Sunbury American

SELECT POETRY.

COURTSHIP AND DISAPPOINTMENT

Miss Sukey Smith had flaxen hair,

Her daddy had the pewter,

Her eyes were grey, and looked serene,

Upon her favorite suitor.

That suitor was a jolly youth,

So nimble, blithe and brawny,

The yellow fever took him off

One day to California.

And when I heard that he was gone,

"It's now," said I, "or never!"

I shaved myself and greased my shoes,

And tried to look right clever.

I trigged myself from tip to toe.

And caught and mounted Robin,

But all the way I rode along

My heart it kept a throbbin'!

And when I reached her daddy's house,

It still kept on a thumpin',

But when I saw that lovely maid,

It kinder stopped a jumpin'.

'Twas half-past ten, when at her feet,

I knelt, and yet ere dinner,

With honeyed speech and winning ways,

I had contrived to win her.

Some months elapsed-to set the day

I now began to press her:

I urged, entreated, plead in vain-

In vain I did caress her

While matters were thus cross'd and spil'd,

My clothes all growing seedy

My rival from the mines returned,

Still for my Sukey greedy.

I saw him kinder sidle up.

And slip his arms around her

When-heaven's and earth! she let him

kiss

Those precious lips! Confound her!

I told her that I was surprised-

My eyes had sure deceived me-

And asked her to renew her vows,

And from suspense relieve me.

When, don't you think, the tarnal gal,

Her thumb upon her smeller;

Her finger wriggled as she said-

"Can't come it, little feller?"