The Mountaineer. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1859-1861, 1861-03-23
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We'll, you see, me and Sal got along
middlin' well for some time, .tiIl | made IN
my mind to fetch things 10: a he'd, for i
loved her harder aud harder every day.
And | had an idea that she had a sorter
sneaking kindness for me, but how to dew
the thing up right pestefed me prfnl.
got some love books and red how fellers
got down on their niarrow-bones aud
talked liked parrots, and the gals they
would go inter as0rt OF trance, aud then
how they would gently fall into the fell
ler's arms, but somehow that way didn't
suit my notion. Iasked marin how dad
courted her, but she said it had bean so
long that she'd forgot alt afentit. iUnkie
Joe alters says inarni aonc all the egartin
AZ list | made mp my mind to go it blind,
for this tiling was fairly consuming my in.
nerds. So Egoes oser 10 her dibitlyiSs Is and
when 1 got. there j sdt Ike fool, lhhik.
ing how | should begun. Sal she sed
sumthin' was n trublin' lne, and seq she:
Amt yon sick, Peteryp s..
4: Y es--no, says Ii; ..that Is, j amt px-
aetly well, | Thought I'd come over ii To-
night, = seq l. Thatisla mighty putty be-.
ginnin', anyhow, thinks /; so / tried again.
'.Sal, seq ], and about this time / felt
mighty faint and oneaEy =
mWhutN, sez Sal, Ri .s. 4: &. (: vi.
SAL, says | agin. 1. FIJI. ST. \ Nh.
"What9 seq she. ... &. ....: .s 4: I,
IN get to il arter a while al this lick. .
thinks L, :. h, i HE. .5=,s i &
Peter seq she, there's sumthin' d
troublin' you powerful, j no. Its nifty
wrong for You tew keep il from body,
for an innercd sorrer is a consuming FIRE. q
She sed this, she did, the dear sly cree
tur. She noed what was the matter all
the time nifty well, and was just trying
to fish it ont. but i was gone so far.
didn't see the pint. At last i kinder sor:
ter gulped down the lump as was raising
in my throat, and seq IT,, Z, :. -:
"Sal, does You love everybody :. "
well, says she, ''tllar's dad and marin,
and, Counting her fingers GlI the time,
With eyes sorter shut, like Il feller shoot.
ing off gun, and thar's old Pide, (that
were an old COW Of hern, can't think
Of anybody else just now" says she.
Now this war awful fur Teller ded in
luv, so arter while | tries another shute.
Sez L: III : u III. $40. T., 49,.
"Sal, I'm powerful lonesum to hum, and
I sometimes think il / only had putty
little wife to- love and to talk 10, and TO
move and have my bein' with, i should be
tremendous feller.p With that she be-
gan and named all the gals within five
miles of thar, and never wuust cum nigh
namin, Of herself, aud sed I orter get one
Of them. That sorter got my dander up,
and SO hitched my cheer close 10 hern,
and shet my eyes, and trembleusly sed: :
"Sal, you are the very gal I've been
laundering after for a long time. l lly
you oil over, from the sole Of your head
to the foot OF your crown, an' l don't
care who knows it; and if yon say SO,
wen be Joined together in the holy bons
Of matrimony, Q pluribus unun, world
without end SEE /; and felt like I'D
thrown mp an allygatur, ] felt so relieved,
With that she fetched sorter scream,
and she sez, SEE she 'Peterp If. ~.
"What is't Sally?" SEE /. -. =.
"Yes!' SEE she, a hidin' oV her putty
face behind her hands. You may depend
upon it, FELT orful good. ~ :. :.
"Gloryi gloryp SEE l.. II must holler,
Sal, or I'll bust wide open. Hooray for
hooray ! kin jump over a ten rale fence,
/ can do everything that any feller could,
would or orteF do" With that i sorter
sloShed myself down by her aud cliuched
the bargain with a kiss-and such a kiss
talk about yer sugar--talk about yer riler-
lasscs--7talk about your blackberry JAM
you couldn't have gotme TO eomenigh 'eln;
they would all a tasted sour arter that.
Ell Sails daddy hadn't hoIlered out, FITS
time for all 'onest folks to be in bed, !" do
believe I'D staid there all mite. Yer or
ter seed me when / got hum. pulled
dad outer bed and Rugged him. pulled