Mexico weekly ledger., 1877-04-19
HOW ICAME TO GET MARRIED
Written for the Ledger.

cigars, pipes, abscOndlng shirt but
tons, whist and dominoes. Shadows
of the present-Hoop-skirts, long
stockings, shawls, collars, pins, mead
les, little willow chairs, tin trumpets,
hive syrup, squills, and doctor bills.
Shadows of the future,-more nine
FOUNDERS. more syrup, etc.
Now I'll tell you how l got caught.
l was the darndest tea-custard bash
full chap you ever saw. 1t was kinder
in my line to be taken with the shakes
every time l saw a pretty girl APP
preaching me, I'd cross the road
rather than meet one. 1t wasn't be-
cause / didn't like the critters, for if
l was behind the fence, peeking
through a knot-hole 1 couldn't look
at n long enough.
Well, my sister Lib gave a party
one night, and I didn't go in cause L
was too bashful to 'sface the music"
/ hung around the house, dancing to
the tune of Old Dan Tucker" to
keep my feet warm watching the
heads bob up and down behind the
window curtains, and wishing the
laundering party would break up. Il
smoked twenty cigars, and as it was
getting mighty uncomfortable, l con-
cluded to climb up the door-post.
No soone said, than done, and l soon
found myself snug in bed. Now
said /, ''let her rip, DANCE till vonr
wind gives OUT and cuddling under
the bed-clothes, Morpheus grabbed
me. As i was dreaming of soft-shelled
crabs, and stewed tripe, and having a
good time all by myself, there came
a rap at the door, a rap, rap, rap! l
laid low. Rap! rap! rap. then l
heard whispering outside. Rap. rap!i,
rap! then sister Lib sings out, Jack
are you in there" Yes" said : de-
Acct up," says she. 81 won't, said, sb
:s'can'ty you get a bean without pulng in,
a poor fellow out of bed2 . won't vi
90 home with you, I wat; so you da
NAV az well clear OUT land throwing rs,
O boot at the door felt better. But m.
presently all, small voice very ed
much lib sister Lbs says, Jack IN
you'll I'VE to get up for all the girls of
thing are in there" Think of Inc !
hat a pickle-in bed, covered with ,o
mufFs, and turs, and twenty 70,
iris outside the door waitin. to get
!. If had stopped to think, / should Oh.
ave ~pancaked on the spot. But as -,
was / rolled out among the bonnet o.,
are !; crash went the millinery in a.,
iery direction. l had to dress in the
ark, for there WAS a crack in the g;
oor' and girls will peck. Finally -,
lie critical moment came; l opened :.
he door and found myself right -.
nong the girls. ''Oh my Leghorn!" oh,
les one, My dear, darling, winter 49,.
cries another. They pitched ~,
hauled me this way and that, and -.
1xed my ears; and M bright-eyed >,
piece-Sal her name was-put a.
n arms around my neck and kissed -.
right on my lips. Human nature &C
stand that, and l gave her
good AS she sent. Twas the first .
stH
me that | ever had a taste, and it -.
as powerful good. la
" says '"e' ''''S fir
disturb you, hut won't you see me ),
/ did, and had another o.
mack at the gate. After that We ho,
nder took to turtle doving after each mn
her, both signing like a barrel Of u;,
w cider when we were apart. a.,
Wal, twas at the close ofa glorious q l.
INNER day the sun was setting be-
nd q distant hen-roost, the bull ,o,
Ogs in their distant mud-puddles !,
Preparing iof ''' 'n"'s' Vi night hal
Il and l sit on an ancient back log, ,;o,
to the sounds of nature, such ma
roosters, hogs, and grunting pigs, bs,
I'd now and then, the soft and mel "a
music Of q distant jack-ass was .r,
afted on our ears, by the faint zephers Va
at came through the mullen leaves va.
'a'y i"''eh WIN "e''ei'u4 ooors dul
hen-roosts, and pig styes. The ind
shining through Il knot hole of the .ho
'rn-crib dyed SAILS hair with an o,o
snge peel hue, and showed off nay t;v,
read-bare coat to a disadvantage. an,
my " ~ 'A pre-
sist, and my hand resting on the
lall of her back. She was almost gone
d / was ditto. She looked like q
isoned rat, and | like a turtle
oked to death with a Goldfish ball. tail
said /, with q voice as musi- ope
as a dying swan, " will you be Sta
ne. Z" She grasped me by the hand, visi
d an attack of the heaves and blind owe
and with a sigh that drew bus
r shoe strings to her pallet, answer The
eyes" Then she gave clear out, eigl
1 sunk slap in my lap. L Rugged var
: till l broke both ~suspenders. Her If
cath stunk of onions she had eaten dow
weeks before. Well, to make a ally
g story short, We set the day, and disc
five weeks how we should for
TX into the room to be married a eli
| We could come in as graceful as The
air of masonic ducks. har'
Veil, the night and the party came, six
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