resolved on
popping 1t right out. but the stiffness was
as awful on them. casions as the roaf OF
Niagara. and my heart would feel all over
like your LITTLE finger does when you hit
your elbow agin thing acciden,al.a ting
lin fullness.
Cuss my luck. said | to myself. one
Sunday night. as cum home from mill.
after three days ride. Jerusha had a
beau; chap from town. dressed as smart
rs dancing master. My heart jumped
into my gullet the minute seed him. |
felt down in the mouth. for knowed
was gone fvller. He had on broad cloth.
Talk of your new tangled Gossop and
Gresham houses now. but folks in them |
days didn't have but one room down
stairs. and ladder to go up stairs; pun
cheon floors were good enough below,
and oak shakes split out by hand. kiver-
ed the chamber 9oor. 1t was so in boss's
house. and slept up chamber. want
you to imagine two wooden hooks fixed
up to hang gun on. right over the hearth
ca the caamo beam; | van, you to i'm
agine 4 feelings ihat nigntafts' went
10 bed. for Jsrgsha aad the dandy chap
had the nul room below TO the nsetvss.
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