The Van Buren press., 1866-10-12
Brick Pomeroy on Courting.

Those other girls Of ours, as we arc
informed by letter, had done gone and got
well locked unto tnkerest of the gospel,
who attended prayer meetings, swops hor-
ses, acts chaplain in the army, steals and
gets drunk on the sly. Oh, dear This
is much misery. Wherefore shall we Aee
now?' How we used to do the courting Cor
those girl. Candy, peanuts, worm lozen-
ges, PEPPERMINT drops, little balls of honey
soap, night blooming for seriousness, and
such evidences did we pour into them lap
of hers, whereupon, at vesper chimes, this
heart of ours did swectly rest. Oh, dear,
Oh ! K-lista r. .#.
We used to blackcn our boots, starch
our hair grease our shirt, and curl our
eyebrows for them girl And we drove
horses for pateinal deriyative to cultivate
corn and we milked the brindle heifer as
what no other boy could milk, and we split
oven woodland who would not ?-for her
ma. .sr4 4....s.
And at night, when bats come forth, and
tumble-bugs crawled over the lea, and
young pulets sat in meditation free, hold
ing their heads under one wing so as to
hear their hearts beat, we would hasten un-
kaliSta's window, and she would, with her
lilly white hand haul us up by the hair un-
I'll we arrived at the bower Of love, as sch
styled her garret. Twas thus our hair be-
came less, and our confectionery for Kalis-
ia increased -
When the week had busted ON the rock
sot Saturday night we used to wander by
the brooklet, and let the broolllet wander.
too. And kalista went forth with us
Hand in hand like the Siamese twinsters,
we roamed we sat on the dewy bank to
catch cold in our heads, and luxurate on
the bank " wet with dew" And we used
to recline against fatherly and motherly
elm tree, and squeeze each others hard as
we rolled our eyes and peeped upward into
the blue vault, our spirits longed to vault
into it, but didn't.
0, this sparkling is heaven in two vol.
rmes, with tho price mark omitted Did
you ever spark ? If not. advance your
works upon female crinoline dear, and
commence active hostilities at once.
- At avery excellent hotel, favorite
resort for summer tourists, they were one
day short of waiter, when newly arri-
ved Hibernlan was hastily made to supply
the place of more expert hand
Now, Barney" said mine host, "mind
you serve every man with soup the first
thing-Serve soup first" e
Bedad, I'll do that same said the
alert Barney. |+f
Soup comes on, and Barney, after help
ing all but one guest, came up to the las,
one.
g Soup, sir % said Barney, with an air
of importance. y
" NO soup for me" said the man. s4
Bat you must have tit is the rule
Of the house."
Hang the rules of the house!" exclai-
med the guest, " when don't want soup
won't eat it, ifi
90 Wei" said Barney, with all due SOL
emnity, "all can say is just this, it's the
regulations of the house, and devil the
ttop else will ye get till yes have finished
the soup = M ru4t.
The traveller gave in and the soup was
gobbled
=" All, my dear, how came Won so
wet p inquired an afiertionate mother Of
her son.
Why. ma, one Of the boys said / dar-
sent jump into the creek and, by gosh,
tell you | amt to be dared nl ~
- Punch says of insults in tho House
OF COMMONS F" 1t is very strange that the
gentleman who is the very last whose fee
lings the honorable gentleman would wish
to Offend generally happens to be the very
one whose feelings are offended" :
My congregation keeps all the
religious ordinances" said a clergyman,
" The rich all the feasts, the poor all the
fasts."
- There was some difficulty, yester-
uay morning, in completing the Jury in
the miseegenation case, pending in the Cir
cuit Court. l.i1 ''F . ="
Our friend Henry Muller being sworn,
Judge Watts propoundel to him tho fol.
lowing interrogatorcs : u' a,
Have you formed or expressed an,
opinion as to the guilt or innocence Of In,
defendants aharged with -" II s116
~ have"
"Row has that opinion been formed
by common umor, convorsing with wit
nesses.or from the vuidence in the case ?''
"By sight" ap3re ~, 1uLid1
ThsJpdge told Henry he could stan,
aside. tt 'A. "'''
- What color is next to an ipyisiLl
green Blindman's buff ".1 'a r M
ort al