The Democratic advocate., 1866-05-03
HOW | C0URTED SAL.

HOW | C0URTED SAL.
Well You see nrtcr the poker
scrapc, ,nc aud Sal got along middlin
well for som time, till made up my
mind to bring things to u he'd, for |
loved her harder and harder every dag
aud had an idea that she had sor-
ter sucakiug kindness for me, but how
TO do the things up rite, pestcred me
orful ! got some luy books aud red
how the fcllcrs got down on their mar.
rcr bones, aud talked like pareis, aud
the gals would 50 into a surtor tranco,
and then how they would gcntly fall
into the fellar's arms. but sum how or
other that way didn't suit my notion --
nxcd marm how dad coricd her, but
she sed that il had been so long tha,
she'd forgot al abut it, tIuclc Joe
alters says marm done M the coTtcn.J
Al Last ! made np mind Cor 10 20 it
blind for this thing sas fairly cousu-
min ms innerjs. go goes over 20 her
daddy's sud when ! got there ! rot
Ike fool thiukin how to begin. Sal
sod somc,hu ~as troablin nc. and scs
She:
Amt you sick. Pcler2"
"Ye-no, scz /, "ihat Is, amt
exactly wdl ! thought I'd come over
tonight scz !.
That's a mighty patty bcgiuniu, any.
how thinks / a. ! tried again.
"Sal scz /, and about this time |
felt mighty fainty aud oncasy like about
the squizrriutum,
WIN, p SCI Sal
sal " scE | again.
What ,' s.z she
IN got to 10 artcr awhile at this
'crrliek thinks l.
Peter. scz she, .thcrc's somcthin q
truhIiu you powerful. noi it's NIFTY
rone for you to keep it from a body
for an inuegd sorrow is consuniu
fire"
She scd this, she did, the dear, sly
little crcctyr-shc u6rd wot was tho
maiior an the time nifty we'll aud was
Just tryin 90 Gsh il ont bat | was 80 fur
gou did not see the pint At last !
kinder sorter gulpcd down the lump
that was risiu ia my throat, and sc1 !:
Sal duz you luv emmy body p
"Wcll, scz she, there's old dad and
marin. aud icountin on her fingers al
the time with her eyes sorter shut,
like a tcllar shootin Of gum there's
old pidc, (that were an old cow Of
hcru, | cant think Of emmy body else
jist now, seq she.
Now, this wur very orfu for fcllar
ded in luy so artcr a whilo tries an
other shute
Sez !
"Sal, I'm powerful loncsum at hum,
and | sunftimes think if | only had q
nice putty wife to luy and talk tu and
TO hey my being with, should be a
tremendous ielar"
With that she begins aud named over
all the gals ia FIVE miles Of thar, aud
never wuust cum a nigh namn herself,
aud scd | ortcr git Que Of them, This
sortcr got my dander up, so | hitched
my cheer up close TO bern, aud shet my
eyes, and trcmulously Sod
Sal, you are the very gal I've been
a hankeriu arter for long time ] luy
you all over from the sole Of your foot,
and | don't keer who nose il; cf you
say so, wei be jined together in the
holy bons Of materimony, plurcbus
unum, wurld without end, amen, sez 1;
aud | felt like I'd throw'd up an al
lygatur, felt so rclcaycd With this
she fetched sorter short scream, aud
arter little while longer scz She
Peter"
"What, Sally 2" sez l.
"Yes !" sez She, hidin NV her put
ty face behind her hands. You may
depend on it felt orful good
"Glory; glory " sez | Il must
boiler, Sal, or III burst wide OPEN
lIooFAy for hooray ! kin jump over a
ten rale fcns. / can butt bull off the
bridge, and kin do. do.eyerythingthat emmy
other fellar kin, would, should or orter
do"
With that, / sorter slashed myself
rite down by her, and clinched the bar
gain with kiss, and sich kiss-talk
about your shugar---talk about your
merlasis-talk about your old black er-
T'y jam-you couldn't hev got me to
cum nigh them--they would hey all a
tasted sower arter that
0, these wimmin, how good and how
bad, and how high, and how low they
make fellar feal eff SAILS daddy hadn't
hollared out it was time for all onest