The Cass County Republican. [volume] (Dowagiac, Mich.) 18??-1880, 1859-03-31

BY PETER sspeRuM. ESQ.

BY PETER ssPeRUM, ESQ.
swell, you see arter the poker
serape, me and Sal got along only
midlin well, for sum time, till made
up my mind to fetch things to he'd,
fur | loved her harder and harder every
day, an had an idea that she had
sneakin kindness fur me, but how to
do the thing up right pestured me
orful. | got some love books, and red
how some fellers got down on thar
marrerbones an talked like folks, an
how the gals would gently fall into the
feller's arms, but sum how or other,
that way didn't suite my notion. 1
axed mann how dad courted her, but
she scd it had bin so long that she'd
furgot all about it. Uncle 10 alters
sed marin dun all the cortin.) AT last
/ made up my mind to go it blind, for
this thing was fairly consuming my
vitals, SO goes to her dady's Chats
Sal's) and when got there, sot like
fool, thinking how to begin. Sal sed
surnthin was troublin of me an seq,
"Sez she, Amt you sick Peter?''
'She sed this mighty soft like"
sYes-no," says /, shat isl amt
egzactly WELL | thought I'd come over
to-nite,t says l."
''That's purity beginnin any how"
thinks /, so l tried it again
SAL seq |, and by this time 1 felt
nifty Uneasy like.
"Whot?" seq Sal.
''Sal," seq l agin.
"Whot?" seq she.
s'I'll git tn it arter while," thinks T..
ssPeter," says she; sthar's somethin
trublin You powerful, / know; it's
wrong for for you to keep it from
body, fur innard sorrer is consumin fire. y
|'She sed this, she did, the deer sly
'creter; she know'd what was the matter
all the time, an was just tryin to fish
it out, but | was so fur gone / didn't
see the pint" AT last / sorter gulped
down the lump as was risin in my
throat, and sez-
''Sez |, Sal, do you luv emmy body?r
"Well," sezshe, ''thr's dad-an-rnam
AN (acountin on her fingers all the
time, with her eyes sorter shet like
inller shootin off gum an thr's old
Pide"-(that wer an old COW of hern,)
IAN ] can't think of emmy body else
just now, seq she."
Now this wur Orful fur Teller ded
in luv, so after awhile / tries another
siute."
''Sez I, Sal, I'm powerfully lonesome
at home, an / sumtimes think eff | only
had nice purity wife to luv and talk
too, an to have my being with, would
be tremendous feller."
''With that she begins and names
over all the gals in five miles NV
there, an never wunst come night
namin NV herself, an sed | orter git
wun NV them" This sorter got my
dander up, SO / hiched my cheer up
close to hern, and shet my Use and said
"Sal, WI are the gal I've been a
hankeIin arter fur long time, | luv
yu, and / don't care who knows it; and
if you say so, we'll be jined together
in the holy bonds Of matrimoney, e
pluribus unum, seq /; and | felt so re-
lived" With that she fetched sorter
screen, and arter awhile seq
s'Sez she, Peter
"Whot, Sally" seq L..
eyes, seq she, a hiding of her purity
face between her hands," You may
depend upon it, felt good.
''Giory," seq |. II must boiler, Sal.
Hooray for hooray-I kin jump over
ten rail tense; | kin do emmy and every
thing that emmy other Teller ever could,
would, should or orter do"
''With that | sorter sloshed myself
down by her, and sealed the bargain
with a kiss, and such kiss-talk about
your sugar, talk about your merlasis,
talk about your blackbury jam, they
would all tasted sour arter that"
sob, tires wimmin, how good and
how bad, how high and how low they
kin make a fcller feel" Eff SaPs daddy
hadn't hoIlered out, ''it war time fur all
honest folks to be in bed" | do be-
lieve I'd staid thar all night. You
orter seed me when / got home. |
roard, / LATED, / hollered, l erode like
rooster, / cut up more capers that
you ever heern tell on, till dad thot /
warcrazy, angot peforto tie me with.
"Dad," SEE /, I'm goin to be marrid."
"Marridr' bawled dad.
"Marrid.' squalled mann.
"Marrid.n squeaked aunt Jane.
eyes marrid," seq |. "Marrid to be
sure-married like flash-iined in
wedlock-hooked on for wusser or for
better, fur life or death, to Sal, am
that very thing-me, Peter Spornm."
with that l ups and tells them all
about it from After to Omeger.. They
was mighty pleased and willin; and |
went to bed as proud as young rooster
with his first spurs. 1 did not sleep a
wink; but kept rolen about, and a
thinker, till felt my cup of happiness
was chuck full, prest down, and runnin
over. TIL tell you sum of these days
about the weddin.''