Southern shield., 1849-04-28
ZTse EeNGs0sray sREGtCh. OR, HOW THE SCHOLARSHIPS MARRIED A FORTUNE.
BY MAJOR JOS. BONES, OF PINEvILLE.

It's about ten years ago sense the incl dent what Pm gwine to tell tuck place. l caused great sensation in Pineville at tn time, and had the effect to make feller menstrous careful how they runaway witt other peoples daughters without their con sent ever sense.
 Mir. Ebenezer Doolittle was the bomina blest man after rich gals thak ever was He hadn't been keepin school in Pinevill, more'n six months, before he had found ou every gallin the settlement whose fatherhac twenty niggers, and had courted all of 'en within days ride. He was rather old t be poplar with the gals, and somehow the, didn't like his ways, and the way they die bluff him off was enough to discourag anybody but a Yankee schoolmaster wha wanted to git married, and hadn't many years of grace left. But it didn't seem tc make no sort of difference to him. He un dertook lem by the job. He was bound tc have rich wife out of some of lem, and i he failed in one case, it only made him more pelverse in the ne1t. His motto was "never say die!"
 Betty Darling, as ihey used to call her old MT. Darlng's daughter, what used tc liv out on the Runs-was about the torn dowest mischief of gall in all Georgia Betty was rich and handsome and smart and had more admireB than she could shake stick at, but she wa; sich a tormentin lit- tie coquet that the boys was all afraid to court her in down right earnest. When MT. Dooittle found her out he went rite at her like house-a-fire She was jest the gall for him, and he vas termined to have her at the risk of his lfe
 Well, he laid siege Q old MT. Darling's house day and night, a!d when he couldn't leave his school to golnd see her, he Tit letters 10 her that was enuff to throw any other gall but Betty Darling into fit ol the highstericks to read m. Jest as every body expected, after elcouragin him jest enutf to make the felIel believe he had the thing ded, she kicked hm flat. But shaw! he was perfectly used t that, and he was too much of tilosofcr to be discouraged by sich a rebutf, when te game was worth pursun.
 He didn't lose minl's time, but jest brushed up and went ,te at her again. Everybody was perfectl surprised to see him gwne back to old Nr. Daring's, after the way he had been tre,ted by Betty; but they was a good deal mere surprised, and the boys was terribly alarmed in about a month, at the headway he seemed to be maxim in his suit. All at,nce, Miss Betty's conduct seemed to changetowards him, and though her father and mther was terribly opposed to the match, anybody could see that she was beginnin to Ike the schoolmas- ter very well.
 Things went on in thisway for while, til bimeby old Mir. Darlin, begun to git so uneasy about it, that he tId MT. Doolittle one day, that he musn't cqre to his house no more; and that if he kecht him sendin any more love letters and .iss verses to his daughter by his nigger gals he'd make one ot his boys give him alfrd cowhidn.
 Bat Mir. Doolittle didn, care for that neither He could see Mss Betty when she come shopin in store in town, and ther was more'n one way tt git a letter 10 10 her. What did he care fir that old Dar- ling! His daughter was hel and hart in love with him, and was jest1he gall to run away with him too, if she vas opposed by her parents. And as for the propertv. he was certain of that when on,e he married the gall.
 On Saturday, when ther vas no school Mir. Doolittle went to old S1uire Rogers and told him he must be redty to marry a couple that night, at exactly ten o'clock.
 "Mum," ses he, "you musnt say word |''--i.~XzHEREAs.T Ttbbe tb9e ll5fsGns ll5jfsns is all ready and d1bouy tb oqolF1. south-essff quaatte25a ~- ana the party wants to he ra,Synship. one S
 Squire Rogers was one 'ery PI.f@ lis~-d comdatin old fellers in iS tho 0I the most ac- occasions. Mrs. Rogers 'Dv ,uo world on sich cranky, cross old lady and was was, monstrous OeonIq Ofu qol[e n so much good as to done the Reoa RPsoPe 1t didn't make no odds " w1 nary other nes'des' MT. Dooittlc was , "ao 10 they was. ionaadg Iru great scholar, in his oontJ HJored man
 MT. Doolittle had arrarao, business in first rate orda5 The whole ans ne 'G meet him at the end of sJ Ir bel.y tbn tbne, disguised in ridin dress l.[ laahets l ane occasion, when he was to h t"l DJi owed tor on oIosG ,b one horse barouche and f A. ,sE ne[ m on the wings of love- as he m son. d With her 10 the Squire's office, wbar t tba, sed e would, united in bands of wedlock S9 be{gr Vas to be 4o 4 'ne me Village know'd anything b3It yn0Gy ne had made arrangements at bout It; or or d room, which he seed fixed ', e hi5r llolef or the suspicious occasion. and b h,lnSeil letter to friend ofhis down in au wIl' 'e thar the next week, to take che, rusly to cnool' as he thoughtit thought be ns ol Ills , 2, n, nm 10 Keep out of the way of td 21e DaT v ng tor few weeks, til the old G fall la Il Da[l J ave time to come to. " '0i'r could All day MT. Doolittle was bu,tin .o,, as . ne wasn't certain which eend b ot, stood ,'i