The Wheeling daily register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1864-1878, 1866-12-03

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love, dear William Oh, my, no. She
looked right in his yellow eye and says,
I'm in, Billy; I'm the gal for these sort
of things. Go inn And instead of re-
ferring him to her father, she only said,
won't the old man bust right out when
You tell him, Ha! hat and she laughed.
But she didn't ask William to try to
molify her fond father. No, no. She
very wickedly advised him to poke the
old man in the nose if he gave him any
of his lip" She Vas funny girl, this
Mary.
Now the old man wasn't wealthy, for
he sold soap-fat for living, and so he
didn't think Bill was nosing around for
his stamps: so, when Bill asked him, he
neither ordered him fercely away, nor
did the dewey moisture gather in the
eagle eye as he passed his hemstitched
up there and said, "Bless you, my child
rem, bless you.' Oh, no, nothing of the
sort. He Just blew his old red nose on
his bandana and told Bill to take her
along, for he was glad to get rid of her,
he was. and Willie would be the same
way mighty soon, for she was awful
rongh on victuals, and always broke
plates when she got mad.
So, you see. there really was no ne
cessity for William to come mt mid
nights solemn hour, in Il cab, and
throw rope-ladder up TO her window,
and whistle three times on his fingers,
and then go up. hand-over-hand, and
bring her down in one hand and her
| trunk in the other, and handbook and
an umbrella under each arm, and a
whole lot of Bundles, and then get in
the cab and fly to some distant shore.
That's the way it would have been in a
novel; but Bill said he wasn't on the
lay, so he just went out in the yard,
and out of pure joy, he skinned the
cat three or four times on the grape
vine arbor, and then went and got his
butcher cart and drove Mary right
down to the magistrate, to get the job
done for quarter-for he said he was
some on the low prize, he was.
But the very queerest thing of all
was, that Bill had no tall, dark ruffianly
rival, with a scowling visage and black
whiskers, who flew at him with drawn
dagger and n horse-pistol in each hand
and n muttcred curse upon his lips, ant
cried wildly for Revenge. Ha! ha,'
and said, "Sdeath" and "Villain, thOl
dicst" Not any. There was anothe
fellow in love with Mollie, to be sure
but he was weak-eyed young man
who had sandy hair and wore specta
cles and a choker collar. and Away
looked scared when you hollered u
him. So, when he saw that Bill hat
the best of the girls affections, he looke'
all serene, and said, "Goin, Billy, if yol
banker for her." and Us Billy was ;
triile on the banker. he sailed right in
So William, you see, had no troubl
ut all-and you couldn't get up an agon
izing novel about him if you tried. Fl
didn't have any urgent business tina
called him to foreign land, and so h
had to bid her fond goodbye, an,
swear always to be true, and then g
: away and forget her, and fall in Low
with dark-eyed Italian girl, picking
grapes in a vineyard, with a squar
towel folded on her head, while his for
gotten and forsaken Mary gradual
faded and pined away, and baffled tn
physicians skill, and grew paler, and a
last, when the June roses were i'll bloom
living gently down to die, while through
, the open window tloated i'll the balm
odor of jessamine and honey
suckle. And William didn't com
home at last, and, filled wit
deathless remorse, go daily to the swee
cemetery and strew flowers on her grave
aud teach his children to list her name
d Not at all. That is the way Mrs, E. d
L. y. Southworth would have done il
but she wasn't around. Billy was
: butcher, who wore white shirt and
Il shiny hat, and he stayed at home an
killed beef and sold ii at big pric,
4 and he stuck to Mary, and she KEEP
healthy and wasn't much on the pine @
e the fade. while if any fellows got t
: lurking around, William wentright on
and batted them in the eye. He did.
And then, at last, when all was owe
> Mary didn't sit in the room while the
+ dressed her in white, and mixed orang
blossoms in her waterfall, and then s
&c gently down stairs with six bridesmaid
3 at her heels, and stand up with her Wi
- liam, and weep gently while she WI
" being married by the minister, and the
get lots of presents, and then go to h
3, new home, and live through all ii
70 happy years with Bill, and never kno
sorrow or trouble any more. Why,
III course she didn't, for it wasn't her styl
l. She Just rushed mp stairs and put @