Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1885-03-28
HUGCING AT THE RINK.


"Say, Jim, did you ever have on a
pair Of them skates with wheels
on ~ inquired one boy of another.
mo, but heard heap about
'em; as how all the people is crazier
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"Did yer know what makes 'em
crazy3 No, ehi Well, I'll jist tell
yer what makes 'em crazy. You kin
jist bar witness yerself how young
folkses like huggin'. / know yer kin,
'cause I've seen yer layin' in the high
grass alongside yerfrontsteps watch
in Bill Jones hing yer sister Annie
when ] was laying on the other side.
Gosh, he's regular lemming squee-
Ter, Amt hei Well, as 1 was jist
goin' t6tell yer, it's jist fer huggin'
that all the people got wild over
skatin'. Las night that lady what
lives next door to us sent over and
wanted ter know if couldn't 60 to
the rink with her cause her father
was away an she was afraid to go
alone-reckon she amt got no Teller.
Well, my una made me go and GIN
me some money ter git in am git
some skates, pervided / wanted ter
take ham at pilotin' 'cm around
the floor. When we got ter the rink
i started off at the door, aud sand I'D
wait fer her when she come out, but
she made me 60 in with her cause
she wanted me ter skate with her,
seein' ther war't nun ov her gentle
men friends goin' to be ther that
even'-but she amt got none, cause
she's bomlier nor one.eyed poodle.
She took hold er my elbow and kin.
der dragged me in, was perlite
enough ter go. ] got her skates an
put 'em on and then loaded myself
on the burned little Wagons.
Then she wanted me to skate with
her an didn't wait ter git my con.
sent, but jist took er hold ov my
hands and started ont, usin' 'em
more like handles terra walking cane
than anything else. Them darned
little wagons Amt no fool things ter
skate on, an cause she didn't know
how ter skate nor / didn't neither,
we didn't git very far afore some
thing happened. The first thing I
knowed about it one of her skates
was running kinder wild round
among mine, and the other took a
tack toward the seats. Both were
huntin' fur sum place TO stop, an she
seemed kinder anxious to have 'em
git there. But the heavy act cum
on when she give up trying ter 60
both ways onct ter ketch her feet
am threw her arms round me like
Bill Jones did round Annie, only she
threw her hull weight in the huggin'.
My feet wasn't stayshnnary with
them Wagons on them, an when
they did get a start it took yoke OF
oxen ter stop 'em, cause there was 30
much weight bearin' on 'em yer
know, Jim. list drop't the length
of my legs an tlier wasn't no snow
ter make II soft like ther is on a
slippery bill. Don't yer know, jim,
the teacher lem me STAN up all the
time fer the last two days. Well,
that's why. But verse;, Jim, here's
the pint. Ef he'd been strong err
huff ter hold that gal up, yea kin jist
bet yer shoe strings I'd er he'd sum
huggin'. jist seen lots am lots ov
girls trip an fall inter the arms
ov sum Teller. He'd jist hug her with
all his might, too. It's the gloriousest
way ov huggiu' yer ever seen. Them
brass bands jist chune q teller right
ter it, and give yer insperashun-but
if yer ever try it don't get a big girl
what can't skate, fer bnggin' dead
weight amt no picnic. list tell yer
though them Kinks are regular hing
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