The weekly register. [volume] (Point Pleasant, Va. [W. Va.]) 1862-1909, 1886-02-03
RED EARS AND KISSES.

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RED EARS AND KISSES.
The corn had all been cut and pilsI
away in great sticks in the huge
barns The Canadian Landscape had
been clothed several times in silyery
frost, The rye was peeptng up through
the upturned fields, and the tist weel,
Of the farmers season Of leisure had
passed. In that great stretch Of level
country about Stratfortl. where formers
reap as rich harvests as are garnere,l
anywhere in the Dominion, n pro-
gramme Of fun had leen prepared by
the young men and women. There
were cOrn-huskings where red ears
brought kisses, surprise parties where
nobody was surprised, straw rides, ap-
ple-partng parties, and gatherings where
the staid cOtilion was danced to the
music Of violin. The first event Of
the fall Of 1852 was an apple pairing.
This whetted the Appetizer Of the coun-
try folks, and everybody was eager for
the big corn-husking tut wus to bring
all the beaus and bellies into the big barn
Of Farmer Trcuette. II was known to
the young, hard-ilsted farmers that
Sally Treuette, the only daughter Of the
old farmer, was to guide the course Of
eyents during the husking, and that a
great many red grains Of corn had been
mingled with the white grains that had
been dropped in the corn hills in the
spring. Every red grain Of corn meant
an ear Of the same color, and every ear
meant one kiss to the finder, and per.
hapS more if he could Smuggle the ear
forward again.
There was another circumstance that
added an unusual excitement to the
husking. Sally Ireuette was a rosy
checked, plump raven.haired lass whose
roguish eyes had made aId havoc with
the hearts Of nearly all the young men
Tor mules around. There was hardly
one Of them whom she had not smiled
upon at various times and whom she
had not snubbed numerically after.
ward, Red-hatred Jim Radford, who
owned forty acres Of fine farming land
near st. Marys, aud owen Jones, a
sharp'teatllered Yankee VINO had
opened a country store near tile railway
station IN Stratlord' mad each sworn IN
tue most solemn manner TO marry sally
or prevent her IRON marrying anybody
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urreu' ana strong OF hllh' with muscles
hardened by work Jones was tall'
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houses IN tlle heISiCorhood' The more
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l"at"' Tie stronger 'Eoy were Rad
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N,'s'' anu rough benches formed " circle
aoo"' !ne m phe' lheoIu' rambling iarin-
I"nse lN Saras away oazed witIl lights:
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ru'T'gS I way lne reiresInHehts' sally
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" Jones storo' WIN Duhches OF oright
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