The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1885-10-08

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HARDSHEl.L LOVE MAKING.
To the young people by far the most
interesting part of Hardshell Baptist
Association is the courting scenes going
on in various directions, which an old
campaigner in the wars of Cupid never
fails to detect. If the elite about the
cities of both sexes think there is no fun
Of this sort going or in these secluded
yet delightful valleys they are greatly
mistaken. Lads and lassies go courting
up here like they do in the eternal city
There, (that is, in the city, it is
"A seat on sofa, with glass of especial wine,
And mamma too blind to discover her small white
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In the country there is no sofa about
it, new cut log with the bark on, an
swers quite as well. There is no wine
in the game, the interest of the occasion
furnishes its own elixir.
On the outskirt of the congregation sat
a large, well developed, handsome girl,
evidently early in her teens. She had a
soft blue eye fashioned after the model of
and Italian sky, clear, cerulean, with the
softest rays of the sunlight of love play
ing in its depths; my sterious, unfathom-
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her side sat a graceful, good looking
country lad of twenty SUMMERS. His
mustache was thinly settled but promised
to be vOluminous, and black as the dark
ness that covered Egypt in the time of
IsraePs trouble. An eye, like the mus
tache, that either an ancient or a modern
Roman might covet. Her head was a
little bowed, SO that the bonnet might
cover the face. 1t did so partially, but
occasionally it was gently raised and a
furtive glace thrown out to see if any
body was noticing.
can old campaigner was looking on
with intense interest. He knew just as
we'll that boy was courting that girl as if
he had been at it himself The girl was
in trouble, but it was delightful trouble.
Streaks of crimson would cover her face
like golden clouds at sunset. That beau
tiful bosom would rise and swell gently,
like the billows in a calm; and now it
would heave high with and escaped sigh,
that spoke volumes TO ore who knew
about things.
The gallant country lad had turned loose
a full park of Cupid's artillery on the
citadel of her heart The heart works
were being terribly battered. 1t was evil
dent to an experienced eye the fortifica-
tions would go. She picked the rim en-
tirely off her palmetto fan, she chewed
the corner of her white lawn handker-
chief Though no flag of surrender was
actually held out, the deep drawn sigh
gave notice that all was lost.
It's sweet hear the watch dogs honest bark
Bay deep-mOuthed welcome draw home.
'Tis sweet TO know there is an eye will mark
Our coming and look brighter when we come;
But sweeter far than this than these than all
Is first and passionate love!
Like Adams recollection r. sIlad .'o.i Of the fall
When the intermission and basket din
ner came in, there was a junction of the
carnal with the spiritual. Lamb, pork,
chicken pie, tarts, pies, custards, grapes,
equal to those the spies brought back
from the promised land. nectarine
peaches, over which the Olympian gods
and all the gods would have united,
sugar cantelopes and twenty-pound water
melons, and sucl, like things, were cast
about in great profusion. If these Hard
shells do as we'll in the next world as
they do in this, divers will desire to cast
their lot with them.
Youthful couples, male and female,
could be seen moving in all directions,
some hunting the crystal springs that sur
round the grounds, some going farther
into the lonely coves, looking for the
modest, yet blushing violets, found under
the overhanging mountain cliff, others
discussing (possibly) the merits of the
sermon, and the road to heaven.
Nor did the sparkling cease when the
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came, in buggies, wagons, in ox-carts,
full of boys and girls; and vast crowd
came and went on horseback. Courting
on horseback in the country is a science.
If man wants TO know whether woman
is smart or no, let him watch the girls,
giving preference, in great competition,
to their favorites.
Does fellow get up alongside Of her
that she does not fancy, and is The pre-.
ferred one ahead, casting back loving
glance? Suddenly she becomes exasper.
ated with her unlucky steed, and gives
him cut with her riding whip, that
spurts him far ahead, alongside of her
darling, leaving BODY Noodles far in
the rear. Is her ducky" in the rear,
she finds something the matter with her
stirrup, and not only suddenly stops, but
checks up serenely her Selim, and reels
him back some twelve or fifteen feet to
the rear, just alongside of her lost one
and tells him her foot ia out of the stir
rup. Quick as thought he is on the
ground, adjusting the beautiful foot to
the disorderly stirrup. IL he squeezes il
/ a little softly and sbyly, who can blame
him She may frown, but it is the frowr
of forgiving displeasure.
If anywhere in the history of the past
ANYBODY but Satan has got the better o
a woman, it is not recorded. The vii
famous old hypocrite told her eating th'
apple amounted to nothing, but the mo
meut she ate il she would find out some
thing she never knew before. The devi
must have laughed - he watched the op
Grafton Of bis physic. Of course sh
went for the g bottom facts and ate tn
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