The Sweetwater enterprise. (Sweetwater, Tenn.) 1869-187?, 1870-04-21
Why Aunt Sally Didn't Marry.

you never married. You know you said
once when you were girl you were en-
gagged to minister, and promised you
would tell us all about it sometime. Now
Aunt, please do"
Well, if | ever did see such girls in
my born days. It'stese, tease from morn
ing till night, but what you must know all
about everything that you haven't any
business to know anything about. Such
lnqmsitye ,pestiferous critters as you are
When was young, girls was difIent they
mnded their business and didn't 90 sail
inl atolnd with a whole string Of Deaux,
g9|n G their head filled with all kinds of
m1sense. never dared to ask my aunts,
mtricd or single, about any of their af-
fairs. Pretty mess I'd have got in if | had.
When they offered to tell me anything of
their own accord | kept my mouth shut
and listened, Everything is different now
adrys; young folks have no respect for
their elders-but as / see am not going
to have any peace till do tell you, why
jlst listen and don't let me hear wcr out
OF one Of your mouths till get through"
"Thats right, Aunt Sally; 60 right
ahead, do, and we'll keep perfectly still"
swell, you see, when was about sew
e-saeu years old, / was living in Utica, in
the State of New York though / say it
myself, | was quite good-looking girl,
then, and had several beaux. The one
took my fancy most was a young minister,
very promising young man, and remark
ably pious and steady. He thoughts good
deal Of me, and / kind Of took fancy to
him, and things ran on till we were en-
gaged.
"Oue evening he came to me, | remem-
Der it as we'll as if it we're only yesterday.
When he came into the paror, where |
was sitting alone, he came up to me and
but pshaw girls, l don't like to tell the
rest"
"Oh, Aunt Sally, for mercy's sake don't
stop; tell us what he did,"
"Well, as | said, be came up to me, put
his arms around me, and rather hugged
n,s, while | got excited and some fruslrat-
ed, and it was long time ago, and don't
l4now but what I might have hugged him
Btck little. Then | felt--butjust clear
ott every one Of you, l shan't tell you any
Sre."
5'foodness, gracious no, Aunt Sally.
.grR. US bow you felt. Didn't you feel
Acoi, and what did he do next 2"
sob, such torments as you are | was
Nike any other girl, and pretty soon pre-
tended to be mad about it, and pushed
him away, though wasn't mad bit; You
must know that the house where | lived
was on one Of the back streets of the town.
There were glass doors in the parlor which
open right out on the street, and no bal
ebony or anything Of the kind in front of
the house, AS it was in the summer sea-
sou these doors were opened, and the shut
ters just drawn to. | stepped back lit
tie from him, and when he edged up close
[ pushed him harder than intended to :;
and don't you think, girls, the poor fellow
lost his balance and fell through one of
the doors into the street2 Yes, it's so.
As he fell gave scream and caught him
but ! declare won't tell anything more,
Pm going to leave the ROOM"
''No, no, Aunt Sally! How did you
catch him! Did it hurt him."
"Wel, if must, must. He fell head
first and as he was going | caught him by
the legs of his trowsers. l held on for
moment and tried to pull him back, but
his suspendets. gave way, and the poor
young man fell clear out of his pantaloons
into a whole parcel of ladies and gentle
men passing along the street."
"Oh, Aunty, Aunty, Lordy, Lord He,
he, he !"
"There, that's right; giggle and squeal
as much as you want to-girls that can't
hear about little thing like that without
tearing around the room, and he-he-iug in
such way, don't know enough to come
home when it rains. a nice time the man
that ever marries one of you will have,
WON'T he Catch me telling you anything
agha."
kBut, Aunt Sally, what become of himl
Did you ever see him again !''
"No, the moment he touched the ground
he got un, and left that place in a terrible
hurry. I tell you it was sight to be re-
membered to see how that man run, Fa-
ther happened to be coming up the street
at the time, and he said he never saw any
thing to equal it in his whole life. | heard
others say that he did the fastest running
ever known, in that part of the country,
and that he never stopped or looked be-
hind until he was two miles out of town.
He sent me note a few days afterwards,
saying that the engagement must be broken
off, as be could never look me in the face
again after what had happersd. He went
out West, and ] believe he is preaching
out In Hi lois. But he never married
He was very modest and | suppose he was
SO badly frightened that time that he new
er dared to trust himself near woman
again That, girls, is the reason never
married. | felt very bad about it for a
long time, for he was real good man, and
Pve often thought to myself that we should
always have been happy II his suspsn-
ders hadn't giUsn away."