The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1858-04-07

There are few married men who could NOT, If they
would, relate some interesting incident oonnected With
their counting experience, and there are few unmarried
folks Of either sex who do not take naturally to Just
that style Of narrative. Everybody is anxious to know
how every body else who has crossed the matrimonial
~rubicon, managed the ticklish business. sJ.sW. NJ
thus explains to US how he got married: as Z
1t may be funny, but I've done it. I've got . rib
and q baby. Shadows Of departed-oyster stew2
brandy cocktails, cigar boxes, boot jacks, abscondinE
shirt buttons, whist and dominoes. Shadows Of past
hoop skirts, band boxes, ribbons, CATERS, long stockings
juvenile dresses, tin trumpets, little willow chair,
cradles bit, pap, sugar teats, p~aregoric, hive syrup,
castor oil, Godfrey's cordial, soothing syrup, rhsharb,
SIENNA salts, squills, and doctors bills. Shadows future
More nine pound babies, more hive syrup, etc.
I'll tell you how | was caught. Va always the
darndest, most tea oustard, bashful fellow you .sisr did
see it was kinder in my life to Be taken With the
shakes every time / saw . pretty gal approaching me,
and I'd cross the street any time rather than face one;
WASN'T because l didn't like the critters, for If Ms
behind a fence looking through . knot hole, I couldn't
look at one long enough. a. la.
Well, my sister Lib gave . party one night, and I
stayed away from home because I was too bashful to
face the music. ! hung around tho house ~whistline
Watching the heads, bobbing up and down, behind tAs
window curtains, and wishing tho laundering party
would break up 50 | could get in my room. I saoksd
Q bunch Of Cigar, and ~ twas getting late and migHtily.
uncomfortable, I concluded to shin up ths. door peeGs
No sooner said than done, and soon found myself sege
in bed. Nov says ], let her rip! Dance till yoNSf
wind gives o9tp And cuddling under the aqailtas
was dreaming Of softshsll crabs aud ystsvsd triips.
was having , good tims, when somebody kneiksll
st the door and woke me up Rap aeaiD. / hid
low. Rap, rap, rap Then / heard : wA;speeile,
and l knew there Vac : whole raft Of girls oassids.
Rap. rap? Then Lib sings out, 3.
sJack, ass you in thsrsr c .s hea
- Yes says /. 80
Then came > roar of laughter.
Let a. in says she. h-a --e-r
4 won't, saysL ], cant yos let . TELLER .lonsr
sAre you : bed ? says abe. az trsr -
= am says L. es ~.
Then came another laugh. By thunder I bAeats
{ Get out you pettcoatsd scare. crowsY 4 oeisa:
can't you get q beau without hauling . fellow oct sf
,ed Won't 70 home with you'll won't-so yoa ~
out And, throwing . boot 1t the door. I Is
'etter. But, presently, oh mortal buttons /! / heae4s
till, small voice, very much like sister Lib's, asd 4
jack you'll have to get up, for al tA. sirls .ai.es
Oh, Lord what : pickle Think Of me il bid, II
covered with shawls, mufs, bounets and elsaks, ~ )
wenty girls outside the door waiting to get il !. Ill
lad stopped to think I should have psnosksd On ~
Az it was, I rolled out among the boaaes4~s.
NO TDD00S 10 2 hurry. 'S@48n :! went too mummy
n every direction. I had to dress in the dask-l1
here was q crack in the door, and the girls vii pssk-- y
md the way I fumbleds about Was death on straw hsh.
The critical moment came. !, opened Tie dosg, aal
ound myself right among the women. /.
'Oh, my Leghora ! cries one 3eres al 4sas.
my dear, darling, wintsr velvet (! cries snotAeh
they pitched ip-Jthey pulid no this w.y andtl4A
'oxed my sars; and ons bright eyed listle. pises-@
--her name wasr-put her arms riGAk around ~
,eck. and kiased me- right on ny lips Hsusa nasags
.ouldn't stand that and I gave her = good - she seae i
It was the, frat time / ever had . taste, and i w :,
good. I believe ! could have Kissed that ei9 n
rom the time Of Julius Cssar to Fourth Of July.
Jack, said che, We are sorry to diatsrb yoa, bat
von't you sec me homef sss III Is fs|nsesa =
/. Yes said I, II will I did do it, and had anothsr
mack At the gate too. After that, Ne took : kindse
urtls-doving after each. ether, both signing lils : hss
Of Of new. cider when We were way from eaeh. othsE.
un was setting behind : distant hogypen-the cEclyqs
.ere going to roost-tho b~all.ffogp were commeaiag
evening songs-the p~olly~ogA in th:irs.assN
nud-puddles, were preparing themselves for The shadee
+ night-snd Sal and myself at upon ~ a.fianass9
listening to the music Of natase, snsh = r. n
Dads, ~roosters and granting pig, and nowasd then
ne mellow music Of distant eckass, Was waited = CT
als BY the gentle sspAyrs that sighed among the NJ 81
stalks, and came heavy laden. With the dshei14fg
dor Of hsa soosts and pig styest The l.sk h.6eagtIs
sys Of the setting sun, glanced from The hraea 49, 4
t . solitary kersema1, shone thrcnghssa kaoe
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