The prairie news. [volume] (Okolona, Miss.) 1851-1875, 1858-09-09
How Sal an me got Marrid.
by PETER SPoRUM, ESQ.

| BY PETER sPoRUM, ESQ.
Well, at last the mite cum, that Orful
mite as was to fetch me jntoo new state
NV bein, an it foun me in a dredful fix,
fust l felt good, then bad, fust proud, and
skeered like FIVE hundred-I went over
the mornin afore the eventful mite to see
Sal, an found her a takin it nifty easy;
ratherin hurry fur mite too cum l thought,
as fur me | was in hurry wun mint, an
the next, felt like I'd rather little it had
bin put off.
After supper I washed, then l put on
the cleanest sort NV a shirt that Aunt
Jane had fixed up nifty nice and smooth,
then I drawed about as nice set NV
Sundy Harness as you ever seed, an ar
ter nam and Aunt Jane had primped up
an fixed up my har an creevat, was
reddy, so off / puts to Sails dads an
reckin / dun about as much thinkin
goin over thar as was ever dun by emmy
uther feller in the same time. At last !
arriy. an was marched in too whar Sal
was-she sorter blushed, and then sot
her head on one side an looked about as
sweet as emmy -four you ever seed.
thought she was about as putty creetur
| ever lade my ise on.
Direckly Sails sister ses, the passons
cum an in we marched whar thar was
about fifty foxes, an | felt nifty bad an
nifty skeered, but tride my level best to
keep stiff upper lip. Well we TUX our
places, Sal hangin on too my arm an
me a lookin at the fore. Then the Pas
son ses he: "Du take the woman" The
mite sed yung LADY, as you hold by the
hand to be you're lawful wife too help her
and too keep her, to luv her an to nus her,
ontil deth dus yu part" "I'll doc my
best ses I, (standin fust on wun leg an
tother, fur all the world like a turkey on
a hot rock)--
Then he looked at Sal ses he,
"Du VII take this man" Qike he didn't
no my naim) "as you hold by the hand,
to be yore lawful husband, too nus him
an too help him, an too onner an obay
him, tell deth dus yu part"
"Yes sir" ses Sal--Then ses ne, l
pronouce you both man an wife, salute
YER BRIDE With that clinched Sal, an
4 rive her about as harty buss as you
ever heerd then the fellers all cum around
an kissed Sal Mke blazes, you could see
that it dun EN- good, frum the way they
pitcbed in-I thought Sal orter stopped
4 It but she never sed word; as fur nae, |
kissed right an left, cum nifty nesr a
kissin nigger gal as was fetcheen in
sum water, when every boldly begins to
laffin an feel nifty mean.
| AFTER a while the kissin an foolin was
all over, an we all piched in too the
goodies, an ef ever | saw sweetins fly, i
was then, | ct tell like too a popped, al
eyry boldly else dun thar best.
About ten o'clock they all left an sum
of the bows ses, "Peter won't you gt
home with us" an all sech things, dev
lin NV me tell / hardly noed what to doc
or whar to 90. Arter they all left, thai
: | sot bi myself tell q nigger gal Gums tt
] the door an ses,
' "Mass Peter, miss Sails watin fo
! yon."
"Whar is she r. ses |.
t "she's in her room " ses She
j "Well, tell her to come down" ses ]
"I'm reddy to go whar she wants.
"But" ses she's in bed"
9 "Oh yes ses l, l forgot, but ses |
! " its erly yet, amt it"
She seed was skeered, an begin
E snisgerin, tell I picked up my hat, 81
j follered her, tell she cum to q dore; al
5 ses "That's yore ROOM" My har
: jumped up to my throat, as nocked a
f the dore, but nobody answered, ! nocke'
5 agin an then gittin desprit, | opene
it, an iee-whilkins, the cold chills run owe
n me tell felt like somebody was pulli
d a cedar bush up an down my back
: Thar was Sal fast asleep, Tor pretendl
Q like, as I found out) an the candle I
I shinin as lite as day. -,
/ stood sum time lookin nifty foollsl
IS an then put my hat on cheer-next
8 draws my cote off; it was nifty hard to
o cit oif--then / shed my jacket an To
4. balance of my harness, tell | cum to m
\ boots, them was the wuns, | pulled