Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-12-05
The Runaway Match;
OR, How "A SCHooLMAsTER MARRIED A
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a1sH 90 AOAAVNEs 3 d vf5aiIf Ill
las about ten years ago sense The in
cident what Pm gwine to tell you took
place. II caused.a great sensation in
PineVille at the time, and had the effect
Of making fellers monsterous careful how
they run away with other peoples dauSht-
er's without their consent. ever sense:
Mr. Ebenezer DooIittIe was the bonn
inahlesl man after rich gals that ever was
He lhsdD' been in Plneville more,n six
months before be had found out every
riehlgal in Ahe settlement. whose father
had twenty niggers, aud naurtsd all OF
them within days. ride. He was rather
o!d'iO be poplar with the gals .Gzsomehow
hey. didn't like his ways, sndIhe way they
id'biutf him off was enoughto discourage
anybody but a Yankee ischoolmR ste who
wanted to get married. and hadn't MANY
years OfgTace left. But itdidn 4 seem to
make mo- sort of difference to him. He
undertook Fem aby,oIhe job. He war
bound 10. have rich wife out Of some of
'em, and he failed in one case, il only
made him more iPerseverin in the nexI.
His motto was, neHeF say diel,gd & ~
Betty DarliDgs rs they used to- call her
--DId Mr. DaEling's daughfeH what used
tonliSe OUT on thee Runs was about the
torn dOwnest mischief of % gal in Geor-
gia. Betty was rich. handsome and smart;
had more admirers than she conId shake
q stick IT, but she was such atornieBlin'
little cOaueiie. that Tbs boys were all.af
raid to cort her in right down earhest.----
When Dooliitle fOhud her cut, be went al
her like q house on fire. She was just
the galfoT him, and he was determined
TO have her at the risk of his life.,. H2fd p
80 Well, he laid siege 10 Mr. Darling s
house day aud highland when he couldn't
lease school 10 60 and see her. he rit let.
ters ID her, that was enough to throw any
gal but Betty In . ct Of high stericks to
read 'em. Just as every body made a
teller b'lieve had he the thing did, she
kicked him fiat. But, shawl he was
perfectly usedto IL, and he was too much
ola filosopher 20 be discouraged by. such
aFebuf, when ihe game was worth pur.
suing. .ssss5 tsssYsa al lBia} la89se
q He didnt loose minits time, hit Just
brushed up and went at her again.
Every body was perfectly surprised to see
him Rwine back to old Darling after The
way he had been treated by Betty; but
they were a good deal more surprised
and the boys were terribly alarmed ia
about q month at the Roadway he seemed
TO be maxim in his suit. Ali, at once,
Betty conduct seemed to change towards
him, and though her father and mother
wets terribly opposed to the match. any
body could see that she was beginnin' Il
like the schoolmasier very well. aai -
| Things went on in this way for while
Itill bineby old Darling begun TO get 81
uneasy about It, that he told Doolittle b
musn't come to his house any more; an
Il he ketched him sending any more low
letters or kiss verses TO his daughter b
his niger gals. he'd make pne of his boy
! give him an alfred cowhidn'. ga7efs
But Do0little didn't care for that neitl
Ter. He could see dear Miss Betty whe
hshe came Z shoppin' in town. and lhsI
Twas more 4 one way To- get letter to be
What did he care for old Darling? II
daughter was he'd aud hart Ia love wi
: him, and v'as Jest The gal to run ava
!. with him, too. Il Der parents opposed Il
1 'nisteks AhdaSfOf ths properly be vi
y sRaff 9fEt 81.