The Fremont weekly journal. [volume] (Fremont, Sandusky County, Ohio) 1867-1877, 1870-04-22
miscellaneous SelGetions.
How Jonathan Slope Courted Han.
nah Hutton.
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! guess | never told yeou, abeou
how Jonathan Slope courted Hammer
Hutton-did 1: Wall III tell yoU
now.
You see Jonathan was a likin
Hammer, about as hard as any fellel
ever liked gal, and one night he
went down thar-to Hutton 5, lmc&n
and arter :he old folks had gOn,
Off to bed, he got to talkin' to Han.
ner purity lively, and somewhat artel
the follerin' style:
Now, Hanner," sez he, you know
| don't keer two snaps for that BE
linda Forrest. She's as humly as 6
lhuckle-b ry root, and she dOn't
know nothin' whatsumever about
Ihousekeepin'
You see Jonathan had been court
lin Belinda Forrest, a leetle on the
sly, and Hammer, she hadn't morn
half liked it.
Sez Hammer, sez she, "Oh, yes, it's
all very well fur you to go on that
way when Belinda isn't about, but il
YOU were a talkiu' to her, you would
be a praisin' her up to the skies, ano
saving that Hammer Hutton wan o.
no account whatsumeyer, and thai
YOU didn't want to have nothin' tc
do with such gals"
I am rale sorry to say that slch
| is apt to be the case with young fel
lers, when they are a sparkin'. They
| aise the gals they are talkin' to-
land forget all about the absent ones
lor if they don't forget about them
they don't say nothin' good of 'em
I'm purity sure, howsumeyer, that
sich wasn't the case with Jonathan
Slope, fur Jonathan had been fotch
ed up in the way he ort to travel and
was much noted for his plurality.
Then Jonathan broke out in this
wav: 'Jehosaphat, how do you talk
| H .nner! Yol are either funr'l' OF
e Sc YOU. must think l am a b nged
| liar. Why, Hammer, l hain't never
| in all my borne days seen sich rale
slick, tip-top sort of 4 gal as you are
and l tell ycou now Pm not sayin'
nothin' but the rale, honest, square
up and down truth"
"Oh, 60 on, jonathan" sez Han
ner, "it does me a heap o good to
hear yeou let eout in that kind Q
style. 1 reckon thar want u fellow
abeout ycour size went hum, with
Belinda Forrest from a quilin' last
Thursday evenin'.'
oWall law sakes," sez Jonathan
"that want nothin'. I'm sure | ask
ed yeou fust, and yeou sed as how
couldn't 90, as there, was another
Teller ahead % me-" Now Jonathan
went on to say, 'thar's old uncle
| Zake Slope, as used to live eout to
the Ridge-yeou didn't know him,
reckon? Wall, he used to be sich q
funny old chap. He used to tell me
that it was poor rule that wouIdn
work both ways, and Ire used to say
that whatever's sarse fur the goose
is sarse for the gander, and he useC
to tell me abeout a feller called Seth
lSlamkin, what had a powerful biz
motion Of u gal whose name was
Prudence Potter. Prudence was {
lnice enuff sort ola gal, but she aller:
wanted to be cuttin' up shines ant
THROWN her head high, and triein
to act as though she was a rail-
borne city gal. Seth had had beer
a shinin' up to Prudence for a con
Isid'ble spell, when all at once she
begin to show off kinder indipend
ent like. When Seth went to see
her she would hist up her nose, ant
talk shorter'n pie-crust, and whe1
they met at meetin' on Sundays, she
wouldn't more'n say a short 'heoV
dive doY to him. Seth took notion
one day as how he'd bring her up tC
the chalk, and he accordingly com
Imenced to shine up to another gal
whose name was Sally Biglow.
tell yeou Hammer, Sally Biglow fell
purity good abeout that time, anc
commenced to walk abeout as prouc
as a white pigeon"
Then sez Hammer, Jonathan
yeou're maxim that story up as fast
as you 90 along-ain't yeou:'
"Hemlock, no. sez Jonathan
''Tm tellin' yeou raIe true story
qstwise, uncle Zake used to tell i
to me, and he sed's how it was a;
true as preachin'." :"
"Wall thin" sez Hanner, so
ahead-I want to hear how it came
eout."
'As l was tellin' yeou," contin
ued Jonathan, "this gal Sally was
beauin' reound, got to feelin' mos
tarnation proud, fur she though
Seth had left Prudence Potter fu1
lgJod, and WAS goin' TO ma, ne
sdre as nature. "Twan't any won
der that Sally Bielow should q
proud, fur dad sez Seth was raj
smasher when he was young, ant
when he gallivanted any of the gal
around, it tiekled them so much the,
could skarcely sleep nights. Wal
arter a spell, Prudence she kinde
gin out, and would have been gla,
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