The weekly Ottumwa courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1857-1872, 1863-11-12
John Billings i'm the Editor
Chair.
his ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

Chair.
HIS ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.
Fred-You Amt obliged to ask gals
mother If yu ma 90 home with her from a
partee; git the gals endorsement. and 60
in; it is proper enuf to ask her to take
yure arm, bu. yu halnt got no rite to put
yure arm around her waste, unless yu meet
a Bear on the.rode, and then yu are bound
to take yure arm away jest as soon as the
Bear gifts safely by.
Whip-You are rite; les live to long
ago; I've known them myself to live one
hundred years, and not half tri. You are
also lite about their being sure footed; I've
known them to kick a man twice in Sec
ond, ten feet oph.
Gertrude Yure inquiry stumps me. The
more think on it, the more can't tell.
As near az ! can rekoleck now, think !
don't kno. Much mite be ced both ways,
and neither wa be rite. Upon the hole, /
rather reckon wud, or j wuldent. jist as i
thought best or otherwise.
Plutark--Yu're mistaken; the Shakers
don't marry. If young Shakers fall in luv
tha are sot to wooding onions, and it kures
them forthwithly. | kant tell yu now how
much it dus kost to jine the Shakers, but i
believe the expenze used to be, including
having yure hare cut and farming how to
danse, about $685..
Sportsman -Yure inquiry is not egzactly
in mi line, but haste to repli, as follers, to-
wit: The rite length to cut oph a dogs
tail haz meyer yet .been fully diskoved, but
il undoubtedly somewhere back of his eers,
provided you git the dogs Consent N. N.
1t amt absolutely necessary the dogs con-
cent should be in writing.
Kate-I think Lord Birun was the author
ov the lines yu speak oy; Twas either him
or twas Capt. Kidd, one or tother. Biron
was dreGful timber at riting potri, SO waz
Kidd, and Birun was the limberest.
! HE WRITES STORY.
| du consider muskeeters
| The moste pesky ov all Gods creeters.
hav finally ketcked it. hav bin ike a
lam, led sudden to the slauter, and had mi
blood sucked out ov me, as though it was
only sweet cider, and belonged tn sumbody
else. am man ov piece, but, low and
behold there aint piece in me but what
iz bit and puckered and tore.
/ When muskeeters EhisBer IN -ysrs eer
/ The devils angels are nov ering near.
I retired last night to rest, at the usual
time, on the left side ov me, and about
feet adjacent waz the side Of the hous, on
the south side ov me, and about feet ad-
Ijacent la mi wife. dropt u sleep as a
snow fake duz on the bussum ov silvery
Lake. CT hav faint idee that this last sen.
| tance, for luvlan ess, can't be beat handy) |
dreamed a good sized hot dream.
| 1t felt like the breath ov . Kandda thissel,
Around mi he'd triing tu whissel.
Suddenly awoke.
The room ~az full ov yells and screams
responsiv. dashed wildly across the room.
lit lite ! harked one ov my most re-
liable harks. Awl wuz stil-stilT az crows
nest in the ded OK winter. l gazed gaze,
az tho | was triing to thred the rong end
ov kambrick neadel. Ava in the distance,
solitara, alone, clos up tn the ceiling, chaw-
ing his cud, sot little grey Gus. dipped
koarse towel into basin ov water and
rung it out. krept up under the little grey
cuss-i tux aim, and fired,
| And hit the spot
4 Where the little grey cuss had sot.
AwI wuz still agin. onlighted the kan
del-and sought mi kcuch.
slept agin, only as the vartuous sleep !
Soonly, alas ! too soonly 81
| KoNKLUDED IN OUR MEX