The Pulaski citizen. [volume] (Pulaski, Tenn.) 1866-current, 1867-11-08
A Heads Cou tship.
From n. 0. Cresocnt.l


From n. 0. Crescent.
hramiuta is my oyster. Cause why ? l
loved, she loved. we both loved we could
not help it. How could I help lovin' a
girl of marriageable age and disposition.
with auburn New York hair, red rose
two lips, alabaster neck and lavender col
ored kid gloves? Aud then such chg
non I couldn't help it I didn't, and
she is now my step wife It happened
thusly
We was schoolmateg +; we had been in
the same class together. she at the head
aud 1 at the foot We had sot in the same
seat together, for the schoolmaster had
made ne sit with the girls to punish me
1t was dreadful punishm meut TO make me
sit with the girls in my young days. 1t is
now
used to pinch her; she used to say
don't. But she didn't mean it. At last
I got SO as to squeeze her hand. She
said DON'T some more. She didn't mean
that, either. Then used to give her ap-
pies and she would give me some Of her
aad from school together. swinging our
hands, each in the others, clasped togeth-
er like you see 'em on the odl fellers' ban
ners aud the tin signs on the house that is
insured.
Things went on so until she left off wear,
in pautalets and put on long close, aud l
put on trowsers as buttoned up before in
stead of behind Then 1 begun to write
verses, Of which these is some
Oh. Araminta Araminta,
Your heart is harder than hint-er
Ifyou don't love your friend a. Head,
You'll be right sorry when he Is dead
These and other poems, I could see.
chad the desired effect" as the doctors
say of their physic. They ought too.
don't know who could stand many of EN-.
Time flaw on. 1t always does. 1t has
been flying on for six thousand years more
or less. 1t will probably continue to fly,
whether the Republican party is in session
or rot Araminta went to keepin school,
and 1 went to be ''deyiP' in printin Of
fee and succeeded in what I went for.
We writ to each other words of 6uruin'
/ love, SO burning that they almost scorehed
hole through the paper. But the day Of
trouble come. II always does. Aramin-
ta's ole man, who was a soap-boiler, be-
( sides havin.e an interest in a lanyard, got
contract to furnish the army with horse
beef, and made "pile." He then took
/ Araminla home and bought her big CHG
non, which have spoken of before. From
that day Araminta began to feel hairisto-
cratic, and from that day the ole man
forbid me his house" But l didn't want
his house, only wanted the ghl. tried
whisllin' under the window, and the ole
man tried hot ashes on my head. Neither
of them worked well. had one resource
left. advertised in the personals ot
the New York Herald. to-wit, viz
'.Ay Dear Mint still hang out. Come
to the bowerPve shaded Tor you, and you
will hear something to your advantage 1
shall be at the Black Crook" and have on
patentle leather boots tomorrow night. To
he continued in the New York Ledger.
Your devoted, HEAD"
Aramin,a came, she sighed, she conquer
ed ! went and bot some peanuts and we
wander by tho sea beet shore aad shelled
'em together. l sung to her Let me kiss
YOU fer your mother" and she answered
in the song IF body kiss body need a
body cry %
said, ITO be certainly not"
She didn't cry.
We sealed our VOWS then and there,
and 1 stamped the seal The ole man
found it out and he stamped me
Months rolled around and rolled round
with the months. The ole man deposited
his spondulix in a nashunel bank.
The nashunel bank busted.
The ole man went up and Araminta's
chignon went down.
One day I struck lie and was rich.
went to Aramiuta's ole mans back yard
and threw my wealth at his feet.
'.Can this be thee and these greenbacks
thine ?" he cried.
1T can't are %
Then come to my arms you are my
long lost son-in-law - he exclaimed, as
the tears ran down his cheeks Ike whisky
down the throat Of memder Of Congress.
Araminta heard my german silvery
voice and she come flying OF the wings Of
love, and a nice embroidered lace collar Oh.
I clasped her to my bosom.
20, dearest, have you !"
81 have. my Mint have"
Then take me 10 your arms, but don't
rnuss m Y COLLAR