Holmes County farmer. [volume] (Millersburg, Ohio) 1857-1926, 1865-03-02
COurting In Iowa.


The following circumstance happened in
Cedar county, Iowa.
A certain young man being out on court
ing expeditions, came late on Sunday eve
nlng, and in order to keep his secret from
his young acquaintances determined TO be
at home bright and early on Monday morn
ing. Mounted on his horse dressed in his
line white summer pants, and other fixins
in proportion, he arrives at the residence of
heenamorata, whore he was kindly received,
and his horse properly cared ior--being
turned into the pasture for the night. The
night passed away, and three O'Clock in the
morning arrived. Three clock was the
time Tor him to depart, so that he might ar.
rive at home before his comrades would be
stirring. He sailed forth to the pasture TO
catch his horse but there was a difficulty
the grass was high and loaded with dew.
To venture in with white pants would rather
take the starch out of them and lead TO his
detection. 1t would not do to go in with
his white unmentionables, so he quickly
made his resolve He carefully disrobed
himself of his whites, and placed them in
safety on the fence, while he gave chase with
unscreened pedals through the wet grass
after the horse.
Returning to the fence where he had safe
ly suspended his lily white unmentionables:
o! horrible dtctu! what a sight met his
eyes. The field into which his horse had
been turned was not only a horse pasture,
but calf pasture too, and the naughty
calves, attracted by the white flag on the
| fence, had betaken themselves to it, and,
calf like, had eaten them up only a few
well chewed fragments of this once valuable
article of the wardrobe now reinained-only
few shreds-just sufficient to indicate what
they had once been. What a pickle this
was for nice young man to be in.
1t was now daylight, and the farmers were
up, and our hero far from home, with no
covering or travelling apparatus. 1t would
not do to go back to the house of his lady
love, neither could he go to town in that
plight. There was only one resource left to
him, that was to secrete himself in the
bushes until the next night, and then get
home under cover Of the darkness.
Safely had he remained under the protec-
ton of the bushes for some time and it
may be imagined his feelings toward the calf
kind were not of the most friendly character;
but ere long his secluson was destined to be
intruded upon. BY and by the boys who
had been out to feed the calvesretufned with
remnants of the identical white garment
which adorned tha lower limbs of their late
visitor
They were mangled and torn to shreds
An inquest was Immediately held over them.
Some awful fate had befalen the young man.
The neighbors were summoned to search for
the mangled corpse, and the posse, with all
speed set out with dogs and arms. The
pasture was thoroughly secured, and then
the adjacent thickets, when 10 our hero was
driven from his lair by the keen scent of the
dogs safe, alive and well, minus the linen.
An explanation then ensued at the ex-
pense of our hero, but he was successful in
the end and married the lady, and is now
living comfortably in one Of the tlourishing
little towns of Iowa.