Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1884 — In Days of Old. [ARTICLE]

In Days of Old.

In days of old, when knights were bold and stole for a living, a serenade was a romantic little open-air concert, at which a gentleman dressed up like a ’fire-proof safe twankled a long-necked guitar under the windows of his love and told her all about it in eight lines and a chorus. It was a very pretty, romantic, poetic sort of a thing, although its starlit beauty was liable to be marred now and then by the entrance of a burglar with a lance and battle-ax, with which he picked the lock of the fire-proof casting and perforated a large hole in the person of the lovelorn knight, and married the girl himself. In either case the young lady was married and so didn’t have to waste her wedding toggery.—Bob Burdette.