Bedford inquirer. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1857-1884, 1870-02-18
WHY AUNT SALLY NEVER MAR.
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Now Aunt Sally, do please tell Us whV
you never married You know you said
once that when you were a girl you we're en-
gagged To minister, aud promised that you
would tell US all about it, sometime. Now.
Aunt, please do.
Well, if l ever did see such girls in all
my borne days. It'stease, tease from morn
ing till night, but whst you must know all
about everything that you haven any busi
ness to know anything about Such inquisi
rive, pesteriferous critters as you arel When
I was young, girls vas different; they mind
ed their business and dido go sailing around
with a whole string Of bsaux, getting their
heads Rlled with all kinds Of nonsense. /
never dared to ask my auuts, married or stu
gle, about any of their affairs. Pretty mess
I'd have got in if [ bad. When they Of
fersi to tel me anything Of their own ac-
cord, kept ny mouth shut and listened
Everything is different nowadays; young
folLs have no respect for their elders. But
as see l am not going to have any peace
tiH DO tell you, why just listen, and don't
/ let me hear a word out Of one of your mouths
ullI get through.
That right, Aunt Sally, 90 right ahead,
do, and ven keep perfectly still ~
Well. you see, when I was about seven
teel years old, was living in Utica, in the
/ Stae, ofNew York Though I say It my
sell I was quite q good looking girl then,
ano had several beaux. The one that took
ms fancy most was young minister, very
promising young man and remarkably pious
and steady He thought a great deal Of me.
and kind Of took fancy to him aud things
ran on I'LL we we're engaged.
One evening he came to me--I remem-
1 ber It as well as if it were only yesterday.
/ When be came Into the parlor, whore l va,
sitting alone, be came up to me and--but
now, psfaw girls, don't ike to tell the
rest.
Oh, Aunt Sally, for mercy sake, don't
SOP; tellus what be did
Well as said, he came up to me and
Put his arms around me, aud rather hugged
me, while 1 got excited aud some frustrated,
and it was long time ago, aud don't know
but what | might have hugged him back
little. Then ielt--but now just clear our
every enc Of you, shan't tell you any
more. -
Goodness, gracious, no, Aunt Sally. Tel
Us how you felt Didn't you feel good, and
what did he do next ?''
"Oh, such torments as you are | was
ike any other girl, and pretty soon | pre-
tended to be mad abou, it. and pushed him
away. though l wasn't mad a bit You
must know that the house where / lived was
oue of the back streets in town. There
we're glass doors in the parlor, which opened
hight over the street, and no balcony or any
thing Of the kind 10 front of the house. A.
It was in the summer season these doors
were opened and the shutters Just drawn f.
I stepped back little from him, aud when
he edged up close pushed him away again.
pushed harder than | intended to, aDd
don't you think girls, the poor fellow lost
his balance and fell through one Of the door
into the street? Yes, its so. As he fell
gave a scream and caught him-but | declare
won't tell anything more. I'm going to
leave the room.
'No no, Aunt Sally How did you catch
him Did il hurt him much p
well. if must, | must He fell head
frst and as be was going I caught him by
the legs Of his trowsers. | held on for a
minute and tried to pull him back, but his
suspeuders gave way, and the poor young
mau feIl clear out of his pan,aloons into a
y hole parcel Of ladies and gentleman pass
ing along the street.
/ "0b, Aunty, Aunty, Lordy Loriy He,
he, be
"There, that's right; giggle aud sQueal a:
much a. you want to. Girls that team hear
about little thing Ike that without tearing
around The room, and he-he-ing IN such a
way dom know enough tocome home wheI
it rains. A nice time thu man that eve
marries one Of you will have, wont he
Catch me telling you anything again.
bat, Aunt Sally, what became Of him
Did you ever see him sgain?
mo, the moment he touched the groua'
be got up and left that place in terribl