The Vermont transcript. [volume] (St. Albans, Vt.) 1864-1870, 1867-12-20
A. Heads COurtship.

Araminta is my oyster. Cahse Why?
I loved she loved, we both loved; we
couldn't help it. How could l help
loving a girl Of manageable age and
disposition. with auburn New York
hair, red hose, two lips, alabaster neck
and lavender colored kid eloves2 And
then such q chignon Couldn't help Ill
| didn't and she is now my step-wife,
It happened thusly:
We was schoolmases; we had been
in the same class together, she at the
head and at the footl We had sot
in the same seat together, for the
schoolmaster had made me sit with
the girls to punish mel II YVES a
dreadful punishment to make me sit
with the girls in my young days. Is it
now io % es'a aaife
fused 10 pinch her; she used tosay
don't" But she didn't mean it.. AT
last got SO as to squeeze her hand.
She said don't some more. She didn't
mean that either. Then used to give
nerl apples and she would give me
some Of her gingerbread, and we used
to so along TO and from school togeth,
er, swinging our hands, each in the
others, casped together, Ike you see
( en- OH The odd feller's banners, and
the tin signs on the houses that's in
sured.
Things went on so until she left off
wearin pantalets andput on long close;
and I pnt OH trousers as buttoned up
before instead Of behind Then | be-
gan TO write verses of which these is
some:
Oh, Araminta, Araminia
Your hart IL herder than hint-ar; cgt
II you don't love your friend, A. Head,
You'll be right sorry when he is dead,
These and other poems, / could see,
chad the desired effect. as the doctors
say Of their physick They ought to,
| don't know who could stand many
of EN-
Time few on. 1t always does. 1t
has been flying on for 5000 years moro
or less. 1t VIII probably continue to
fly whether the Republican party is in
session or not. Araminta went to
keepin school and went to be "dey-
il'' in printin Office, and succeeded
in what | went for Ae
We writ to each other words Of
burnin love, so burnin' that they al
most sc5rehed a.holS lhrou, Tie paper,
But the day of trouble came. it al
ways does. Afaminta's ole man, who
was soap boiler besides havin' an IN
terest in a n-yard, got a contract 10
furnish the army with horse-beef and
made pile" He then took Aramin-
Ia home, and bot her a big chiqnon,
which have spoken Of before. From
that day Araminta begun to feel hair.
istocratic, and from that day the ole
man forbid me his door," But /
didn't want his door, | only wanted
the girl tried whistlin' under tho
window, and the old man tried hot
ashes on my head Neither of EN-
worked well. / had one resource left.
advertised in the personals" in the
New York Herald, ms follows: to wit,
/ viz t aiDl
4 My DEAR Mint: still hang out.
Come TO the bower I've shaded for Won
and you will hear something to your
advantage. / shall be ut the BLACK
Crook and have on patent leather
boots tomorrow night 8l r 81
To be continued in the New York
Ledger, Your devoted "HEAp."
Aramnta came, she sighed, she con
quered i went and bot some pea.
nuts and we wandered by the seabeet
shore and shelled en- together: sung
to her Let me kiss You for Your
mother" and she answered in III n
body kiss BODY need body cry 2"
: l said--"'ro be certingly mott
( She didn't cry Z 9a q ieHi
We sealed our VOWS then and there
and l stamped the seal The ole man
found ii out and he stamped me
tA4Nl* tla 4 xaT r. rs.
Months rolled round aud rolled
round with the months The ole man
deposited bis spondulix in nashunel
bank s'i ia sHs g4fa- fa ri
The nashnel bank bustl The ole man
ntup and Araminta's chignon went
down