Marshall County Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1856-1878, 1873-08-21
JERUSHY.
By SAUL POTTS.

b1 SAUL fO1AS
You must come "A see US agin, John, when the folks
reck, they ike to We, We feel inclined to
come;
Come when we've mind to, there's most always
about
Tn sorry It happened to-day, that both the gals
was out.
Ye need Mt be particular about orr bein' home,
We're in and out considable, and over to Fathers
some.
But the gals you'll find good company, espeshly
Sairy Jane;
N think They'll both on 'em be glad to have ye
come again.
serushy, she's more quiet hke-hain't been so much
But TED se what, eff do say it, she amt nobody's
fool;
Shes more domestic" as they say, but she knows
N most likely yOuIl and her to home, if sairy Jane
is out.
Shes quieter n Sairy Jane7r Wal, should say
she was;
You'd think so + you should hear the way that gal
goes ono lfws,
She amt show nigh as Sal q sometimes call her
For short, though she don't like it much), but she's
my fayorite gal.
Our sairy Jane was down to Brooklyn, goin on
nigh two year,
II school there at the 81 Packard was her mas
She thought our deestrick school wa mt quite
enough for Sairy Jane,
N we did talk little this spring " sendin' her
there again.
kinder hate to have her go--not that mind the
But in all this fn;shin'- business, there don't
seem to me no sense
What with French, Dutch and Italian, and thumr-
Gals no-ayz amt of no account, at least not much
Il any.
Mother and me both brought up to like
rps almost always had to, and my woman amt no
shirx.
And both our gals is used to it, but somehow sairy
Don't take to it so natral as Jerushy, that is plain
And ~nce she's been to boardin' school she kinder
thinks ii Amt
Quite genteel TO cook and wash as It's to read and
paint,
Or set IN the best settin' up o. after
N practisin', on our new panny, all her fancy
tunes.
But ysrrshy somehow's always busy I one thing
or another,
seem about the housswork, or helpin' of her
She never hires 10 sewin' done, she runs her own
machine,
And yet With all her workin' reads good dsal in
between
@You've noticed what difference there was in
them two gals ="
WAL yes, Jerushys face to most folks amt SO fair
SAILS.
And Sally is more snowy, with her city ways and
it's nat'rsl tina, of the two she'd take best with
the beaux.
Wen. sary Jane is bright and smart and pretty II,
N if she amt useful-what don't tell me John
Wal, now,
You like Jerushy better; and-and what's tina. you
You've come to ask for my consent to give my gal
away?
Why, John, 7 I'd seen the angel Gabriel comm
through the Skies
really think couldn't been more chock full O.
surprise:
And yss now that think ont, it kind er strikes me
I've heered Jerush' say sothin' about her Mkin'
yor.
Wal, John, so Far as I'm concerned, caaf say 5 I
object,
And her mother went do nothin' to hinder, e1-
But it's so kind er sudden, it most takes my breath
When ss.ry Jane hears ont wonder what on airt,
she'll say.
Don't 60 yet, John, sit down spell, it amt 80 very
Here is Jerushy comm now through the back gar
den gate;
wal, wal, young woman, where we We been. ana
what dye think that John
been teilin' me about We here and your sly COINS
on?
And ye never said word to me-ye what We
spoke TO mother?
Wal, must say she KEEP it dre'dful secret some
how n other:
But it's a.. right, Jerushy-though hate to let We
co.
IT'S Just the way with blessn's we count most on
here below
Wal, John, take good care of her, she'll make first
rate wife.
/ reckoI you love her-love 3 bout all there is
much in life;
And RI hes, you know what the Scriptur' says of
this YES and moth
I wish Se JOY, Jerushy-John-and may God bless
ye both.
-Ciaistian Union.