Pomeroy weekly telegraph. [volume] (Pomeroy, Meigs County, Ohio) 1860-1866, 1860-02-07
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COURTSHIPfa a AND .NIARRIAGE OF
-. f..s.-,.f JOSHUA WHEAT ..,3 I.fs.Y

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Did you ever see a bashful man, read
Ell? If you have, you have seen one of
the most awkwsrI, ungainly! creatures
among the human. bipeds- Now there
may be, something very attractive and
interesting in the shrinking timidity of
-ablushing girl though l confess have
my doubts in regard to it; but bashful
man, who ever .pities him? Though
despised by one. sex, and laughed, at by
the other, and, always doing what he
never oughttohavedone, and saying what
he never intended to say, he is one ofthe
most pitiable objects in existence. "a ,
II, be sure in these days, of brass and
assurance, when everybody thinks him
self as good as his neighbor, and great
deal better, they are very rare. But
still they are to be met with occasionally,
although they are quickly disappearing,
and probablysih ii few years there will
be no trace of them left. ssefa ,-ai.t'si /.
My friend Joshua Wheat was one of
this unfortunate class, Of pepole. / say
he was, for he has improved wonderfully
of late years But | will not anticipate
No one could, have. seen Joshua enter
"a room where there. Was company, es-
pecialy ladies, without being aware of
this popularity of his. He generally
either blundered along, looking red or
foolish Or shot hurriedly in, with a
white, scared face, hiding himself, as
soon as possible, from observation behind
"a door, or in a corner. IF there was a
chair or stool anywhere in the room
which was very apt to- be the case, he
generally managed to, stumble over it,
which was not at all calculated to add to
= the grace Of his entrance IF a pretty
girl spoke, to him, he, stammered, and
turned all sorts of colors, looking as
frightened and, ashamed as if he had
been convicted of sheep stealing. map.
Poor Joshua there certainly neve,
was man who had higher opinion ot
the better part ofcreation, or more capa
BILE of approaching the blessings of mat
rimony; yet he had reached the age O
twenty eight without being one steI
nearer realizing them than he was eigh
years before. He had five brothers, bu
xhough none of them had half his goot
looks Or. sense, they possessed what h
did not plenty of assurance and tao
of showing all theyadid know, and wer'
all married and happily settled in life
@ while he remained 'aaforlorn, disconso
= late bachelor. 'o'f'i" ,7eaii''2 70 80 ''"i'@.
It was not from the want Of means t.
support a wife, for he had plenty of thi
world s goods, a well stocked farm, a mic
new house, besides money in the bank
1t certainly. was not for want of girls, .fo
there were scores of them in the tow
where he lived, of all sorts and sizes
black-eyed, blue-eyed and gray-eyed, ant
eyes of no color at all. No, Jeshu
Wheat remained unmarried merely be
causeherhad not the, moral courage t.
look any one Of the girls in the face AM
say, II love you viii you marry me?
These words are very simple, and t
- the uninitiateda are very easily. spoken
Ieyet l have known many a mans ceurag
fail hin at the thought of saving then
who would have ridden into the front. g
> the fereest and hottest battle without tn
shadoWgoI1earsa .Jsa II s3a,, *