The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1885-12-04
HARDsHELL ~LovE-MAKING.
Judge A. r.. Wright, of Rome, Tells AL
About III.
From the Rome (Ga.l Bulletin.

10 the young people by a n 0
ihterestingpart of a Hardshell Baptist
association is the counting scenes CO.
ing on in various directions, which an
old campaigner in the ways of Cupid
never fails to detect. If the elite
about the cities of both sexes think
there is no fun of this sort going on
in these secluded yet delightful valleys
go counting up here like they do in the
eternal city. There THAT isl in the
city it is
A seat on a sofa, with o glass of especial
wine,
And too blind to discover her
small white hand in mine.
In the country there is no sofa
about it; a new cut log, with the bark
on answers quite as well. There is no
wine in the game, the interest of the
occasion furnishes it's 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 eyefashioned after the
model ofan Italian sky, clear, cerulean,
with the softest rays of the sunlight
of love playing in it's depths; mys-
terious, unfathomable, yet beautiful
as the rainbow. By her side sat a
graceful, good-looking lad of 20 sum-
mers. His mustache was thinly set
tied but promised to be voluminous,
and black as the darkness that COW
cred Egypt in the time of Israel's
trouble. An eye, like the mustache,
that either an ancient or a modern
Roman might covet. Her head was a
little bowed, so that the bonnet might
cover the face. Itdid SO partially, but
occasionally it was gently raised and a
furtive glance thrown out to see ifany-
body was noticing.
IAN old campaigner'' was looking
on with intense interest. He knew
just as we'll hat boy was counting
that girl, as if he had been at it him
self. The girl was in trouble, but it
was delightful trouble. Streaks of
crimson wouldcover her face like gold
en- clouds at sunset. That beautiful
bosom would rise and swell gently,
like the pillows in a calm; and now, it
would heave high with an escaped sigh,
that spoke volumes to one who knew
about things.
The gallant country lad had turned
loose a full park Of Cupid's artillery
upon the citadel of her heart. The
heart works were being terribly bat
tered. 1t was evident to an expe-
rienced eye the fertilization would go.
She picked the rim entirely off her pal
metto fan, she chewed the corner of a
white lawn handkerchief. Though no
flag of surrender was actually held
out, the deep drawn sigh gave notice
that all was lost.
IT'S sweet to hear at midnight, on the blue
and mooalit deep,
The song and oar OF Adria's gondolier, by
distance mellowed, Ger the waters sweep,
IT'S sweet to hear the watch dogs honest
bark
Bay deep mouthed Welcomes as uedrew near
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 OF the fall,
1t stands alone!!
When the intermission and basket
dinner came on, 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 watermelons, and
such like things, were cast about in
great profusion. III these Hardshells
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
surrounded the grounds, some going
farther in the lonely coves, lookingfor
the modest yet blushing ~violets, found
under the overhanging mountain cliffs;
others discussing possibly the merits
of the sermon, andthe roadto heaven.
Nor did the sparkingcease when the
meeting broke up. They went as they
came, in buggies, wagons, in ox-carts,
full of boys and girls, and q vast crowd
came and went on horseback. Court
ing on horseback in the country is a.
science. IL a man wants to know
whether a woman is smart or no, let
him watch the girls giving preference,
in great competition, to their favor
ties.
Does q fellow get up alongside of
her that she does not fancy, and is
the preferred one ahead, casting back
a loving glance? Suddenly she be-
ONE exasperated with her unlucky
steed, and gives him a cut with her
riding whip that spurs him far ahead,
alongside of her darling, leaving
"Boby Noodles" far in the rear. is
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