Year: 1865

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We used to blacken our boots, starch oul


hair, grease our shirt and curl our eye browl
for them girl And we rode horse for hel
paternal derivative to cultivate corn; and we


MIXED the brindle heifer as what no other


boy could milk and we split oven wood


and would not for her map


And at night when bats came forth, and


tumble bugs crawled over the lea, and young


pullets sat in maiden meditation fancy free,


holding their heads under one wing so as to
learn love by hearing their hearts beat, we
hasten under Kalista's window, and she would
with her lily white hand snail US up by the
hair till we arrived at the bower of love, as
she called her garret. Twas thus our hair
became less and our confectionery for Kalista
increased.


When the week had busted on the rock
Of Saturday night we used 10 wander by the
brooklet and let the brook wander to. And
Kalista went forth with US. Hand in hand
like the Siaunese twinsters we roamed, and sat
on the dewy bank to catch cold in our heads
and luxuriate on the bank wet with dew p
And we used to recline against fatherly or
motherly elm tree, and squeeze our each
others hands as we rolled our eyes and
peoked upward into the blue vault our spirits
longed to vault into but didn't. Oh, this
sparkling is Heaven in two earthly volumes,
with the price mark omitted Did you ever
sparkl If not, advance your works upon a
female crinoline dear and commence active
hostilities to onct


Once we sparked Kalista when her mother
was looking. The old lady stopped u.s.
cause it reminded her Of other times, she
said But she didn't keep US stopped. When
we wanted to repose our head, Kalista held
her lap and into it we went like an apple
I When we wanted kiss we told Kalista such
was our desire, when she would lean her am
| her head over upon our forces aud say, Now
Brick tea is ready You jest can gamble
we took tea from that little table lots OF times,
and never asked any one to help put back
the plates Ka!ista was a zephyr on a kiss
It was pretty near her best holt Making
mush was Kalista's charm. When the water
did boil, how she did sprinkle meal into the
on-irou--receptealce and shake her
locks in glee to see the infant mush bubble
and splutter like fellow kissing baby with
his mouth full Of beechnuts.


We courted, spanked and courted Kalista
seventeen long years. Size grew from sighs
! to greater size, and all went merrily as fu-
neral bell. Kalista's maternal author said we
might, and we intended to. We sat on rail
fences. end boards to wagon boxes piles of
pumpkins, heaps OF potatoes, door steps, saw
logs, plow beams, pine stumps, where we
pined for each other and told our love, and
in anticipation, coEbed our hair, peeled our
potatoes, chopped our hash, rocked our
well, never mind wore our clothes except
when we had company and waved fat on
love, and sich. Kalista's father said we
might, and there again we had things bag
ged. We counted our calves and Kalista
had nice calves and weighed our pork and
sold our veal, and churued our little mess of
butter, and took our wool to market, and
put up our little preserves and revelled in
that future which is so much like an oyster,
more shell than meat.


One day baulky steer slung one of his
back hools in among the old gents waist
band, and after servere discomforts, the
old rooster went hence in February, when
we followed with a march Kalsta was a
sensitive plant, measuring ffty-nine inches
around her Affections, and so we murdered
the steer and made him into smoked beef
And at supper table, and as we lunched be-
tween the heavy counting, we chawed the
beef and thus Kalista and US got satisfaction
from the juvenile OK who steered his foot
wiclledly.


Then Kalista's mother, who would not par
take of the beef, took cold in the head, and
went hence. It was Autumn-one of the
fall months. The mother Of our hearts pols-
on as we family-arl called Kalista was, Of
an enduring disposition. She always asked
numerous things. She asked the egg-man
if chickens abidsd in the shells Of the hen
fruit she bought She wanted to know why
rounds were put in ladders crOsswise instead
of up and down! She wanted to know why
pants were made so that man could not
take them off over his head? She said IN
her innocence that an eclipse was caused by
niger convention between her and the
moonl But why the moon tulled, rather
busted the venerable mother Of our Kalists,
and she sought to study it out. She read
Dabolrs arithmetic. Sands spelling book
Robinson Crusoe and the La Crosse Demo-
crat. but she could not get her fork into the
reason. The old lady read in an almanac
that on n certain night the moon would full.
We went to see Kalista that night to see II
our love would full. The old lady deter
mined to watch it and see how moon full
cd and what for did it full. Night came and
she wrapped one leg Of pair OF red flannel
drawers about her head, and when all IN the
house was still she emerged into the sitting
room, and in her antique costume-the old
lady, says, "Briok your supper is reaeyf
So we went into the parIor and kissed the
hours away. Very fine support


The old lady took an almanac, New York
directory and tallow candle out on the back
stoop. She anchored in big chair and wait
ed to see the moon change its clothes. She