Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1905-10-10
Antnurons department.
Up-To-Date Courtship.


love you a heap better than you love
me-"
"Uh huh. You don't neither"
How do you know I dont?"
You can't"
'why?"
Cant nobody love nothing more
than love you. / love you better
than love store candy or fiddle
music or-or-hot cakes and honey
"Oh, Hiram, you're telling a story.
mo I ain't, neither"
you know you don't love me bet
ter than all them"
II do. too"
You're just talking now. Hiram y
mo I amt Yam, yum, Almira
you don't know how much I do love
you. I guess love you better than
baked 'possum meat"
"Now you're making fun Of me
Hiram"
No I amt"
You know you don't love me that
good"
Eyes I do. I love you so good
just want to eat you"
He he, What you want to eat me
for?"
"Cause I like sweet things"
ct amt no sweet thing"
"Uh! You are, too. You're
sweeter than sorghum molasses.
'"You don't know"
"Uh huh"
You never tasted me none"
"I can tell from your looks"
You can? How do I look?"
"You look-you look-you look
Just like you been put down in sugar
and left there till you'd soaked
plum full"
"Oh, Hiram! Amt you 'shamed
to talk that way?"
Course amt I amt said moth
ing bad"
you know I amt sweet"
"You are, too"
You're just talking"
"Uh huh. 1 mean all l say"
You can't tell whether anything's
sweet or not without tasting 1t, and
you amt never tasted me none"
I'D like to, though. Mought I?''
81 amt said you mought."
You won't care If do. will you?'
'I mought."
Then again you moughtnt."
ct don't know. You ever kiss any
body?"
"Uh huh. Did you?"
mo. Reckon it's much good?"
''Uh huh. Best thing a-going."
How you know If you never kissed
anybody" ....
"Just naturally know. Yum yum!
Amt nothing good like kissing a
pretty girl"
why don't you kiss somebody.
them"
"Ain't nobody said mought."
"You ever ask anybody"
mo, not yet"
why don't you?"
I'm afraid"
What you afraid about?"
Somebody mought get mad"
Cause you asked to kiss herr"
'Uh huh"
"Ho! Nobody amt going to get
mad about that"
How you know"
II just know"
would you get mad?"
'Uh huh"
Sure pop?"
Course l wouldn't"
"I'll ask you then. Mought I kiss
your"
"Uh uh."
"Why?"
Cause"
"I thought you said you wouldn't
get mad II asked you?"
"I amt mad"
"why won't you let me kiss you,
then?"
IT amt hindering you, am n"
you said I mustn't, didn't you?"
"Uh huh. You're bigger and
stronger than 1 am though, amt
you?"
Yes, guess am"
Reckon If you took a notion to
kiss me in spite of myself I couldn't
help It, could II"
you mought scream"
Wouldn't be no use. Amt no.
body to hear me-"
You mought kick and scratch?''
.'Uh uh. Mought muss my hair
all up"
"Then I just believe I'll kiss you. u
IF you want to you'll have to,
reckon. / can't help it,
There was silence for a moment,
then a loud smack. There was an
other short pause, then a quick sue
cession of smacks. After another
silence Hiram said:
"Whoo-ee! Who'd a ever thought
there could be anything as good as
that? Why, molasses and sugar and
honey and store candy don't nigh
touch 1t. Yum, yum! Amt it awful
good though. Almira Ann?"
Don't say a word, Hiram," Almira
Ann replied dreamily. Yum. yum!
Ii and imagine what life would be
If a body didn't never have to do
anything but kiss"
do you like it?"
Like it? / just wish you'd let in
and kiss me plum to death and never
stop to eat nor sleep nor nothing
And 1 want to be a thousand years
a-dying. too"
There followed another and pro-
longed siege of smacking.
HE WAS NOT A SURGEON. - The
young medical student boarded the
car at Eleventh and Walnut streets