JOSH BILLINGS ON COURTING.
Courting is a luxury. . . The man who has never courted haz lived in vain. . . lam in faver of courting; it gives the parties a chance to find out each uther's trump kards, it is good exercise, and is just as innersent as two merino lambs. Courting is like strawberries and crea-n, wants to be did slow, thea you get the flavor. , Court a gal for fun, for the luv yu bear her, for the vartue and bissnees thare is in her; CDurt her for a wife and for a mother, court her as yu wud court a farm —for the strengh of the sile and the parfeckshun of the title—court ber as though she wan't a fule, and yu nuther; court her in the kitchen, in the parler, over the wash-tub, and at the pianner; court this wa, yung man, and if you don't git a good wife and she don't git a good husband the forlt won't be in the couitiog. If you will court three years in this wa, awl the time on the square, if yu don't sa it iz a leettie the slikest time in yer life, yu can git measured for a hat At my ezpenoe and pa for it,
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Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1582, 25 March 1887, Page 3
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209JOSH BILLINGS ON COURTING. Lake Wakatip Mail, Issue 1582, 25 March 1887, Page 3
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