Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1870-12-09
THE TRIALS OF COURTsHIP.
rwo Galiants In n Peculiar Fix
They are Rescued by Strategy.

rwo GalIants In Peculiar Fix
They are Rescued By Strategy.
From the Ere tPa, Dispatch. HHt
Discreditable as the following story
may be TO the parties concerned. we
have the word of one of those en-
gagged In IL, n railroader and well
known here, ~ to the facts: Two
friends we'll call them Tom and
Dick -wcnta a few nights since to call
OH u couple Of damscls who reside
with their mother In the southern
portion of the city. The old lady 10
roguish. The two gentlemen were
grnciously received by the old lady,
who formed iifth in the social cir-
Gle, Ordinary bed-time came .he
gentlemen professed To leave, the
maids showing them 10 the door. -
But this was only rtIse 10 yet the
old lady to bed. The front door was
opened and shut, aud the girls re-
turned To the dining room, the two
beaux having been slipped Into the
front parlor aud left there in the
dark. Ii was supposed of course,
that the slightly deaf old lady would
soon he In the land OF Nod, but she
took sudden whim To 90 and sit i'm
the parlor for a while, aud taking up
light started for the place. Dick
AMI Tom had been anxious liatenprs
aud watchers, and now saw the oil
lady approaching with a lamp. As
passed into the hall of course their
ouly means of escape was cut Off
Dick made n dive behind the lounge
that stood out few Inches from the
wall-the frame~ work was two low
for him To crawl under--aud Tom,
| finding an other place, wedged him
self i'm on the tap of Dick. The old
lady set the lamp on the bureau,
took upa hook, aud deliberately seat.
ing herself on the luungp, began To
read. The feelings Of the nice young
men behind the lounge may better
be imagined than described. Tom
was in dread of immediate detection,
while Dick dreaded smothering. He
was SO frightfully cramped that no
was getting reckless as to the conss.
quences, and IN mufflrd voice, that
only the old lady's deafness prevent
ed from noticing, mumbled
to Tom, kick the lounge over,
| blow the lamp out, aud let's Jump
| through the window As Dick was
squirming i'm way that BODIED
sudden expose for Tom, IL Is proba-
ble that the later would have taken
| his advice 10 the letter, but for tho
! intcrp0sition of the quick wittad
girls. AT first, expecting the cat
was out of the bag, they had kept
back, ready TO take the storm of re-
| proach they could not avoid; but
hearing no noise after the old lady
entered, they went to see what had
| become OF the gallants. Two pair OF
| boots and a foot or so OF pantaloons
were visible from the door, and the
girls making some common. place re-
marks to- their mother, went away
laughing loudly. "phancy the phe-
! linds" of the csaps behind the
lounge. But I'm II few moments there
came shout from the wood.shed,
where the girls then We're, saying
their lamp had blown out, and ask
| ing "mgther" TO come with hers.
The boys heard them plainly, and
even smotherlng Dick stopped his
muttering and threatening. Tho
good did lady arose, wiped her specs
and folded them away, and bidding
the girls not to- be frighted went or
with the lamp To their aid. 1t would
he superfluOus To say the lounging
boys didn't lounge just there any
longer. They unlocked the front
door as quickly as they could aud
slid out without even bidding the
/ young ladies good night. 1t was
well for them that they did, for In
Icss than three minutes the old lady
vas seated on the lounge again pc.
rusing her book. ........... H.. . ..