Cows and Courtship on the Farm 43 



Instead of chocolates at a dollar a pound they'd 

 eat bull's-eye candy, molasses taffy and talking 

 lozenges — these latter were very much in favour 

 with rural lovers in the good old days and assisted 

 modest and shy maids and bashful youths, too, in 

 carrying on a conversation. The printing or read- 

 ing on those candies of a bygone day was highly 

 sentimental. Some crabbed old bachelor might 

 wish to substitute ''soft" or ''mushy" for "senti- 

 mental," but of course proper allowance must be 

 made for such. He is not used to sweetness long 

 drawn out like molasses taffy and love caresses 

 and those talking lozenges were doubly sweet. 

 They tasted that way and had honeyed words on 

 'em, too. Instead of fruit sundaes and vari- 

 coloured drinks from the soda fountain those 

 rustic swains treated their girls to the real old 

 simon-pure hand-made lemonade. 



Then when the day at the fair or circus was over 

 those boys of the democrat and lumber wagon 

 days, 



"Having tilted love's flagon 

 Would jump in the wagon 

 For a rollicking ride with the girls." 



