The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1861-02-07
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Yankee Courtship.

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Well, you see, artcr the "poker"
scrape, me and Sal got along middlin'
we'll for some time, till made up my
mind to fetch things to a he'd, for I
loved her harder and harder every day;
and had an idea that she had sorter
sneaking kindness for me; but how to
dew the thing up right pestered me or
full got some love books and red
how felIcrs got on their marrow bones
and talked like parrots, and the gals
they would 90 inter a sort Of trance, and
then how they would gently fall inter
the feller's arms, but some how that
way didn't suit my notion. / asked
marin how dad courtcd her but she sed
it had been so long ago that she'd for
got all about it. lUncIe Joe says marin
done all the courtin.) At last | made
up my mind to so it blind, for this
thing was fairly consuming my innerds
So goes over to her dadly's, aud when
l got there l sot like a fool, thinking
how l should begin. Sal she scd some.
thin was a troubin' me, and scz she
"Ain't you sick, Peter?"
"Ycs-uo,' scz I; "that is, amt eX-
actIy well. I thought Id come over to.
night, scz l. That's mighty putty be-
ginnin', any how, thinks !; so tried
again. Sal, seq /, and about this time
felt mighty iuinty and Uneasy about
the squizernctum.
"What?' SEE Sal
"Sal, scz / ogain.
"What?' scz she.
"IH get to it arter a while at this
lick, ," thinks I.
Peter, sez she, "therc's somethin a
troublin' you powerful, ! no. Its nifty
wrong for you to keep it from a body
for a innerd sorrOr is a consuming fire.
She said this, she did, the dear, sly cree
ter She noed what was the matter al
the time nifty WELL and was just a tryin
to fish it out; but was gone so far
didn't see the pint. At last l kinder
sorter .gulped down the lump as was
raising in my throat, and SEE L-"Sal
docs you Inv everybody|
"Wcl, sez she, "thar's dad and marin
and (coGntin' her fingers all the time
with her eyes sorter shut, like a felle
shooting off a gum thar's old Pide (tha
were an old COW Of hcrn) l cant thinl
Of anything else jist now" scz She
Now this wur orful for feller in luv, 81
arter a while tries another shute. Sc
| l., "Sul, I'm powerful lonesome to hum
and 1 sometimes think if l only had {
putty wife to love and to talk to, and {,
move and have my bein' with, L shoult
be a tremendous feller."
With that she began and named owe
all the gals within FIVE miles Of thar
and never wunst cum a nigh namin OF
herself and sed l orter get one of them
That sorter got my dander up, and so
hitched my cheer up close to hern an
shet my eyes, and tremulously sed-
"Sal you arc the very gal I've beel
hankering after for a long time. l la
YOU all over, from the sole Of your hea
to the foot of your crown, an l don
care who knows it; an if you say Sc
well be iinod together in the holy bond
of matrimony, pluribus unum, worl
without end, sez I; aRd l felt like L
throwed up an nllygatur, 1 felt so re
lieved. With that she fetched a sorte
scream, and arter while she sez, Sc
sho-"Peter'
"What is't, SalIy?" sez I.
"Yos, sez she, hidin of her purt
face behind her hands You may dc
pend upon it felt orful good
"GloryI gloryl" SEE l, "I must hol
Ter, Sal or tn bust wide open, lloora
for hooroyl l can jump over ton-ra
fence, can do everything that an
feller could, would or orter do"
With that 1 sortor sloshod mysel
down by her, and clinched the bargai
with kiss-and such a kiss!-tal
about yer sugar-talk about yer morla'
ses talk about yer black berry iam-yo
couldn't have got INC to come nigh 'en
they would all q tasted sour arter tina
Ef Sails daddy hadn't hollored out il
time for all 'onest folks to be in bee
[ do believe I'd stoid there all nite.-
Yer ottor seed me when / got hum.
pulled dad out Of bed and huggod hin
, / pulled marin out Of bed and hugge
her pulled ant Jane out Of bed an