Smyrna times., 1882-06-28
Texas Love.
WHAT IT TAKES TO MAKE AN ACCEPT
ABLE sUITOR IN THE LONE STAR
STATE.
WHITNEY. Texas. Feb. 9. 1873

WHITNEY, Texas, Feb. 8, 1882.
To the Editor of the Toledo Blade =
Will you be SO kind as to publish this
letter, picked up in public road in
Central Texas, u few days ago. In
being examined it was open and will
explain itself. The following is an
exact copy, and will serve to explain
to your readers the manner in which
that very important business called
:" love making" is carried on here:
MORGAN, Texas, Jan. 25, 1882.
Dear Sarah In your last you say
you love Mike Shubland better ner you
do me. Now you wont say that when
| tell you what is so bout Mike. He
cOuldent ride Jim Barns pitchin pony.
He tried it and the boys had to catch
it and take him of pantin like lizard
on rail i'll the hot sun in August.
But l rode it and it fence -wormed
with me more ner a mile, and all the
dogs in the naborhoOd after him, and
me porin the quirt to him as fast /
could.
And another thing, Mike cant rope a
yearlin only by THROWN it on his head
But you can name the foot and | will
rope it OH that foot.
Now | don't see how you can love a
man who cant ride any pony nor rope
Il yearlin on either foot. How do YOU
spOse he'll make a living? You might
just as well marry a Webb-fOOted puke
from the north and be done with it.
Another thing bout Mike you wont
like is, he says a nigger has got soul,
and he never has killed one. Now aint
that awful? | killed five and think it
more fun ner rOpen yearlin or riden
pony Dick Long had distillery in
the brakes on the Brazos and made
peach Brandy and other stuff and Mike
went and give him away to the Yankee
officers and they took him to Waco and
sent him to the Penitentiary for five
years, and know you will hate him
when you know he wont drink brandy
and helps the Federals arrest them
that makes it.
You think ! love Susan Jones, but |
don't, shes got no manners she come
from Ill. bout Il year ago, and though
i've been gOin with her some, | don't
like her. I'll tell you for Why, when
first got acquainted with her and
went to see her, when wod get to the
door every time she would AK me in
and then Offer to take nay hat like as if
! couldent hold it in my hand or let it
stay on my head. And when | would
be chawin my tobacker and spit on the
floor she would bring in box with
some ashes in it for me to spit in, like
as if their floor was any betterner ourn
or yOurn. they had striped cloth
stretched all over the floor, and l CESS
she dident want that spit ON, though
they all walk on it, and what is good
, enough to walk ON is good enough to
: spit on, think.
| ! love you heap better ner | dc
Susan, for she can't pick more ner q
7 hundred pOnnds of cotton day and
you can pick two hundred a day. She
, could not earn enough to keep q felleI
in tobacker and whisky let alone helI
, make a living. think her and Mike
? would suit mighty well. They botf
: go to church and sing, and Mike takes
b.. off his hat at the door before he goes il
and Susan says that is the way they dc
e in ILL., Mike likes to read books, anC
f that wOuldent suit you;
e Now my dear, if you want q MAJ
3 who can make a living and knows how
t to keep in style you can get him, hu
t Mike aint the man by a long jump
. But you see from what have said,
d am,
t Your noble hearted CHARLEY.