Toomuchstuff
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This is cute !!!!! Don't you girls wish you were alive back then to reply ? ROFL !!!!
Looking for a wife in 1865 ..... a funny ad
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Shalimar
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Waterfalls?
RadishRose
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That's adorable. He wants to buy someone hoopskirts and waterfalls. I wonder what waterfalls are?
At 18 he's got a great crop and farm going!
I hope he figured out how to get a wife and keep her. I'd give almost anything for the rest of the story!
At 18 he's got a great crop and farm going!
I hope he figured out how to get a wife and keep her. I'd give almost anything for the rest of the story!
Aunt Bea
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I think the waterfall might be a hairpiece or comb to create this hairstyle popular during the civil war era.
Shalimar
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Beautiful hairstyle.
I think the waterfall might be a hairpiece or comb to create this hairstyle popular during the civil war era.
and held by a hairfork.
Its lovely.
Well I say if his oats and potatoes are ‘bully,’ he sounds like quite the catch. :yes:
But seriously it’s adorable.
JFBev
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He's a good writer . . . or did his mother write it for him? 
hollydolly
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awwww that's so sweet, and what a work ethic at age just 18 years old!! I wonder if he ever found himself a wife, I'd love to know!!
RadishRose
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Was it Teddy Roosevelt who made "bully" popular?
jujube
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"Bully" originally meant "sweetheart" in the 1500's, maybe from the Dutch "boel". What a change in meaning since then.
C'est Moi
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hearlady
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I would love to know if he found her! So sweet.
hearlady
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Seems like I've heard "bully" used like "great" or "swell".
Falcon
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I believe you're correct Hearlady.
RadishRose
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Thanks Jujube.
Toomuchstuff
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OMG --- you guys are SOOOOO funny !!!!!! No wonder I love it here ! LOL !!!!
StarSong
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Interesting that even at the youthful age of 18 important to brag about the having a "good set" of teeth. One could conclude that many men his age had lesser chompers.
That right there should be enough to make us stop whining about our next dental visits...
That right there should be enough to make us stop whining about our next dental visits...
jujube
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I think the waterfall might be a hairpiece or comb to create this hairstyle popular during the civil war era.
Interesting. Back in the 1960's you could get hairpieces that pinned on the back of your head and made you look like you had long hair that were called "falls". I wonder if that name derived from the "waterfall" hairpiece, which was probably pinned on and pinned up.
Falcon
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Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy Boy, Billy Boy ?
Can she bake a cherry pie, Charming Billy ?
Can she bake a cherry pie, Charming Billy ?
I would reckon so. With these type of hair pieces you could flip your hair and pin it up. All the metal pins would separate the hair making it look like a falls.
My husband sings that song often
Linda
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Well, if his buckwheat looks first rate, what else do I need to know? :love_heart:
jujube
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She can bake a cherry pie,
She's the joy of my eye.
But she's a young thing
and cannot leave her mother.
Which defeats the whole purpose, doesn't it? Unless she brings her mother along with her and he never mentioned that option.
Olive
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So cute, he is. And his own teeth to boot LOL
StarSong
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Given how early in life people married just a hundred years ago, I wondered just how young this little baking whiz of a girl was. Enter Wikipedia:
[h=2]Origins and interpretations[/h]While the tone of the nursery rhyme is ironic and teasing, both the question and answer form[SUP][1][/SUP] and the narrative of the song have been related to "Lord Randall", a murder ballad from the British Isles, in which the suitor is poisoned by the woman he visits.[SUP][2][/SUP]
By contrast, Robin Fox uses the song to make a point about cooking and courtship, and observes that:
[h=2]Origins and interpretations[/h]While the tone of the nursery rhyme is ironic and teasing, both the question and answer form[SUP][1][/SUP] and the narrative of the song have been related to "Lord Randall", a murder ballad from the British Isles, in which the suitor is poisoned by the woman he visits.[SUP][2][/SUP]
By contrast, Robin Fox uses the song to make a point about cooking and courtship, and observes that:
Feeding has always been closely linked with courtship […] With humans this works two ways since we are the only animals who cook: the bride is usually appraised for her cooking ability. (“Can she bake a cherry pie, Billy boy, Billy boy?”) In some cultures this is far more important than her virginity.[SUP][3][/SUP]