East Saginaw courier. (East Saginaw, Mich.) 1859-18??, 1861-02-28
COURTING.

ing experience, and there are few un-
married folks of either sex who do not
take naturally to ust that sty.e of mar
rative. Everybody expects to be mar
ried at one time or another, and conse-
quently everybody is anxious to know
how everybody else has crossed the mar
ried Rpbicon, and managed the ticklish
business. 81. w. NJ" explains to us how
he came to be married:
"It may be funny, but I've done it /;
I've got rib and baby. Shadows
departed-oyster stews, brandy cock
tails, cigar boxes, boot jack, absconding
shirt buttons, whist and dominoes. Shad-
ows present-hoop skirts, band boxes,
ribbons, CATERS, long-stockings, juvenile
dresses, tin trumpets, little willow chair,
cradles, bits, pap, sugar teats, paregoric,
hive erup, castor oil, Godfrey's cordial,
soothing syrup, rhubarb, senna, salts,
squills, and doctors bills. Shadows fu.
ture-morc 9-pound babies, more hive
syrup, &C.. SC.
"Ill just tell you how l got caught. /
was always the darndest, most tea-cus-
tard, bashful fellow you ever did see :; it
was kinder in my line to bo taken with
the shakes every tune | saw a pretty
gal approaching me, and I'd cross the
street any time rather than face one
'twason't because | didn't like the critters
for was | behind fence looking through
a knot-hole | could not look at one long
enough. Well, my sister Lib gave a
party one night, and L staid away from
home, because l was too bashful to face
the music. hung round the house,
whstling "Old Dan Tucker" dancing to
keep my feet warm, watching the heads
bobbing up and down behind the window
curtains, and wishing the laundering
party would break up so | could get to
my room. l smoked up bunch of
cigars, and as it was getting late and
mighty uncomfortable, / concluded to
climb upon the door post. No sooner
said than done, soon found myself snug
in bed. 'Now,' said to myself, 1ct her
rip--dance till your wind gives out; and
cudling under the quilts, Morpheus grab
bed nc. | was dreamed of soft shelled
crabs and stewed tripc, and was having
a good time, when somebody raped at
nv door and walked mo up. Rap again
Il laid low. Rap, rap, rap Then
heard a Whispering and / knew there
was whole raft of girls outside. Rap,
rap, then Lib sings OUT"
slack, are you in there?'
eyes, says /, and then camo a roar of
laughter
I.et us in, says She"
81 wont, says |, cant You lot fellow
alone:n
care you abed?"
al am
"Get up.'
81 won't"
"Then came another laugh. BY thun-
der, began to get riled. Get out, you
pctticoated scarecrows,' I cried, cant
you get beau without hauling fellow
ont Of bed? | won't 90 home with you.
! 'cOn't--so you may clear out; and send
ing boot at the door, | felt better, but
presently, oh, mortal buttons! L heard
a still small voice, very much like sister
Lbs, and it wS:"
"Jack, you'll. have to get up, for all
the girls things are in there"
ooh, what pickle Think of me, all
covered over with shawls, mulfI, bonnets
and cloaks, and twenty girls outside
wanting to get inl If | hal stopped to
think, should have packed on the spot,
as it was, | rolled out among tho bonnet
wire and ribbons in hurry. Smash.
went the millinery in all directions. L
had to dress in the darl--for there was
crack in the door, and girls will peep
and the way jumped about was death
on straw hats. The critical moment
came. After running my hands all over
my clothes to see that every thing was
all right and tight, opened the door and
found myself right among the women"
go, my leghornr cries one"
"My dear winter vevetn cries another,
and they pitched in--they pulled mo this
way and that, boxed my ears, and one
bright-eyed little piece--Sal---, her
name was, but her arms around my neck,
and kissed me right on my lips. Human
nature couldn't stand that, and | gave
her as good as she sent. 1t was the first
time | ever got taste, and it was pow
crful good. | believe | could have kiss
Dd that girl from julius Caesar to Fourth
Of July"
"Jack, says she, I'VE arc sorry to dis
turb you, but won't you see mo homer"
ayes, | will, and did do it, and
another smack at tho gate, too. After
that, we took kinder turtlo.doveing af-
ter each other, both Of us signing like a
barrel Of new cider when we wero away
from each other
"Twas at the close Of a glorious sum-
mer day-the sun was fast setting behind
a distant hogpen-thc chickens were 60
ing to roost--the bull-frogs were com
their evening songs-tho polly
wogs in their native puddles were pre-
pairing themselves for the shades of the
Sal and myself sat upon an
black log listening 10 the
music of nature, such as trec-toads rooster
and grunting pigs, and now and then the
mellow music of distant iackass was
waited to our ears by the gentle zephyrs
that sighed along the mullen stalks, and
came heavily laden with the delicious
odor of hen roosts and pig sites. The