The Ashland union. [volume] (Ashland, Ashland County, Ohio) 1854-1868, 1859-09-21
HOW I coURTED SAL.

s5 1he way me and Sal got along was only mid
din well for sum time, till made up my mind
to fetchthings to he'd, fur luved her harder
and harder every day, and had an idea that
she had sorter sneaking kindnessfor me; but
how to do the thing up rite pestered me orfuls
II got some luv books, and red how the fell
lers got down on their marrer- bones and talked
like fules, and how the gals they wud go inter
sorter trance, and then how they wud gently
fall inter the .fellers arms, but sumhow or
nuther, that way didn'tssute my notion. I ak
ed man how dad corted her, but she said it
had been SO long, that she forgot all about it.
(Uncle Joe alters says mann dun all the cortin)
At last I made up my mind to go it blind, fur
this-thing was fairly eonsomin my innards;
SO [ goes over to her daddy's CHATS SAILS and
when [ got there, | set like "a fool thinking
how to begin Sal said sumthing was troublin
of me, and ses: rAaatle tsa a1 So
Ses she eAin't you sick, Peter?'
She said this mighty soft like. asfd ab
E 'Yes-no-ses / that isl amt adzactly
well-I thought I'd come over to-nite, ses T.
That's nifty putty beginning, any how,
thinks I, so tried again. - hfFsi
SAL says L, and by this time felt nifty
faint and uneasy like about the squizerinctum.
What says Sal.
SAL says | again.
What says she.
L.
Peter says she there's sumthing troublin
you powerful, / no, It's nifty rong for you to
keep it from a body, fur innard sorrer is
consumin fire.
She said this, she did, the dear sly critter--.
she noed what was the matter all the time nifty
well, and was just trying to fish it out, but
was so far gone, I diden't see the pint At
last sorter gulphed down the lump as was a
risen in my throat and ses-- ail
Ses I, SAL does you luv emmy body p
sWell,' says she, thar's dad and mann, and
Ca countin on her fingers all the time, with her
Use sorter shot like a feller shootin ov gun)
and that's old Pide, (that war old COW ov
her'n) an [ can't think NV eney body else jis
now, ses she.- 5a 81 ,s sod sf5 4
y Now, this wus orfnl for feller dcd in love,
so arter a while l tries another shute..
hs Ses /, sSal, I'm powerful lonesum at home,
an I sumtimes think eff only had a wife to
luv and talk to an to move an have my being
with, L would be a tremendous Teller. 5ast sd
d With that she begins and names over all the
gals in five miles of thar, and never wunst
comes nigh namin NV herself and said Porter
git wun of them This sorter got my dander
up so hitched my cheer up closer to her'n
and shet my Use an sed-a,-f s5st.-,as -
''Sal, you are the very gal I've been hanker-
in arter fur a long time. [ love you all over
from the sole of your head to the foot of your
crown, and don't care who noes it, and efyou
say so, we'll be jined on together in the holy
bons of matrimony, epluribus unum world with
out end, amcn,' ses I and felt like I'd
thrown up an alligator, felt relieved With
that she fetched Il sortcr scream, and arter a
while says - s7s,fa staI. i,s azaz gIge3slisa
= Ses she, f"Peter.,: -rz ,.af.,..-e-.sf "a I
b ".What, Sally" says I.
- Yes scs she, hiden up her putty face be-
l. Il r
good la 5aE aosgfitsso9 % Sc ssarzsseb A
Glory, glory, says l. Unjust holler Sal, OF
III bust wide open. Hoorah for hooray-I
kin jump over a ten rale fence, l kin but a
bull off the bridge, and kin do any and every
thing that any other fcller ever could, would,
should, or orter do. With that sorter slosh-
ed myself down by her, and clintched the bar
grin with kiss,-and sich a kiss-talk about
yore .sugar-talk about yer meriasses--talk
about yore blackberry jam-you couldn't got
me to cum nigh, they wud all a tasted sour
arter that SD .Gs-5ei,.-t,.s,s
Oh, these wimmin how good and how bad,
how high and how low they make feller feel;
eff Sals daddy hadn't hollered out it was time
for all honest folks to be in bed, 1 do believe
I'd staid all night. You orter seed me when
1 got hum. pulled nam outer bed and hug
ged her. I pulled aunt Jane outer bed and
huggcd her. I roard l snortcd, I cavored, I
laffed and hollered. / erode like a rooster, /
dansed about and cut up more capers than
you ever heard tell on, till dad thought I was
crazy, and got rope to tt me with.
Dad, ses 1, I'm gwin to be married.
sMarriedp bawled dad. '4' 7N tl
Married. squeaked aunt Jane.
'Yes, married, ses I married all over mar
rid to be shore; married like flash; jined in
wedlock; hooked on for better or for wusser,
for life or for, death, to Sal, am that very
thing; me, Peter Sporun, Esq.
With that [ ups and tells EN- all about it,
from Alpher to Omeger, They wus all mitile
pleased, and nifty willin an [ went tn bed as
proud young rooster with his first spurs.
Oh, Jehosophat! but didn't feel good, and
kept gittin that way Unite did't sleep
wink till L felt my cup of happiness tuil pressed
and packed down, and runnin over. Ill tell
you sum tfIese deys, nv the wecdln an al
NV that, and how dun, and how Sal she dun,
an how all dun, and so fourth and so on,