Rapides gazette. (Alexandria, La.) 1869-187?, 1873-09-13
AlScells.1eOus Selections.
JERUSHY.

r., folks Is all e home. 'OA' WING" ~
feck'n they'll like to see We. II We feel incline
Come when ye've mind to, there's most alwav
some on us about
m Sorry gaI. II 3 happened SO to-day, that both tn
1e needn't be particular about our bein, bou.
erss .na sn OUT consid' able, and over to Faith
But the M gals you'll find good company, espesh1,
N think 6dna they'll both on 'em be glad to have "
'erusny, she's more quiet like--hain't t been 81
But tell ye whist, eff do saw IL sbe AIM. mn
body's tooI: ~ '"' ""' no'
N"e more more . domestic" as they say, but sh,
N most likely you'll find her to home. Of sair,
Jane Is out.
She's qnieter N sairy JaneP'' Wal, should
You'd think SO Il yeu should hear the way that
o., gal goes on % lawsi 'H-'
'ne ant & SO SO snowy nigh as Sal II sometimes call
For short, though she don't like it much), but
she's my favorite gal.
Our sairy Jane was down to Brooklyn, goin' on
'TschOoi there at the packard, was her
She thosght our deestrick school wa MT ouite
enough for Sairy Jane,
IN We did talk little this spring " ssndin' her
there again.
kinder hate to have her go--not that mind the
But IN an al TINS nnishn' business, there don't
"nat with French, Dutch and Italian, and
o.,. numpin' the pianny
much IL any, NV
Mother and me was both on us brought up to like
re almost always had to, and my woman amt
And both our gal, is use to it. but somehow sairy
Don't take to it so nat'ral as Jerushy. that is
plain.
ana ssnsr ssnSe shes been to boardn' school she
Quite so genteel to cook and wash as tits to read
and paint,
Or set in the best settin' room dressed up o. af-
'Npractisin', on our new pianny, all her fancy
tunes.
Bnt Jerushy somehow's always busy It one
seein' about the homework, or helpin' of her
She never hires no sewin' done, she runs her own
And yet with all her workin' reads good deal |
III DttWeen.
You've noticed what difference there was in
them two gals?'
WAL yss' JeEusny'' face, to most folks, amt
And Sally lie more snowy, with her city ways and
clothes,
N it's natraI that of the two she'd take bestwith
WAL sairy Sal jane is bright and smart, and pretty,
N If she amt 80 useful--what9 don't tell me,
lou Ike Jerushy better; and--and what's that
You've come to ask for my consent to give my
Why, John, u I'D seen the angel Gabriel comm
really think couldn L a been more chock full
And yet now that think ont, it kinder strikes
pve heerd Jerush' say so'thin' about her likin'
you.
Wal, John, 50 far as pm concerned, can't say
g Iobject,
And her mother won't do nothin' to hinder, 1
Bu. Is ipss'i 50 kind .r sudden, it mos. takes my
When sairy Jane hears ont wonder what she'll
say.
Don't go yet, John, set down aspell, it amt SO
very late,
Here Is Jerushy comm now through the back
garden gate;
wal, wal, young woman, where we ye been,
and what dye think that John 4,
> been tellin' me about ye here and your sly ,
COINS on? Il
And ye never said word to me--ye what9 ye {
spoke to mother? ,
Wal, must say she KEEP it DIRE dful secret some-
how m other;
But it's all right, Jerushy though hate to let {
ye go-- g
IT'S just the way with blessin's we count on here
below -
wal, John, you take good care of her, she'll 1
make first-rate wife, p,
reckon you love her--love's bout all there Is {
worth much in life;
And riches, you know what the Scriptur' says of
thieves and moth--
wish ye joy. Jerushy- -John--and may God |
bless ye both.
--SAUL PorTs, in Christian Union.