Kenosha tribune & telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1856-1859, 1858-04-08
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live got rib and baby. Shadows de-
lparted-oyster stews, brandy cocktails,
cigar boxes, boot jacks, absconding shirt
buttons, whist and dominoes.
Shadows present-hoop skirts, band
boxes, ribbons: CATERS, long stockings,
Juvenile dresses, lin trumpets, little will
low chairs, cradles, bibs, pap, sugar,
teats, paregoric, hive syrup, castor oil,
Godfrey's cordial, soothing syrup, rhu-
barb, SIENNA, salts, squills, and doctors
bills. Shadows future-more nine
pound babies, more hive syrup, etc.,
| etc.
I'll just tell you how / got caught. ]
was always the darndest, most tea GUS
tard, bashful fellow you ever did see !; it
was kinder in my line to be taxed with
the shakes every time saw pretty gal
approaching me, and I'd cross the street
any time rather than face one. 'Twasn't
because l didn't like the critters, for if
was behind fence, looking through a
knot hole, | couldn't look at one long
enough. Well, my sister Lib gave a
party one night, and stayed away from
home because ] was TOO bashful to face
the music. | hung around the house
whistling, odd Dan Tucker dancing to
keep my feet warm, watching the heads
bobbing up and down behind the win
dow curtains, and wishing the thunder
ing party would break up SO could go
to my room smoked up a bunch of
cigars, and as it was getting late and
mighty uncomfortable. ! concluded to
climb up the door post. No sooner said
than done, and soon found myself snug
in bed. Now says 'let 'er rip :
dance till your wind gives out! and cud
Edling under the quilts, Morpheus grab
bed me. | was dreaming of soft-shelled
crabs and stewed tripe, and was having
good time, when somebody knocked
at my room door and woke me up. Rap
again. | laid low. Rap, rap, rap! Then
/ heard whispering, and / knew there
was q whole raft ofgirls outside. Rap,
rap! Then Lib sings out, Jack, are you
in there Yes says |. Let us in, says
she. 4 won't says l, cant You let a
fellow alone p Are you abed p says
she. q am, saysI. Get upn says she.
i WON'T says ]. Then came another
laugh. BY thunder, | began to get riled.
Get out, you petticoated scareerows :
| cried; cant you get q beau without
hauling fellow ont of bed? | wont go
home with you'll wont-so you may
clear out I! And sending boot at the
door, / felt better. But presently, oh I,
mortal buttons II heard still, small
voics, very much like sister Lbs, and it
said Jack, you'll have to get up, for
all the girls things are in there ? Oh
dear, what a pickle Think of me in
bed, all covered with shawls, muffs, bon
nets and cloaks, and twenty girls out
side the door waiting to get in. If /
had stopped to think should have pan
caked on the spot. As it was l rolled
out among the bonnet-wire and ribbon
in every direction. | had to dress in
the dark-for there was crack in the
door, and the girls viii peek-and the way
| I fumbled around was death on straw
that's. The critical moment came. AZ
ter running my hand all over my clothes
to see that everything was right and
tight, / opened the door, and found my
self right among the women. ooh my
Leghorn = cries one. My dear, winter
velvetn cries another, and they pitched
Iin-they pulled me this way and that,
boxed my ears; and one bright eyed lit
tie pieces Sal, her name was
put her arms right round my neck, and
kissed me right on my lips. Human
nature couldn't stand that, and | gave
as good as she sent. 1t was the first
time / ever got taste, and it was pow
erfnl good. believe could have kissed
that gal from Julius Caesar to Fourth
Of July. Jack said she, we are sorry
to disturb you, wont you, see me homer
Yes says l, / will. | did do it, and
had another smack at the gate, too
| After that, we took kinder turtle. dow
ing after each other, both Of us signing
ike barrel of new cider when we were
away from each other