Juliet signal. [volume] (Juliet [i.e. Joliet], Ill.) 1844-1???, 1848-12-05
The Runaway Match; ;
Ga, How A SCHooLMAsTER MARRIED A
| FORTUNE.


Ga, How ScHooLMAsTER MARRIED A
.H FORTUNE. u.s..
It's about ten years ago sense The in
cident what Pm gwine to tell you took
place. II caused great sensation in
Pineville at the time, and had the effect
of making lellers monsterous careful how
they run away With other peoples dauSht.
er's without their consent. ever sense:
Mr.. Ebenezer DoolittIe was the bonn
inahlesl man after rich gals that ever was
II e hadn't been in Plnevil!e m0re'n six
months before be had found out every
rich gal in The settlement, whose father
had twenty DiggeTs, aud ceurted all OF
them within days ride. He was rather
cd TO be poplar with the gals .&somehow
hey didn't like his ways, and the way they
did bluff him off was enough TO discourage
! anybody but a Yankee schooIma ster who
wanted TO get married, and hadn't many
years OfgTace left. But itdidn't seem to
make no sort of difference to him. He
undertook 'em by the Job. He war
bound to have rich wife out of some Of
'em, and it he failed in one case, il only
made him more Perseverin in the next.
His motto was, never say diel I'd 3 ~
Betty Darling, rs they used to call her
--Did Mg Darling daug liter, what used
tollVe out on the Runs-was about the
torn dOwnest mischief Ofa gal in Geor-
gia. Betty was rich, handsome and smart;
had more admirers than she could shake
stick at, but she was such a tormeHlin'
little cO9uetie that tbs boys were all af
raid to cort her in right down earhesl.--
When Dooliltle fOnnd her out, he went al
her like a house on fire. She was just
the gal for him. and he was determined
to have her at the risk of his life:, ! >, 4 p
Well, he laid siege TO Mr.. Darling
house day aud night, and when he couldn't
leave school to go and see her. be rit let.
tiers 10 hsr, that was enough to throw any
gal but Betty ln a fit of high stsricks to
read 'em. Just as every body made q
teller b'lieve had he the thing did, she
kicked him fiat. But, shaw! he was
perfectly usedto it, and he was too much
ola filosopher TO be discouraged by such
a rebuff, when the game was worth pur.
suing. .s.sa7 f8= ri [a ls1-.a
He didn't loose minits time. but just
brushed up and went at her again
Every body was perfectly surprised to see
him Gwine back to old Darling's 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 month at the Roadway he seemed
to be maxim in his suit. kll at once,
Betty's conduct seemed to change towards
him, and though her father and mothel
were terribly opposed to the match, any
body could see that she was beginnin' h
like the schOOlmaster very well. 1 B.
Things went on in this way for Will
till bimeby old Darling begun To get s.
uneasy about it, that he told DOolittle b
musn't come to his house sny more; an
u ifhe ketrhed him sending any more Low
letters or kiss verses TO his daughter b
his niger gals. he'd make one of his boy
y give him an alfred cowhidn'. E77eS'
But DoolitIle didn't care for that neitl
: or. He could see dear Miss Betty whe
E she came a shcppin' in town. and lhei
was more q one way 20 get letter to be
What did he care for old Darling? II
: daughter wa. he'd and hart IN love wi
: him, and was Jest the gal to run ava
:. with him, too. II her parents opposed Il
ndsIeA. AhdaS for the property be "!