Rocky Mountain husbandman. [volume] (Diamond City, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1876-02-03
CoURT1NG IN THE RIGHT STYLE.

lover Jake, who sat about ten feet from her,
pulling the dirt from the chimney jam.
81 arn't techin' on you, SAL" said Jake.
"Well, perhaps you don't mean to, nuther,
do yer?n
"No, I DON'T"
"Cause you're too tarnal scary, you long
legged, lantern.jawed, slab-sided, pigeon
toed, gangle-kneed owl you-you hain't cot
a tarnal bit of sense; get along home with
you!"
Nov, Sal, [ love you, and you can't help
it, and if you don't let me stay and court
you, my daddy'n sue yourn for that COW he
sold him t'other day. By lingo, he said
he'd do it!'
Swell, look here, Jake, if you want to
court me, you'd better do it as a white man
does that thing-not set off there as though
you thought | was pizen."
"How On airth is that, Sal?,
"&Vhy, side right up here, and hug and
kiss me, as if you really had some bone and
sinner of man about you. Do you s'pose a
woman's only made to look at, you fool you?
No, they are made for practical results
as Kossllth says-to hug and kiss and SIGH
like
We'll, +" said Jake, drawing a long breath,
if must | must, for | love you, SAL and
SO Jake commenced sliding up to her, like a
maple poker going to battle. Laying his
arm gently upon'Sal's shoulder, we thought
we heard Sally say:
THAT'S the way to dot, oldhorse-that's
acting like a white man orter.''
sob, Jerusalem and pancakes! y eEclaim-
eel Jake. |" if this amt better than any apple
sass ever NANNY made, darned sight! Buck
wheat cakes, and slap-jacks and 'lasses amt
no where long side of you, Sal. Oh, how /
love you! !" Here their lips came together,
and the report that followed was like pulling
a horses hoof out of the mud. We left.
THERE is said to be a man and wife in
Montgomery county, Ind, aged respect.
lively 113 and III years. Their name il
Fruits, and they have been married eighty.
five years. Theold manstands up as straight
as a ramrod, and does quite a good deal of
work every day. He has always been a
moderate liver and uses no tobacco, which
- GU On d,3dlISU lODGNCO lSCfS. I)uI
hi wife has been a steady smoker sixty years,
which is an argument in favor of tobacco.
The old lady is afflicted with a cancer, which
made its appearance upon her forehead
forty years AGO and which she is now doctor
ING with coal oil. At one time in her life
she weighed 225pounds, but OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
away Till she now tips the beam at lbs.
re- ., n, Lt
Thu venerable old man was personally
acquainted with Danile Boon, Simon Gerry,
Siamon Kenton, Williams and others Of the
first settlers Of the West.
GRAVE oFTHE POET PoE.-Edger A. Poe's
leading idea concerned the relation of soul
and body after death. Both in his poems
and in his stories he gave the fancy that the
dead body had a peculiar life of its own. In
one of his poems he writes about liking and
feeling his home in the grave. His own
coffin at Westminster, has recently been
changed. The skull was lying in the position
in which the head lay when buried. The
grave clothes and all except the bones had
crumbled to dust, leaving the skeleton white
and bare. The brain was i'll an almost perfect
seen through the base ofthe skull, evidenced
no signs of d~isintegration or decay, though,
O course, it is somewhat diminished in size.
The skull was intact, and the general skele-
ton was in as good a conditic ! as an anatom-
zeal preparation in the DOCTORS Office.
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MISUNDERSTANDING is beautiful and joy
inspireing always. All things animate and