Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1873-08-21
.JERUSHY.

By SAUL POTTS.
You must come N agin, John, when the folks
reck,n they'd like to see ye, ye feel inclined to
come;
Come when ye've mind to, there's most always
I'm sorry it happened SO to-day that both the gals
out.
Ye need MT be particIar about our bein' home,
We're in and out considabe, and over to Fathers
But the gals you'll find good company, espeshly
N think they'll both 'om be glad to have ye
come again.
Jerushy, she's more quiet like-hain't been SO much
But tell ye What, eff I say it, amt nobody's
She's more domestic" they say, but she knows
N most likely youT 6nd her to home, if sairy Jane
is out.
She's quieter n Sairy Jane ?" Wal, should say
she was;
goes ono lawsi
She amt snowy nigh as Sal q sometimes call her
For short, though she don't like it much), but she's
my favorite gal.
Our sairy Jane was down to Brooklyn, gon' on
nigh two year, n
--she thought our deestrick school wa MT quite
enough for Sairy Jane,
IN we did talk little this spring " sendin' her
there again.
kinder hate to have her go-not that mind the
But in all this inishin'n business, there don't
What with French, Dutch and italian, and thump-
Gals nowadays amt no account at least not much
if any.
Mother and me was both on us brought up to like
PUe almost always had to, and my woman amt no
shirk;
And both our gals is used to it, but somehow sairy
Don't take to it SO natraI as Jerushy that is plain
And sence she's been to boardin' school she kinder
thinks it amt
Quite genteel to cook and as it's to read and
Or set the settin room dressed up o. after
N practisin, pianny, all her fancy
tunes.
But Jerushy somehow's always busy It thing
another,
A seein' about the housework, or a helpin, of her
She hires sewin' done, she runs her own
And yet with all her workin' reads a good deal in
between.
''You've noticed what difference there was in
them two gals 2"
Wal, yes, Jerushys face to most folks, amt fair
as SAILS:
and Sally is snowy, with her city ways and
it's nat'ral that of the two she'd take best with
the beaux.
Well sairy Jane is bright and smart and pretty, I'll
allow,
IN if she amt useful-what don't tell me John
Wal, nowl
You like Jerushy better; and-and what's that You
say?
You've come to ask for my consent to give my gal
away?
Why, John, # I'd seen the angel Gabriel comm
through the Skies
really think couldn't a been more chock full o.
And yet now that think ont, it kind er strikes me
I've heered Jerush' say sothin' about her Hkin'
you.
Wal, John, SO far as Pm concerned, can't say IS I
And her mother won't do nothin' to hinder, e1-
pect
But it's SO kind er sudden it most takes my breath
When ssiry Jane hears ont wonder what on airth
she'll say
Don't go yet, John, sit down spell, it amt very
late,
Here is Jerushy comm now through the back gar.
den gate;
% Wal, wal, young woman, where We ye been, an6
what dye think that John
IS been teliin' me about ye here and your sly gont
on?
~And ye never said word to me-ye what? "
spoke to mother?
Wal, must say she KEEP it dre'dful secret some
how m other:
But it's all right, Jerushy- though hate to let "
IT'S just the way with blessin's count most OF
here below"
Wal, John, take good care of her, she'll make a first
rate wife.
reckon you love her-love g bout all there i
worth much in life;
And riches, you know what the Scriptur' says o
thieves and moth
wish ye joy, Jerushy-John-and may God bles
We both.
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