Daily Iowa State Democrat. [volume] (Davenport, Iowa) 1856-1859, 1857-05-20
Love i'm the Back Woods
OR
Jimmy WsddIe's FRS; C0uPsshlp.
COMMUNICATEDToT wEEKLY DIsPATCh
BY IMPERTURBABLE GRAVITY.

BY IMpERTURBABLE GRAVITY.
"Talkin' o sprecs, boys, puts me IN
mind o my young days. should
rayther guess | was III Tor EN- some,
myself, them times"
This was said by an old man, whom
We will Introduce as Mr. James Wac
lie, or as 'old Jim Waddle." Every
body Except the reader) knows hum
and his penchanti tor yarn spinning. 1t
is the evening of a militia training day.
There are a Coodly number, after
the company is dismissed from duty
who are lounging around, and al! now
gather around the aforesaid old Jim, to
hear his yarn to which he has already
began the prelude, and only awaits
somebody to urge him to 90 on. This
there are enough to 60. lie then in
qulrcd what they would have INT
o his huntin' or courtln' sprces!.
The boys unanimously demanded the
latter. Then after requesting that none
Of them should laugh TIL he got
through with few preparatory hens,
an assumption OF comlcally grave face
he commenced. Il wish | could report
in hi, inimitable language cefbIttm Z.
nterattm.)
when ! wur a boy, you know, dad
dy mcoved from Nirsinny TO kalntucA.
Ill been born and FOUGHT up on the
frontiers, and kaintuck was a perfect
paradise for me To hunt bars and %injins.
But | fo~rsot--you want a courtin'
story. Wei, although was always a
cuttin' up some dcvcitry among the
bows, yet, some hew | was lecilc shy
aud skcery amongst the gals. | liked
the critters prodlgiously, but about the
only a ! could manage to show it,
was, by castin Sleeps eyes in abun
lance at EN-. We had n,cctin's aswcil
as trolics sometimes. While the preach.
or was preaching tender heart cdne-s
brother kinlncs, md love- was n, think
IN q nothin' else. used 10 sci where
/: could look the gals IN the iace-and
then gaze at some purt, u TIL she'd
blush a. red rs "A pepper pod. Then !
;clt so queer about the gizzard, and
wish, and earthquake would come and
throw me right III her lap was IN
owe but | couldn't tell who | loved
most. Thar was Peggy Mason Ham
mer, amighty fine gal, ever in her tow,
linen frock, her checks wnr AS full as "a
china Pigs, and as red AS a turkey COB
!cr'>; and then thar was Sally Perkins,
with her gloriously striped home made
cotton trock, besides her har and eyes
A. black As ink: and then thar was dmL-
pIc-chcck'd, blue e,'d Lnttc Smith, who
always toted her shoes and stockin's in
her hand, Till she got in sight o mcctin.'
Well o these three | couldn't tell
for my life which | liked best-some-
times one, and sometimes another, but
alus the last one | look't at.
Bat when Squire Crunpton come to
our diggins, his two gals took the shine
OF the rest on 'em, specially his oldest
one. Bet>ey. shant attempt to de-
scribe her; but when | tell YOU she had
a calico iroch, with yaller flowers as
big as your hand-brass ear hobs. be-
sides a half a dozen sirens o beads As
large as the end o your little finger,
you may think she was q cha:mer-I
did anyhow. OF all the magnum DO
NUN charlners Id ever seed, she was
the magnum %bonumest. And so all
the young fellers said tn. When |
tust seed her twas at deacon Snook's
meetIn,. fastened my eyes on her
till hers met mine. She looked steadfast-
ly-then smiled a charmin smile an
blush't al look't down Lordy., thar
was n tiutterin' then, equal to a saw.mill
tween my two Jacket pockets. felt
was a goner. From that hour | was
too big for my ~breechcs, and Of Sun.
days | bcrgied Dadd,s breeches he'd
been married in before the Revolutions.
ry War, and come of at his knees.
but as he was tai! and | warn't, they
come below mine three or four inches.
Again the next mcetin, | was prepared
To cut a big stiff. Sister Sal, for the pur.
pose, starchcd and irone | Inv new iiue
shirt rs stiff and slick as a sheet of new
tin. This shirt had the finest kind Of
tlax'linen in the bosom and collar. but
the invisible part of it was coarse tow,
with a hem that would cable a steam.
boat. Now while Sal was smoothing
rinkles ear the said hem with an iron
Just hot from the fire, down stairs tum.
blcs n o the tarnel brats, knockiu'
the breath out'n it. 1t was Saturday
night, and she was the only one no.
and run to it in course but afore it
come to, the iron had very decidedly
made its mark-that is, burnt two
holes in the extremity OF my linen.-
Next mOrnin' | put it on rs it Was
then Dads true blues-then the fust
regular built pair o shoes I'd ever had.
| was seventeen just, just that Sun
Jay mornin' land in nv Sunday rigyin, !
ielt my self a man, and was resolved if
betsey Crumpton WAS at meetin to
how 1t. Well, she was there, and
txt for her company and got ii! Walk
IA by her side, felt as light as nothin'
skeercely techt the ground walked
on. But shant tell you the fine thing.
| thought and said to her on the way.
and o after We got home.(O Oh, yes
said several, voiccs.)No, you'll have
enough without that-yoar to shim
the cream ofths story yet
(Couo)o1ion to-Innnm~ll