The Daily empire. (Dayton, Ohio) 1865-1867, 1866-01-29
From the ia Cnsse (wis) Democrat
BRICK AND KALlSTA.

Those other girls ofours rs were informed Il
by letter, has done gone and got well locked /
unto tinkprlst of the gospel, who attends
prayer meetings, swopS horses, stands chap /
lin in the army, and gets drunk on the sly /
Oh. dearl This IL much miseryl Where
fore shall we flee TO 20 unto now? How we.
used to do the courting for those girl.
Candy, peanuts, worm -lOzenges, pepper
mint drops, little balls of honey soap. night |
blooming for seriousness, and such evil Il
Hence did we pour into them lap of hers |
whereon at vesper chimes this head of ours |
lid erst so sweetly rest. Oh dear! Twas \
OF K-lista! tlE f.Irs.
/ We used TO blacken Our boots starch our |
hair, grease our shirt and curl our eye
brows for them gill. And we rode horse |
for paternal dcrivatiVe to cultivate corn |
and we miiked the briudle heiter rs what
no other boy could milk; and we split oven
wood, and who would not for hernia?
And ut night when bats came forth, and
tumble bugs crawlcd over the lea, and
young pnllcts sat in maiden meditation
fancy free, holding their heads under one
wing SO aS to learn love by hearing their
hearts beat we would hasten under kalis-
ta's window. and she would with her lily
white hand snail us up by the hair till we
arrived at tile bower of love, as she called
her garret. Twas thus Our hair became
less and our confectionery for Kalista in
creased
When the week had busted on the rock of
Saturday night we used to wander by the
broollct and let the brook wander to. And
kalista went forth with us. Hand In hand
like the Siamese twinsters we roamed. and
sat on the dcwy bank 10 catch cold In our
heads and uNuriate on the ''bank wet with
dcwin And we used to recline against II
| iathcrly or mOtherly elm tree, and squeeze
| our each others hands Ms we rolled our eyes
and pceked upwgrd into the blue vault our
| spirits longed tov;,ult into but didn't Oh,
| this sparkling is Heaven in two earthly vol
umcs, with the price mark omitted! Did
you ever spark ! If not advance your
works upon u female crinoline-dear and
commence active hoStilities 10 onct!
| Once we spanked Kalista When her mother
! was lookin. The old lady stopped us, cause
! IL remind her of other times, she said But
| She didn't keep us stopped. When we
| wanted TO repose our head kalista held her
| lap and INTO II we went like an apple.
| when we wanted u kiss we told kalista such
| was our desire when she would lean her
amber head over upon our forces and say,
snow. Brick, tea is ready" You jest can
| gamble we took tea from that little table
| lots of times. and never asked any one to
! help put back the plates kalista was II
zephyr on kiss. IL was pretty near her
best holt. Making mush was kalista's
III.
did sprinkle meal into the iron--iron--re-
ccpteakcttle, and shake her locks in glee
| 10 see the infant mush bubble and splutter
II like II fellow kissing a baby with his mouth
| full of beechnntS. ta
! We eourted, spanked and courtcd kalista
4 seventeen long years. she grew from
signs 10 greater size, and all went merrily
| as a funeral bell. I<alista's maternal au-
thor said we might, and we intended to.
We sat on rail fences, end boards 10 wagon
boxes, piles of pumpkins, heaps of pOta-
| toes door steps saw logs, pIow beams, pine
stumps, where we pined for each other and
told our love. aud in anticipation, cOmbed
! our hair, peeled our potatoes, chopped our
= hash rocked our--wcll never mind wore
our old clothes except when we had com
+ pany and waXcd fat on love, and sich. ka-
, istsfs father said we might, and there again
c we had things bagged. We counted ouI
p calves (and Kalista had nice calves and
: weighed our pork and sold our veal, and
4 churned our little mess of butter, and took
: our wool TO market, and put up our little
I. preserves and relieved in that future which
Ia i so much like an oyster, more shell than
y meat.
!, One day bauky steer slung one of hi,
I back hools In among the old gents waist
band, and after series Of severe discom.
forts, the old rooster went hence In Feb
x ruary, when we followed with a march
= 4
7 | fifty-nine inches around her Affections, anC
Al so we murdered the steer and made hin
= into smoked beef. And at supper table
D. and as we lunched between the heavy
b., cOurting. we chawed the beef and thu
y Kalista and us got satisfaction from th'
juvenile OK who steered his foot wickedly
If Then kalista's mother, who would no
Il partake of the beef took cold in the heal
/. and went hence. IL was Autumn-One o.
70 the fall months. The mother Of our heart'j
:. poison rs we family -ary called kalista, wa
~ of an enquiring disposition. She alNRyi
Al asked numerous things. She asked TIA,
egg man IL chickens abided in the shells o
the hen fruit he bought. She wanted t
know why rounds were put in ladder
# crosswisc instead of up and down! Sh'
wanted 10 know why pants were made 5,
A. that man could not take them of Oycl
s. his head She said in her innocence thai
|. am eclipse was caused by q niger conyen
- ton between her and the moon! But why
n the moon ftllled, rather busted the vener
d able mother of our kalista, and she sought
= 10 study IL out. She read D0balfs arith
4. metic Sauds' spelling book, Robinson Cru
f soc and the Ia Crosse De,aOoat, bat sh,
could not get her fork into the reason. Tn,
old lady read IN an almanac that on a certain
might the moon would full. We weut. u
see kalista that night To see If our lov,
N would full. The old lady determined 3,
r watch Il and see how moon fullcd, aut
!. when It hllled and what for did Il fllll
y Night came and she wrapped one leg of {
y pair of red flannel drawers about her head
aud when all in the house was still sh,
emerged Into the sitting room, aud IN hel
antique costume--the old lady, says, Brick
= your supper IL readyw So we went int,
the parlor and kissed the hours away
Very tine supper. .......
The oil hdy took an almanac, New Y orl
directory and a taliow candle out on tn,