The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1858-04-22
How / Came 70 be Married.

Ell SiS"' CVA0ei pOOt JdShHi oosCuuUiuS sui
I'd buttons, whist and dominocs. Shadow
b. present hoop skirts, bandboxes, ribbon
$, gaiters, long stockings, juvenile dresse
tin trumpets, kites. willow chairs, bib
pap, sugar teats, paregoric, hive-syrul
castor oil, Godfreys cordial, soothing syl
IN up, rhubard, sena, salts, squils and doc
tor bills. Shadows future-more min
pound babies. more hive syrup, &c. L
p just tell you how | got caught. l was al
g ways the darndcst, most tea custard bash
full fellow you ever did see; it was kinde
in my line to be taken with the shake
every time saw a pretty gal approach
ing me, and I'd cross the street any time
rather than face one. 'Twasnt becaus
didn't like the critters, for if l was be
hind fence looking through not hol
couldn't look at one long enough. Well
my sister Lib gave party one night
: and | stayed away from home because
was too ba>hful to face the music.
hung around the house whistling Old
Dan Tucker, dancing to keep my fee
warm, watching the heads bobbing up
aud down behind the window curtains
and wishing the laundering party would
break up SO could get to my room. |
smoked up bunch of cigars, and as ii
vas getting late and mighty uncomforta.
ble, | concluded to shin up the door post
Just said than done-and soou found my
/. self snug in bed. Now says |, 'let her
rip! Dance till your wind gives out!'-
And cuddling under quilts. Morpheus
grabbed me. l was dreaming cf soft
she'll crabs and stewed triYe, aud was
having a good time, when somebody
knocked at the door and walked me up
Rap again. laid low. Rap, rap.
rap Then | heard whispering aud
| knew there was whole raft of girls
outside. Rap, rap!' Then Lib sings out,
Jack, are you in there!' Yes says l.
Then came a roar of laughter. Let u.
in Gays she. Il won't says |, cant you
let fellow alone!" Are you in bed,'
says she. i am says |. Then came
another laugh. By thunder, began to
get riled. Get out you petticOated scare
crows cried, cant you get beau
without hauling fellow out of bed, |
SoRt go home with you-I won't-so
you may clear out And throwing a
loot at the door l felt better. But pres
emily, oh! mortal buttons, heard still
small voice. very much like sister Lbs
aud it said: Jack you'll have to get up
for all the girls things are in there' Oh,
Lord, what pickle. Think of me in
bed all covered with sbawls. nufs, bon
nets and cloaks, and twenty girls outside
the door waiting to get in. III had stop
ped to thuk | should have papcaked on
the spot. As it was, | rolled cut among
the tonpet-wire and ribbons in hurry |
Smash went the millinery in every di |
ree,ion bad to dress in the dark-for
there was crack in the door, and the /
girls Will Peep-and the way | fumbled /
about was death On straw hats The
critical moment came, opended the
door, and found myself right among the
womcn. oh, my Leghorn.' cries one,
my dear darling winter velvet, cries an
other; aud they pitched in-they pulled
Ie this way aud that, boxed my ears,
and one bright-eyed little piece Sal
her uamc was-put her arms right round
ny neck and kissed me smack on the
ips. Human nature couldn't stand that,
md give her as good as she sent. 1t
Eas the first tiue ever got taste, and
t was powerful good. l believe could
rave kissed that gal from julius Cesar
o Fourth of July. jack said she, I'VE
ire sorry to disturb you, but won't you
zee me homer Yes said |, Il will l
lid do it, aud bad another smack at the
,ate too. After that we took kind of
urtle-doving after each other, both of Us
ighiDg like barrel of new cider when
se were away from each other.
Twas at the close of a glorious sum
ner day-the sun was setting behind
listaDt hog Pcu-thc chickens were 60
ng to roost-the bull frogs were com.
ucncing their evening songs-thc polly
rogs, iu their native mud puddles, were
repairing themselves for the shades OF
tight-and Sal aud myself sat upon
og, listening to the music of nature, such
IS trec-toads, ROSTERS and grunting pigs,
nd now and then the mellow music of a
IiStant jackass was waited to our ears by I.
be gentle zeypbers that sighed among the :
Opllen stalks, and came heavily laden ]
Eith the delicious odor Of ben roo.ts and
ig styes. The last lingering rays Of the
citing SUP, glancing from the brass but
ons OF solitary horseman, shone thro'
knot hole in the hog pen full in Sails
ace, dying her hair with an orange peel
ue, and showing off my thread bare coat
D bad advantageous Of my arms was !
round SAILS waist, my hand resting on |
be small of her back-she was toying J
18th my auburn curls of jet. black hue
be was almost gone and | was ditto
he looked like a grasshopper dying with
be hiccups, and | felt like a mud-turtlc
hoked with cod fish ball.
SAL says l, in voice as musical as /,
he DOtes of dying man, will you have
,ep She turned her eyes heavenward, !.
lasped me by the hand, had an attack
f fhe heaves and hl;ad sta00ars and