Wyoming democrat. [volume] (Tunkhannock, Wyoming Co., Pa.) 1867-1940, 1867-10-23
WYOMING CO.. PA. WEDNESDAY, OCT, 23 1867


his eyes. saw you coming down the
road, and expected you to be thrown ev-
cry minute, till saw how well YOU rode.
Nor would il have happened hadn't he
wheeled and stopped like a trick horse in
a circus" ou ., .-r.-. ..
cannot tell how soothing was this
graceful way of excusing my mishap. |
stole glance under my eyelids at the
speaker, and saw that he was very hand
some and geutlemanly, and apparently
about six and twenty, or several years
older than myself, ..a..
had hoped that uncle might be out in
the fields, overlooking the men but as we
entered the gates, saw him sitting, pro-
vokiDgIy at the window and by the time
| had sprung to the ground, be came out,
his eyes brmful of mischief. / did not
dare to stop, but turning to my escort,
SAID "My uncle, sir-won't you walk in?'
and then rushed up stairs. 9. .
In about half an hour, just as had
dressed, there was knock at my door,
could not but open it. There stood my
uncle, laughing a low, silent laugh, his
portly body shaking all over with sup-
pressed laughter.
"Ah ready at last he said. II began
to despair of you,'you were so long, and
come to hasten you. He's waiting in the
parlor 1still,' he said in malicious whis-
per. "Y You've my consent, for like him
hugely only who'd have thought of find
ing husband IN mudpuddle ?"
| slipped past my tormentor, preferring
to face even my escort than to run the
gauntlet of uncle's wit, and was soonIstam-
mering my thanks to Mr.. Templeton, for
as such my uncle, who followed :. me down
introduced him. -r &c.,. 81
To make short of what else would be
long story, what was said in a jest turned
out to be in earnest; for in less than six
months, in that very room, stood up to
become Mrs. Templeton. How it all came
about hardly know, but | certainly did
find husband on that day. Harry-that
is the name by which | call Mr. Temple
ton-says that entered the parlor trans
forme, my light blue tissue floating about
me so like cloud-wrsath, my cheeks SO
rosy, my eyes so bright, my curls playing
such hide and seek about my face that not
expecting such an apparition he lost his
heart at once He adds-for he still
knows how to compliment as well as ever
that my gay, intelligent talk, SO differ
ent from the demure Miss he had expected
completed the business
Harry was the son of an old neighbor,
who had been abroad for three years, and
before that had been to college, SO that i
had never seen him but uncle reinem-
bered him at once, and had insisted on
his staying till | came down, though Har-
ry feom delicacy would have left after an
inquiry about my health. My uncle is
one of those who will not be put off, and
so Harry remained; the luckiest thing, he
says, he ever did, ".
Milo is my favorite steed, for Harry
broke him for me; and we are all as hap
py as the day is long, for uncle insisted
on our living with him, and l told him at
last, would consent, if only to keep Poll
Wilkes from cooking his dinner. To
which he answered looking at Harry
"Yon see what spitfre it is, and you
may bless your stars if you don't rue the
day she went out to find a husband"