Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1855-06-06
gentle reader, you can imagine you see
him commencing the work.
After the usual salutaiions were over

MN commencing the Work.
After the usual salutalions were over,
he said to Mrs. w:
My session have of late been advi
sing me to take a wife. and recommend.
ed me to call upon you and as you
have three very fine daughters. 1 would
like to say word 10 the eldest, if you
have no objections.
Miss W-n, entered, and the Doc
tor, with his characteristic simplicity,
said to her;
Ny session have been advising me
to take wife, and recommended me to
call upon you"
The young lady, who had seen some
thirty summers, was not to be caught so
easily. She laughed heartily at the
Doctors abruptness, limiting to him that
In making a sermon it was necessary to
say something first to introduce the sub
ject properly, before he entered fully up
on it; and as for her part, she was de
termined not to surrender her liberty at
a moments warning; "the honor of her
SEX was concerned in her standing out u
This was all waste of time to the Doc
tor, and he requested to see her sister.
Miss Z. W-n then entered and, to
save time, the Doctor said:
"My session have been advising me
to take. wife, and 1 have Just been
speaking to your sister who has Just gone
out at the door; and as she is not in
elined in that way, what would you think
of becoming Mrs. IMP
"Oh, Doctor, l don't know it is rather
a serious question. Marriage, you know
binds one for life, and it should not be
rashly entered into. 1 would not con-
sent without taking time to deliberate
upon it.''
My time, - said the Doctor, sis so
much occupied, and my session have
said so much to me on the business, that
l must finish to-day if 1 can. So you
had best tell your mother to send in
your youngest sister to speak to me-"
In moment in comes the honest lively
Miss Mary W-n.
" Come away, my child it is getting
on in the afternoon, and 1 must get home
to my studies. l have been speaking tc
both your sisters on little business,
and they have declined. 1 am man oI
few words; and, without misspending
precious time, what would you think OF
being made Mrs. In ?''
Indeed, always thought deal Of
you, Doctor and if my mother does moi
say anything against it, 1 have no OBJ
jections."
The Doctor left Miss Mary in few
minutes, enjoining her to fix the day, fol
any would suit him, but to send him ur
word The day before.
The Doctor was scarcely gone, before
keen dispute arose in the family among
the three young ladies, all claiming the
Doctor. The eldest one said the offel
was first made to her, and she did moi
positively refuse. The second declared
that she wished only little time to think
upon it; and the youngest insisted thai
it was completely settled with her. The
mother of the young ladies was in such
difficulty with her daughters, that she
was obliged to call upon the Doctor
himself to settle the dispute She called
and the Rev. Doctor in his characters.
tic way, said:
"My dear Mrs. W-n, 1 am very
fond of peace in families it is all the
same thing 10 me, which of them and
just settle it among yourselves and send
me up word"
The Doctor was married to the young
est, and one of his sons is at this day a
respectable clergyman 81 in the land o
the mountain and the flood"