Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1866-02-22
ala, ma Paradise, III vote for you for
president, Here goes, I'm ready"

disc In three weeks but she needn't
worry. You know his great aunt LETT
him sung little property on condition
he should marry Mollie. OF course he
isn't going tn marry any body else,
NAN,
Thu next aay TIN made his appear
ance az the Langley with all the couh
denct of an accepted lover, The girl az !
sight OF him went into fits OF outraged |
Mysteries. The old woman greeted him |
with a storm.
"a nice fellow you are, u married man |
and the father of two children to come |
here and try to marry into respecta
BILE family. A nice fellow you are say
Georgiana, hush yer crying and yer
gwine on. She isn't taking 1t so hard
for what she's lost, but for what she's
escaped, she is
Oh, oh I'm deceived and trihed with,
groaued Georgana,"
MY dear GeoTgiania, do compose
ours.lf and tell me what's the matter
with you, said Tim beseechingly."
"Tell yer what's the matter" screamed
the old lady. "You married man and
the father of two children"
"You must have taken me for another
man, said Tim innocently. You've got
on the track Of ARENAS Ward, he's the
father OF twins
mistaken yer for another man new
| err heard tell Of and here's the letter yer
own wife wrote yer, and yer little child
rem sick and dying with the measles"
"But havn't any wife tell you, put in
Tim"
"YOu havn't, have yer, and that fellow
We call Paradise brought the letter over
here and told all about yer
Tim put on a terribly pugnacious
look. Paradise, I'll make him answer
for this; he wants the girl himself"
'If he does, he's an honester fellow
than you be, and yed better be leaving
here, yer had.
AS the old lady advanced threatening
ly, Tim played the role OF the timid
whose valOr is in their feet.
"You did it up brown according to
your tell, Tim" said Paradise "Only
you oughtn't to have limited that
wanted the girl. That p. S about Mol
lie was well put in,
CHAPTER FOURTH.
Ny dear friend, Madame Prlm, has
just paid me a visit Madame Prim il
a relative of mine, in some sort, grea
aunt believe. Had she not been sh,
would never have ventured to intru3
her Anticipated maiden presence upol
/ me. Relationship gives many peop
great privileges.
: Now aunt Prm took me severely Il
2 task for the conduct of my hero, Para
{ disc and his comrade, Tim, as well a
! nv co;an. ! remember a long, very Ion.
time ago, when | was boy, and used t.
draw Susie Forbes home on my slet
, from school, taking a kiss at the gat
for pay, aunt Prim would give my ear
! some saving pulls, if she happened t,
be at the window to see, as she generally
was.
If every one were so mounted upoi
the stills of prOpriety as my aunt Prim
} what an uncomfortable world thi
would be. Thank goodness they ar
not, so we poor fellows may manage Il
| take deal Of comfort after all.
: But aunt Prim says the conduct o
Paradise in kissing those poor girls wa,
poS'tTety disgraCeful, aud as to his con
spring with Tim to blight in their very
bud and poisoning the tender affec
tions OF the much wronged Georgiana
she has no words to express her indig
nation. "A woman's heart" she saws
" is not thing to trife with" Anc
then she says she saw ne, ne, Hu0l
whiting, only the other day, watch the
pretty music teacher, with whom she
knows am in love, until she was en-,
tfely out OF sight, and then .he saw ms
go ont and measure the foot print left
IN the snow, all of which she Judges &c
De extreme folly in man of nv age
She might pardon such things in a bow,
but in me they are objectionable. 81
my, what would aunt Prim have said
had she known that at the very moment
sne was talking to me, had the meas
ure OF that little foot folded next nv
heart, and am sure it don't require
more than No. l slipper. To tell the
truth, am in love, as aunt Prim saws.
though l don't see any improperly in it.
How can one help loving that which is
loveaole ! No more / take it, than ma.
ture can help smiling in the sunlight.
q dote on the measure of that lit
tie foot.
Dear aunt Prim, don't be the least bit
alarmed, no one but your shoemaker will
ever trouble himself about your foot.
know almost every one considers
me pretty sensible fellow, but / al
ways did like to have little soft mud
or light snow on the ground, so could
see the footprints Of all the pretty la.
dies. Why, aunt Prim, / have got the
measurement of nearly every girls foot
In town taken in this way, all tied up
together with blue ribbon, every one
Labelled and snugly tucked away In one
corner of my portfolio. Old bachelors
are not always the sensible fellows they
have the credit of being, are they? Per-
haps Deacon Bedott uttered the most
elaborate homiiy extant upon human
nature when he said, "sen he, Priscilla,
we're all miserable critters" Yes, we
old bachelors are indeed miserable
critters, as are all mankind But let
us indulge in fancies about the ladies'
little feet and pretty faces. The world
will never have one whit the less phi
losophy, or wisdom, or goodness in it,
for all that. We give the sensible world
| all the labor Of our heads and hands,