Glasgow weekly times. (Glasgow, Mo.) 1848-1861, 1857-12-10
THE RUNAWAY MATCH,
OR,
How the School Master Married a For.
tune. t..
BY MAJOR JOSEPH JONES.

BY MAJOR JOSEPH JONES.
It's about ten years ago sense the Incl
dent what I'm guine to tell tuck ''place, 1t
caused a great sensashun in Pinneville at
the time, and had the effect to make fellers
mOnstrous careful how they runaway with
other peoples daughters without their con-
sent ever sense.
MIR. Ebenezer Doolitte was the bomina-
best man after rich gals that ever was
He hadn't been keepin, school at Pinneville
morn'n six months before he found out eve
ry gal in the settlement whose father had
twenty niggers, and had courted all of ;em
within aday's ride. He was rather old to
be popular with the gals, and somehow
they didn't like his ways, and the way they
did bluff him off was enough to discourage
anybody but Yankee schoolmaster what
wanted to git married, and hadn't many
years Of grace left. But it didn't seem to
make no sort of difference TO him. He un-
dertook 'em by the job. He was bound to
have wife out of some Of 'em, and if he
failed IN one case, it only made him more
perseverin in the next. His motto-s'nev-
er say die!" @
Betty Darling, as they used to call her
old Mr.. Darlng's daughter, what used to
live out on the Runs-was about the torn
downest mischief of gall in all Georgia.
Betty was rich and handsome and smart,
and had more admirers than she could shake
a stick at, but she was sich tormentin' lit.
tie coquet that the boys was all afraid to
courth her in downright earnest. Wher Mr.
Doolittle found her out, he went rite at her
like house OH fire. She was Jest the gall
for him. and he was terminated TO have her
at the risk of his life.
Well he laid seige TO old aIr. Darling's
house day and night, and when he couldn't
leave his school to go and see her, he rit let
ters enuff to throw any other gall but Betty
Darling into fit of the highstericks to read
'em. Jest as every body expected, after
encouragin' him jest enuf'to make the fel
Ter believe he had the thing ded, she kick
ed him fiat, But, shaw! he was perfectly
used TO that, and he was to much Of a iilos.
ofer to be discouraged by sich a rebuff
when the game was worth pursuin'.
He didn't lose minit's time, but ies
went rite at her agin. Everybody was per.
fectly surprised 10 see him gwine back tc
old Mr.. Darling's, after the way he heG
been treeted by Betty; but they was gooG
deal more surprised, and the boys was ter
ribly alarmed in about month, at the head
way he seemed to be maxim in his suit
All at once Miss Betty's conduct seemed tc
change towards him, and though her fathe,
and mother was terribly opposed to til,
match, anybody could see that she was be
ginnin to like the schoolmaster very well.
Things went on this way for a while, Ill
bymeby old Mr.. Darling begun 10 git 81
uneasy about it, that he told Mr.. Doolittl
one day, that he mustn't come to his hous
any more; and that if he ketcht him sendin
any more love letters and kiss verses t
his daughter by his niger gals, he'd max
one of his boys give him alfred cowhidin'
But Mr.. Doolittle didn't care for tha
neither, He could see Miss Betty whel
she come a shoppin in the stores in town
and thar was MORN one way 10 git lette
to her. What did he care for old Darling
His daughter was he'd and hart in love wit
him, and was jest the gall to run away wit
him too, if she was opposed by her parents
And as for the property, he was certain t
git that when once he married the gall.
On Saturday when there was no school
Mr.. Dooittle went 10 old Squire Rogers
and told him he must be ready to marry
couple that ight at exactly ten o'clock.
"Mum," ses he, ''you musnt say a wor
to nobody, Squire. The license is all ready
and the party wants to be very private"
Squire Rogers was one of the m'st ac
0 commodatin' old felers in the world on sic
occasions. Mrs. Rogers was monstrou
cranky, cross old lady, and nothing don
the Squire so much good as TO marry othe
" people, and it didn't make no odds wi
they was. Besides, Mr.. Doolitte was
injured man and great scholar, in his opil
+ ion, and belonged to his church.
! Mr. Doolittle had arranoed the vho