Show from the cleveland herald early courtship in ohio NEARLY AS TV IT WAS TOLD US BY BT OUR OCR OLD FRIENDS OVER A GLASS or OF CIDER acif if you yon cant git them that you want you m must take them that you can gret get and that is how I 1 c came 3 me to marry pats patsey love will go where retis itis sent anyhow and we cant help it and the harder a chap loves lovea a gal the poorer chance he stands to git her the thing is just like here bere the more he loves her the more sky shy and trembling 0 he is and he be cant half tell his f belins t to o her it if he tries while the careless and unfeeling chap got no more love in him than a hosa I 1 can have a dozen gals after him at once I 1 have thought the heart was like nud mud turtles egg you yon dent the shell on one side a dent on the other side made in the same manner will bring all smooth again so with the heart one girl makes a dent it remains bruised till some other girl presses it pushing ino 1 out the old bruise and leaving in a new 0 one ne well well accidents will happen folks folka will laugh the world is more fond of fun than IQ logic gic v and they might as well laugh at me as anybody so a I 1 agreed sig raad to F about courtship sh ip it patsey but my first sweetheart was a proper hansome sal gal I 1 worked for her father ohio was all in the woods then and everybody lived in log houses ex capt down in Cleve cleveland fand there was a store or two and my three hundred acres that is worth now one hundred and fifty dollars an acre worth when I 1 bought it only three dollars pshaw pshaw how times is changed glad to git it corn bread and gammon gravy then had ha to go thirty miles down to oha cha grin to mill I 1 always used to go for boss instead of himself for I 1 only hearted ted ninety pounds in weight and made a lighter load over a bag of corn on hogs boss bicok let me see I 1 weigh eighty now well I 1 was twenty five years old just about and in love with basss daughter but always thought she felt a beetle above me for I 1 was not any idaller taller then than I 1 am now not quite as tall I 1 as she was anyhow and was working for eight dollars a month had tu dress in tow linen at that you never see one of them logging frocks made like a shirt out of flax tow did ye well till I 1 bought this blue coat when I 1 married patsey thirty and five years ago I 1 never wore any but tow and if it sunday today to day I 1 had it on for I 1 despise gance and new f angled flummeries flum meries and noodles round yr big houses I 1 was in love thirty five years ago head over heels and never dared to say a word about it her name was jerusha I 1 longed to tell her how my heart swelled and burnt for her as it thumped agin its 11 chist but I 1 could never screw my courage up to the pint but bat I 1 would some day or some other day I 1 had been alone aone with her many a time and had resolved and re resolved on po popping ap pp it right out but the stillness was its as awful Z 91 on them lea ca as the roar of niagara and my heart w would feel all over like your little finger does when you yon hit your elbow dour ow V gin a thing swei dental t to ru coal tl ling f fullness allness cuss my luck said I 1 to myself one sunday sanday night as I 1 cum hum ham from mill after a three days ride jerusha had a beau a chap from town dressed as smart as a dancing master my heart j jumped into my gullet the minute I 1 see him I 1 felt felb down in the mouth for I 1 knowel I 1 was a gone feller he had on broad cloth talk of your newfangled new glossop and greshan houses now but folks in them days have but one room down stairs and a ladder to go up stairs puncheon floors was good enough below and oak shakes split out I 1 b bj y hand the chamber floor it was so in basss house a and ili J I 1 slept up chamber 1 I want you yon to imagine two wooden hooks fixed up to hang a gun on right over the hearth on the chamber beam I 1 want you to 10 remember my tow shirt and I 1 want you yon to my beelin feelings s that night af after ter I 1 went to hed bed for jer jerusha as uta and the dandy aandy chap had the hull room below to themselves with a rous ingbright fire to spark by I 1 stand the temptation to want to hear what the they y had to say to themselves whisper whisper whisper you may laugh at it but its the naked truth that I 1 am going to tell I 1 have laughed myself at the same since when I 1 heard something pop like a kiss by ginger giager I 1 could stand my great heart a no longer curiosity and jealousy got tte the upper bend on me I 1 wanted to see for myself so I 1 slid out our obed sitting flat like a tailor on the fhe floor determined to hitch up just juat as I 1 sot inch at a time to the opening over abe th hearth where the team beam and gan hooks was A oat dat been no stiller arter a mouse but my heart thumped louder loader every hitch just as it will when a man goes to do what aint right well just as I 1 had gained the right pint to look over at lem em VP hp tilted the peaky floor down I 1 went tow shirt to gun hook and there I 1 hung blindfold blind fold like a squirrel half skinned right over my rival end sweetheart sweet heart ready four for basting I 1 see em at all arter that and etwas more than ten minutes before the old boss awoke to tear me loose dangling round I 1 the fire what what said he got a spare rib ha let me down said Is I 1 I 1 got pretty well baked anyhow and faint been quite so raw since in love matters lord I 1 never looked I 1 jerusha in the face from that day nor a I 1 girl in the neighborhood for I 1 could swear I 1 she told lem em all that accident got my grit up to make a I 1 fortin I 1 went off a few miles and married the first chance I 1 got just out of spite and patse patsey is worth all on em arter all and marrying is is a lottery business then dont hang youre yourself elf as I 1 did because you oame aaa 9 get et a particular gitl but recollect your heart is like rubbers rubber it will stretch a good way and not 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