The weekly Portage sentinel. [volume] (Ravenna, Ohio) 1854-1861, 1857-09-17
A Good Joke.


dOr county, which, as we have never. seen it
in print, we consider worth relating. The
circumstance happened some time ago, but
will lose nothing by It's age. twas told to US
by one who kn,w, and who said it YVES alr
true.
A certain young man in search Of wife,
being out Oh courting expedition, as is Gus
tomOry with young men, came late on Sum
day evening, and, in order to keep thc secret
from his young ocquaintances, determined
to be at home on Monday morning, bright |
and early, so that his absence would not be
noticed But his aIIianced resided several
mil es from the town in which he sojc urned;
and so, TO overcome the distance, required
, the use of horse. Mounted en- his horSe,
dressed in his fine, white summer pants, and
other fxns in proportion, he arrives at the
residence of his inamorOta, where he is kind
ly received and his horse properly taken
care of, by being turned into the pasture for
the night. The eVening-yea, the night
passed away, but how TO the ytung man is
nobody's business. Three o'clock in the
morning arrived. Our hero was awake
may be he had been so all night-but i. mat
ters not; thf3e O'Clock is the time fer him TO
= depart, SO that he'mieht arrive at home be-
= fore his comrades we're stirring. Not wish
: ing to disturb the family Of Ills lady-love, who
" :, were then wrapt in the arms Of Morpheus, he
y sailed forth to the pasture to catch his horse;
but here was difficulty-the grass was too
: high and loaded with dew. To venture in
y there with his white pantaloons would rather
take the starch ou! Of them and le ad TO de-
= ; lection. 1t would not do to 60 in his white
unmentionables, SO be quickly made his &C.
~ solve. l: was three O'Clock in the morning,
y and nobody stirring, SO he carefully disrobes
:" himself of his valuable "whito," and places
: !, them in safety on t,o f nee, while he gives
"' " chase with unscroened pedals through th'
= wet grass after the horse. But the stced was
~ fond Of clover, and had no notion Of leaving
.,T it. But our hero was not to be thwarted altho
M he Began to real ze the truth Of the old ad
~ age about true love, &C., and the horse wa
- finally captured.
Returning to the fence where he had safe
(. ly suspended his lily white unmcnt'onable
OH! nliraLi}c djctu! what horrible sigh
-. met his eyes! The field into which his hers
had been turned, vas not cnly.a "h9rse pas
. turc," but a "caf PASTURE" 900, ard Il
- naughty culve,, attracted by the 1ot lie Ro
on the fence, bad betaken thcms slvos to j
~ and cal) lie, had almost eaten item np'-on}
a few fragments Of this once valuable arr
! ). Gle of hia wardrobe now remained--oniy
-., few shreds-just sutli lent 10 Indicate VIII
,ny they once had been! What pickle this WI
,,o for nice young nan to be in!
o,I 1t was now daylight, and the industricl
=, farmers vere up and about, and cur hero, f
=, from home, with no covering for his "trave
= ing apparatus" 1t would not do to {
back to the house Of his laty,!oye, as The
.r were now al up, and boW could he get
without exhibiting himself TO his fair on
d.. which might ruin his match! No, n
that wouldn't do. Neither could he go
town in that plight There was only one r
and source left hhl, and that was to secrete hir
No self in the bushes till the next night, al
who then get home under the cover Of darknes
hen This he resolved to do, and accordingly h
ian' himself under thicket growth of bushes.
ear Safely hid, hercmained under the prote
au- tion of the bushes for some time; and it m
'our be imagined that his feelings toward the CT
in kind were not Of the most friendly characte
ke q but ere long his seclusion was destined to
and intruded upon. The family of his fair OF
hich seeing his horse still remaining in the pit
hich ture, inquired of the lady what she had do
It. with her lover. she was non plussed.
and She only knew he had left abont,lhree
con- clock in the morning. Things didn't 10
real right; if he had gole, why did he leave
sslul horse! Suspicious were awakened.
sing and by, the boys who had been out to fe
, ex- the calves returned with the remnants of
very the identical white garments which adorr
nifty. the lower limbs of their late visitor. T'f
hose were mingled and torn to slreds! An
J no. quest was Immediately held over them
So Some awful fate had befaled the unfor,'
!; ne ate young man. The neighbors were sc
loses summoned to search for his corpse, and
xter. posse with all speed set out with dogs
him arms to the search The pasture was tl
} be- oughly secured, and then the adjacent thi
'hich cts, when, 10! our hero was driven from
ct an lair by the keen scent of the doga, all So
will alive, and well, but minus tho linen.
: de- explanation then ensued at the expense
Oison our hero; but he was successful in the e
infu- and married the lady. and is now living c.
com fortably in one of the tlourishirg little to-
this in Iowa.
pre-. -~.....-------
them
= OE5=I have found that the men who
,man. nm really the most fond of ladies-who che
,hbo, for them the highest respect-are seldom
ole. most popular with the sex. Men OF G