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A Timid Beau

The following is a chapter from "The History of Jefferson County, Iowa", Page 468, published by the Western Historical Company of Chicago in 1879.

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A TIMID BEAU.

Boys, in those days, obeyed their parents even after they were big enough to wear store-clothes. It is related of a certain young man (1854) who, in escorting his dulcinea home from a party, had to pass his father's house, and when near by, heard the old gentleman's voice calling him. "Oh?" he cried, in doleful accents, "dad's calling me, and if I don't go home he'll whip me," and off he started, leaving his fair one to find her way home as best she could.

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