The North-Carolinian., 1858-01-23
NORTH CAROLINIAN.
E1 1lETTEJILLE. n. c.. ).
COURTING IN IOWA. :.

The following circumstances happened in
Cedar Co, Iowa :
| certain young man being out on a court
hs expedition came late on Sunday evening
ana In order to keep his secret from his Young
acquaintanees, determined to be at home bright
anu early on Monday morning Mounted on
his horse, dressed in his fine white summer
pants, and other fxins in proportion, he arrives
i at the residence of his inamorata where he was
tkines; Hsceisei, am; his borse, pret,crls taken
care OF, being turned into the pasture for the
night The night passed away, and three
O'Clock i'll the morning arrived Three O'Clock
was the time for him to depart, so that he
might arrive at home before his comrades were
string. He sailed forth to the pasture to
catch his horse: but here was lficuIty-
grass high and loaded with dew To venture
in with white pantaloons on would rather take
out the starch and lead to his detection. It
would not do to go in with his white unmen-
tonabcs, 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 chace with unscrened
pedals through the wet grass after the horse
hethfhng TO the fence where he had safely
suspended his lilly white unmentionables @!
f70ffso1e D1cf~! what sight met his ewes
he held into which his horse had been turned
vas not only "horse pasture, but "calf
pasture" too, and the naughty calves attracted
~ the white flag the fence, had betaken i
themselves to It, and caiflike, had eaten them
p; only few we'll chewed fragments of this
nee valuable article of the wardrobe now re-
a few shreds-just sufficient to
Indicate what they once had been! What !,
'ckie this was for nice young man to be in I
1t was now near daylight, and the farmers t
Iere up and about, and our hero far from home. l
nth no covering for his ''travelng apparatus q
1t would not do to go back to the house of :
is lady love, neither could he go to town in y
hat plight. There was one resource left him G
nd that was to secrete himself in the bushes '
ntil the next night and then get home under :!
over Of the darkness ),
SAFE h'd' ne remained under the protection Il
Tue pushes Tor some time, and it may be t.
a5'hed that his feelings towards the calf kind L
ere not the most friendly character; but ere
ng, his seclusioa was destined to be intruded r,
'on. BY and by the boys, who had been ont re-
iced the calves, returned with the remnants S.
the identical white garment which adorned II
e lower limbs of their late visitor. They VI VI
ere manged and torn to shreds An nanest an
is immediately held over them. Some awful fv
te had befallen the unfortunate young man. be
he neighbors summoned to search for tn
mangled corpse, and the posse with all
eed set out with dogs aud arms The pasture
Is thoroughly searched and then the adjacent L,
lcket, when 10 our hero was driven ont ia
I'm his lair by the keen scent of the dogs all
[e-ailve and well, minus the linen
An explanation then ensued at the exnense
our hero but he was successful in the end
d married the lady, and is now living com
table in one Of the fourishing little towns Of
wa.