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Show ii:-xx-:i-:-i-:-x-:x-:-s-:x-:-x-:-3:-:-i-:x-:-x-:-x-:i-:-x-:-i-;-3:-:-i-:-x-:-x-:-i-:-i-:'I Pioneer's First Love, Affair Quite Serious Davy Crockett had little schooling, but his language In describing his first love affair Is expressive if not entirely grammatical. While Crockett was working for John Kennedy, a Tennessee Tennes-see Quaker, Kennedy's niece came for a visit. "I soon found myself head over heels In love with this girl," he wrote In his autobiography. "When I would think of saying anything to her my heart would begin to flutter like a duck In a puddle; and it I tried to outdo It and speak, It would get right smack up In niy throat and choke me like a cold potato. It bore on my mind In this way till at last I concluded con-cluded I must die If I didn't broach the subject; and so I determined to begin und hang on a-trylng to speak till my heart would get out of my J throat one way or t'other. "And so one day at It I went, and after several trials I could say a little. I told her how well I loved her; that she was the darling object of my soul and body ; und I must have her or else I should pine t down to nothing and Just die away with consumption. con-sumption. But she was an honest girl and didn't want to deceive nobody. no-body. She told me she was engaged to her cousin. This news was worse to me than war, pestilence or famine; but still I knowed I could not help myself. I saw quick enough my cake was dough, iwvJ 1 tried to cool off as fust aa possible, but I hud hardly safety pipes enough, us niy love was so hot as mighty nigh to burst my hollers." Kansas City Tunes. |