Rensselaer Union, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1871 — PENELOPE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

P ENELOPE.

>r r. BUST lIABTE. —ILU HTATIDSrO. r. Horxiss. iHimpson'a Bar, Ikfiß.) So you've come 'yer age# And one answer won't do? Well, of all the denied men That I've struck, ft Is you. O, Sal! 'ycr’a that denied fool from Slm'peon'a, Cavortln round 'yer In the dew.

Kem In es yon will: Thar—quit! Takes cheerNot that; you can’t fill Them theer cuehhige this year— For that cheer was my old man's, Joe Slmjieon, And they don't make such men about 'yer.

He was tall, was my Jack, And as strong as a tree; Thar's his gun on tiie rack— Jest you nest it,and sec! And >/w come a courtin' his wldder, Lord! where can that critter, Sal, be?

You'd fill my Jack’s place? And a man of your size—- — With no baird to his face, Nor a snap to his eyes And narv—Sho! tliar! I was foolin’, I was, Joe, for sartain-don't rise.

Sit down. Law, why! Sho! I'm an weak as a gal. Bal 1 Don't you go, Joe, Or i’U faint—sure, I shall. Sit down— enyitha, where you like, JoeIn that cheer if you choose. Lord! where's Salt-