Rutland weekly herald. [volume] (Rutland, Vt.) 1859-1877, 1870-01-20
The Course OF Trne Love.
coURTINe IN A HAY sTACE-THE "oTD
NAM FILES AN INJUNCTION.

The old, old story of cruel parents e.
ing an 'sinterventor" in the manner Of
love making between young folks of oppo.
site sexes has once more been forcibly az
well as ludricously reiterated in com.
munity not far from Des Moines, Iowa
It seems that one of the young lads of the
neighborhood had discovered something
very attractive in the person of hand
some daughter of neighboring farmer,
and very naturally and properly gave her
close attention. But the old man, who
bossed it over the girl and about 200 acres
of rich Iowa land, failed to view things In
the light desired by the young folks, and
he accordingly filed his injunction, for
babe the young man the premisesSa nd
fused around like a great many other
baulky old men De when bent on mischief
making.
Matters were arranged very clsverly for
stolen meetings atahe houses of neigh
bors who were favorable to the matcS
and under such circumstances a large
amount of billing and cooling was done By
them unknown 70 the venerable farI6er-
By and by they grew more careless of the
"injunction" that had been laid upon
them, and dared to let the old man see
them together. The young man besued
her home from meetings at the school
house; would. Set her" under the portico
for an hour or two, and in several other
ways bearded the lion ID his twenty or
thirty dens, the result of which was an
other elbow out" eGding ia a threat Of
shotgun music or, sight.
When young folks will is to have q
good old fashioned spark, all the old men
in the eauntry cent prevent th1gn. Witt
the coming of kle shilly mig hts ofcNoveu1-
Der, they adjourned from the portico TO
TIE lee side of hay stack, where a
puncheon bench was provided by THE
buxom young girl, Thither they went on
severalsoccasions and paassd ever so many
Eours ii fixing MP things for the future.
SThe old gentleman began TO smell some
thing that wasn't mice, and prepared TO
make a final and everlasting break s8Ip-
He discovered their trysting place which
had now been hsllowed out in the side Of
the stack, so that when the lovefs Were In
they could hardly be seen by apasser by
Last Saturday evening the old gentk5g'
man climbed to thestop OF the stack, whe{e
be sat winking and blinking like az toad
on a tussock, and in a short time had Pie
pleasure of seeing healthy looking iEse
vidual crawling on all fouTS towardo the
hay stack and enter it. almost immedi-
ately the old man was blessed with the
vision of his daughter, hastily tripping
down from the house toward the bole II
the stack, into which she popped, and so5IS
his ears we're greeted with sognd not
unlike the popping of champagne bottles
HE hour for business had come, and sid
ling around so that he was in range OF the
speakers Esad their nest, he slipped down
the side and surprised them with a
yell that awoke lingering echoes ips the
woods. q
The youngsters jumped out; but90 be-
fore the young man could make his ss-
cape, he wasperabbed by the left leg, and,
in the struggle, ohis boot came off, sencd-
ing the old msn to grass in very sohdd
manner. Freed from 1all incumbrance,
including a boot andahis hlS, tie young.
ster broke awayp over, the fields toward
town, as if peck of bald hornets weas
after him Barefooted, one-half, aid hats
less, he entered the town, slipped into %
store and made good his losses. He hash
been Back since. The oA nhaIp glEries in
tina possession of a boot land hat, agd
holds theIR as trophies of his yictdS5ous
descent and tussle. There's an immense
amognt of genuine cGirting, 81 0ceter0,
gone to waste by this stubboAGqess; spd
the truism that the course of true love
isn't any smoother than a Gssor6la cordu-
roy road is aptly illustrated