The Somerset herald. [volume] (Somerset, Pa.) 1870-1936, 1888-02-15
Hank Burdock,s Views of Love

TANK DIT uoCk VIEWS Of Love
Hank, they tell me yon are going to
be married"
Wen, Pard, that is about the rize Of
it,
Now, Hank, you are the last man in
the world that would have thought ca
pable OF such weakness. might"
Now look here, Pard, was you ever in
lover"
No sir; never -"
Well, then, jest don't you say more
j used TO talk jest that way myself, but
you see / am dead gone and head over
ears in love, and what's more I'm proud
of it. Its all right Pard, talks cheap
and don't do any harm, but don't do
any good. neither, and when the right
one comes along you might as well drop.
You've got TO 60, and l reckon you are
mighty willing about that time.
Yes, know I've changed my mind
I changed it the first time ever seen
Kitty, and l kept il changed ever since.
Everything seemed to change about that
time. First time | ever seen Kitty was
about three months ago down at old Sam
Martins You know where old Samuel
lives? Wall. ] was sittin' there ON the
portico one even:n' a smokin' an talkin'
when she came in.
q heard little noise and looked up
and there she stood. don't know why
( il was, but Jest the minnit ] set eyes on
her my mind went flyin' off to a bush of
wild roseys that grow down by the crick
back OF our house.
a. forgot what was sayin' and when
old Sam made me acquainted with her |
couldn't think Of nothin' to say TO save
my life. She never seemed TO notice it
though, and she sat down and began tai
kin and the first thing | knowd my
tongue ualoosened and found myself
chinning away like lightnin' rod agent.
We set there till the moon rose and
then she started over to her aunts, old
Miss SINNERS. She was a yisitin' there
! went with her"
"I'Il never forget that walk if live to
be a hundred. / can see her tripping
along there in the moonlight langhin'
and a chattin and her hair BLOWN
around her face 1t didn't seem two min
nits afore We got to old Miss Skinners's
gate"
"When ! started fur home it seemed
like was walkin' on air. never know
ed it did look 50 pretty around there
afore. It seemed to me like there was 4
kind of silvcry glimmer all over every
thing the air was full Of sweet smells
and my spirits seemed SO light that bus
ted out singin'.
As l went along by the criek, stop
ped and pulled some Of them wild roseys
and kept EN- and smelled Of them till
got 10 the holse.
"Aftcr got to bed couldn't sleep fur
a long time and when did dreamt |
was standin' by Kitty and holding her
little hand and felt like pail of water
had been poured down my back when |
woke up and found it was all dream.
Wall, / went TO see her pretty fire.
quent after that. She always seemed
glad to see me and now she's promised to
marry me, though what she can see to
like in a big hulk like me is what !
can't see.
+You can talk all you please against
love at fdst sight but knowed | loved
Kitty the very frst second ever laid
eyes on her.
Laugh away hard, that's all right. I've
been right there myself. You hain't met
your Kitty yet you'll change your mind
when you do.
You never will meet her hey? Wall
then all I've got TO say is, feel sorry foI
YOU. You want know nothin about the
best part of liyin' till you do. No mans
got right TO say life amt worth living
till he's been in love with a good woman
He amt capable of jedgin until then, an
: tell you right here an now that dom
want no better heaven then Kitty to be
with and I'd rather feel her arm around
my neck and have 4 kiss from her liitl,
warm mouth than all the white robes al
crowns an harps in heaven put together
An that's the way felIer feels when h'
is in love."-E6e Kay, in Graad Rapid
Ecaiing Leadr.