Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1857-11-16
COURTING INIOWA.

The following circumstances happened in &C.
dar Co, Iowa: ~" =
certain young man being out on a counting
expedition came late on Sunday evening and,
IN order to keep his secret from his young ac-
quaintances, determined to be at home bright
and early on Monday morning Mounted on his
horse, dressed in hi, fine white summer pants,
and other fxins in proportion, he arrives at the
residence OF his inamOrata, where he was kindly
received and his horse properly taken care of,
being turned into the pasture for the night
The night passed away, and three clock in the
morning arrived. Three o'clock was the time
for him to depart, so that be might arrive at
home bafore bis comrades we're stirring. He sal
lied forth to the pasture to catch his horse; but
here was dihculty-gras high and loaded
with dew. TOvsnture in with white pantaloons
on would rather take cut the starch and lead
to MS detection. 1t would not do to go in with
his white unmentionables, SO he quickly made
his resolve. He carefully disrobed himself of
his valuable "whites" and placed them in safety
on the fence while he gave chase with un-
screened pedals through the wet gras, after the
horse ...
Returning to the fence where he had safely
suspended his lilly white unmentionabIes-O'
Horrtbies Dietu what a eight met his ewes
The field into which his horse had been turned
was not only ''horse pasture" but ''calf pas
tare, too, and the naughty calves attracted by
selves to 1T, and calf like, had eaten them up I,
only few well chewed fragments of this once
valuable article of the wardrobe now remain
ed-only a few shrcds-. ust sufficient to indicate
what they once had been What pickle this
was for a nice young man to be in
1t was now near daylight and the farmers
were up and about and oar hero far from home
with no covering for his travelling apparatus. "
Ii would not do to go back TO the house of hi.
lady love, neither could he go to town in that
plight There was only one resource left him.
and that was to secrete himself in the bushes un-
tli the next night and then get homo under
cover of the darkness.
Safely hid, be remained under the protection
OF the bushes for some time, and il may be i'm
aglned that his feeling. towards the calf kind
were not OF the most friendly character; but
ere long, his seclusion was destined to be in
truded upon. By and by, the boys who had
been out to feed the calves, returned with the
remnants OF the Identical white garment which
adorned the lower limbs of their late visitor.
They were mangled and torn to shreds. An in
quest was Immediately held over them. Some
awful fate had befallen the unfortunate Young
man. The nsfyhbor. were summoned to search
for the mangled corpse. and the posse with
all speed set out with dogs and arms. The pas
ture was throughfy secuted, and then the ada
cent thickets, when To- oar hero was driven out
from his lair by the keen scent Of the dogs all
safe, alive and well, minus the linen.
An explanation then susued at the expense
OF our hero, but he was successful in the end
and married the lady, and is now living COM
fortably in one of the fourishing little towns of
Iowa.