Maysville weekly bulletin. [volume] (Maysville, Ky.) 1864-1866, 1864-10-06


yet; but they might, when they felt more
intim ate. 1 think it's no use to 60 all round
Robins barn when you can go straight In al
/ the door. think the best plan will be to
ask them both together. which is the deOp-
/ est in love with me. The old folks are GO
/ ing to pray err m Getting tonight, and I'll do
my moral duty at home by speaking square
out.
/ While the two sullen sisters were pick
( Ing beans and pairing apples that evening, at
opposite ends of the kitchea, Joshua sud-
denly stopped whiting, shut up his jack
knife. aud told them be had been expert
menting with both and what was on his
mind.
Now, which, said he. stretching out his
boots towards them, with his hands in his
pockets, which of you two girls can honest
ly say that she loves me the best?
Here was a proposition for lover; but
they felt that Joshua was honest, and an
swered with equal buntness:
don't care that for yon! declared Lena
independently, ainging an apple-paring at
him.
And think about as much Of you as that!
exclaimed Fatima, swapping a bean at his
face.
Joshua was so amazed at this double
breasted surprise, that he drew in his legs
with a sudde jerk that upset his chair; aud I,
rising from the floor with thoughts unutter-
able, he went off to bed. to escape their
laughter and train his thoughts to some rea-
sonable bearing.
Wonders of Jerusalem aud sick hoss to
lett Did they mean thatF l don't believe
it. Cant be. They are afraid to tell the
truth. / ought to have gone at 'em single.
Lucky didn't say loved them, or they'd
been pulling hair afore this. I'll bet
bushel of BEATS to n barrel of apples, ;hat
neither Of them girls will sleep a wink to-
night, for thinking Of me, aud how nigh l
came TO the pint. It must be very aggra-
waiting to their feelings. But so much the
better. They'll be getting more jealous,
and all they want is to catch me alone.
What Joshua was not able to de for him
self the two sisters now did for him ,as they
went on with their beaus aud apples. Salt
esteem was wounded, aud cached wished to
sscaus ridicule from the other.
The awkward fool! said Lana, TO think
that | cared for himl
You love him quite as well as do.
/ don'tl
You do, and better. Poh!
You needn't poh at me-or at him either.
For he's good enough for you, if be is awk-
ward.
He's too good for you. And you needn't
sueer at him, for he isn't half as awkward as
you are.
That shows you love him. But he
wouldn't have Sou, at any rate.
He wouldn't tax g up with you, and could
have have him if l said the word.
You couldn't.
| could. I'm four years younger than
YOU. and you're to old.
Don't you call me old, you jade! I'll pull
Iyin r:atI
The arrival Of their parents. just then, put
an end TO the threatening aspect of things;
but the sisters slept apart that night, and
each resolved that next day she would do
all she could 10 get Joshua to pop the ques-
ton, lust to spite her sister. Aud, accord
ingly, they detected each other in such af-
fectionate conversation with Joshua in the
course of the day, that a fierce quarrel en-
sued, and Joshua finally stood up straight
and declared if they didn'tlet him alone he
could not weed his onionc.
All wanted to say is, that you'll never
be happy with her.
As happy as be would be with you, I'll
be bound.
Joshua now had happy thought.
I'll tell you what I'll do with you two
girls. To stop the quarrel, Pll turn up
csnt-heads for Lena, tails for Fatty. Best
two in three. Will that satisfy?
Well-yes.
He tossed, and Lena won the prize.
! don't believe she would agree to it, said
the disappointed Fatma.
Yes she would, too
young
so know she would, said the confident
Lean, that I'll agree to what she says, and
go this minute.
And both ran to the honse to ask ma, leav-
iug Joshua in a state of great excitement.
Im in doubt If this is right he mused
aloud. Suppose ma makes a choice. l
might be dissatisfied. I don't want to be
compelled. The cent says Lena. Suppose
ma says Fatty. That's pulling both ways.
The cent might be in the right; but the cent
would have no voice. Suppose ma agrees
with the cent; even then / m ght be Cd the
wrong scent, for Lena might not be the light
one for me to have, though it would look as
if it was so ordered. l am in very great
doubt Now suppose that cent
1 lY ou needn't suppose any more, j osh there
said Farmer Daisy, who had just stepped
from behind barn and overheard bis agi-
tated soliloquy. You can't have either of
my darters, for, at present, you're so young
you're as shifty as weathercock. You'll
nave 10 "alb sPelb Va yoato iuSsI 'uo' o
sartinl
This was a view Of the case which the
mortified Joshua had aver included In his
list of doubts; and it gave him no relief
when the two girls came rnnLing to him to
cay that though ma wouldn't have Der
daughters tossed up for, she didn't care
which he % aTTied.
Makes no odds now. said Joshua, gloom
lily, since the old man says l can't have
either. But one thing Pm in no doubt about.
leave off work here this day, and moan to
go to sea. may take it into my head to be
| one two We ars. But keep up good heart,